This book responds to the opening up of electricity markets to competition, which has completely changed the nature of power generation. The building of new generation and transmission capacity and the setting of the energy mix between nuclear, gas and renewable resources are mainly left to...

Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Motive Powers and Mechanisms -- 2 Getting Traction, 1884 to 1888 -- 3 Assessing Richmond -- 4 Restless and Rising -- 5 Fighting for Control -- 6 Elusive Control -- 7 Mainline Electrification -- Afterword -- Notes -- Index.