bookstalls 122–30
bridge-type 451–2
British Railways 503, 506–7
cattle docks 341
cloakrooms 129
clocks 20–1
closures 413–14
coal 439
de-staffing 452–5
destination boards 493–4
flushing lavatories 206
footbridges 448–50, 449, 452
freight 438–43
gardens 458–60
goods sheds 438–9
halts 454–5
hotels 478–81
houses 456, 457, 457, 458, 462–3
jointly owned 436, 451
lavatories 471–3
lifts 450
Liverpool Road 445–6
nameboards 491–2, 498, 500, 502, 503, 505, 507, 539
platform canopies 483–5, 484
platform shelters 136–7, 455–6, 463
platform tickets 466–7, 467
platforms 438, 440, 445, 446–8, 451, 464–6
rails 259
refreshment rooms 473–7, 508
request stations 455
reuse 443–4, 456
Ruskin 135, 137
safety 183
shops 508–9
signal boxes 305, 438
stables 439
subways 450–1
theft 171
train sheds 483, 485–90, 486
waiting rooms 71, 117, 446, 463, 468–71, 472–3
weighbridges 439
see also individual stations
steam locomotives 26, 56, 517–18, 527–8, 550–1
Bulleid 215
and carriage heating 43–4
chimneys 518
coke 40
Dunrobin 80
photography 533–4
preserved railways 546–7, 548
single drivers 516
sound recordings 534–6, 535
speed record 1, 519
trainspotting 520–30
steam railmotors 449, 454
steel
bridges 373
platforms 447–8
rails 258
sleepers 277
wagons 387, 406
Stephenson, George 1, 54, 86, 335
and Robert Bradshaw 333
Clay Cross 358
gauge 31
Gaunless Bridge 367
Liverpool Road station 444
livery 27
in melodrama 97–8
Snibston Colliery 358
viaducts 361
Stephenson, Robert 1, 14, 54, 263, 334, 335
and Arnold 13
atmospheric railway 271
and Bidder 354
bricks 339
bridges 367–9
Chester 358
Snibston Colliery 358
Stevenson, Robert Louis 242
Stirling 20, 124
Stockport 94, 311, 361
Stockton & Darlington Railway 54–5, 434–5
accidents 322
bridges and viaducts 369, 372
Gaunless Bridge 367
and horses 350
open wagons 59
rails 258
third class 320
tickets 445
Stoke-on-Trent 37
Stoker, Bram 98
Stokers and Pokers (Head) 29
stone
ballast 277–8
footbridges 449
platforms 447
sleepers 260
stone-throwing 322–3
Stow-on-the-Wold 44
Stowe, Harriet Beecher 115, 125
Strangleman, Tim 544–5
Stranraer 413
Stratfield Saye House 87
Stratford 36, 450
Stretton, John 529
Strickland, Hugh 358
strikes 312, 391, 396–7, 408, 515
Strome Ferry 21, 97
Suave, Ali 170
Sublime Tobacco (Mackenzie) 111
subways 450–1
Sue, Eugène 123
Sugg, William 35
suicides 106
Sunday schools 94, 196–7
Sundays
railway line construction 339–40
station bookstalls 125
trains 21, 94–5, 96–8
trainspotting 526
Surbiton 499
Surtees, R. S.
