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The World the Railways Made

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by Nicholas Faith


  7. See Adler, op. cit.

  8. The Railway Revolution in Mexico

  9. Delmer Ross, Visionaries & Swindlers, (Mobile, Ala. 1975)

  10. H. S. Ferns, Britain & Argentina in the 19th century, (Oxford 1960)

  11. Stacy May and Galo Plaza, The United Fruit Company in Latin America, (New York 1958)

  12. Delmer Ross, Rails across Costa Rica, (Mobile, Ala. 1976)

  13. The Dragon and The Iron Horse, op. cit.

  14. According to Herbert Feis, Europe, the world’s banker (New York 1931), the British accounted for a quarter of the total.

  15. Ferns op. cit.

  16. Watts Stewart, Henry Meiggs, Yankee Pissarro, (New York 1946)

  17. Charles David Kepner, Jnr, The Banana Empire; a case study of economic imperialism, (New York 1973)

  See also:

  John Keith Hatch, Minor C. Keith, Pioneer of the American Tropics, (Private, Mckean, Virginia 1963)

  18. Compagnie Générale pour l’Exploitation des Chemins de Fer de Turquie d’Europe.

  See also:

  Kurt Grunwald, Turkenhirsch, (Jerusalem 1966)

  A. du Velay, Essai sur l’histoire financière de la Turquie, (Paris 1903)

  19. Ferdinand de Lesseps, a biographical study

  20. George Kennan (not the diplomat), E. H. Harriman (Boston 1922)

  21. Delmer Ross, Visionaries and Swindlers, op. cit.

  22. E. M. Earle, The Great Powers & the Bagdad Railway, (London 1923)

  See also:

  Chereadame, A., Le chemin de fer de Bagdad, (Paris 1903)

  23. Earle op. cit.

  See also:

  Baur, J. C., La mise en valeur de l’AOF Ferroviare

  Decharme, Pierre, Les chemins de fer dans les Colonies Allemandes, (Paris 1903)

  Maignan, André, L’achèvement du Transindochinois, (Paris 1935)

  On international financial markets see also:

  Bouvier, Jean, Le Krach de l’Union Générale, (Paris 1960)

  Gille, Bertrand, La banque en France au 19e, (Geneva 1908)

  ——Les investissements Français en Italie, (Turin 1970)

  Hidy, Muriel, George Peabody, merchant and financier (New York 1978)

  Jackson, W. T., The Enterprising Scot, (Edinburgh 1968)

  Jenks, Leland, The migration of British capital to 1875

  Kindleberger, Charles A., Financial History of Western Europe, (London 1984)

  Levy-Leboyer, M., (ed.), La Position Internationale de la France, (Paris 1977)

  Myers, Margaret G., Paris as a Financial Centre, (London 1936)

  Ziegler, Philip, The Sixth Great Power, (London 1988)

  VII THE ARMIES OF STEAM – AND THEIR BATTLEFIELDS

  1. Quoted by W. Stewart, op. cit.

  2. Gosta Sandstrom, A History of Tunnelling

  3. Frederick Talbott, The Railway Conquest of the World, (London 1911)

  4. Joseph Schott, Rails across Panama, (Indianapolis 1967)

  5. Pierre Berton, The Impossible Railway, op. cit.

  6. For a full description, see John Hoyt Williams, A Great and Shining Road

  7. Harmon Tupper, To The Great Ocean

  8. Williams op. cit.

  9. A. J. Purkis, The Politics, Capital and Labour of Railway Building in Cape Colony

  10. G. R. Stevens, Canadian National Railways

  11. Quoted by Terry Coleman, The Railway Navvies

  12. Quoted by John Keith Hatch, Minor C. Keith, op. cit.

  13. Lennox van Osselen, Head of Steel

  14. Stewart Holbrook, The Story of American Railroads

  15. Sandstrom op. cit.

  16. Schott op. cit.

  17. Frank Mckenna, The Railway Workers 1840–1970, (London 1980)

  18. Railways in the Andes

  19. Walter Licht, Working for the Railroad, (Princeton 1983)

  20. Yaqub Karkar, Railway Development in the Ottoman Empire, (New York 1972)

  21. J. N. Westwood, Railways of India

  22. Quoted in Richards & Mackenzie, The Railway Station, A Social History

  23. Stewart Holbrook, The Story of American Railroads

  24. O. S. Nock, Historic Railway Disasters, (London 1966)

  25. François Caron, Histoire de l’Exploitation d’un Grand Réseau

  26. Richards & Mackenzie, op. cit.

  27. J. N. Westwood, A History of Russian Railways

  28. Samuel O. Dunn, Government Ownership of Railways, (New York 1913)

  29. Robert Bruce, 1877 Year of Violence, (New York 1959)

  30. Henry Reichman, Railwaymen and Revolution, (Berkeley 1987)

  31. B. A. Botkin and Alvin Harlow, A Treasury of American Folklore

  See also:

