British Railways/British Rail
Advanced Passenger Trains 238–9
Beeching 412–14
Blue Pullmans 230
Bluebell line 511
bridges 374
carriage heating 44
carriages 224
corporate image 2, 502–6, 505, 540
damage to carriages 225
Design Panel 230, 231, 232, 503
diesel multiple units 232–6, 233
electrification 313
freight 406–7, 408, 414–16
hotels 482
Inter-City 125s 4, 182, 221, 229–30, 231–2, 238
lavatories 206
livestock facilities 341
locomotives 3, 518, 519–20, 524–5, 527–8, 540
Modernisation Plan 406, 408, 412
Motorail 247–8, 247
Pacers 232–6, 239, 259, 549
platform tickets 466–7
post-mortem traffic 101
privatisation 288, 289–90
rails 257
refreshments 221–2
reorganisation 288
return tickets 24
sleeper trains 246, 248–9, 250
special trains 527
station nameboards 492, 502, 507
stations 503, 506–7
subsidy 289–90
suburban trains 227
Tavern Cars 216–17
Thornton Yard 383, 384
ticket machines 453
timetables 16
track maintenance 282
typeface 502, 504–5
wagons 406
British Transport Commission 411, 412, 443
British Transport Films 287, 323–4, 385
Fully Fitted Freight 406–7, 411
British Transport Hotels Ltd 482
British Transport Police 328
Brixton 379–80
broad gauge 31, 260–1, 262–7, 265, 271–4, 514
Bromborough 180
Brontë, Branwell 461–2
Brooke, Rupert 73–4
Brookwood cemetery 101
Brough, Robert 150
Brown, Ford Madox 139, 188
Brownqueen Tunnel 106
Broxbourne 506
Brumwell, Marcus 504
Brundall 142
Brunel, Isambard Kingdom 11, 40, 263–5, 266, 272, 335, 427
accidents 148
atmospheric railway 268, 269–71, 426, 443
baulk road 274
bridges and viaducts 365–6, 366, 369
broad gauge 31, 262–3, 267
carriages 31–2
cuttings and embankments 355
goods depot 443
Great Britain, SS 47–8
Maidenhead Bridge 362
pickle-tanks 275
platform canopies 483, 484
refreshment rooms 475
saloon carriages 80
Saltash Bridge 5, 264, 369
stations 448
surveying 333–4
track 260–1
train sheds 485, 486–7
BRUTE (British Rail Universal Trolley Equipment) 508
Bryson, Bill 531
Buddleia 379
buffers 402
buffet cars 219–20, 221, 223
Bulleid, O. V. S. 215–17, 519
bullet trains 206, 238, 267
bullhead rails 259, 259
Bulwer-Lytton, Edward 98, 125
Burdett-Coutts, Angela, Baroness 87
Burge, J. Thornton 460–1
Burns, W. C. 95
Burton-on-Trent 344–5, 529
Busby, Matt 226
buskers 68
butter 346
C
CAF 250
Caledonian Railway 30, 203–4, 479
Caledonian Sleeper 249–50
Callaghan, James 217
Calvert, Margaret 504
Cambrian Coast route 305
Cambrian Railways 357, 366–7, 459
Cambridge 95–6, 100–1, 220, 413, 448, 507
Cambridge–Haverhill line 458–9, 535
Cambridge Independent Press 142
Cambridge University Press 121
Camden Town 341
Cameron, David 290
camping coaches 279
Canada 251–2
canals 9, 55, 333, 340
bridges and aqueducts 361, 363, 365, 449
Manchester 94, 342, 444
revival 511
candles 36
Cannon Street 183, 480, 490
Canterbury West 450
cantilever bridges 373
Capel, Rev. George 185–6
card sharps 167–70
Cardiff 236, 469, 479
Cardiff Central 451
Cardigan Bay 357
Carlisle 41, 69, 341–2, 411, 537
Carlyle, Jane Welsh 65, 67