Bradshaw 16
classes 77
coaches 57, 84, 102
conversation 118
crinolines 33
food parcels 46
fox hunting 350, 351
Handley Cross 84, 351
Mr Facey Romford’s Hounds 140
newspapers 120
Plain or Ringlets 139
railway rugs 44–5
seat-marking 103–4, 105
surveyors 333–5
suspension bridges 369, 373
Sussex Express 173–4
Sussex Weald 380
Sutherland, Duke of 79–80, 515
Sutherland & Caithness Railway 79
Sutherland Railway 79
Sutton-on-Sea 280
Swanage 413
Swansea 251
Swansea & Mumbles Railway 55
Swaysland, George 159–60
Sweden 235
Swindon 36, 400, 478, 506, 528
refreshment rooms 473–4, 475
Switzerland 174, 282
Sybil (Disraeli) 165
T
Tadcaster 469
Taff Vale Railway 334, 396–7
Taff Valley 374
Taine, Hippolyte 97–8, 169–70
Talerddig cutting 357
Talyllyn Railway 511, 512, 535
Tamar bridge 5
tamping 281–2
Tamworth 452, 522–3
Tattenham Corner 93
Taunton 447, 461
Tavern Cars 216–17
Tawell, John 294
Tay Bridge 11–12, 371–2, 372, 373
Tearnes 66
telegraph 20, 93, 121, 140–1, 291, 293–5, 539
Telford, Thomas 361, 369
Temperance movement 89, 93
Templecombe 460–1
Tenniel, John 27, 28
Tennyson, Alfred, Lord 119, 124
Terminus 24
Ternan, Ellen 153–5
Tess of the d’Urbevilles (Hardy) 343
Thackeray, William Makepeace 21–2, 134, 266, 294
Thailand 235
Thames Haven 92
Thames Tunnel 148
Thamesport 415
Thatcher, Margaret 44, 235
Theale 410
Theatres of Memory (Samuel) 547
theatrical trains 97–9
Thetford 440
third class 57, 59, 73–4, 75
abolition 70
carriages 30, 58, 59–66, 67, 75
conversation 114
Dickens 67
dining cars 218–19, 220
footwarmers 42
insurance policies 145
Kilvert 67–8
lavatories 202, 203
Liverpool & Manchester Railway 446
Midland Railway 68–9, 517
outside seats 57
Parliamentary trains 74
Pendleton 68
prisoner transportation 165
Ruskin 136–7
sleeper trains 245, 246
Surtees 77
tickets 22
waiting rooms 469
third rail 313–14
30 Years of Trainspotting (Stretton) 529
Thomas, David St John 3
Thomas, Edward 43–4, 491
Thomas the Tank Engine (Awdry) 345, 515, 524, 549
Thompson, E. P. 337
Thompson, F. M. L. 348
Thornewell, W. T. 284, 357
Thornton Abbey 89
Thornton Yard 383, 384, 385
Three Clerks, The (Trollope) 131–2
Thrilling Stories of the Rail
way (Whitechurch) 515
Through the Looking-Glass (Carroll) 27, 28, 150
Thurso 485
ticket offices 438, 463–4, 468
tickets 22–4, 63
checking 52–3, 193, 465, 466
dogs 112
duty on 62
platform tickets 466–7, 467
Railway Clearing House 432, 434
selling 445, 452–4, 463–4, 467–8
Tilbury 415
Tilehurst 379
tilting trains 238–9
timber see wood
time 18–21, 140–1, 433
Time Act 1880 20
Times, The 119, 120
accidents 144, 148
bookstalls 123, 124
Brighton Belle 209
broad gauge 514
Capel case 186
card sharps 167–9
decimalisation 467
Dickens’s letter to 156
locomotive logos 502
platelayers’ deaths 285–6
Pullman cars 208
rail travel 17, 156
Round Down cutting 356
sleeping cars 242–3, 246
Tavern Cars 217
travelling conveniences 50
timetables 15, 21
Bradshaw’s Railway Guide 15–17
British Railways 503
leaf fall changes 381
Tinsley Yard 385, 386
Titfield Thunderbolt, The 511–12
Toby the Tram Engine (Awdry) 345
toilets see lavatories
Too Long a Winter 281
