London & Birmingham Railway, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6; surveys, ref7; stagecoach connections, ref8; fares, ref9; investors, ref10; and royal travel, ref11; freight services, ref12; amalgamation, ref13, ref14; departure times, ref15; railway cottages, ref16
London & Chatham Railway, ref1, ref2
London & Croydon Railway, ref1
London & Greenwich Railway, ref1; right-hand running, ref2
London & North Eastern Railway (LNER), ref1, ref2, ref3; network, ref4; hotels, ref5; livery, ref6, ref7; accidents, ref8; rugby specials, ref9; food and drink, ref10; service improvements, ref11; publicity, ref12, ref13; profitability, ref14, ref15; split at nationalization, ref16; electrification, ref17
London & North Western Railway (LNWR), ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7; dominant position, ref8; value and profitability, ref9; enters price war, ref10; and Midland Railway, ref11; and Welsh lines, ref12; and Irish services, ref13; sells coal, ref14; working hours, ref15; and route to Scotland, ref16; and railway races, ref17; braking system, ref18; Preston accident, ref19; modernization and improvements, ref20; Sunny South Special service, ref21; electrification, ref22; publicity, ref23; compensation claim, ref24; and amalgamation, ref25, ref26; livery, ref27
London & South Western Railway, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4; and railway races, ref5, ref6; reputation, ref7; electrification, ref8, ref9; consolidation, ref10; wartime service, ref11; and amalgamation, ref12, ref13
London & Southampton Railway, ref1
London Bridge station, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
London, Brighton & South Coast Railway, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4; collapse, ref5; Clayton tunnel accident, ref6; strike, ref7; Southern Belle service, ref8; electrification, ref9, ref10; and amalgamation, ref11, ref12
London, Chatham & Dover Railway, ref1, ref2, ref3
London Electric Railway, ref1, ref2
London, Midland & Scottish Railway (LMS), ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5; network and inventory, ref6; livery, ref7; service improvements, ref8, ref9; publicity, ref10; workforce and repair facilities, ref11; profitability, ref12, ref13; and wartime, ref14, ref15
London Midland Region, ref1, ref2
London Necropolis Railway, ref1
London Passenger Transport Board, see London Transport
London Post Office, ref1
London, Tilbury & Southend Railway, ref1
London Transport, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4; headquarters, ref5
London Underground, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6; Metropolitan Line, ref7, ref8; District Line, ref9, ref10; Circle Line, ref11, ref12; impact on shopping habits, ref13; and electrification, ref14; public relations, ref15; and wartime, ref16, ref17, ref18, ref19, ref20; women on, ref21; Bakerloo Line, ref22; Piccadilly Line, ref23; increase in passengers, ref24; overcrowding, ref25; rails, ref26; see also Metropolitan District Railway; Metropolitan Railway
London–York Direct Railway, ref1
Londonderry, ref1
looms, steam-powered, ref1
Lord’s cricket ground, ref1
lorries, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7
Lossiemouth, ref1
Loughborough, ref1
Louis Philippe, King, ref1
Louis XIV, ref1
Ludgate Hill station, ref1
Luton, ref1
Lutterworth, ref1
Macadam, John, ref1, ref2
Macclesfield, ref1
MacDonald, Ramsay, ref1
McGrath, Thomas, ref1
MacGregor, John, ref1, ref2
Macmillan, Harold, ref1
Maglev trains, ref1
Maiden Lane station, ref1
Maidenhead, ref1
Maidenhead Bridge, ref1
Maidstone, ref1
mail order goods, ref1
mail services, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6
Major, John, ref1, ref2, ref3
Mallaig, ref1
Mallard, ref1
Manchester, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6; steam-powered looms, ref7; and building of Liverpool & Manchester Railway, ref8, ref9; population, ref10; indifference to railway, ref11; weavers, ref12; railway connections, ref13, ref14, ref15, ref16, ref17, ref18, ref19, ref20, ref21, ref22; investment in railways, ref23; and excursions, ref24, ref25; railway access, ref26; workmen’s trains, ref27; and railway races, ref28; Great Central connections, ref29, ref30; and electrification, ref31
