drivers see engine drivers
Druce, George Claridge 379
Druimuachdar Summit 42, 252, 420
Dyment, Clifford 403
Dublin 268, 271, 485
Dudley Port 52
Duffield Bank 541
Dufftown 341
Duke of Sutherland’s Railway 79
Dundee 479
Dundee West 21
Dungeness 277–8, 279, 280
Dunrobin 80
Dunrobin Castle 79–80
Durham 444
Durham, Bishop of 317
Dyffryn Ardudwy 455
E
Earlestown 458
Easingwold Railway 78
Eason, Charles 124–5
East Anglian Railway Museum 472
East Coast main line 77
Flying Scotsman 239–40
refreshments 222–3
sleeping cars 245
East Grinstead 511
East Lynne (Wood) 126
East Markham 350
East Sheen 450
East Suffolk line 453–4, 456
Eastern Counties Railway 434
blackmail attempt 184
gauge 261–2
Hudson 428
prizefight excursions 91
smoking carriages 108
viaducts 365
Eastern Union Railway 466
Eaton Hall 541
Eccles 99
Eckington 375
Edinburgh 11, 19, 41, 497
Flying Scotsman 239–40
North Loch 135
railway hotels 479
sleeper trains 249
Waverley 135, 239, 488
Edinburgh & Glasgow Railway 19–20, 142
Edmondson, Thomas 23
Edmondson tickets 23, 24, 63, 432, 464
Edward VII 80, 109, 177
eggs 346
Egham 169
electric locomotives 540
electric multiple units
double-decker carriages 215
Electrostar 237
side corridors 228–9
electric telegraph 20, 93, 121, 140–1, 291, 293–5, 539
electricity
conductor rail 39
heating 44, 248
lighting 36, 38–9
signals 302–4
electrification 39, 200, 229, 267, 312–15
and footbridges 450
lineside 380
suburban lines 227
Electrostar 237
elevated railways 303
Elizabeth, Queen 231–2
Ellis, C. Hamilton 3, 27, 102, 201–2, 206, 518, 527
Ellison, William 402
Elm Park 323
Ely, Robert 176
Ely 294, 450
embankments 353–7, 353, 375–6, 380
emergency communication 193–6
Emerson, Jane 331
Emerson, Ralph Waldo 139
Empedocles on Etna (Arnold) 124
engine drivers 176–7, 291, 398–9, 400, 401, 528, 536–8
Engine-Driving Life (Reynolds) 398–9
engineers 333–4, 335, 362, 426
cuttings and embankments 354–6
geology 358–9
engines see locomotives
England, Roye 542
English Heritage 440, 489
English Journey (Priestley) 480
English Traits (Emerson) 139
Enterprise 244
enthusiasts see railway enthusiasm Epsom 93
Erichsen, J. E. 160, 161
‘Essay on London’ (James) 127
Essays in Criticism (Arnold) 468
Essex 340, 354
Esther Waters (Moore) 127–8
Eurostar 250–1
Eurotunnel 84
Euston 364, 490
arch 443, 489
bookstall 123–4, 127
cleaners 66
hotels 478
locked doors 180
playing cards 168
retaining walls 359
rolling stock 24
sleeper trains 249
ticket machines 453
ticket stop 52
train shed 485, 486, 488
Evening Star 528
excursion trains 88–95, 96, 97–8
Armagh disaster 196–7
Bass 341–2
carriages 214
damage 225–7
executions 90
Exeter 19, 130, 269, 271, 273
Exmouth 300
Exmouth Junction 285, 447
Experiment 54
Express Dairies 342
F
Factory Acts 394
Falmouth 366
family saloons 81–2, 82, 201
Far North of Scotland route 413
farming see agriculture
Farnham, Baron 150
Farringdon Street 48
Fatal Accidents Act 1846 145, 395
Felixstowe 415
Fence Houses 493
Fenchurch Street 123
Ferry Hill 493
Festiniog Railway 100
Fiat 239
Fielding, Helen 111
Fiennes, Gerard 453–4
Finishing Line, The 323–4
Finsbury Park 3, 52, 525
Firbank, Joseph 335
firemen 44, 308, 398–9, 536, 537
fires
Britannia Bridge 368–9
carriage trucks 85–6
Hawes Junction 38
King’s Cross 111
lineside 375, 376–8, 377
Quintinshill 38
sleeper trains 244, 248
first class 70, 73, 77
and accidents 147
carriages 25, 26, 58, 66–7, 78, 228–9
colour codes 200
conversation 114–15
dining cars 221
Easingwold Railway 78
footwarmers 41
Hendrix 77
insurance policies 145
lavatories 202, 203
Liverpool Road station 446
London Underground 78
military 74
North Eastern Railway 78
North Sunderland Railway 78
pictures 72
Pugin 76–7
Pullman Dining trains 222–3
refreshment rooms 473–4
sleeping cars 241–2, 245, 246, 248
smoking ban 107
tickets 453
waiting rooms 117, 446, 469, 470
First Class (Abraham) 187, 188
First Great Western 222–3
First World War 161, 166, 436
fish 21, 346
fish-bellied rails 258
