Leicester. University College of Leicester
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ISSN: 0022-5266
Conservata in: Università degli Studi di Firenze, Biblioteca di Scienze Sociali
Punto di servizio: Economia; Riv. str. 0299
Consistenza: v. 1, 1953, 1-
Lacune: III ser., v . 21; III ser., 1980, 2;
[2030-2021 ] [ 2020-2011 ] [ 2010-2001 ] [ 2000-1991 ] [ 1990-1981 ] [ 1980-1971 ] [ 1970-1961 ] [ 1960-1953 ]

EDITORIAL
Hugo Silveira Pereira, Andrea Giuntini, Miguel Muñoz Rubio, Mike Esbester, New journeys through railway history, p. 3
RESEARCH PAPERS
Guillermo Esteban-Oliver, Victor Sanchis-Maldonado, Rafael Barquín Gil, A well-tracked path? Assessing the factors behind the expansion of Spain's nineteenth-century railway network, p. 7
Malcolm Abbott, Bucking the trend: The historical management of a privately owned railway in Australia (the Midland Railway Company of Western Australia 1892-1964), p. 41
Leandro Stacchini, The crisis of the secondary railways: The deadwood policy in Italian transport after World War II (1945-1960), p. 64
Manuel E. Contreras, Tracks of change: The rise and fall of Bolivia's National Railway Company (ENFE): 1965-1995, p. 85
Mikko Manka, Capturing connections: Interrail photography and youth encounters, 1972-1993, p. 111
Stephen Martin, John Bowen, Crazy train: Sub-urbanisation, geographic polarisation and high-speed rail in US politics, p. 135
MUSEUM AND EXHIBITION REVIEWS
Andras Palmai, The 50 Years Old Undergound Railway Museum, p. 159
Andrea Giuntini, Stefano Maggi, Le Ferrovie d'Italia, 1861-2025. An Exhibition in Rome, p. 161
Breno Borges, (De)valued railway heritage - The case of Barreiro, Portugal, p. 164
Hugo Silveira Pereira, A Waning Memory: The First Railway Station of Porto (Portugal), p. 169
Book reviews, p. 174
Obituary, p. 192
EDITORIAL
Hugo Silveira Pereira, A word from our editor (III), p. 289
SURVEY AND SPECULATION
Bruno Marnot, The permanent adjustment process: a theoretical approach to structural change in commercial ports from the nineteenth century onwards, p. 291
RESEARCH ARTICLES
Kristiaan Dillen, Sailing Graven Stroom: the appropriation of nautical space in fifteenth-century Flanders, p. 315
Matteo Barbano, Steamers, refugees, and empires: the maritime displacement of Circassians in the Eastern Mediterranean, p. 337
Richard D. Knowles, Spatial impacts of train ferries and fixed links in Denmark, p. 364
Katarzyna Pietrzak-Król and Krzysztof Wislocki, Lift industry and vertical transport development in Poland - the common history of the Polish-German-Austrian heritage, p. 385
Lenka Krátká, The rise and fall of Babetta brand: three decades of moped production in southern Slovakia, 1970-99, p. 411
MUSEUM AND EXHIBITION REVIEWS
Etienne Faugier, Between thinking about infrastructure and making it happen: the history and future of the Grand Paris Express metro, France, p. 431
Luis David Berrones-Sanz, Expometro: behind the scenes of the Mexico City metro, p. 434
EDITORIALS
Hugo Silveira Pereira, A word from our editor (II), p. 153
Melanie Schneider and Michelle Stork, Representing automobilities in literature and film, p. 155
RESEARCH ARTICLES
Carsten Meiner, From horse carriage to car. History, form, and nature of a literary topos (Woolf and Musil), p. 163
Adrien Frenay, Narrative functions of the automobile in the French novel from the turn of the twentieth century to the inter-war period, p. 177
Sigrun Lehnert, Representation of car drivers and driving in the German cinema newsreel (1950-1965), p. 195
Laurence Riu-Comut, Beyond the déjà-vu: intermedial tranpositions of the film noir motif of the automobile in contemporary Anglo-American and French novel, p. 211
Carolin Slickers, Fuelled humans: the petromodern entanglement of driving and living in Françoise Sagan, p. 228
Nadia Butt, Gender and automobility in the Pakistani road movie Dukhtar or Daughter (2014), p. 248
MUSEUM AND EXHIBITION REVIEWS
André Rocha, The Northwestern Railway of Brazil as a prelude to the anthropocene: a critical look at a photographic exhibition in Santarém, Portugal, p. 266