TOPS (Total Operations Processing System) 416
Tornado 546, 550
Totley Tunnel 284
Toton Yard 2, 384
Tottenham Hotspur 226
tourist stock 214
Towcester 332
Towle, Arthur 480, 481
Towle, Sir William 480
track 257, 267, 328–9
atmospheric railway 268–71, 269
ballast 277–8, 281–2, 378
baulk road 260–1
gauge 31, 210–11, 260–8, 265, 271–4, 514
maintenance 281–9
mileposts 283
objects on 322, 323
rails 257–9, 259, 261, 274
rigid running 260
sleepers 260, 274–7, 276
walking along 319–22
trackmen 282–3, 284–7, 375, 377, 378, 393
trade unions 311, 312, 391–2, 395, 396–7, 399, 513, 520
Train, George Francis 55–6
train operating companies 240, 288, 289–90, 506
train sheds 483, 485–90, 486, 488
trains 14
block working 297–300, 298, 304, 305, 310, 543
brakes 193, 196–201
driving on the left 321
graffiti 324–8
loading gauge 32, 215, 266, 267, 313, 440, 446
protection systems 304–5
public address systems 494
stones thrown at 322–3
tilting 238–9
timing 536
see also carriages; freight trains; locomotives; multiple-unit trains; passenger trains; railmotors; wagons
Trains Illustrated 514, 518, 522
trainspotting 1–3, 520–31
Trainspotting (Welsh) 529
trams 55–6
Transacord 534–6, 535
Transport Act 1953 411
Transport Act 1968 424
Traveller’s Guide to Great Britain and Ireland, The 114
Travellers-Fare 222
travelling conveniences 50
Travelling Post Offices 4, 51
Treacy, Rev. Eric 520, 532
trees 380–1
Tregenna Castle 481
Tremlett, James 186–7
Trent Junction 48
Trevail, Silvanus 106
Trollope, Anthony 6, 18, 115, 150, 352
The American Senator 113
Autobiography 132
Barchester Towers 132
The Belton Estate 470
The Bertrams 18
The Claverings 228–9
He Knew He Was Right 476
Last Chronicle of Barset 119
Orley Farm 77
The Small House at Allington 77
The Three Clerks 131–2
Trouble House Halt 454
Trowse 379
Truro 273
Trust House Forte 222
tunnels 5
Channel Tunnel 250–1
construction 263, 337–8, 339, 354, 358
and cuttings 357–8
Duke of Portland 84
The Kiss in the Tunnel 189, 190
and lighting 34, 35, 39, 68
North by Northwest 190
track maintenance 283–4
walking in 321
windows 113–14
see also London Underground; Metropolitan Railway
Tuplin, W. A. 518
turf-burning engine 215
Turner, J. M. W. 362
Twyford 484
Tylwch 459
Tyne Yard 382
Tyneside 224, 313
typefaces 498, 500, 501, 502, 504–5
Tyrwhitt-Wilson, Gerald 104
U
Uffington 310, 311
Ulverston 136, 138
Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Stowe) 125
Under the Greenwood Tree (Hardy) 349
underground see London Underground
unions see trade unions
United States
automatic couplings 392
conversation 115
Dickens 115–16, 155
diesel multiple units 234, 235
electrification 200
Muller’s extradition 172
private cars 80
Pullman cars 43, 207
Pullman sleeping cars 242
railroad cars 115, 207, 210, 214
railroad lines 207, 316
steam locomotives 267, 316, 518
TOPS 416
waiting rooms 469
universities 95–6
Unwin, Philip 50
Uttoxeter 295
Uxbridge 325
V
vacuum brakes 197–8, 199, 201, 406, 407–8
vacuum toilets 206
Vancouver 235
vandalism 224–7
graffiti 324–8
Vaughan, Adrian 310–11, 312, 536, 538
VIA Rail 251–2
viaducts 5, 360, 361–3, 364
