The World the Railways Made

by Nicholas Faith

  Fisk, Jim, (i), (ii)

  Flagler, Henry, (i), (ii)

  Flaubert, Gustave, (i), (ii)

  Florida, (i)

  Foch, Marshal, (i)

  Fogg, Phileas, (i)

  Folkestone, (i)

  Fontainebleau, (i)

  Forster, E. M., quoted (i)

  France, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (xi), (xii)

  Francis, John, quoted (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)fn

  Francis II, Emperor, (i)

  Franco-Prussian War, (i), (ii)

  Freud, Sigmund, (i), (ii)

  Freycinet (and network), (i)

  Fuller, Roy, quoted (i)

  Garland, Judy, (i)

  Gautier, Théophile, (i)

  Gay, Peter, quoted (i)

  Genoa, (i)

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

  Girouard, Percy, (i)

  Gladstone, William, (i)

  Glasgow, (i), (ii)

  Glyn, bankers, (i)

  Goebel, William, (i)

  Gokteik Bridge, (i)

  Goncourt brothers, (i)

  Gouin, Ernest, (i)

  Gould, Jay, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

  Gounod, Charles François, (i)

  Grand Junction Canal, (i)

  Grand Trunk Railway, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)

  Grange movement, (i), (ii)

  Grant, General Ulysses S., (i), (ii), (iii)

  Gray, Thomas, quoted (i), (ii), (iii)

  Great Eastern Railway, (i)

  Great Exhibition (London 1851), (i), (ii), (iii)

  Great Exhibition (London 1862), (i)

  Great Exhibition (Paris 1855), (i)

  Great Locomotive Chase, The, (i)

  Great Northern Railroad, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Great Northern Railway, (i)

  Great Western Hotel, (i)

  Great Western Railway, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)

  Greece, (i)

  Greene, Graham, (i)

  Gresley, Sir Nigel, (i)fn

  Greville, Charles, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Grissell, Thomas, (i), (ii)

  Guatemala, (i)

  Hachette, Louis, (i)

  Hamblen, Herbert, (i)

  Hamid, Sultan Abdul, (i)

  Hanoi, (i)

  Harbin, (i)

  Hardwick, Philip, (i), (ii)

  Hardy, Thomas, (i), (ii)

  Harriman, E. H., (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

  Harrogate, (i)

  Harvey, Fred, (i)

  Haupt, Herman, (i)

  Hawthorne, Nathaniel, (i), (ii)

  Hay, John, (i)

  Hayes, President Garfield, (i), (ii)

  Heine, Heinrich, (i)

  Helper, Hinton Rowan, (i)

  Helps, Sir Arthur, (i)

  Helsinki, (i)

  Herzl, Theodor, (i)

  Hesse, (i)

  Hill, James J. (Jim), (i), (ii), (iii)

  Hirsch, Lucien, (i)

  Hirsch, Baron Maurice, (i), (ii)

  Hitchcock, Alfred, (i)

  Hitler, Adolf, (i)

  Hobsbawm, Eric, (i)

  Holland (and Dutch), (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Honduras, (i), (ii), (iii)

  Hopkins, Mark, (i)fn

  Hornby, Sir Edmond, quoted (i)

  Horne, William van, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Horwich, (i)

  House, Humphrey, (i), (ii)

  Hudson, George, (i), (ii), (iii)

  Hugo, Victor, (i)

  Huish, Captain Mark, (i), (ii)

  Hull, (i)

  Hungary, (i), (ii)fn

  Huntingdon, Collis P., (i), (ii)fn

  Huskisson, William, (i), (ii)

  ICC see Interstate Commerce Commission

  Illinois Central Railroad, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Impressionists, (i)

  India, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii)

  Indochina, (i)

  Industrial Workers of the World, (i)

  Innes, George, (i)

  Intercolonial Railway, (i)

  Interstate Commerce Commission, (i)

  Iran see Persia

  Irish navvies, 197ff

  Italy (and Italians), (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix)

  IWW see Industrial Workers of the World

  Jackson, Revd Jesse, (i)

  Jamaica, (i)

  Jamalpur, (i)

  James, Frank and Jesse, (i)

  James, William, (i), (ii)

  Japan (and Japanese), (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (xi), (xii)

  Jarrett, Henry C., (i)

  Johnson, Andrew, (i)

  Josephson, Matthew, (i), (ii), (iii)

  Judan, T. (‘Crazy’), (i)

  Kaisim Pasha, (i)