  Brooke, David, The Railway Navvy, (Newton Abbot 1983)

  Kingsford, Peter, Victorian Railwaymen, (London 1970)

  Schneider, Ascario, Railways through the Mountains of Europe, (London 1967)

  VIII SOCIETY ON THE MOVE

  1. J. A. R. Pimlott, The Englishman’s Holiday, (London 1947)

  2. Quoted in Lost Pleasures of the Great Trains

  3. Albert Parry, Whistler’s Father

  4. Everett Lloyd, Law West of the Pecos; the story of Judge Roy Bean

  5. Quoted by Charles Wilson, First with the News, (London 1985)

  6. Jean Mister, La Librairie Hachette de 1826 à nos jours, (Paris 1964)

  7. Report of Captain Tyler, Parliamentary Papers

  8. Holbrook op. cit.

  9. R. Whitbread, The Railway Policeman, (London 1961)

  10. For a full analysis of the psycho-pathological consequences of railway disasters, see Schievelbusch, op. cit., pp. 134–145

  11. Long Steel Rail – the Railroad in American Folksong

  12. Tom Parkinson and Charles Philip Fox, The Circus Moves by Rail

  13. Jean-Claude Toutain, La consommation alimentaire en France de 1789–1964, (Geneva 1971)

  14. Westwood op. cit.

  15. Eleuthere Eléfteriades, Les Chemins de Fer en Syrie et au Liban, (Beirut 1944)

  16. Jack Simmons, Railways in Town and Country

  17. They Broke the Prairie

  18. Edmund Swinglehurst, The Romantic Journey, (London 1974)

  19. C. R. Fay, Palace of Industry – a study of the Great Exhibition and its fruits, (Cambridge 1951)

  20. John K. Walton, The English Seaside Resort, a social history, (Leicester 1983)

  21. ‘Winter and Spring on the Shore of the Mediterranean’, quoted by P. Howarth, When the Riviera was Ours, (London 1977)

  22. Howarth op. cit.

  23. Raymond Carr, English Fox Hunting, (London 1976)

  24. Quoted in Stuart Legg, The Railway Book

  25. Quoted in Jean Autin, Les Frères Pereire

  26. David Leon Chandler, Henry Flagler

  See also:

  Annales, Food & Drink in history, (Paris 1970)

  Barker, T. C., Our Changing Fare, (London 1966)

  Barsley, Michael, Orient Express, (London 1966)

  Bartky, Ian B., ‘The invention of Railroad Time’ (Railroad History no 148, spring 1983)

  Billet, B., Lourdes, Documents authentiques, (Paris 1966)

  Cookridge, E. H., Orient Express, (London 1979)

  Cummings, R. O., The American and his food, (New York 1941)

  ——The American Ice Harvests, (Berkeley 1949)

  Dron, Jean-Paul, Essai sur la sensibilité alimentaire à Paris, (Paris 1962)

  Forster, E. & R., European diet from pre-industrial to modern times, (New York 1973)

  Morgan, Bryan, Express Journey, (London 1964)

  Musgrave, Clifford, Life in Brighton, (Eastbourne 1981)

  Sutton, Felix, Master of Ballyhoo, (New York 1968)

  Tannahill, Reay, Food in History, (St Albans 1975)

  Waller, George, Saratoga, (Englewood Cliffs 1966)

  IX RAILWAY IN TOWN AND CITY

  1. R. N. Taaffe, Rail Transportation and the economic development of Soviet Central
Asia, (Chicago 1960)

  2. Weber, Peasants into Frenchmen, op. cit.

  3. See Popplewell, Bournemouth Railway History, op. cit.

  4. A. W. Currie, The Grand Trunk Railway of Canada

  5. Charles Glaab, Kansas City and the railroads, (Madison, Wisc. 1962)

  6. Harold M. Mayer and R. C. Wade, Chicago; the growth of a metropolis, (Chicago 1969)

  7. Quoted by J. M. Russell in Atlanta, 1837–1890

  8. Berton, The Promised Land, op. cit.

  9. Paul Theroux, Riding the Iron Rooster, op. cit.

  10. Marshall, Santa Fe, the railroad that built an Empire, op. cit.

  11. Quoted by Christian Barman, An Introduction to Railway Architecture, (London 1950)

  12. See particularly Richards and Mackenzie, op. cit.

  13. Carroll Meeks, The Railway Station, an architectural history, (New Haven 1957)

  See also:

  Biddle, Gordon, Great Railway Stations of Britain, (Newton Abbot 1986)

