Fire and Steam

by Christian Wolmar

  On stations, London’s Termini by Alan A. Jackson (David & Charles, 1969) is a good start, while David St John Thomas evokes all the romanticism of rural railways and branch lines in The Country Railway (David & Charles, 1976). John Betjeman wrote the evocative London’s Historic Railway Stations (John Murray, 1972). Two anthologies I stumbled upon are full of priceless detail and serendipity: The Railway Enthusiast’s Bedside Book, edited by H. A. Vallance (Batsford, 1966) and The Railway-Lovers Companion, edited by Bryan Morgan (Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1963). Two more recent entertaining compilations of the good and the bad of the railway are: Railway Blunders by Adrian Vaughan (Ian Allan, 2003) and Railway Milestones and Millstones by Stanley Hall (Ian Allan, 2006).

  For a wider history of transport, there is British Transport: an economic survey from the seventeenth century to the twentieth by H. J. Dyos and D. H. Aldcroft (Leicester University Press, 1969). The thorough Dow’s Dictionary of Railway Quotations by Andrew Dow (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006) is an indispensable reference book. Finally, for material written up to the late 1960s, the bibliography by E. T. Bryant, Railways: A Readers’ Guide (Clive Bingley, 1968) is comprehensive and provides potted outlines of many of the books it lists. And obviously for anything missed out above, there is George Ottley, whose original work has been supplemented by a revised volume and two supplements: A Bibliography of British Railway History (George Allen & Unwin, 1965); A Bibliography of British Railway History (2nd edn, HMSO, 1983); A Bibliography of British Railway History: Supplement: 7951–12956 (HMSO, 1988); Ottley’s Bibliography of British Railway History; and Second supplement 12957–19605 (National Railway Museum with Railway & Canal Historical Society, 1998).

  INDEX

  ABC railway guide, ref1

  Aberayron & New Quay Light Railway, ref1

  Aberdeen, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6; and railway races, ref7

  Abergavenny, ref1

  Abergele, ref1

  accidents, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8; Armagh, ref9; Tay Bridge, ref10; Preston, ref11; Salisbury, ref12; Quintinshill, ref13; Southall, ref14; and General Strike, ref15; Harrow and Wealdstone, ref16; Clapham Junction, ref17; Hatfield, ref18

  Adley, Robert, ref1

  Advanced Passenger Train, ref1

  aeroplanes and air transport, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Agar Town, ref1

  Albert, Prince, ref1, ref2

  Aldershot, ref1, ref2

  Allan, Ian, ref1

  Allen, Cecil J., ref1

  Allen, Geoffrey Freeman, ref1

  Allport, James, ref1

  Alton, ref1

  Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants (ASRS), ref1, ref2, ref3

  Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants of Scotland, ref1

  ambulance trains, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Amersham, ref1

  Annesley, ref1

  aqueducts, ref1

  Armagh accident, ref1, ref2, ref3

  armoured trains, ref1

  Arrow, ref1

  Arundel, ref1

  Ashford, ref1, ref2

  Ashton-under-Lyne, ref1

  Asquith, Herbert, ref1

  Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Fireman (ASLEF), ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8

  Aston Hall, ref1

  Athenaeum, ref1

  atmospheric railways, ref1, ref2

  Attlee, Clement, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Austria, ref1

  Automatic Train Control, ref1

  Automatic Warning System, ref1, ref2

  Avon, river, ref1

  Aylesbury, ref1

  Ayton, Richard, ref1

  Badminton station, ref1

  Baker, Benjamin, ref1

  Baker Street station, ref1

  Balaklava Railway, ref1

  Baldwin, Stanley, ref1

  Ballater, ref1

  balloons, ref1, ref2

  Ballydehob, ref1

  Balmoral, ref1, ref2

  Bank of England, ref1, ref2, ref3

  banking system, ref1, ref2

  Barlow, William, ref1

  Barnes, Alfred, ref1

  Barnsley, ref1

  Barrow-in-Furness, ref1

  Basingstoke, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Bass, Michael Thomas, ref1

  Bath, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Batty Green, ref1

  BBC, ref1

  Beasley, Ammon, ref1

  Beaufort, Duke of, ref1

  Beckenham, ref1

  Beckton, ref1

  Bedford–St Pancras line, ref1

  Beeching, Richard, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Beeching cuts, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11