Etienne Faugier, From hot-air balloon to airship: an inflated adventure, Abbaye des Prémontrés, from 22 March 2025 to 06 July 2025, p. 269
Elsa Santos Alípio, At the wheel of the republic: driving through Portugal's history, p. 272
EDITORIALS
Hugo Silveira Pereira, A word from our new editor, p. 34
Jan Hansen, Christoph Laucht, Paths to peace? Infrastructures, peace and conflict: An introduction, p. 521
RESEARCH ARTICLES
Bas Rensen, Mobility, infrastructure, and peacebuilding: (Im-)mobilising Morocco's waters in the early French Protectorate, 19121925, p. 2243
Daniel Marc Segesser, Preparing for war by fostering alpine winter tourism: Hermann Czant and his ideas on infrastructure for fighting in high altitude, p. 4464
Viliebeinuo Medom, Connections amidst disconnections: Transport routes and the Naga conflict in South Asia, p. 6585
Oscar Aponte, Dismantling an Indigenous transport system: Roadbuilding and state formation in Colombian Amazonia, p. 86107
Efrat Hildesheim, Borderoad as a segmented whole: Biographies, recent histories, and time-space conjunctions of Israel's Highway 90, p. 108134
Book Reviews, p. 135
EDITORIAL
Marie Huber, Waqar H. Zaidi, Introduction: Civil aviation in the Global South, p. 415423
RESEARCH PAPERS
Jiakai Jeremy Chua, Defying the gravity of “dominant parent” Sino-foreign JVs Chinese state leadership and control of Eurasia Aviation Corporation, 19311943, p. 424444
Joppan George, Gujranwala, 14 April 1919: Terror from air and airmindedness in late colonial India, p. 445467
Marie Huber, “Higher up, further” approaching air transport in postcolonial Africa through the biographies of planes, p. 468491
Tobias A. Jopp, Mark Spoerer, Civil aircraft procurement and colonial ties: Evidence on the market for jetliners, 195289, p. 492521
Maria Lucenti, Graziano Mamone, Flying to conquer. The aeronautical pedagogy in narratives for children in Italy (19111945), p. 522542
Melina Piglia, Commercial aviation and the military: Aerolíneas Argentinas during the last two dictatorships (19661973 and 19761983), p. 543560
Ronen Shamir, Passages and rebates: Colonial officers and the shift from sea to air travel in the 1940s, p. 561581
Kaori Takada, Jet age Militourism in Hawai‘i and Okinawa during the Vietnam War, p. 582601
Waqar H. Zaidi, US aid for Thai Civil Aviation, 19471959, p. 602633
EDITORIAL
Andreas Greiner, Carolin Liebisch-Gümüs, Mario Peters, Roland Wenzlhuemer, Roads to exclusion: Introduction, p. 634645
RESEARCH PAPERS
Malte Fuhrmann, The “veins and arteries of the country” Imagined and actual exclusion from railway connectivity in Bulgaria, 18781908, p. 646670
Friedrich N. Ammermann, Nicole E.N. Sithole, Working around exclusive infrastructure African workers and their families navigating race and gender on Rhodesia Railways, 19451964, p. 671691
Zannah Mae Matson, Exclusion through integration: Roadbuilding and colonización in Colombia's Eastern territories, p. 692711
Douwe Schipper, “Neighborhoods kept divided”: Race, roads and rupture in a Baltimore neighbourhood-park corridor, p. 712734
Barbara Lüthi, William Walters, Opening the blackbox of air deportation: The case of Switzerland's “Action Black Autumn”, p. 735756
Andreas Greiner, Carolin Liebisch-Gümüs, Mario Peters, Roland Wenzlhuemer, Roads to engagement: A roundtable discussion with Jennifer Hart, Peter Norton, Anke Ortlepp, Heidi Tworek, and Roland Wenzlhuemer, p. 757767
Hugo Silveira Pereira, Trains and cameras: Photography and the creation of a railway landscape in Portugal (late nineteenthearly twentieth centuries)
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EDITORIAL
Simone Gigliotti, Conflict transport: Holocaust histories, routes, and witnesses, p. 189
RESEARCH PAPERS
Daan de Leeuw, The centrality of railways in the German concentration camp system: Jewish slave labourers’ relocation experiences, p. 194
Jacob Flaws, Death traffic: The railway witnesses of Operation Reinhard, p. 217
Christine Schmidt, Finding the archival traces of “misery trains”: Early accounts of train transport before the Holocaust, p. 242