  Kansas City, (i), (ii)

  Kansas Pacific Railroad, (i)

  Keaton, Buster, (i)

  Keith, C. Minor, (i), (ii), (iii)

  Kelao Brotherhood, (i)

  Kelley, Oliver Hudson, (i)

  Kemble, Fanny, (i), (ii); quoted (i)

  Kennedy, Robert, (i)

  Kentucky, (i)

  Kenya, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

  Kerouac, Jack, (i)

  Khartoum, (i)

  Kidder Peabody, (i)

  Kiev, (i)

  Kipling, Rudyard, (i), (ii), (iii)

  Kitchener, Lord, (i)

  Knights of Labour, (i)

  Korea, (i)

  Kruger, President Paul, (i)

  Krupp, Alfred, (i), (ii)

  Kuropatkin, General, (i)

  Kursk, (i)

  Labouchère, Henry, (i)

  Lambton, Mr, (i)

  Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway, (i)

  Laurier, Sir Wilfred, (i), (ii)

  Lawrence, T. E., (i)

  Leamington, (i)

  Leavenworth, (i)

  Le Havre, (i), (ii), (iii)

  Leicester, (i)

  Leopold II, King, (i), (ii)

  Leroy-Beaulieu, Paul, (i)

  Lesseps, Ferdinand de, (i), (ii)

  Limantour, José, (i)

  Lincoln, Abraham, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

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

  Liverpool & Manchester Railway, (i)ff, (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii)

  Locke, Joseph, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

  London, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  London & Birmingham Railway, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  London & North Western Railway, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  London & Southampton Railway, (i)

  London, Chatham & Dover Railway, (i), (ii)

  Longman, (i)

  Louisville & Nashville Railroad, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

  Lourdes, (i)

  Lumière, Louis, (i)

  Lyon, (i)

  McCallum, Daniel C., (i), (ii)

  McCoy, Joseph, (i)

  Macdonald, Sir John, (i), (ii), (iii)

  Mackenzie, William, (i), (ii)

  MacLeish, Archibald, (i)

  Maclellan, General, (i)

  Macmillan, Harold, (i)

  Mallarmé, Stéphane, (i)

  Manchester, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii)

  Manchuria, (i), (ii), (iii)

  Manet, Edouard, (i)

  Mann, Donald, (i), (ii)

  Mann, William, (i)

  Mansfield, Josie, (i)

  Marseilles, (i)

  Mazlish, Bruce, quoted (i)

  Mecca, (i)

  Medina, (i)

  Meeks, Carroll, quoted (i)

  Meiggs, Henry, (i), (ii), (iii)fn, (iv)

  Meissner, Pasha, (i)

  Melbourne, (i)

  Melville, Herman, (i)

  Menton, (i), (ii)

  Mexico, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

  Mexico City, (i)

  Miami, (i)

  Michelet, Jules, (i)

  Middlesbrough, (i)

  Mid
land Railway, (i), (ii)

  Mikhailovski, Constantine Ya, (i)

  Milan, (i)

  Mill, John Stuart, (i)

  Millay, Edna St Vincent, quoted (i)

  Minden, (i)

  Minneapolis, (i), (ii)

  Missouri Pacific, (i), (ii)

  Mobile, (i)

  Moller, Kurt, quoted (i)

  Moltke, (i)

  Moltke, Helmuth von, (i), (ii)ff

  Mombasa, (i), (ii)

  Monaco, Prince Charles III of, (i)

  Mont Cenis, pass and tunnel, (i)

  Monte Carlo, (i)

  Montevideo, (i)

  Morgan, J. P., (i)

  Morgans, (i)

  Morning Post, (i)

  Morton Bliss, (i)

  Morton Rose, (i)

  Moscow, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Mozambique, (i), (ii)

  Muktar Bey, (i)

  Murray, John, (i)

  Myers, Gustavus, (i)

  Nairobi, (i)

  Napoleon I, Emperor, (i)

  Napoleon III, Emperor, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

  Netherlands see Holland

  New Orleans, (i), (ii)

  New York, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x)

  New York Central Railroad, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  New Tokkaido Line, (i), (ii)

  New Zealand, (i)

  Nicaragua, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Nice, (i)

  Niger, River, (i)

  Northern Pacific Railroad, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Northern Railway (France), (i), (ii)

  Northumbrian, The, (i)

  Norway, (i)

  Novgorod, (i)

  Olten, (i)

  Omaha, (i)