Carlyle, Thomas 65, 108, 117, 253
Carnforth 136–7, 389, 451
Carpenter, Edward 190–1
Carpue, Joseph 150
carriage trucks 83–6
carriages 6, 9, 26–7
advertisements 71–2
broad gauge 273
buffet cars 219–20, 221, 223
camping coaches 279
cleanliness 66, 75
clerestories 39–40, 80
club carriages 83
communication cord 193–6, 201
composite 78
damage and pilfering 224–7
diesel multiple units 232–6, 233
dining cars 192, 193, 217–19, 219, 220, 221, 222–3
doors 178–82, 227, 229
double-decker 215, 216, 217
draughts 46
Edwardian 192–3
first class 26–53, 58, 66–7
footboards 193–4
fourth class 65
gangways 210–11, 227
Great Western 31–2
heating 33, 40–6, 214, 248
Inter-City 125s 231
lavatories 201–6, 211
lighting 33–40, 64, 68
livery 27, 517
local services 224
locked doors 178–82
lounge cars 253
luggage 30–1, 32, 40
maps 71–2
Mark 1 212–13, 231
Mark 2 231
Mark 3 229, 236
mirrors 70–1
observation saloons 240
open platforms 209–10
outside seats 50, 51, 53, 57
Pacers 232–6, 259
Parliamentary trains 61–6
Pendolino trains 236–8, 237
pictures 71, 72
preserved railways 546, 550
private saloons 78–9, 80–3, 82, 156
Pullman cars 207–9
quiet coach 238
regulation 63, 64–5
reuse 279–81, 546
roof straps 227–8
royal trains 29–30, 78–9, 87, 149, 201, 231–2
saloons 78–9, 80–3, 82, 201, 202, 207–9, 213–14
seats 29, 66, 68, 69, 70
second class 56–7, 58, 61, 65, 66, 67
side corridor 4, 25, 106, 192, 211–12, 213–14, 228–9
sight-holes 194–5
size 65–6
sleeping cars 241–53
steam railmotors 449, 454
straps 30
suburban lines 227–8
Tavern Cars 216–17
third class 30, 58, 59–66, 67, 68–70
Travelling Post Offices 4
upholstery 29–30
wheels 192, 207, 233–4, 258
windows 27–8, 28, 39–40, 64–5, 66, 113–14, 204, 236–7
wood 38
see also compartments
Carroll, Lewis 16, 150
cars 4, 247–8, 247, 249
Carter, Ian 514
Casserley, H. C. 38
Casson, Sir Hugh 232, 489
catenary 314–15
catering see refreshments
Cathcart Circle 483
Catterick Camp 344
cattle farming 341–4
Caunt, Ben 90–1
Central Electricity Generating Board 415
Central Telegraph Company 20
Chadwick, Edwin 338
Chafy, William 352
chairs (rails) 259, 259, 274, 277
Challow 280, 310
Chambers Edinburgh Journal 74
Channel Tunnel 250–1, 313, 354, 358–9
chant des chemin de fer, Le (Berlioz) 209
Chaplin, Henry 352
Chapman & Hall 125–6
Chappel and Wakes Colne 472
Charing Cross 183–4, 478, 490, 493
Charlbury 483
Charlotte, Queen 354
‘Charming Young Widow I Met on the Train, The’ 187
Chatto & Windus 127
Cheltenham 29, 94, 272
Cheltenham Flyer 267
Chepstow 369
Chequers Inn, Pulborough 216
cheroots 108
Cheshire Lines 37
Chester 137, 358, 367–8
Chester & Holyhead Railway 19, 367–9, 495
Chester Royal Infirmary 399
Chesterfield 102
Chesterford 91
Chevet Tunnel 357
children
and ladies-only compartments 182
preserved railways 549–50
Chinnery, Sir Nicholas 150
Chippenham 450
Christie, Agatha 15, 130
Christ’s Hospital 484
Church Builder 163
Churchill, Winston 528
cigarettes 108
cigars 108
circulating libraries 128, 129
Civic Amenities Act 1967 514
Clapham Common 452
