For this assessment you are to choose a business sector in Britain after 1945 (e.g. retail, steel), and conduct a review of the literature on how (or if) its transport demands changed up to 1973 and how this related to its use of the railway. The timeframe you choose for your study and its focus is up to you, and will be dependent on the sector you look at and the resources available. You should also contextualise these changes within the broader literature on modal change and shift in the period and railway and transport policy.

For this assessment you are to choose a business sector in Britain after 1945 (e.g. retail, steel), and conduct a review of the literature on how (or if) its transport demands changed up to 1973 and how this related to its use of the railway. The timeframe you choose for your study and its focus is up to you, and will be dependent on the sector you look at and the resources available. You should also contextualise these changes within the broader literature on modal change and shift in the period and railway and transport policy.

Your review need not be an exhaustive investigation of the texts that your selected industry’s transport demands across the whole period. Its content could be determined by the availability of material or your own interests. For example, you could focus on a short period of time (e.g. 1945 to 1955) or consider the change initiated in a local area (for instance Burton).

The literature you will need can usually be found in online sources and the academic literature. You are only to use secondary materials and contemporaneous publications for your research.