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Against the odds: The origins and survival of a small British railway port, 1850-1939
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The Journal of Transport History
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March 1, 2007
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On the face of it, small ports are uncomplicated pieces of transport infrastructure, presenting the historian with few problems when it comes to establishing their origins and tracing their development. In practice, matters are not so straightforward, as the briefest glance at port typology reveals. With laudable completeness, port classification embraces all possible combinations of functional, administrative, location and physical attributes. Thus - and after the fashion of Jarvis - the historian can distinguish ports on the basis of their principal traffics (bulk or general cargoes, imports or exports predominating), form of ownership (private, municipal or trust), nature of trade ...
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