The Railways

  clerestory 39–40, 80

  curtains 224

  lavatories 204

  Pendolino trains 236–7, 237

  straps 27, 113–14, 224

  Tavern Cars 216–17

  Windsor 93, 149, 155, 469

  wires see electrification; signals; telegraph

  Wirral line 499

  Wisbech 414

  Wodehouse, P. G. 83

  Woking 380

  Wokingham 450

  Wolferton 469

  Wolverton 90, 91, 400, 474–5, 476

  women

  assaults on 175–8, 183

  blackmail by 184–7

  compartments 182

  crinoline 32–3

  crossing-keepers 331

  fox hunting 351

  prostitution 183–4

  refreshment room staff 476, 477

  smoking 111

  station lavatories 471, 472–3

  track maintenance 282

  waiting rooms 469, 470, 471

  Wood, Mrs Henry 126

  wood

  bridges and viaducts 365–7

  carriages 38, 212

  footbridges 449

  platform canopies 484

  platforms 447

  sleepers 260, 274–5, 276, 277, 278–9

  train sheds 485, 486

  wagons 387

  Woodbridge 456

  Woodcraft Folk 456

  Woodhead Tunnel 337–8

  Woodworker, The 280

  Woolwich, Bishop of 104

  Wor Nanny’s a Mazer (Armstrong) 14

  Wordsworth, William 12–13

  Worgret Junction 297

  working, on trains 131, 132–3

  workmen’s trains 75–6

  Worsdell, Thomas William 72

  ‘Wryteezy’ 131, 132

  Wyedale 413

  Wylam 438

  Wyman & Sons 130

  X

  XP64 503–4

  Y

  Yarmouth 92, 94

  Yellow Book, The 128–9

  yellowback novels 125–6

  York 52, 302, 304, 475, 487–8

  York & North Midland Railway 428, 485

  York, Newcastle & Berwick Railway 390, 428

  Yorkshire 345

  ‘Youth of Nature, The’ (Arnold) 12–13

  Z

  Zetland, Countess of 85–6

  Zuleika Dobson (Beerbohm) 468

  1. The fascination of railways: trainspotters on the castle keep overlooking Newcastle Central station, 1950

  2. Nine examples of the millions of Edmondson ticket types used on Britain’s railways, dating from c. 1920 to the 1970s

  3. First- and second-class trains on the Liverpool & Manchester Railway, aquatint after Isaac Shaw, 1831

  4. Loading luggage on to the carriage roof: detail of colour print after William Powell Frith’s ‘The Railway Station’, 1862

  5. Abraham Solomon, ‘First Class: The Meeting’, second version, 1855

  6. Interior of a Great Western Railway third-class open carriage, 1938

  7. A workmen’s train and its passengers at Liverpool Street station, 24 October 1884

  8. Smiths’ station bookstall at Bude, Cornwall, c. 1900

  9. The three-card trick, on an Edwardian postcard

  10. The communication cord explained, on a Wills’s cigarette card of 1939

  11. Carriages old and new, on a London & North Western Railway postcard of 1904

  12. High Speed Train and Advanced Passenger Train prototypes in front of the surviving half of Brunel’s station at Swindon, 1975

  13. Inside a British Railways Mark 1 sleeper compartment, 1962

  14. Remains of a Southern Railway box van on Hoy, Orkney, 2010

  15. The labour-intensive routines of track maintenance, depicted by Stanhope Forbes on a London, Midland & Scottish Railway poster of 1924

  16. Inside the power signal box at Willesden Junction, north London, 1966, showing the display panels

  17. The London & North Western Railway’s signal gantry at Rugby, c. 1897. Each signal is doubled above and below to allow for clear sight-lines past the overbridge for the new Great Central Railway main line, shown under construction behind

  18. The mass of steelwork comprising the overhead line equipment at Tamworth, Staffordshire, 2015. The two nearest trains are class 390 ‘Pendolinos’

  19. Crumlin viaduct, Monmouthshire, built 1853–7. The valley below is threaded through with railways at multiple levels, all still in use in this photograph of 1961

  20. Whitemoor marshalling yard explained, on a British Railways poster of c. 1950

  21. The notorious closure map from Reshaping Britain’s Railways, alias the Beeching Report, 1963

  22. Adlestrop station, Gloucestershire, c. 1905. The main building of 1853 is on the up platform (right), the platform shelter on the down platform, with the stationmaster’s house behind

  23. The Great Western Hotel at Paddington station, opened 1854, in a Photochrom carriage picture of c. 1900

  24. Euston station train shed, aquatint after Thomas Talbot Bury, 1837

  25. The British Rail corporate image represented in a model of the rebuilt Tamworth station, 1964

  26. Inter-war image-making: London & North Eastern Railway poster of 1932 for the Night Scotsman service, with artwork by Robert Bartlett

  27. The seductive liveries of Edwardian locomotives as exemplified in the Caledonian Railway’s postcard of no. 50 Sir James Thompson, built 1903

  28. Ian Allan ABC guides from 1943 and 1963. They illustrate the rival streamlined designs of the London, Midland & Scottish Railway and London & North Eastern Railway (right), from the mid 1930s

  29. Inside ‘A’ shop at Swindon Works, 1961, showing ex-Great Western locomotives dismantled for overhaul

  30. The ‘New Approach’ to railway photography, exemplified in Colin Gifford’s view from a Stoke-on-Trent back street in 1964. The locomotive is an ex-London, Midland & Scottish Railway class 8F 2–8-0

  31. Twenty-first century railway preservation at Ropley on the Mid Hants Railway, 2008. The locomotives have been restored from scrapyard condition, and the engine shed, ash-pit and lattice-post signal (awaiting its semaphore arm) are new structures of traditional appearance