Clapham Junction 5, 13
advertising 507
collision 232
footbridge and subway 452
platform canopies 485
signal box 302
trainspotting 1–2
Wilde 165–6, 191
Clapham North 452
Clarborough Tunnel 358
Clarke, Seymour 148
Clarke, T. E. B. 511
CLASP (Consortium of Local Authorities Special Programme) 506
Class 141 diesel multiple units 234–5
Class 142 diesel multiple units 235
Class 405 electric multiple units 228
Class 415 electric multiple units 228
Class 442 electric multiple units 228
classes 73–8, 208
see also first class; fourth class; second class; third class
Claverings, The (Trollope) 228–9
Clay Cross 358
Clayton Tunnel disaster 142, 159–60
Clegg, William 268
Cleopatra’s Needle 16
clerestories 39–40, 80
Clifton Bridge 264
clothes see dress
Clough, Arthur 492
club carriages 83
coaches (road) 18, 26, 56, 112
conversation 112–13
design 26–7, 28
expense and speed 57
on flat wagons 83–6, 102
heating 40–1
outside seats 53, 57, 112
refreshment stops 475
Ruskin 139
tickets 22
Wellington 87
coal 359
heating carriages 115
at stations 439
wagons 4, 267–8, 403–4, 404, 405–6, 414–15, 416, 433
see also steam locomotives coat hangers 215
Cobden, Richard 266
Coggeshall 17
Colchester 261
Cole, Henry 262–3, 266, 283
Cole Adams, Alfred 470–1, 483
Coleman, Terry 336–9
Collecting Railwayana (Mander) 539
Collectors’ Corner 539
Colleen Bawn, The (Boucicault) 98
Collins, Wilkie 126, 150, 155, 184
Colmans 347
colour-light signals 296, 302–4
Comic Bradsaw, The 62
communication cord 193–6, 201, 226
commuters 22
compartments 25, 26, 103, 214, 224
conversation 112–18, 214
coupé compartments 157, 203–4
dogs 112
ladies-only 182
lavatories 202
partitions 67
seat-marking 103–5, 104
side corridors 4, 25, 211–13, 228–9
size 28–9
smoking 108, 109, 110–11
concrete
bridges and viaducts 362–3, 373, 374
Channel Tunnel Rail Link 359–60
footbridges 450
platforms 447
sleepers 275–7, 278–9
Connop, Captain 105
container trains 415, 417
continuous automatic brakes 197, 199–201
continuous brakes 197
continuously welded rails (cwr) 257–8
contractors 335–6, 337, 338, 362
control offices 305–6
conversation 112–18, 214, 253
Conwy 368
Cook, Thomas 89
Cooper, Fenimore 125
Copenhagen Fields 542–3
Corbett, Gerlad 289
Corby 413
Corkickle 455
Cornhill Magazine 21–2
Cornish Riviera Express 221
Cornwall
agriculture 345
milk trains 343
semaphore signals 297
sleeper trains 247, 249–50
tourism 481
Cornwall Railway 11
broad gauge 273
viaducts 360, 361, 366, 366
Corus Infrastructure Services 447
Cossons, Sir Neil 544, 545
couchettes 246
Coulson, W. 389
coupé compartments 58, 157, 203–4
Covent Garden 208
Coventry 140, 506
Cowes & Newport Railway 11
cremation 101, 548
creosote 275, 276, 278
Crewe 12, 29, 274, 400
Basford Hall Yard 385
trainspotting 523–4, 525
cricket 47, 93
crime 164
assaults 171, 174–8
blackmail 184–7
con men 167–70
damage and pilfering 224–7, 315, 322
murder 171–4, 175, 176
prisoner transportation 164–7
prostitution 183–4
signal cable theft 315
theft 171
crinolines 32–3
