From BOTTOMS to TOPS: 40 years of computer development on British Railways

Speaker: Grahame Boyes (independent)

he problem at the heart of the newly-created British Railways in 1948 was Big Data, a problem which didn’t even have a name until over thirty years later. The paper outlines how the introduction and subsequent stages of development of the computer slowly allowed the problem to be overcome. By 1983 the key financial indicators were becoming favourable. And then....

IHR Seminar series: Transport & Mobility History