excursion trains 89
Liverpool Road station 444, 445–6
Midland Railway 68–9
milk 342
newspaper trains 121
Pacers 236
railway hotels 479, 480
railway lines 370, 444–5
sleeper trains 247
stone-throwing 323
Sunday schools 94
train shed 487
viaducts 446
Manchester & Birmingham Railway 64
Manchester & Bolton Railway 358
Manchester & Leeds Railway
Branwell Brontë 462
Edmondson 23
third-class carriages 75
uniforms 397–8
wagon passengers 59
Manchester City 226
Manchester Guardian 121, 225, 523, 525
Manchester Piccadilly 233, 251
Manchester, Sheffield & Lincolnshire Railway
fish 346
footwarmers 42
lavatories 202, 203
tri-composite carriage 202, 203
Manchester United 226
Manchester Victoria 306, 308, 474
Mander, John 539
Mansel, Henry 127
Mansell, Richard 29–30
Mansfield 413
maps 71–2
March 472–3
Mark 1 carriages 212–13, 231
Mark 2 carriages 231
Mark 3 carriages 229, 236
Market Harborough 343
Marks & Spencer’s 508
Marples, Ernest 411–12
Marshall, John 543
marshalling yards 382–6
Martin, Charlotte 176–7, 183
Martin Chuzzlewit (Dickens) 162
Marx, Karl 10, 135
Marylebone 488, 506
Maryport 326, 448
Masham 378
matches 108
Mathison, Phil 529
Matthews, James 172
Mayhew, Henry 48
Mayhew, James 105
meat 343
Mechanics’ Magazine 60
medical schools 100–1
Medina, Harry 106–7
Meldon Quarry 278
Melton 456
Melton Constable 377–8
men
blackmail by women 184–7
hats 32
literacy 120
smoking 111
station lavatories 471–2
travelling caps 46
waiting rooms 469, 470
window opening and closing 113–14
Men of the Footplate (Ransome-Wallis) 537
Menai Bridge 369
Menzies, John 124
Merrill, George 191
merry-go-round (MGR) trains 414–15
Merseyside 313–14
Merstham cutting 356
Metro-land 317–18
Metroland (Barnes) 318
Metro-Land (Betjeman) 318, 474
Metropolitan District Railway 35, 75, 184
Metropolitan Line 325
Metropolitan Railway 11, 499
advertising 499
block working 299
carriage lighting 35–6
doors 181
embankments 375
gauge 272
King’s Cross 12
Metro-land 317–18
refreshment rooms 48, 474
Smithfield Market 343, 441
Sunday trains 96
Waterhouse 431
workmen’s trains 75
‘Metropolitan Railway, The’ (Betjeman) 318
Meudon disaster 179
Mid-Suffolk Light Railway 224, 419
Middlesbrough 302
Middlewood Curve 436
Midland & Great Northern Joint Railway 435
Midland Neverers Association 533
Midland Railway
advertising 517
amalgamations 428, 434
and Bass 391
beer warehouses 344
card sharps 169
carriages 66
classes 68–9, 75, 517
control offices 305–6
dining cars 218
fast and slow lines 405
fires 38, 39
hotels 98, 478–9, 480, 481
ironstone beds 358
joint lines 435
joint stations 436
lavatories 202, 204
locomotives 525
platform canopies 484
Pullman cars 207, 208, 209
Pullman sleeping cars 242–4, 243
rails 258
refreshments 48, 49
St Pancras 441, 442
shunters 389
signalmen 308
station gardens 459
station nameboards 492
stations 451
Totley Tunnel 284
train sheds 487
trespass notices 319
waiting rooms 470
Waterhouse 431
wood 38
working hours 395
‘Midnight on the Great Western’ (Hardy) 34
Midsomer Norton 459–60
Mildenhall Road 91
mileposts 283
milk trains 97, 342–3, 386
Mill, John Stuart 109, 124
Miller, John 362
Millerhill Yard 384
Mills, W. F. 143
Milnes, Richard Monckton 108
miners’ trains 70
miniature railways 541
Ministry of Transport 409, 413, 527
mirrors 70–1
Mr Facey Romford’s Hounds (Surtees) 140
Mr Verdant Green (Bede) 108, 112
Mitchell, Charles 150
Mitton, Thomas 153, 154
Mocatta, David 483
Model Railway Club 542–3
model railways 540–3
Modernisation Plan 406, 408, 412
Molesworth (Willans and Searle) 240
Monotype Recorder 501
Monkswell, Lord 515
Montalembert, Charles de 117
Moody, Mary Anne 175–6, 178
Moonstone, The (Collins) 126
Moore, George 100, 127–8
Morecambe 481–2
Morecambe Bay 141, 357
Moreton-on-Lugg 445
Morison, Stanley 130, 500
Morning Chronicle 179
Morning Post 35, 121
Morris, William 373, 497
Morrissey 370
Mortlake 450
Moseley, Alexander 184–5
Motorail 4, 247–8, 247, 249
motorways 374, 411–12, 416, 513
moving block system 305
MTR 507
Mudie, Charles Edward 128, 129
