Green Access Audits for nature reserves, heritage attractions, countryside destinations, railway stations and urban housing areas. Research and writing on a variety of transport, cultural heritage and development topics.
Work with the railway industry and CRPs as Widen the Choice on Rail Gateways to the Countryside. Development work and advocacy for light rail.
Widen the Choice was a dynamic animator in sustainable countryside access from 2002 to 2009. A partnership between The National Trust, the RSPB and Natural England (initially The Countryside Agency), Widen the Choice covered the East of England region, working to make it easier for people to reach the countryside by means other than the car. The following are legacies of the partnership's work, carried out by Transplan's Chris Wood. The links all open in a new window.
Green Access for Countryside Recreation: How to make it easier for more people to visit the countryside and its attractions whilst reducing their environmental footprint; good practice guide to Green Access Audits. (4.44MB)
Linking People to the Landscape: The Benefits of Sustainable Travel in Countryside Recreation & Tourism; by Claire Sparkes & Chris Wood. (1.75MB)
The 'right' to travel: presentation; PDF of the presentation of the above paper at the Seventh Transport Practitioners' Meeting in Reading, July 2009. (4.27MB)
New life for small railways stations: gateways to the countryside; paper presented to the Sixth Transport Practitioners' Meeting in Reading, July 2008 (with Clive Morris of National Express East Anglia). (1.09MB)
Green access audits in the countryside; paper presented to the Fifth Transport Practitioners' Meeting in Manchester, July 2007. (76kB)
Can Cinderella get to the ball? Implementing the green travel, countryside access and social inclusion agenda in rural leisure travel; paper presented to the UK Transport Practitioners' Meeting in Birmingham, July 2005. (70kB)
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The following links are to PDFs of past Transplan Occasional Papers and other materials produced by Chris Wood.
Who's afraid of the congestion wolf?; paper presented to the Eighth Transport Practitioners' Meeting in York, July 2010. (103kB)
A Railway Revolution... A proposal with the LRTA for a 'tram-train' light rail network for eastern Norfolk. (3.76MB)
Widen the Choice was placed third in two categories for its Rail Gateways to the Countryside work in the Yare Valley (Norfolk) and at Lakenheath (Suffolk), with National Express, the RSPB and the Wherry Lines CRP. Picture: Ian Dinmore.
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Posted by mike on Thursday, 13 July 2017, at 12:59 p.m., in response to Re: Custer rifle, posted by Dick Hosmer on Thursday, 13 July 2017, at 12:52 p.m.
right, probably indian modified it over the following 50 years as he said he used it after. but when my dad got a hold of it it was in terrible condition.
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The world renowned academic of rugby history, both League and Union, Professor Tony Collins has recently published a review of my book in the Sport in History journal website. For those with an interest in the history of rugby union his recent book The Oval World is well worth a read.
Tony's review is very complimentary offering an overview of the book's content and insight into where it sits in the historiography of rugby writing concluding that,
'Histories of sports’ clubs are notoriously difﬁcult to write successfully. Even the most accomplished, such as Chuck Korr’s West Ham United (1987), Richard Stremski’s Kill for Collingwood (1986) and Andrew Moore’s The Mighty Bears (1996), struggle to maintain a balance between administrative minutiae, repetitive seasons and narrative ﬂow. Yet despite the fact that the book is almost 700 pages long, the tight integration between the sporting and social history of Shanghai means that It’s a Rough Game is never less than interesting. In terms of its command of detail, personalities and sporting history the book is comparable to Tom Hickie’s outstanding 1998 history of Sydney University FC, A Sense of Union.
Most importantly, the book provides historians with a new window into the social world of the British imperial expatriate community. Rugby was a not insigniﬁcant part of the recreational life of most British colonialist communities across the imperial world yet remains woefully unexplored beyond the usual Australia/ New Zealand/South Africa axis. Yet as Ng Peng Kong’s 2003 history/memoir Rugby: A Malaysian Chapter described, rugby union played an important role both in maintaining the ‘Britishness’ of the expatriate community and in allowing them to resist or regulate the participation of the indigenous population.
As a history of rugby and of the British community in Shanghai, Simon Drakeford’s book is an important contribution to the historiography of sport and of the British Empire.'
My book has been reviewed in the academic journal The International Journal of the History of Sport. The review commences 'When this book arrived in the collection of the World Rugby Museum, it became the archive’s 1002nd club history. For symbolic purposes, it would perhaps have been appropriate for the book to have become the millennial volume. Few of the previous thousand publications can match it for scale of ambition or achievement, and it will serve as a challenging benchmark for those to follow.' And concluded 'The author is to be congratulated on an impressive and much-needed volume.'
The definitive history of rugby in Shanghai. Weighing in at 2.8kg, it is a mammoth read of almost 700 pages and 400 illustrations.