EDITORIAL
Adam Borch, Jason Finch, Silja Laine, Introduction to Special Issue on Tram Closures Narrated, Experienced and Contested, p. 264
RESEARCH PAPERS
Silja Laine, The closure of the Turku Tramway in visual memory, p. 272
Adam Borch, A nostalgic trip? Klaus Rifbjerg’s “På Sporet af den Tabte Vogn” and the Copenhagen tramway, p. 294
Iuliia Eremenko, Tymoteusz Kraski, Heritage expertise and tram closures in the World Heritage City of Toruń, Poland, p. 317
Jason Finch, Tramway closure representations as tools in critical urbanism: London and lasgow on film, 195362, p. 337
Dan Porat, The securitization of air travel in the United States (196872), p. 365
Jennifer Clark, Michelangelo Bolognese, Carolyn Collins, Exhibiting Holden: Best practice and practical problems in a national motor museum, p. 384
Book Reviews, p. 405
SURVEY AND SPECULATION
Aparajita Mukhopadhyay, Transport users, and historie(s) of transport: “A view from below”, p. 3
RESEARCH PAPERS
David Drengk, Yusuf Madugu, The technological landscape of human and animal transportation: Cases from Northern Nigeria and Southern Côte d’Ivoire, p. 18
Mikiya Koyagi, Pedalling in Pahlavi Iran: Cycle mobility and competing masculinities, p. 41
Egor Muleev, Skotovoz, pripiski and the “law of labour settlement”: Transportation planning and management in the USSR, p. 62
Tambet Muide, The road corvée: The persistence of the use of unpaid labour for road maintenance in nineteenth and twentieth century Estonia, p. 83
Alicia Barnes, Railing through reality: Trains and mobility in Victorian ghost stories, p. 104
Danijel Keic, Railway experts and the construction of national space(s) in post-imperial Southeast Europe: the case of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes/Yugoslavia, p. 124
Kenneth John Button, New behavioural economics and its influence on USA passenger airline management and policies, p. 149
Book Reviews, p. 174
Reviewer List, p. 186
EDITORIAL
Massimo Moraglio, Transport history: a niche moving toward the mainstream?, p. 345
RESEARCH PAPERS
Seth Epstein, “Wanna get married?”: The taxi driver transportation network at the marriage mill of Elkton, Maryland, 19131941, p. 346
Emma Robertson, “The girl conductor has come to stay”: Gender and labour on the buses in interwar Australia, p. 368
Olha Martynyuk, Threatening mobility: Cycling during World War II from a Ukrainian perspective, p. 389
Jacob Harris, “Car, car over all, it has taken a terrible hold of us”: Experiencing automobility in interwar Britain and Germany, p. 411
Constantin Ardeleanu, “Commercial and political needs demand the establishment of a Black Sea port”: Infrastructure development, opportunities and anxieties in an Eastern European periphery (1860s1870s), p. 436
Csaba Sándor Horváth, Old railways, new borders. The impact of treaty of Trianon on Western Transdanubia network (19181924), p. 457
PANORAMA
Julia Winterson, Hidden from history: Carriage cleaners in the United Kingdom from 1849 to COVID-19, p. 483
Book Reviews, p. 501
EDITORIAL
Martin Emanuel, Daniel Normark, (Un)equal footing: Otherings and orderings of urban mobility, p. 165182
PANORAMA
Tauri Tuvikene, Between traffic and walking discourse: Pedestrians in the traffic machine, hints from the Estonian case, p. 183200
RESEARCH PAPERS
Martin Emanuel, Pavement publics in late nineteenth-century Stockholm, p. 201232
Cédric Feriel, Rethinking the dominant modernist planning narrative: Investigating pedestrianisation in Europe, 1960s1970s, p. 233253
Tiina Männistö-Funk, , The struggle over pedestrians: Defining the problems of walking in the 1960s and 1970s, p. 254275
Tom Breen, Abbi Flint, Clare Hickman, Glen O’Hara, Whose right to roam? Contesting access to England’s countryside, p. 276307
Alexei Kraikovski, Small-scale shipping and the maritime commerce of eighteenth-century St. Petersburg, p. 308329
Book Reviews, p. 330
RESEARCH PAPERS
Peter Hobbins, Emulating the “pucker factor”: Faith, fidelity and flight simulation in Australia, 193658, p. 326