  ‘Beer Trains’, ref1

  Belfast, ref1

  Belgium, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Belmont station, ref1

  benevolent funds, ref1

  Benge, John, ref1

  Berkhamsted, ref1

  Berks & Hants line, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Berwick, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Bethnal Green, ref1

  Betjeman, John, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Bevan, Aneurin, ref1

  Bexleyheath, ref1

  Bickley loop, ref1

  Billingsgate Market, ref1

  Birkenhead, ref1, ref2

  Birmingham, ref1, ref2, ref3; railway connections, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9; Curzon Street station, ref10; New Street station, ref11; London services, ref12, ref13, ref14, ref15, ref16, ref17, ref18, ref19, ref20; and postal service, ref21; fish deliveries, ref22; suburban railways, ref23; railway access, ref24; workmen’s trains, ref25; and electrification, ref26

  Birmingham & Derby Junction Railway, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Bishop Auckland, ref1

  Bishop’s Castle Railway, ref1

  Bishop’s Stortford, ref1

  Bishopsgate station, ref1

  Blackfriars station, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Blair, Tony, ref1

  Blea Moor tunnel, ref1

  Blenkinsop, John, ref1

  Bletchley, ref1

  Bletchley flyover, ref1

  Blisworth, ref1

  Blitz, ref1, ref2

  block working, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Blucher, ref1

  Blue Pullmans, ref1, ref2

  Blumenfeld, R. D., ref1

  boat trains, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Bodmin, ref1

  Bodmin & Wadebridge Railway, ref1, ref2

  Boer War, ref1

  boilers, ref1; multi-tube, ref2

  Bolton, ref1

  Bolton & Leigh Railway, ref1

  Bon Accord, ref1

  Bonavia, Michael, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  Booth, Henry, ref1, ref2

  Boston, ref1, ref2

  Bouch, Thomas, ref1

  Boulogne, ref1

  Bournemouth, ref1, ref2

  Bournemouth Belle, ref1

  Bourneville, ref1

  Boulton, Matthew, ref1

  Box tunnel, ref1, ref2

  Bradford, ref1, ref2

  Bradshaw, George, ref1

  Bradshaw, Robert, ref1, ref2

  Bradshaw’s rail guide, ref1

  braking systems, ref1, ref2

  Branch Line Committee, ref1

  branch lines, ref1, ref2; closures, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7

  Brassey, Thomas, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Brecon, ref1

  Brentwood Gazette, ref1

  Bridges, Frank, ref1

  Bridgwater, Duke of, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Bridgwater canal, ref1, ref2

  Bridgwater, Frome & Central Somerset Railway, ref1

  Briggs, Asa, ref1

  Brighton, ref1, ref2, ref3; London services, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10; electrification of line, ref11

  Brighton Belle, ref1

  Bristol, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7; time in, ref8; London services, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13, ref14, ref15; Temple Meads station, ref16; Parkway station, ref17

/>   Bristol & Exeter Railway, ref1

  British Electric Traction, ref1

  British Expeditionary Force, ref1, ref2

  British Rail, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7; and Settle & Carlisle line, ref8, ref9; marketing, ref10, ref11; finances, ref12, ref13, ref14; workforce, ref15, ref16; industrial relations, ref17; reorganization, ref18; safety record, ref19; and privatization, ref20

  British Railways (BR), ref1, ref2, ref3; and horses, ref4, ref5; interest payments, ref6; regions, ref7, ref8; staff numbers, ref9, ref10; and safety, ref11; switch from steam, ref12, ref13; freight wagons, ref14, ref15; livery and insignia, ref16; modernization programme, ref17, ref18; finances, ref19, ref20; route miles, ref21; see also British Rail

  British Railways Board, ref1, ref2, ref3

  British Transport Commission, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8

  British Transport Hotels, ref1

  Brixton, ref1

  broad gauge, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5; see also standard gauge