Manchester & Birmingham Railway, ref1
Manchester & Leeds Railway, ref1, ref2
Manchester & Sheffield Railway, ref1
Manchester, Sheffield & Lincolnshire Railway, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
Marlborough, ref1
Marly, gardens of, ref1
Marples, Ernest, ref1, ref2, ref3
Marsh, Richard, ref1, ref2
marshalling yards, ref1, ref2
Marylebone Cricket Club, ref1
Marylebone station, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
Mayhew, Henry, ref1
Meakin, George, ref1
Mechanics’ Institutes, ref1
Mendips, ref1
Merchant Navy, ref1
Mercury, ref1
Merstham, ref1
Merthyr Tydfil, ref1
Metroland, ref1
Metropolitan District Railway, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Metropolitan Railway, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6; introduces Pullman service, ref7; profitability, ref8; and Great Central Railway, ref9; and amalgamation, ref10
middle classes, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7
Middlesbrough, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Middlesex, ref1, ref2, ref3
Middleton Colliery, ref1
Mid-Kent Railway, ref1
Midland Counties Railway, ref1, ref2
Midland Railway, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6; enters price war, ref7; access to London, ref8; promotes third class, ref9, ref10; and Irish services, ref11; Pullman service, ref12; industrial relations, ref13; and Settle & Carlisle line, ref14, ref15, ref16; braking system, ref17; coal trains, ref18; and wartime, ref19, ref20; and amalgamation, ref21, ref22, ref23, ref24
Milford Haven, ref1
military trains, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
milk, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Milne, Sir James, ref1
Milton Keynes, ref1
mines, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6
Molesworth, Sir William, ref1
Monmouthshire, ref1
Monmouthshire Railway and Canal Company, ref1
monopolies, ref1; Huish and, ref2, ref3; Victorian fear of, ref4, ref5; privatization and, ref6
monorails, ref1, ref2
‘monster trains’, ref1
Moon, Sir Richard, ref1, ref2
Morecambe Bay, ref1
Moretonhampstead, ref1
Moreton-in-the-Marsh, ref1
Morning Post, ref1
Morrison, Herbert, ref1
Morton, Sir Alastair, ref1
Motherwell, ref1
motorways, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
Mumbles, ref1
munitions trains, ref1, ref2, ref3
Myers Flat swamp, ref1, ref2
Napoleon Bonaparte, ref1
narrow gauge railways, ref1, ref2, ref3
National Rail Enquiry Service, ref1, ref2
National Union of Railwaymen (NUR), ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6
National Wages Board, ref1
nationalization, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6; opposition to, ref7, ref8, ref9; and amalgamation, ref10, ref11, ref12; and industrial relations, ref13
navvies, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4; deaths of, ref5, ref6, ref7; shipped to Crimea, ref8
Nesham’s Colliery, ref1
Network Rail, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Network SouthEast, ref1, ref2, ref3
New Southgate, ref1
New Zealand, ref1
Newbury, ref1, ref2
Newcastle, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4; London services, ref5, re
f6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10; Tyne bridges, ref11; wartime evacuation, ref12
Newcastle & Carlisle Railway, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4; freight services, ref5
Newcastle & Darlington Railway, ref1
Newcastle Courant, ref1
‘Newcastle Roads’, ref1
Newcomen, John, ref1
Newington Green, ref1
Newport, ref1
newspaper specials, ref1
newspapers (press), ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4; and railway advertising, ref5, ref6; and railway races, ref7; and rail strike, ref8; Southern Railway campaign, ref9; opposition to nationalization, ref10; switch to road haulage, ref11; opposition to privatization, ref12
Newton, ref1, ref2
Newton Abbot, ref1, ref2
Newtown, ref1
night traffic, ref1
Nightall, Jim, ref1
Nock, O. S., ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
Norfolk, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6
Normanton, ref1, ref2
