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by Simon Bradley


  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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