  Broad Street station, ref1, ref2

  broccoli trains, ref1

  Bromley, ref1

  Brontë sisters, ref1

  Brookwood, ref1

  Broun, Sir Richard, ref1

  Brown, Ernest, ref1

  Brown, Patrick, ref1

  Broxbourne & Hertford Railway, ref1

  Brunel, Isambard Kingdom, ref1, ref2

  Brunel, Marc, ref1

  Brussels, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Buchan, John, ref1

  Buckinghamshire, ref1, ref2

  buffet cars, ref1, ref2; see also dining (restaurant) cars

  Buntingford, ref1

  Burkhardt, Ed, ref1

  Burstall, Timothy, ref1

  buses, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5; alternative to branch lines, ref6, ref7, ref8; competition with railways, ref9, ref10; coordination with railways, ref11

  Bushey, ref1

  butter, ref1, ref2

  Buxton, Sidney, ref1

  Byers, Stephen, ref1

  by-laws, railway, ref1

  C2C, ref1

  cable operation, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7

  Caledonian Railway, ref1, ref2; and railway races, ref3; industrial relations, ref4; and Quintinshill accident, ref5; and amalgamation, ref6

  Cambrian Railway, ref1

  Cambridge, ref1, ref2, ref3; see also Oxford–Cambridge line

  Cambridgeshire, ref1

  Camden Town, ref1, ref2

  Camel, river, ref1

  Cameron Highlanders, ref1

  Cameroon, ref1

  Canada, ref1

  canals, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6; and opposition to railways, ref7, ref8; decline of, ref9

  Cannon Street station, ref1, ref2

  Canterbury, ref1, ref2

  Canterbury & Whitstable Railway, ref1

  Capitals Limited, ref1

  Cardiff, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Cardwell, Edward, ref1

  Carlisle, ref1, ref2, ref3; see also Settle & Carlisle line

  Carmarthenshire, ref1

  carriages, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5; first-class, ref6, ref7, ref8; lighting, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13; second-class, ref14, ref15, ref16; smoking, ref17, ref18, ref19; slam-door, ref20; fourth-class, ref21; royal, ref22; building, ref23, ref24; branch line, ref25; third-class, ref26, ref27; deluxe, ref28; heating, ref29, ref30, ref31, ref32; sprung-wheel, ref33; corridors, ref34, ref35, ref36, ref37; toilets, ref38, ref39; clerestory roofs, ref40, ref41; express, ref42; and wartime, ref43; LMS, ref44; Southern, ref45, ref46; women’s, ref47; open-plan, ref48; postwar, ref49; scrapped, ref50; air-conditioning, ref51, ref52, ref53, ref54; Marks 1 and 2, ref55

  cars, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6; competition with rail, ref7, ref8; age of, ref9, ref10

  Carstairs, ref1

  Carter Paterson, ref1

  Castle, Barbara, ref1

  Castle Cary, ref1

  Catch Me Who Can, ref1

  Catesby tunnel, ref1

  cattle, ref1, ref2, ref3

  cemeteries, ref1

  Central Electricity Board, ref1

  Chambers, Doctor, ref1

  Channel Islands, ref1

  Channel Tunnel, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Channel Tunnel Rail Link, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Charing Cross station, ref1

  chariots, ref1

  Charles II, King, ref1

  Charlotte Dundas (steam-powered boat), ref1

  Chartist disturbances, ref1

  Chat Moss, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

  Chatham, ref1, ref2, ref3

  cheese, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Cheltenham, ref1

  Cheltenham Flyer, ref1

  Chepstow, ref1

  Cheshire, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Cheshunt, ref1

  Chester, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Chester & Crewe Railway, ref1

  Chester & Holyhead Railway, ref1

  Chichester, ref1, ref2

  Chigwell, ref1

  Chiltern, ref1

  Chippenham, ref1

  Chislehurst, ref1, ref2

  cholera, ref1

  Christie, Agatha, ref1

  Church Fenton, ref1

  Churchill, Winston, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  Churchward, George, ref1, ref2

  City & South London Railway, ref1, ref2

  City of Truro, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Clapham, ref1

  Clapham Junction accident, ref1

  Clayton tunnel accident, ref1

  clergy, ref1, ref2

  Clifton Suspension Bridge, ref1

  closures, ref1, ref2, ref3; see also Beeching cuts

  Clyde, river, ref1

  coaches, gas-powered, ref1

  coal, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5; prices, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11; versus coke, ref12; industry, ref13, ref14, ref15; cheap or free, ref16; and wartime, ref17, ref18; and strikes, ref19, ref20; and BR losses, ref21

  coal trains, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  coal wagons, ref1, ref2