North British Railway, ref1, ref2; route to Scotland and railway races, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7; industrial relations, ref8; compensation claim, ref9; and amalgamation, ref10
North Devon & Cornwall Junction Light Railway, ref1
North Eastern Railway, ref1, ref2, ref3; industrial relations, ref4; and railway races, ref5, ref6; electrification, ref7; and wartime, ref8; and amalgamation, ref9, ref10, ref11
North London Railway, ref1, ref2
North Midland Railway, ref1, ref2, ref3
North Staffordshire Railway, ref1
Northampton, ref1, ref2
Northamptonshire, ref1
Northern & Eastern Railway, ref1
Northern Barrage, ref1
Northern Ireland, ref1
Northolt, ref1
Northumberland, ref1
Northwich, ref1
Norway, ref1
Norwich, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
Nottingham, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6
Nottinghamshire, ref1
Novelty, ref1
Nunhead–Lewisham loop, ref1
Octuple agreement, ref1
oil crisis, ref1
Okehampton, ref1
Old St Pancras churchyard, ref1
Olive Mount cutting, ref1, ref2
Olympic Games, ref1
omnibus connections, ref1, ref2; see also buses
One, ref1
Orcadian, ref1
Orkney, ref1
Orpington, ref1, ref2
Oswestry, ref1
Outram, Benjamin, ref1
overcrowding, ref1, ref2
Overend Gurney collapse, ref1
Overton, George, ref1
Owen, Elizabeth Mary, ref1
Oxford, ref1, ref2, ref3
Oxford–Cambridge line, ref1, ref2
Oxford Companion to British Railway History, ref1
Oxford, Worcester & Wolverhampton Railway, ref1, ref2
Paddington station, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6; construction, ref7, ref8; Great Western Royal Hotel, ref9; and electric telegraph, ref10; smells, ref11; and electrification, ref12; and Crossrail scheme, ref13
Paignton, ref1
Paisley, ref1
Palatine, ref1
Pall Mall Gazette, ref1
Palmer, Henry, ref1
Papin, Denis, ref1
Paris, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9
Parker, Peter, ref1, ref2
Parkinson, Cecil, ref1
Parkside, ref1
parliamentary trains, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Pasenger’s Charter, ref1
Passchendaele, ref1
Passenger Transport Executives, ref1, ref2
passengers, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6; first services, ref7; first-class, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13, ref14; second-class, ref15, ref16, ref17, ref18, ref19, ref20; third-class, ref21, ref22, ref23, ref24, ref25, ref26, ref27, ref28; riding on roofs, ref29; VIPs, ref30; deceased, ref31; Atlantic, ref32, ref33; obstreperous, ref34; luggage allowances, ref35; decline in numbers, ref36, ref37, ref38, ref39, ref40; dress, ref41; increase in numbers, ref42, ref43, ref44
Patentee, ref1
Patricroft, ref1
Peak District, ref1
Pease, Edward, ref1, ref2, ref3
Pease, Joseph, ref1
Peckham, ref1
Pembrey, ref1
Pendleton, John, ref1
Pendolino trains, ref1, ref2, ref3
Penkridge viaduct, ref1
Pennines, ref1, ref2, ref3
penny post, ref1
Pen-y-Darren, ref1
Penzance, ref1, ref2
Perseverance, ref1
Persia, ancient, ref1
Perth, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5; marshalling yards, ref6
Peru, ref1
Peterborough, ref1, ref2, ref3
Peterloo, ref1
Peto, Sir Samuel, ref1, ref2
Peyton, Lord, ref1
Pickford’s, ref1, ref2
picnic baskets, ref1
pigs, ref1, ref2
Plymouth, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7; wartime services, ref8, ref9, ref10; London services, ref11, ref12, ref13, ref14; time in, ref15; and Atlantic passengers, ref16
points, ref1, ref2, ref3
Pole, Sir Felix, ref1
policemen, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
Poole, ref1
porters, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9
Portsmouth, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
Post Office, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
postcards, ref1
posters, ref1
Potters Bar accident, ref1
pottery, ref1, ref2, ref3
power supply debacle, ref1
Pratt, Edwin, ref1
Prescott, John, ref1
press, see newspapers
Preston, ref1, ref2, ref3; accident, ref4, ref5
Preston & Wyre Railway, ref1
Preston Brook cutting, ref1
Price, W. P., ref1
Princetown, ref1, ref2
privatization, ref1; costs of, ref2
provident funds, ref1
Provincial (later Regional) railways, ref1
Public Service Obligation, ref1
