Episode 17: Jersey Part 2

Episode 18 of the Rails to Nowhere podcast, hosted by Simon & Ela, titled "Episode 17: Jersey Part 2" was published on March 17, 2025 and runs 65 minutes.

March 17, 2025 ·65m · Rails to Nowhere

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Summary

It's time for part 2 of our trip to Jersey, as Ela and Simon conclude their chat about the history of just one of the railways that have existed on the island. Follow our Twitter: www.twitter.com/railstonowhere Support the Podcast through our Patreon and get bonus episodes, behind the scenes content and more: www.patreon.com/railstonowhere Thanks to our wonderful Patreons who help make Rails to Nowhere happen and especial thanks to our £10 patreon ValkyrieLeamons. Our roundtable with History Indoors can be found here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=te7NtsEiadM Ela talks Jersey Railways with Gareth Dennis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7OnwVwiXnQ&t=3890s Music: Cassette by Infraction https://inaudio.org/track/cassette-synthwave/used under Creative Commons Attribution Unported 3.0 (CC BY 3.0 Bibliography H.M. Government, Census 1931 - Jersey, Gurnsey and Adjacent Islands (London: H.M. Stationery Office, 1933) <https://www.gov.je/SiteCollectionDocuments/Government%20and%20administration/R%201931%20Census%2020220928%20SJ.pdf> [accessed 3 August 2023]. ‘Jersey Railways and Tramways. Timetable and Guide’, 1896, The National Archives, Kew, RAIL 928/318. ‘Road Vehicle; B-Type LGOC Open Top Motor Bus Fleet No B340 Registration Number LA9928, ‘The Model T and American Life’, The New Atlantis, Issue 22. Fall 2008 (2008). ‘The New Rail Cars’, Jersey Evening Post (St Helier, Jersey, 21 February 1924). 1911’, London Transport Museum <https://www.ltmuseum.co.uk/collections/collections-online/ vehicles/item/1981-514> [accessed 11 August 2023]. Alfred Plummer, ‘The London Passenger Transport Act of 1933: A New Socialization’, The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 48.1 (1933), Accessible at: https://doi.org/10.2307/1884802. Christopher Swinson, 22747-33013-2072011.Pdf (St Helier, Jersey: Comptroller and Auditor General, July 2011) <https://statesassembly.gov.je/assemblyreports/2011/22747-33013-2072011.pdf> [accessed 3 September 2023] Daniel Goodricke, ‘Adolphus Curry – Reappraisal of His Works in Jersey’, (Northumbria University, 2014), p.153. Desmond F. Croome and Alan A. Jackson, Rails through the Clay: A History of London’s Tube Railways, 2. ed (Harrow Weald: Capital Transport, 1993) Dyos, H.J., and D.H. Aldcroft, British Transport - An Economic Survey from the Seventeenth Century to the Twentieth(Leicester: Leicester University Press, 1969) H.M. Government, Census 1931 J.R.T. & J.M.T. Co. Annual Dinner’, Jersey Evening Post (St Helier, Jersey, 3 February 1932). JEP, 29 June 1923. Jersey Archives, D/L/01/A/2041/A Jersey Archives, L/A/32/A1/2 Jersey Archives, L/A/32/A1/4 Jersey Archives, L/A/32/B1/28 Jersey Archives, L/A/32/A1/6 Jersey Archives, L/A/32/B1/1. Jersey Archives, L/A/32/B1/33 Jersey Archives, L/A/32/B1/41 Jersey Archives, L/A/32/C1/1 Jersey Archives, L/A/32/F2/2. Jersey Archives, L/C/ 152/114. Jersey’s Extensive Transport System’, The Commercial Motor (London, 17 August 1934), pp. 42–43. John R. Ottensmann, ‘Interurban Railways and Urban America’, 1 August 2018. Available at SSRN: https://www.ssrn.com/abstract=3225875. Joyce, J, Operation Tramway - The End of London’s Trams, 1950-1952 (Shepperton: Ian Allan Ltd, 1987) JR&T AGM Report for year ending 31/12/1898, Jersey Archives, L/A/32/B1/3. JR&T AGM Report for Year Ending 31/12/1903, Jersey Archives, L/A/32/B1/8. T. C. Rolt, Red for Danger: The Classic History of British Railway Disasters (Stroud: History, 2009), pp. 51-5 Leslie Philip Sinel, The German Occupation of Jersey. A Complete Diary of Events from June 1940 to June 1945. (Jersey: Jersey Evening Post, 1946) Massimo Guarnieri, ‘Electric Tramways of the 19th Century [Historical]’, IEEE Industrial Electronics Magazine, 14.1 (2020), 71–77 <https://doi.org/10.1109/MIE.2020.2966810>. Simon Sardsen-Coe, ‘To What Extent Did the Emergence of the Motorcar Impact the Policy of the London Passenger Transport Board between 1933 and 1939?’ (unpublished Dissertation, University of York

Episode Description

It's time for part 2 of our trip to Jersey, as Ela and Simon conclude their chat about the history of just one of the railways that have existed on the island.

Follow our Twitter: www.twitter.com/railstonowhere

Support the Podcast through our Patreon and get bonus episodes, behind the scenes content and more: www.patreon.com/railstonowhere

Thanks to our wonderful Patreons who help make Rails to Nowhere happen and especial thanks to our £10 patreon ValkyrieLeamons.

Our roundtable with History Indoors can be found here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=te7NtsEiadM

Ela talks Jersey Railways with Gareth Dennis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7OnwVwiXnQ&t=3890s

Music: Cassette by Infraction https://inaudio.org/track/cassette-synthwave/used under Creative Commons Attribution Unported 3.0 (CC BY 3.0

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‘Jersey Railways and Tramways. Timetable and Guide’, 1896, The National Archives, Kew, RAIL 928/318.

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Desmond F. Croome and Alan A. Jackson, Rails through the Clay: A History of London’s Tube Railways, 2. ed (Harrow Weald: Capital Transport, 1993)

Dyos, H.J., and D.H. Aldcroft, British Transport - An Economic Survey from the Seventeenth Century to the Twentieth(Leicester: Leicester University Press, 1969)

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