  Coalbrookdale, ref1

  Coalville, ref1

  Coghlan, Francis, ref1

  Colchester, ref1

  Coleman, Terry, ref1

  Comet, ref1

  commuter services, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8; and electrification, ref9, ref10, ref11; and Southern Railway, ref12; and strikes, ref13

  Compagnie du Chemin de Fer du Nord, ref1, ref2

  Connex, ref1

  Conservative Party, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4; and privatization, ref5, ref6, ref7

  Conway, ref1

  Cook, Thomas, ref1

  Cooper, Sir Astley, ref1

  Co-operative Wholesale Society, ref1

  Corinth, Isthmus of, ref1

  Corn Laws, ref1, ref2

  Cornish Riviera, ref1

  Cornwall, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7

  Coronation, ref1

  Coronation Scot, ref1

  cottages, railway, ref1, ref2

  cotton, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Coulsdon, ref1

  County Donegal Railways, ref1

  County Durham, ref1, ref2

  courts of inquiry, ref1

  Covent Garden, ref1

  Coventry, ref1

  Craven Arms, ref1

  Creevey, Thomas, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Crewe, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  cricket, ref1

  Crimean War, ref1, ref2

  Crippen, Dr, ref1

  Cromarty Firth, ref1

  Cromford & High Peak Railway, ref1

  cross-Channel steamers, ref1, ref2, ref3

  CrossCountry, ref1

  Crossrail, ref1

  Croydon, ref1, ref2; airport, ref3

  Croydon Tramlink, ref1

  Crystal Palace, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

  Cubitt, Lewis, ref1

  Cugnot, Nicolas, ref1

  Cumbria, ref1

  cut-offs, ref1

  Cycloped, ref1r />
  Daily Telegraph, ref1

  Dalhousie, Lord, ref1

  Dalton, Hugh, ref1

  Dandridge, Cecil, ref1

  dandy cars, ref1

  Darling, Alistair, ref1

  Darlington, Earl of, ref1

  Darlington, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

  Dartford, ref1, ref2

  Dartmoor, ref1

  Dawlish, ref1

  Day Scotch Express, ref1

  Dee, river, ref1

  Deeside, ref1

  demolitions, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  Denison, Edmund, ref1, ref2

  Denmark, ref1

  department stores, ref1

  Derby, Lord, ref1, ref2

  Derby, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5; railway hotel, ref6; workshops, ref7, ref8

  Derbyshire, ref1

  Devil’s Dyke line, ref1

  Devon, ref1

  Dickens, Charles, ref1, ref2; and Staplehurst accident, ref3, ref4

  Didcot, ref1

  diesel multiple units, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Dingwall & Skye Railway, ref1

  dining (restaurant) cars, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7; withdrawn in wartime, ref8, ref9; see also buffet cars

  Direct Northern Railway, ref1

  ‘direct’ railways, ref1

  Disraeli, Benjamin, ref1

  doctors, ref1

  dogs, fares for, ref1

  Doncaster, ref1, ref2, ref3; decoy goods yard, ref4

  Dorking, ref1

  Dorset, ref1

  double-decker trains, ref1, ref2

  Dousland, ref1

  Dover, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Down Street station, ref1

  Drax power station, ref1

  Druimachdar Pass, ref1

  Dublin, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Dublin & Kingstown Railway, ref1

  Dundee, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  Dunkirk, ref1

  Dunrobin, ref1

  Durham, ref1

  Dutton viaduct, ref1

  Ealing, ref1

  Earls Court, ref1

  East Anglia, ref1, ref2, ref3

  East Coast main line, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9; and railway races, ref10, ref11; and accidents, ref12, ref13; expresses, ref14, ref15; publicity, ref16; and wartime, ref17, ref18; electrification, ref19, ref20, ref21; increased speeds, ref22; high-speed trains introduced, ref23

  East India Company, ref1

  East Kent Railway, ref1

  East Lothian, ref1

  East Suffolk branch line, ref1