Benjamin B. Cohen, “The water flows under the bridge and we pass above it
” infrastructure, transport and state power: The bridges of Hyderabad city, India c. sixteenth to twentieth centuries, p. 2749
Tal Alon-Mozes, The landscape of Route 854 in Israel's Galilee: Integrating nature, construction, and art in the service of a national project
Efrat Hildesheim, p. 5078
Thomas Pettersson, Johan Jansson, Urban Lindgren, A barrier to sustainable transports? Path dependence and the Swedish tax deduction for commuting
, p. 7998
Yuqing Zhu, Railroad investment and regional disparity: Public expenditure on transport infrastructure in France, 183757, p. 99124
PANORAMA
Tamires Saccharine Lico, Andreza Vellasco Gomes, Nicolle Oliveira Rocha, Eduardo Romero de Oliveira, The growth of a research field: A systematic analysis of Brazilian theses and dissertations on railways (19742020), p. 125151
Book Reviews, p. 152
EDITORIAL
Mike Esbester, Editorial: A fundamental threat to our field, p. 351
SURVEY AND SPECULATION
Nathalie Roseau, Mobile cultures and the Anthropocene, p. 354
RESEARCH PAPERS
James J. Ward, The motorcycle as identity construct and performance affect: Three real-life examples for whom transport alone was not enough, p. 368
Justin Shapiro, Environmental control: charting a course for the Navajo reservation through road construction, 1945-1978, p. 391
Malcolm Abbott, Maintaining aircraft manufacturing through government purchases: Australia and Canada from the end of the Second World War until the 1970s, p. 414
Martin Eriksson, To the mutual benefit of the member states. Nordic transnational road cooperation, 1956-1966, p. 440
Andrew Thomas Park, Europe's disintegrative moment: Transportation and borders in Silesia during the Paris Peace Conference of 1919, p. 461
PANORAMA
Antonio Santamaría García, Reviewing Latin American railway historiography: New trends and research avenues, p. 479
Book Reviews, p. 503
Reviewer list, p. 514
EDITORIAL
Massimo Moraglio, Transport history methodology: New trends and perspectives, p. 169
RESEARCH PAPERS
Govind Gopakumar, Placing automobility in postcolonial cities: Towards an ontology of a displaced past, p. 172
Thomas Spain, David A. Turner, Food for thought: Transport within the food supply chain, p. 194
Colin Pooley, Spotlight on the traveller: Individual experiences of routine journeys, p. 214
Zef Segal, The naturalisation of nineteenth-century German Railways as depicted in visual discourse, p. 232
SURVEY AND SPECULATION
Giovanni Favero, Michael-W. Serruys, Miki Sugiura, A new place for transport in urban network theory: The urban logistic network, p. 256
Daniel Normark, Ontologies on collision course: Collaborative mobility v. managerial transport in the contemporary history of intelligent transport systems, p. 277
James Fowler, Historical Institutionalism, Hybridity and Institutional Logics in Public Transport History, p. 296
Hugo Silveira Pereira, Photography and transport history: a speculative approach to a theoretical framework, p. 312
Book Reviews, p. 333
EDITORIAL
James Cohen, Contributions to the post-World War II History of High-Speed Ground Transport in the United States, p. 3
RESEARCH PAPERS
Albert J. Churella, Private agendas and the public good: The contested development of high-speed passenger rail transport in the United States, p. 11
David Reinecke, Moonshots to Nowhere? The Metroliner and Failed High-Speed Rail in the United States, 1962-1977, p. 33
Jonathan Michael Feldman, High-speed rail and barriers to innovation: The Budd Company and the limits of US indirect industrial policy in the 1960s and 1970s, p. 54
James K. Cohen, Development of a futuristic technology programme: How the aerospace industry (almost) transformed ground transportation in the United States (1960-1972), p. 82
Jonathan English, Getting Off Track: the Northeast Corridor Improvement Project in an International Context, p. 107
Melanie Bassett, Negotiating Mobility: Royal Dockyard Workers as Railway Excursion Agents and Social Entrepreneurs, 1880-1918, p. 131
Book Reviews, p. 152