Britain's Railways in the Great War, 1914-1918

该项目将探讨六个相互关联的核心主题- -政治、行政、经济、技术、文化和社会- -探讨铁路如何应对以及如何应对的基本问题，并作为未来研究的框架。地理范围将限于由贸易和铁路执行委员会（Board of Trade and Railway Executive Committee）控制的铁路——换句话说，不包括爱尔兰的铁路，后者是单独管理的。个案研究可用于分析对选定的战略路线（如通往海峡港口的线路）和固定资产（如主要车间）的性能和影响。预计评估将主要是定性的，并在适当情况下使用统计数字来确定基本趋势。

The project will address six core inter-connected themes - political, administrative, economic, technical, cultural and social - both to explore the basic questions of how, and how well, the railways coped and to serve as a framework for future research. The geographical scope will be limited to the lines under state control via the Board of Trade and Railway Executive Committee - in other words, excluding Ireland's railways, which were managed separately. Case-studies might be used to analyse the performance and impacts on selected strategic routes (such as the lines to the Channel ports) and fixed assets such as major workshops. The assessments are expected to be mainly qualitative, with statistics used where appropriate to identify basic trends.