  Oporto, (i)

  Orient Express, (i), (ii)

  Ottoman Empire, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)

  Overend Gurney crash, (i), (ii)

  Overton, George, quoted (i)

  Oxford, (i), (ii)

  Palm Beach, (i)

  Panama Railway, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

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

  ‘Parliamentary trains’, (i)

  Parsons, Lewis, (i)

  Patterson, Lt-Col J. H., (i)

  Patti, Adelina, (i)

  Pauling, George, (i), (ii), (iii)

  Paxton, Thomas, (i), (ii), (iii)fn

  Peacock, Thomas Love, quoted (i)

  Pearson, Weetman, see Cowdray, Lord

  Pease, Edward, (i)

  Pecqueur, Walter, (i)

  Pekin, (i)

  Pennsylvania, (i)

  Pennsylvania Railroad, (i), (ii), (iii)

  Pereire, Emile and Isaac, (i)fn, (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

  Perkins, Charles Eliot, (i), (ii)

  Perry, Commodore, (i)

  Persia, (i)

  Peru, (i), (ii), (iii)

  Peto, Sir Samuel Morton, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)

  Pfalz, (i)

  Philadelphia, (i), (ii)

  Philadelphia & Reading Railroad, (i)

  Pinkerton, Allan, (i)

  Pittenger, Revd William, (i)

  Pius IX, Pope, (i)

  Plonnies, Louise von, (i)

  Polyakov, (i)

  Poole, (i)

  Porter, Edwin S., (i)

  Portland, Maine, (i), (ii), (iii)

  Portugal, (i), (ii), (iii)

  Pressel, Wilhelm von, (i), (ii)

  Price, Philips, (i)

  Prince Edward Island, (i)

  Prussia, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)ff

  Pullman, George Mortimer, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Pullman (town), (i)

  Pullman (strike), (i)

  Punch, quoted (i)

  Quebec & St John Railroad, (i)

  Quincey, Thomas de, (i)

  Railroad Guide, (i)

  Railway Magazine, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Railway News, quoted (i)

  Railway Times, (i)

  Rainhill trials, (i)

  Reach, Angus B., (i)

  Reid, William, (i)

  Reitern, von, (i)

  Rewald, John, quoted (i)

  Reza, Shah, (i)

  Rhodes, Cecil, (i)

  Riel, Louis, (i)

  Robbins, Michael, (i)

  Roberts, Lord, (i)

  Rockefeller, John D., (i)

  Rocket, The, (i), (ii)

  Rogers, Major A. B., (i)

  Rolt, L.T.C., quoted (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Rome, (i)

  Rothschilds, (i), (ii)

  Rouen, (i)

  Roumania, (i)

  Ruhr, the, (i)

  Ruskin, John, quoted (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

  Russia, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x)ff

  Sadleir, John, (i), (ii)

  Saint Augustine, (i)

  Saint Emilion, (i)

  Saint Gotthard, pass and tunnel, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Saint Louis, (i)

  Saint Petersburg, (i), (ii)

  Saint Simon, Henri de (and Saint-Simonians), (i), (ii), (iii), (iv); III

  Salamanca, José de, (i), (ii)

  Salisbury, Marquis of, (i)

  Saltburn, (i)

  Salt Lake City, (i)

  Sanders, Andrew, (i)

  San Francisco, (i), (ii)

  Santa Fe Railroad see Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe

  Saratoga Springs, (i), (ii)

  Saskatoon, (i)

  Saunders, Joseph, (i), (ii)

  Scheff, Fritzi, (i)

  Schievelbusch, Wolfgang, (i), (ii)

  Scott, Thomas, (i), (ii), (iii)

  Sebastopol, (i), (ii)

  Sefton, Lord, (i)

  Séguin, Marc, (i)

  Serbia, (i)

  Shanghai, (i)

  Sheffield, (i)

  Sheng Hsinsun, (i)

  Sherman, General, (i), (ii)

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

  Sibthorp, Colonel, (i)

  Siemens, Dr Georg, (i)

  Simmons, Jack, (i)

  Smiles, Samuel, quoted (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii)

  Smith, Donald (Lord Strathcona), (i), (ii)

  Smith, W. H. (I and II), (i), (ii)

  Smith, William, (i), (ii)

  Smyth, Revd Sydney, quoted (i); SNCF see Société Nationale des Chemins de Fer

  Société Nationale des Chemins de Fer, (i)fn, (ii)

  Sofia, (i)