Cross, Derek 533
crossing-keepers 331
Crossrail 354
Cruden Bay 482
Crumlin Viaduct 372–3
Crystal Palace 16–17, 97, 364
Cubitt, William 268–9, 271
‘Cuckoo Valley Railway’ (Quiller-Couch) 514–15
Cudworth 150
‘Cuisine 2000’ 222
Culham 483
Cumbrian coast line 297, 413, 439
Cureton, William 150
Curtis vs March 20
cut cards 385
cuttings 353–6, 353, 357–60, 380
D
Daily Mirror 70
Daily Telegraph 35, 120, 327, 395
dairying 342–3
Dalkey 268, 271
Damems 302, 463
Danish State Railways 249, 506
Darlington 21, 286, 304, 487, 508, 517
Darsham 456
Dartmoor prison 164
dash pots 385
Daumier, Honoré 50
de Maré, Eric 533
De Profundis (Wilde) 165–6
Death, John 171–2
Decline and Fall (Waugh) 318
Decline of Steam (Gifford) 533
Deepdale Viaduct 372
Dee
side 149
Delmonico 209
Deloitte, William Welch 430
Deltic diesel locomotive 3, 549
Denham Golf Club station 455
Dent, David 51–2
Derby 38, 48, 124, 426, 478, 484
Derwent Valley 344
Design magazine 230, 503
Design Museum 264
Design Panel 230, 231, 232
Design Research Unit (DRU) 504
destination boards 493–4
Deutsche Bahn 507
Devon 247, 343, 345–6
Dickens, Catherine 154, 162
Dickens, Charles 6, 67, 126, 150, 161–2
All the Year Round 15, 159
American Notes for General Circulation 115–16
Bradshaw 16–17, 21
cattle 341–2
conversation 116–17
Dombey and Son 85
and Ellen Ternan 153–5
Household Words 16–17, 140
Little Dorrit 15
Martin Chuzzlewit 162
Mugby Junction 34, 301, 395, 477
The Old Curiosity Shop 119
Our Mutual Friend 15, 151
Pickwick Papers 113
railway bells 468
railway catering 476–7
reading tours 155–8
‘The Signal-Man’ 158–9, 291, 293, 307, 311
signals 296
and Spiers and Pond 47
Staplehurst disaster 151, 152–3, 153, 154, 155–6, 157–8, 162, 178
and stone-throwing 322
theatrical company 98
Dickens, Mary (‘Mamie’) 158
Dickens Incognito (Aylmer) 155
Dickenson, Edward 152–3
Dickinson, Kate 177, 178
Dickinson, W. Elgar 225, 525
Didcot 306–7, 349, 493
diesel multiple units (DMUs) 233, 412
names 540
Pacers 232–6, 239, 259, 549
Diesels/diesel locomotives 548–9
Blue Pullmans 230–1
and carriage heating 44
Deltics 3, 549
Inter-City 125 4, 229–30, 231
names 540
dining cars 192, 193, 209–10, 216–19, 219, 220, 221–3
Dinsdale, Stephen 531
Driberg, Tom 217
Direct London, Holyhead & Porth Dinllaen Railway 121
Disraeli, Benjamin 165
distilleries 341
District Line 35
Docklands Light Railway 305
Dodgson, Charles 16, 150
Dodsworth (Lewis) 214
dogs 112
Dolby, George 155–7
Dombey and Son (Dickens) 85
Donald, Chris 531
Doncaster 92, 351, 435
doors 178–82, 227, 229
Dorchester 20
Dornoch 330, 482
double-decker carriages 215, 216, 217
Dovedale 413
Dover 88, 354, 497
Dow, George 543–4
Dow-Mac 276
Doyle, Richard 463
Dracula (Stoker) 98
Dreadnoughts 211
dress 73
and accidents 147
crinolines 32–3
hats 32
railway workers 286–7, 397–8
travelling caps 46
drinks
buffet cars 220, 221
excursion trains 89–90
luncheon baskets 46–9
in refreshment rooms 475–6
sleeper trains 253
Tavern Cars 216–17
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