  Hartscough, Mildred, ‘Transportation & the Twin Cities’, (Minnesota Historical Bulletin, Sep. 1926)

  Thompson, F. M. L., The rise of suburbia, (Leicester 1982)

  X WAR ON THE RAILS

  1. Albert Parry, Whistler’s Father

  2. Dennis Showalter, Railroads and Rifles, (Hamden 1976)

  3. Martin Van Crefeld, Supplying war, logistics from Wallenstein to Patton, (Cambridge 1977) – a most stimulating book

  4. Thomas Weber, The Northern Railroads during the Civil War, (New York 1952)

  5. Quoted by William McElwee, The Art of War: Waterloo to Mons, (London 1974)

  6. Thomas Pakenham, The Boer War

  See also:

  Curzon, George Nathaniel, Russia in Central Asia, (London 1889)

  Liddell Hart, Basil, Sherman, soldier, realist, American, (New York 1929)

  Mcpherson, James M., Battle Cry of Freedom, (Oxford 1988)

  Nevins, Allan, The War for the Union, (New York 1959)

  Turner, George Edgar, Victory rode the rails, (Indianapolis 1953)

  INDEX

  Abilene, (i)

  About, Edmond, (i)

  Adelaide, Queen, (i), (ii)

  Adam, Villiers de l’lsle, (i)

  Adams, Charles Francis, jr, (i)

  Adams, John Quincy, (i)

  Afghanistan, (i), (ii)

  Albany, (i)

  Alberdi, Juan Batista, (i)

  Albert, Prince, (i)

  Alexander III, Tsar, (i)

  Algeria, (i)

  Allan, Sir Hugh, (i)

  Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants, (i)

  American News Distribution Co., (i)

  American Railway Union, (i)

  Amiens, (i)

  Amsterdam, (i)

  Antwerp, (i), (ii)

  Arcachon, (i), (ii)

  Arequipa, (i)

  Argentina, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii)

  Argentine Western Railway, (i)

  Arnold, Dr, (i), (ii)

  Assumptionists, (i)

  Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad, (i), (ii), (iii)

  Atlanta, (i), (ii)

  Atlantic & Great Western Railroad, (i)

  Atlantic City, (i)

  Auden, W. H., quoted, (i)

  Austria (and Austro–Hungarian Empire), (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Awdry, Revd Wilbert, (i)

  Baden, (i)

  Bagdad, (i)

  Bakewell, (i)

  Balta, Colonel Jose, (i)

  Baltimore, (i)

  Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)

  Balzac, Honoré de, (i)

  Bangor, Maine, (i)

  Barham, George, (i)

  Barings, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Barnum, P. T., (i)

  Bean, Judge Roy, (i)

  Beaufort, Duke of, (i)

  Belgium (and Belgians), (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

  Belgrade, (i)

  Belpaire, Alfred, (i)

  Bendern, Arnold de, (i)

  Bentinck, Lord George, (i)

  Berlin to Bagdad Railway, (i), (ii)

  Berlin, Treaty of, (i)

  Berlioz, Hector, (i)

  Berwick-on-Tweed, (i)

  Betts, Edward, (i), (ii)

  Birmingham (Alabama), (i), (ii)

  Birmingham (England), (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

  Bismarck, Otto von, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Blanc, François, (i)

  Bleichroder, Gerson, (i), (ii)

  Blomfield, Arthur, (i)

  Blowitz, Henri, (i)

  Bly, Nelly, (i)

  Boer War, (i), (ii)

  Bologna, (i)

  Bombay, (i)

  Booth, Henry, (i), (ii)

  Boris, King of Bulgaria, (i)

  Boston, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Boston & Maine Railroad, (i)

  Boulogne, (i)

  Bourne, Richard, (i)

  Bournemouth, (i)

  Bradshaw, William (and timetable), (i)

  Brassey, Thomas, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii)fn, (viii), (ix), (x), (xi), (xii), (xiii), (xiv)

  Brazil, (i), (ii), (iii)

  Brenner Pass, (i)

  Brighton, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

  Brindisi, (i)

  Bristol, (i)

  Brontë sisters, (i)

  Bronxville, (i)

  Brooke, Rupert, (i); quoted (i)

  Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, quoted (i)

  Brunel, Isambard Kingdom, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii)

  Brussels, (i), (ii)

  Bryan, William Jennings, (i)

  Bryce, Lord, (i)

  Buddicom, W. B., 133fn, (i)

  Buenos Aires, (i), (ii), (iii)

  Buffalo, (i)

  Bulgaria, (i), (ii)

  Burckhardt, Jacob, (i)

  Burlington Northern Railroad, (i), (ii)