  Someiller, Germain, (i)

  Sontag, John, (i)

  Soto, President, (i)

  Soubirous, Bernadette, (i)

  Southern Pacific Railroad, (i)

  Spain, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii)

  Spalding, Dr Gilbert, (i)

  Spencer, Herbert, quoted (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Springfield, Illinois, (i)

  Stalin, (i)

  Standard Oil, (i)

  Stanford, Leland, (i)fn, (ii)

  Staplehurst, (i)

  Stephen, George, (i), (ii)

  Stephenson, George, (i)ff, (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)

  Stephenson, Robert, (i)ff, (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii)

  Stevenson, Robert Louis, quoted (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

  Stilwell, Arthur, E., (i)

  Stockton & Darlington Railway, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii)

  Story, Minor C., (i)

  Strathcona, Lord see Smith, Donald

  Strousberg, Bethel Henry, (i)

  Strowbridge, James Harvey, (i)

  Summit Tunnel, (i)

  Sun Yat-Sen, (i), (ii), (iii)

  Surbiton, (i), (ii)

  Surtees, R. S., quoted (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)

  Sutherland, Duke of, (i)

  Sweden, (i), (ii)

  Swindon, (i), (ii), (iii)

  Switzerland (and Swiss), (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)

  Sydney, (i)

  Szechuan, (i)

  Taff Vale Railway, (i)

&
nbsp; Talabot, Paulin, (i)

  Talbott, Frederick, quoted (i)

  Tanganyika, (i)

  Tashkent (and Junction), (i), (ii)

  Taunton, (i)

  Taylor, George Rogers, quoted (i)

  Telford, Thomas, (i), (ii)

  Temple, Archbishop William, (i)

  Tennant, Margot, (i)

  Thackeray, William Makepeace, (i)

  The Economist, (i)

  The Times, (i), (ii)

  Thoreau, Henry David, (i); quoted (i), (ii)

  Tokyo, (i)

  Topeka, (i), (ii)

  Totten, George, (i)

  Totten, J. A., (i)

  Train, George Francis, (i)

  Trans-Saharan Railway, (i)

  Trans-Siberian Railway, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

  Treitschke, William, (i)

  Trevithick, Richard, (i)

  Trieste, (i), (ii)

  Trollope, Anthony, quoted (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)

  Truman, President Harry, (i)

  Tsavo, Man Eaters of, (i)

  Turner, J. M. W., (i)

  Twain, Mark, quoted (i), (ii)

  Uganda, (i)

  Union Pacific Railroad, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix)

  United Fruit Company, (i)

  United States, (i), (ii), (iii)ff, (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix)

  Uruguay, (i), (ii)

  Vancouver, (i)

  Vanderbilt, ‘Commodore’, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Vera Cruz, (i)

  Versailles, accident, (i)

  Vickers, Tom, (i), (ii)

  Victoria, Lake, (i)

  Victoria, Queen, (i), (ii), (iii)

  Vienna, (i), (ii), (iii)

  Vigny, Alfred de, (i)

  Villard, Henry, (i), (ii)

  Waddington, Alfred, (i)

  Waring, Charles, (i)

  Washington DC, (i)

  Watkin, Sir Edward, (i)

  Wellington, Duke of, (i)

  Westminster, Duke of, (i)

  Weygand, Marshal, (i)

  Whistler, family, (i)

  Whitman, Walt, quoted (i), (ii)

  Wilde, Sir William, (i)

  Wilhelm II, Kaiser, (i)

  Wilson, William, (i)

  Windermere, Lake and town, (i)

  Windsor (and Castle), (i), (ii)

  Witte, Count, (i), (ii)

  Wolverhampton, (i)

  Wolverton, (i), (ii)

  Woodhead Tunnel, (i)

  Worcester, (i)

  Wordsworth, William, (i), (ii)

  Wyatt, Sir Matthew Digby, (i)

  Wyeth, Nathaniel Jarvis, (i)

  York, (i), (ii)

  Yorkshire & Midland Railway, (i)

  Yugovich, Alexander, (i)

  Zaharoff, Sir Basil, (i)

  Zola, Emile, (i)

  Zurich, (i), (ii)

  First published 1990 by The Bodley Head Ltd

  This revised edition published 2014 by Head of Zeus

  © Nicholas Faith 1990, 2014

  Foreword copyright © Christian Wolmar, 2014

  Nicholas Faith has asserted his moral right to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act of 1988.