fishplates 258, 259, 259
Fiske, Lord 467
Fitzwilliam, 5th Earl 351
Fleetwood 9, 346
Flitwick 226
fly shunting 389, 390
Flying Scotsman 239–40, 500
fog signals 286
Folkestone 13
food 6, 343, 345–7
buffet cars 219–20, 221, 223
dining cars 192, 193, 209–10, 216–19, 219, 220, 221–3
luncheon baskets 46–9, 49
in refreshment rooms 475–6
Food and Drugs Act 1875 477
football trains 93, 225–7
footboards 193–4
footbridges 331, 448–50, 449, 452
footplatemen see engine drivers; firemen
footwarmers 41–2
Ford, Ford Madox 106
Fors Clavigera (Ruskin) 135–9
Fort William 249
Forth Bridge 5, 11–12, 373
four-rail system 313
4.50 from Paddington (Christie) 15
fourth class 65, 75
Fowler, John 373, 463
Fox, Charles 364, 485, 486
Fox Howe, Rydal 12, 13
fox hunting 349–52
France
boat trains 152, 155
Bra
ssey 335, 336, 338–9
double-decker carriages 215
excursion trains 89
footwarmers 41
Meudon disaster 179
railway murders 174
sight-holes 194
sleeping cars 241, 245, 251
stations 465, 488
TGVs 238
Fraser, Mary Anne 185–6
Freeman, Archdeacon 150
freight trains 2, 4, 6, 266, 416–17, 419, 437, 529
British Railways 414–16
container trains 415, 417
control offices 305–6
Fully Fitted Freight 406–7
and goods sheds 438–9
guards 394
marshalling yards 382–6
milk trains 342–3
operation 400–8
permissive block working 299
and platforms 440
rates of carriage 409, 417, 419–21, 421, 423
refrigerated vans 343
speed 405
and stations 438–43
subsidies 424
vacuum brakes 406, 407–8
weighbridges 439
see also wagons
Freightliner 415
French, W. H. 394
Frith, William Powell 31
Frome 485
Fulbourn 91
Fully Fitted Freight 406–7, 411
funeral trains 100, 101, 149, 159, 429, 528
Furness & Midland Joint Railway 389
Furness Railway 136, 357, 439, 517
Fyffes 346
G
Galsworthy, John 14
Galway, Lord 350
gambling 167–70
gangers 2, 282–3, 335, 393
Garnkirk & Glasgow Railway 262
Garratt, Colin 343
Garstang & Knott End Railway 375
gas lighting 35–8, 39
Gaskell, Elizabeth 150
gauge 31, 210–11, 261–3, 264, 265–8, 265
broad gauge 31, 260–1, 262–7, 271–4, 514
mixed-gauge track 272
model railways 541, 542–3
narrow-gauge lines 510, 511
Gaunless Bridge 367
General Strike 312, 397, 408, 515
geology 358–9
George V 80
Germany 36, 174, 199, 251, 518, 528
Gibbs, James 150
Gifford, Colin 533, 534
Gill, Eric 500
Gill Sans 500–1, 501, 502, 503
Gillow’s 218
Gissing, George 77, 122, 130, 150, 497
Gladstone, William 12, 57, 60, 106, 117, 149–50
and Esther Waters 128
Railway Regulation Act 61, 62
reading 119
second-class journeys 76
Sunday travel 95
Glasgow 11, 19, 99, 479
football trains 225
sleeper trains 249, 251
suburban lines 39, 286–7, 503
Glasgow & South Western Railway 42–3, 487
Glasgow Central 493
Glasgow, Paisley & Greenock Railway 76
Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock & Ayr Railway 362
Gleig, G. R. 86
Gleneagles 482
Glenfinnan Viaduct 363
Gloag, John 50
Glossary of Railwaymen’s Talk, A (McKenna) 537–8
Gloucester 265–6, 265
Gold, Mr 173–4, 174
Golden Fleece 540
Gollancz, Victor 130
Good, William 146
goods sheds 438–9
goods trains see freight trains
goods vans 281
Gosport 149
graffiti 324–8
Grainger, Thomas 150
Grampians 420
Grand Central Station, New York 490
Grand Junction Railway 260
Brassey 335
management 426, 427
open-sided carriages 64
sleepers 260
Grange, Sir Kenneth 229, 231
Grange-over-Sands 136
Granville, A. B. 397–8
Graphic, The 137, 219, 243
Graves, Ada J. 322
Graves, Robert 327
Great Britain 47–8
Great Central Railway 418
buffet cars 219
dining cars 219
embankments 375
history of 543
joint stations 436
station lavatories 471–2
stations 451
train lavatories 203, 204
Great Eastern Railway 419, 434
accidents 150–1
assaults on women 176–7
clerestory windows 40
dining cars 210
hotels 480
joint lines 435
market-garden traffic 345
pictures 71, 72
race-day specials 93
refinery 36
stations 457–8, 459
suburban lines 199–200
Waterhouse 431
Great Exhibition 47, 77, 495
Brunel 263
Cole 262
Dickens 16–17
inflated railway caps 147