  Butler, General Ben, (i)

  Buxton, (i)

  Cairo, (i)

  Caldwell, Charles, (i)

  Calgary, (i)

  Cambrian Railway, (i)

  Camden & Amboy Railroad, (i)

  Canada, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)

  Canadian National Railway (CNR) (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)

  Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR), (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (xi)

  Cannes, (i)

  Canton, (i), (ii)

  Cape-to-Cairo Railway, (i), (ii)

  Cape Town, (i), (ii)

  Carlyle, Thomas, quoted (i), (ii)

  Carroll, Charles, (i)

  Casement, Jack and Dan, (i)

  ‘Casey Jones’, (i)

  Cavour, Count Camillo, (i)

  Central Argentine Railway, (i)

  Central Pacific Railroad, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii)

  Central Peruvian Railway, (i), (ii)

  Chao Erfang, (i)

  Chaplin, William James, (i)

  Chapman, G. C. (i)

  Chapman and Hall, (i)

  Charleston, (i), (ii)

  Chatanooga, (i)

  Chatham, (i)

  Chat Moss, (i)

  Chesterton, G. K., (i); quoted (i)

  Chevalier, Michel, (i), (ii)

  Cheyenne, (i), (ii), (iii)

  Chicago, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (xi), (xii), (xiii), (xiv)

  Chicago, Burlington & Quincey Railroad, (i), (ii), (iii)

  Chicago, Milwaukee and St Paul Railroad, (i)

  Chile, (i), (ii), (iii)

  China (and Chinese), (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)ff, (vii), (viii), (ix)

  Christie, Agatha, (i)

  Chungking, (i)

  Churchill, Winston, (i), (ii)

  Civil War (American), (i)

  CNR see Canadian National Railway

  Cobden, William, (i)

  Cole, Henry, (i)

  Cologne, (i), (ii)

  Colombia, (i)

  Compagnie du Nord,
(i)

  Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits, (i)

  Congo, Belgian, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Constantinople, (i), (ii), (iii)

  Cook, Thomas, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Cooper, James Fenimore, (i)

  Copenhagen, (i)

  Cornford, Frances, (i); quoted (i)

  Costa Rica, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

  Coup, William Cameron, (i)

  Cowdray, Lord, (i)

  CPR see Canadian Pacific Railway

  Crampton, Thomas, (i)

  Crawford, Joseph U., (i)

  Credit Lyonnais, (i)

  Credit Mobilier, bank and scandal, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)

  Creevey, Thomas, (i)

  Crewe, (i)

  Crimean War, (i), (ii), (iii)

  Cristina Tunnel, (i)

  Crocker, Charles, (i)fn, (ii)

  Crofutt, George A., (i)

  Cuba, (i)

  Cunard, Edward, (i)

  Currier & Ives, (i)

  Curzon, George, (i), (ii), (iii)

  Cyril, Archimandrite, (i)

  Daily Telegraph, (i)

  Dalhousie, Lord, (i), (ii)

  Dar es Salaam, (i)

  Dargan, William, (i)

  Debs, Eugene, (i)

  Degas, Edgar, (i)

  Dekobra, Maurice, (i)

  Denmark, (i)

  Denver, (i)

  Derby, (i)

  Derby, Earl of, (i)

  Derviz, Von, (i)

  Detroit, (i), (ii)

  Deutsche Bank, (i)

  Devey, J., (i)

  Dey, Peter, (i)

  Diaz, President Porfirio, (i)

  Dickens, Charles, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix)

  Dickinson, Emily, quoted (i)

  Dijon, (i)

  Dodge, General Grenville, (i), (ii)

  Donnelley, Ignatius, (i)

  Douglas, Stephen, (i)

  Drew, Daniel, (i), (ii)

  Drumont, Edouard, (i)

  Duluth, (i)

  Durant, Dr, (i), (ii), (iii)

  Eastern Counties Railway, (i), (ii)

  Ecuador, (i)

  Edinburgh, (i)

  Emerson, Ralph Waldo, (i)

  English Association of Stock and Bondholders, (i)

  Erie (Canal), (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Erie (Railroad), (i), (ii)

  Erie (scandal), (i), (ii), (iii)

  Erlanger, Emile d’, (i)

  Escher, Alfred, (i)

  Eskishshir, (i)

  Esterhazy, Prince, (i)

  Euston Station, (i)

  Evans, Christopher, (i)

  Exeter, (i), (ii)

  Favre, Louis, (i), (ii)

  Fawcett, Brian, quoted (i), (ii)

  Ferdinand, King of Bulgaria, (i)

  Findlay, Sir George, (i)

  Fink, Albert, (i), (ii)

  Firbank, Joseph, (i), (ii), (iii)

 

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