Puffing Billy, ref1
Pullman, George, ref1
Pullman cars, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5; see also Blue Pullmans
Punch, ref1, ref2, ref3
Putney, ref1
Quakers, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Quarterly Review, ref1
Queen of Scots, ref1
Quintinshill accident, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
race trains, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
rack and pinion, ref1
Radstock accident, ref1
Rail, Marine and Transport Workers’ Union (RMT), ref1
railcards, ref1
rails, ref1, ref2; L-shaped, ref3, ref4; wrought iron, ref5; continuous welded, ref6, ref7
Railtrack, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Railway Air Service, ref1
Railway and Canal Traffic Act, ref1
Railway and Commercial Journal, ref1
Railway Clearing House, ref1, ref2
Railway Clerks Association, ref1
Railway Companies Association, ref1, ref2, ref3
railway companies: monopoly powers, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13, ref14; profitability, ref15, ref16, ref17, ref18, ref19, ref20, ref21, ref22, ref23, ref24, ref25, ref26; joint stock and limited liability, ref27; competition among, ref28, ref29, ref30, ref31, ref32, ref33, ref34, ref35, ref36, ref37, ref38, ref39, ref40, ref41; expansion of (railway mania), ref42, ref43; capital requirements, ref44; share certificates, ref45; advertising, ref46, ref47, ref48, ref49; investors, ref50, ref51, ref52; and MPs, ref53, ref54; average costs, ref55; dominance of large companies, ref56, ref57; mergers, ref58, ref59, ref60, ref61; requirement for accounts, ref62;
bubble collapses, ref63; business model, ref64, ref65; improvement in public perception, ref66; and hotels, ref67; Scottish, ref68; restrictions on housing development, ref69; damage to reputation, ref70; industrial relations, ref71, ref72, ref73; cooperation and consolidation, ref74, ref75; public relations, ref76; and closures, ref77; and women’s employment, ref78; post-war compensation, ref79, ref80, ref81; amalgamations, ref82, ref83, ref84; valuation at nationalization, ref85
Railway Development Association, ref1
Railway Executive Committee, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7
railway inspectorate, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
railway journals, ref1
railway mania, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6
Railway Passenger Duty, ref1
railway races, ref1, ref2, ref3
Railway Regulation Acts, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Railway Ribaldry, ref1
Railway Service Gazette, ref1
Railway Times, ref1
railway workers, ref1; fines, ref2; working hours, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11; wages, ref12, ref13, ref14, ref15, ref16, ref17, ref18, ref19; sickness benefits, ref20; deaths, ref21, ref22, ref23, ref24; recruitment, ref25, ref26; uniforms, ref27; promotions, ref28; industrial relations, ref29, ref30, ref31, ref32; size of workforce, ref33, ref34; enlistment and conscription, ref35, ref36; war bonuses, ref37, ref38; bravery awards, ref39; under BR, ref40
railwaywomen, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4; wages, ref5; numbers, ref6
Rainhill, ref1; trials, ref2, ref3
Ramsgate, ref1
Rastrick, John, ref1
Reading, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6
recovery time, ref1
Red Flag Act, see Locomotive Act
Redhill, ref1, ref2
Rednal, ref1
Reform Bill, ref1, ref2
refreshments, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Reid, Sir Bob, ref1, ref2
relief trains, ref1
Rennie, George, ref1
Rennie, John, ref1
restaurant cars, see dining cars
Ribblehead viaduct, ref1, ref2
Richborough, ref1
Richmond, ref1, ref2
Ridley, Nicholas, ref1
Rifkind, Malcolm, ref1
Rigby brothers, ref1
roads, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6; steam vehicles on, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10; Roman, ref11; competition with railways, ref12, ref13, ref14, ref15, ref16, ref17, ref18, ref19, ref20; deaths on, ref21, ref22, ref23; building, ref24, ref25; economics of, ref26; and oil crisis, ref27; congestion, ref28, ref29; environmental damage, ref30
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