Great North of Scotland Railway 76, 341, 482
Great Northern & Great Central Joint Railway 435
Great Northern & Great Eastern Joint Railway 435
Great Northern Railway
advertising 496–7
chairs 277
coffins 101–2
dining cars 222
and Earl Fitzwilliam 351
excursion trains 68
first class 73
footwarmers 41
and fox hunting 350, 351
grain warehouse 440–1
hotels 479, 482
joint lines 435
joint stations 436
lavatories 203, 205
locomotives 516, 527
Manchester goods depot 444
night soil 344
Pullman cars 209
railway workers 319
Redpath 429–30
saloon carriages 81–2, 83
second class 73
signals 296
stations 486, 486
theatrical trains 98
Great Western Railway 24, 264–5
accidents 148, 150
Adlestrop 43–4, 491
advertising 517
Ascot 93
baulk road 274
bridges and viaducts 362, 365–6, 366
broad gauge 210–11, 262–3, 264, 265–7, 271–4, 514
carriage straps 30
carriages 31–2, 66, 211, 280–1
Cheltenham Flyer 267
colliery wagons 403
Cornish Riviera Express 221
cuttings 353, 353, 355
delivery vehicles 410
and Dickens 155
dividends 423–4
excursion trains 90
footbridges 449–50, 449
and fox hunting 350
freight trains 405
goods depots 461
guards’ seat 50
halts 454–5
heating 43
horses 349
hotels 478, 481
Huntley & Palmer 347
joint lines 436
land 333–4
lavatories 202
lighting 33
locked doors 179, 465
locomotives 311, 518, 519, 521, 526
logo 500
London time 19
Macmillan, Harold 512
Maidenhead Bridge 362
management 426
model trains 542
open-sided carriages 56, 57, 59, 60, 61
Photochrom 71, 72
platelayers’ deaths 286
platform canopies 483, 484
platforms 447
rabbit special 345–6
rail-borne coaches 85, 102
railmotors 449, 454
rails 258<
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railway line construction 340
railway workers 310
refinery 36
refreshment rooms 473–4, 475
restaurant cars 473
royal carriages 149, 155
saloons 80–1, 213
signals 296–7
sleepers 275, 276
sleeping cars 245, 246
smoking 108, 110
Sonning disaster 60–1, 142, 355
station announcements 493
station bookstalls 124, 130
station houses 463
station nameboards 491, 502
stations 455, 468
stone throwing 322
subways 451
telegraph 294
ticket barriers 465
track 260–1
track maintenance 282–3
train sheds 485, 486–7
trains protection systems 304
uniforms 398
welfare measures 400
Great Western, SS 148, 265
Great Western Railway Magazine 520
Green, Benjamin 458
Green, Roger 327
Greenhill 275
Greenock 20
Greenwich time 20, 140–1, 433
Greenwood, James 395
gricers 531
Grimsby 346, 441
Grissell & Peto 60
Gropius, Walter 231
ground frames 292
Grouping (1923) 24, 72, 199, 411, 419, 519
Grove, George 97
Grundy, Francis Henry 462
guards 30, 182, 291
brakes 50, 51, 197
calling station names 494
and card sharps 167–8, 169
deaths and injuries 51–2, 394
freight trains 400
roof seats 50–1
uniforms 397–8
working hours 395
guards’ vans 112, 192–3
guichet 464
Guinevere (Tennyson) 119
GWR see Great Western Railway
H
halts 454–5
Hamilton, John 170
Handford, Peter 534
Handley Cross (Surtees) 84, 351
Handy Book see Railway Traveller’s Handy Book, The
Hanson, Derek 513
Harborough, Lord 333
Harbury 353
Hard Day’s Night, A 506
Hardwick, Philip 443
Hardy, Thomas 34, 166, 343, 349
Hare, Augustus 147–8
Harlington 226
Harrington Hump 447
Harrow-on-the-Hill 52, 317
Hartlepool 445
Hartley, Harry 378
Hartmann, Jean-Michel 533
Harwich 210
Hassall, John 496–7
Hatfield 287–8, 459
Hathaway, Rev. Theodosius 150
hats 32, 46
Hauxwell, Hannah 281
Haverhill 458–9
Haviland, Alfred 162–3
Hawes Junction 38
Hawker, Henry Edward 461, 462–3
Hawkshaw, John 358
Hawthorne, Nathaniel 114–15
Haydon Bridge 446
Hayes 275, 276
He Knew He Was Right (Trollope) 476
Head, Sir Francis 29, 34, 66, 180, 341, 432, 476
Healey Mills 2
Health and Safety Executive 181
heating
carriages 33, 40–6, 192, 214, 248
waiting rooms 471, 483
Hebden Bridge 100
Heckington 295
Hendrix, Jimi 77
Henry Dunbar (Braddon) 150
heritage railways 511–14, 545–50
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