Excerpt from War Administration of the Railways in the United States and Great Britain This monograph is subject to all the limitations that arise when one attempts to write history in medias res. In Great Britain a law had been on the statute book since 1871 which provided for the method of railway management in case of war and for the financial arrangement under which the rail ways should be operated. The organization of railway execu tiyes which is now operating the British railways had been in existence since 1896. Therefore, it was a relatively simple mat ter to put the machinery in motion when the emergency arose and there have been few problems since of a fundamental char acter. Yet even so it would be impossible to say that our de scription is altogether complete or well balanced and that it does not fail to present some significant fact or phase of the situation. Many gaps will be discovered that are due to the impossibility of obtaining information during the war, and especially to the silence of the British government regarding many of its internal dealings under war conditions. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.