Mugby Junction (Dickens) 34, 301, 395, 477
Muller, Franz 171–3
Muller’s lights 193–4
multiple-unit trains 227, 230
see also diesel multiple units; electric multiple units
murders 171–4, 175, 176, 193, 194
Murray, John 125
music 99
Musical Times 97
My Secret Life (‘Walter’) 188–9
N
Nairn, Ian 484
nameboards (stations) 491–2, 498, 500, 502, 505, 507, 539
nameplates (locomotives) 540, 550
narrow-gauge lines 510, 511
Nash, Henry 175–6
National Bus Company 233
National Eisteddfod of Wales 99
National Railway Museum 29, 202, 308, 367, 400, 527, 544
National Reformer 127
National Union of Railwaymen (NUR) 312, 391, 397, 399
nationalisation 61
see also British Railways
navvies 336–40
Neal, W. Keith 539
Neasden 318, 325
Necropolis Railway 101
Needham Market stations 457
Nesbit, Edith 113, 320–2, 323, 328, 464, 496, 521
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br /> Netherfield and Colwick 405
Netherlands 251
Network Rail 289, 290, 295, 331, 417, 494
Network SouthEast 288
New Cross 303
New Cross Gate 295
New Grub Street (Gissing) 122
New Monthly Magazine 44–5
New York 490
Newbury 93
Newcastle 5, 99, 247, 369
Newcastle & Carlisle Railway
Edmondson 23
Liverpool & Manchester Railway 94–5
outside seats 57
stations 5, 446, 458
Newcastle & North Shields Railway 108
Newcastle Central 2–3, 4, 5, 474, 487–8, 488
Newent 461, 462–3
Newman, John Henry 14, 31–2
Newmarket 91, 92, 93, 348–9
Newport (South Wales) 403
Newport (Teesside) 313
Newport Pagnell 90
newspapers 35, 119, 127, 131
advertising 15
distribution 97, 120–1, 123, 124, 240
Newton Abbot 271
Newton-le-Willows 92, 361
Nicholson, Thomas 338
Night Mail 4, 536
Night Riviera 249–50
night soil 343–4
Nightstar sleeper trains 250–2
Nine Elms 92, 443
noise 257, 258, 259, 261, 402
sound recordings 534–6, 535
Norfolk & Suffolk Joint Railway 435
Norfolk Chronicle 176
Norfolk Railway 142
Normanton 475
North British Railway
carriages 69
and Dickens 154
feet on seats 106
footwarmers 41
hotels 479
lighting 34, 39
signals 292
sleeping cars 241–2
stations 488
Tay Bridge 371
third class 76
waiting rooms 470
North by Northwest 190
North Eastern Railway 434–5
classes 78
classification of goods traffic 421
coal 439
electrification 313
emergency communication 195
footbridges 449
Hudson 429
locked doors 180
locomotives 518
pictures 71
quarter-mile posts 283
railhead stations 410
signal boxes 302, 438
stations 531
train sheds 487–8
window curtains 224
North London Railway
attempted suicide 106
lighting 35
locomotives 525
murder 171–3
signals 292, 296
North Midland Railway 357
North Staffordshire Railway 37, 436
North Sunderland Railway 34, 78
Northallerton 304, 306, 312
Northampton 11, 13
Northern Ireland 234
Northern Line 498
Northumberland, Duke of 78
Norwich 21, 94, 294, 347, 379, 445, 466
Norwich & Brandon Railway 354
Norwood Junction 374
Notes from Overground (Green) 327
Notes from a Small Island (Bryson) 531
Nottingham 89, 451, 484
Nuneaton 448
O
‘.007’ (Kipling) 515
Oban 21
observation saloons 240
O’Connell, Daniel 119
Offices, Shops and Railway Premises Act 1963 287
oil
heating 43
lamps 33–5, 36
Old Curiosity Shop, The (Dickens) 119
Old Wives’ Tale, The (Bennett) 14
Olivier, Lord 209
Olmsted, F. L. 114, 180
On Liberty (Mill) 109
On Railway and Other Injuries of the Nervous System (Erichsen) 160
Ongar branch 549
open carriages 56, 57, 59–60, 61, 64, 65
Operation London Bridge 287
Orley Farm (Trollope) 77
Ottley, George 538
Ouida 127
Our Iron Roads (Williams) 38, 196, 514
Our Mutual Friend (Dickens) 15, 151
Oxenhope 472
Oxford 19, 95–6, 379, 413, 468, 469, 508
Oxford Ragwort 379
Oxford, Worcester & Wolverhampton Railway 44, 463
P
Pacers 232–6, 239, 259, 549
Paddington 17
1999 disaster 289
bookstall 127
destination board 493
goods depot 443
graffiti 327, 327
hotel 478
latrines 206
loudspeakers 493
mixed-gauge track 272
nameboards 492, 540
prizefight excursions 92
The Railway Station 31
sleeper trains 249
telegraph 294
train shed 486–7
trainspotting 520
waiting rooms 469