iron 372–3
Liverpool Overhead Railway 303
Solway Firth 320
stations 444, 446
timber 365–7, 366
see also bridges
Vice Versa (Anstey) 43, 147
Victoria, Queen 87, 149–50, 151, 210, 272, 443
funeral train 149
saloons 29–30, 36, 40
Victoria Bridge, Arley 367, 534
Victoria Line 504
Victoria station 13, 48, 452, 490
Victorian Society 489
Virgin Trains 540
Pendolino trains 236–8, 237, 239
Vita glass 221
Viz 530–1
volunteering see preserved railways
W
W. H. Smith & Son 45, 123–4, 125–6, 127–30, 495
wagons
brakes 386, 387, 390, 393, 406, 407–8, 414
broad gauge 273
buffers 402
carriage trucks 83–6
cattle wagons 341, 342
coal wagons 4, 267–8, 403–4, 404, 405–6, 414–15, 416, 433
construction 386–7
couplings 392, 433
goods vans 281
grease-lubricated 404–5
and horses 348
pooled use 436
privately owned 403–6
shunting 383–93, 407
through-piped 408
waiting rooms 71, 117, 446, 463, 468–71, 472–3,
483
Wakefield 436
Wales
cattle 341–2
milk trains 343
National Eisteddfod 97
Pullman Dining trains 223
railway lines 11, 413
sleeper trains 247, 249
stations 456
Sunday trains 97
Wallace, Alfred Russel 59, 334
Wallace, William 59, 334
‘Walter’ 188–9
Walton, John 519
Walton-on-the-Hill 422
Ward, Colin 325
Ward, Mrs Humphry 150
Warden, The (Trollope) 18
Warren Heath 91
Warrington 137, 143
Warthill 329, 330
washbasins 205, 230
Waterhouse, Alfred 373, 430
Waterhouse, Edwin 430–1
Waterhouse, Keith 472
Waterloo 24, 443, 517
Ascot Week 93
Dickens 155
Eurostar 250
Necropolis Railway 101
train shed 488–9
Victory Arch 489
Windsor Bar 474
Waterloo & City Railway 303
Waterloo East 183
Waterloo Sunset (The Kinks) 24–5
Watkin, Sir Edward 75
Waugh, Arthur 340
Waugh, Charles 26
Waugh, Evelyn 318
Waverley 135, 239, 488
Waverley Route 41
wayleaves 317
Webb, Francis William 41
weighbridges 439
Weighell, Sidney 312, 399
Wellington, Duke of 56, 86–8, 95, 100
Wells, H. G. 279–80, 551
Welsh, Irvine 529
Welwyn viaduct 361
Wembley 317
Wembley Park 325
Wensleydale 378
Wentworth Woodhouse 351
West Brompton 13
West Coast main line
Advanced Passenger Trains 238
Mark 3
carriages 229
menus 222
Pendolino trains 239
sleeper trains 245
West Drayton 294
West Highland Railway
curves 360
platform canopies 483
Rannoch Moor 320
viaducts 362–3
West London Extension Railway 13–14
West Somerset Railway 548
Westhumble viaduct 364
Westinghouse, George 198
Westminster, Duke of 541
Weymouth 228, 313
wheelchair access 228, 447, 545
wheels 207, 233–4, 258
Whicher, Inspector 166
Whinyates, Rachel 29
Whitechurch, Rev. Victor 515
Whitemoor Yard 384
‘Whitsun Weddings, The’ (Larkin) 253
Whittaker, Nicholas 529
Whittlesford 142
Wick 485
Widnes 274
Wigan 150
Wilde, Oscar 129, 165–6, 191
Wilhelm II, Kaiser 80, 149
Willans, Geoffrey 240
Willesden Junction 452
Williams, F. S. 24, 38, 90, 196, 224, 355, 376, 514
Williams, Raymond 308–10, 312
Williams, Robert 176–7
Wills, W. D. and H. O. 108, 110
Wilson, Harold 44
Wilson, John Gleeson 90
Wimbledon 2, 150
Winchburgh collision 142
Windermere 12–13, 83
windows 27–8, 28, 64–5, 66, 113–14
Blue Pullmans 230
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