Padel, Ruth 327
Page, Herbert 160–1
Palin, Michael 539
Pall Mall Gazette 135, 476
Pandrol clips 277
Paragon Anti-Vandal Shelter 455, 456
Paris 488
Parliamentary Select Committee on Railway Accidents 194
Parliamentary trains 61–3, 64–6, 69, 74–5, 95, 165
Pasley, Sir Charles 63, 64, 84
passenger trains 239
Beeching 414
cross-subsidies 424
fares 290, 418, 419–20
Flying Scotsman 239–40
refreshment stops 473, 474–5
see also carriages; classes
passengers
access to platforms 464–6
conversation 253
footbridges 448–50, 452
footwarmers 41–2
luncheon baskets 48–9, 49
preserved railways 545, 547
reading 35, 118–20, 122–8, 137, 139
seat-marking 103–5, 104
servants 77, 78, 81, 242
subways 450–1
working on trains 131, 132–3
see also accidents; crime; luggage; tickets
Peckham 379–80
Peel, Sir Robert 95
Pendleton, John 68
Pendolino trains 236–8, 237, 239
Pendon Parva 542
Penguin Books 130
Pennine Way 281
Penny Illustrated Paper 114, 142, 144, 153, 154, 176
Penrhyn Castle 380
Penzance 249
Perdonnet, Auguste 465
permanent way see railway lines
permissive block working 299
Perryman, A. C. 521
Persuasion 94
Perth 20, 124, 247
Peters, Ivo 532–3
Peterson, Andrew 47
Pevsner, Sir Nikolaus 489
Philip, Prince 231–2
Phillips, Samuel 123–4
Photochrom 71, 72
photographs
in carriages 71, 72–3
of railway stations 491–2
of railways 532–4
Piccadilly Circus 498
Piccadilly Line 498
Pick, Frank 498, 499
Pickwick Papers (Dickens) 113
Pictorial Times 176
pilfering 224, 315, 322
pilotmen 299
Pinner 318
Pintsch, Julius 36
pipes, tobacco 108
Plain or Ringlets (Surtees) 139
plants
lineside 378–81
station gardens 459
plastic, sleepers 277
platelayers 282–3, 284–7, 375, 377, 378, 393
Platform 5 Publications 530
Platform Souls (Whittaker) 529
&nbs
p; platform tickets 466–7, 467
platforms 438, 445, 446–8, 452
access to 464–6
air rights 489–90
canopies 483–5, 484
freight 440
shelters 136–7, 455–6, 463
signal boxes 438
Plimsoll, Samuel 42
Plymouth 18, 249, 251, 269, 479
pointsmen 291, 292
Pole, Sir Felix 426
policemen (railway workers) 85, 291, 319, 445
Pond, Christopher 47
‘Pont’ 104, 104
Pontdolgoch 459
Pontypool Road Yard 388–9
pornography 188–9
Port, Thomas 52
porters 180, 182, 308, 452, 457, 492–3, 508
Portland, Duke of 84
Portsmouth 470, 479
Post Office 51, 120, 132
posters 496–7, 539–40
Postwick 377
Potters Bar 289
Poulton-on-Sands 481
power boxes 305–7, 311
see also signal boxes
Prescott, John 251
preserved railways 511–14, 545–50
Preston 99, 311, 475, 508
Preston & Longridge Railway 260
Preston Park 52
Price, Waterhouse & Co 431
Priestley, J. B. 480
Prince of Wales 209
Prison Act 1877 164
prisoners 6, 164–7
private saloons 78–9, 80, 156
private trains 82
privatisation 288, 289–90
prizefight excursions 90–2
Prodgers, Caroline 102
prostitution 183–4
publishing 6
books 121, 125–8
newspapers and magazines 120
Pugin, A. W. N. 76–7
Pulborough 216
Pullman, George Mortimer 207, 242
Pullman cars 43, 202, 207–10, 214, 221
Pullman sleeping cars 242–4, 243
Punch 50, 162
accidents 144–5, 146, 147
bookstall 123
Bradshaw 16
break of gauge 266
classes 75
footwarmers 42
prisoner transportation 165
seat-marking 104, 104
smoking 109
station advertising 495
pyrometers 297
Q
Quarterly Review 127
Quiller-Couch, Arthur 514–15
Quintinshill 38
Quorn & Woodhouse 451, 471
R
race meetings 92–4
Race to the North 515, 527
racing 349, 351
Rackham, Oliver 376
Radcliffe, F. P. Delmé 350
Radstock collision 147
ragwort 379
Rail Alphabet 504–5
Rail Blue 504
Rail Enthusiast 530
Rail Operating Centres 306–7
railbuses 233–4, 454
see also Pacers
Railfreight 288
railmotors 449, 454
rails 257–9, 259, 274
Barlow rail 261
baulk road 261
bridge rail 261
electric conductor rail 39
footbridges 450
maintenance 282
third rail 313
track circuiting 304
Railtrack 288–9, 455
Railway Act 1844 446
Railway Children, The (film) 321, 548
Railway Children, The (Nesbit) 113, 320–2, 323, 328, 464, 496, 521
Railway Clearing House 19, 420, 423, 431–4, 434, 436–7
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