On the Slow Train
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My heart’s in the Highlands: ‘Standard Class 5’ No. 73078 and ex-LMS ‘Black Five’ No. 44976 take water at Crianlarich with the 2.56 p.m. restaurant car train from Fort William to Glasgow in May 1959.
Little train, big journey: A single-carriage Class 153 unit meanders through Knucklas on its way from Shrewsbury to Swansea in May 2009. The service may be sparse, but it is one of the great railway journeys of the world.
The train that ran on the road: ‘Class 33’ No. 33116 eases its way along Weymouth Quay past a Hants and Dorset ‘Bristol’ double-decker in August 1987 on a boat train connecting with the Channel Islands ferry.
Where time stands still: A moment for a gossip on the single platform at the remote station of Berney Arms in 1947. With no road access, this tiny Norfolk community is still reliant on the few trains that stop here.
Journey’s end: An ex-LNER ‘V2’ mixed traffic engine restarts from a signal check at Chester-le-Street, Co. Durham, with a northbound train in February 1963, the year the station was slated for closure by Beeching and inspired Flanders and Swann.
INDEX
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Acton Central station, London 114–15
Adonis, Lord 184
Advanced Passenger Train 125
Agutter, Jenny 34
Ais Gill summit, Cumbria 29–30
Allan, Ian 48, 86, 114
Allport, James 21–2, 23, 34
Appleby, Cumbria 26–7
Arlott, John 88
Arnold, Thomas 124
Arriva 125, 138
Arriva Trains Wales 8, 60, 92
Atthill, Robin 149–50
Auden, W H 126
Awdry, Reverend Wilbert 45, 76
Baker, William 102
Barnes, John 132
Barnes, William 158
Barnsley Interchange 192-3
Barrow-in-Furness 70, 71, 73
Bassett-Lowke, Wynne 76
Beeching, Dr Richard 1, 2, 5–6, 15, 18, 37, 42, 43, 52, 57, 59, 68, 75, 91, 102, 104, 130, 134, 141, 143, 147, 149, 150, 154, 175, 179, 180, 186, 190, 193
Bennett, Alan 27
Berney Arms, Norfolk 169, 170–73, 177
Berney, Thomas Trench 170
Betjeman, Sir John 54–5, 102, 107, 110, 112, 115, 118, 149, 164, 186, 189
Bicester, Oxfordshire 64
Biggs, Ronnie 123
Bittern 90
Bittern Line 164
Blair, Cherie 181
Blea Moor Tunnel, Cumbria 32
Boston, Reverend E R 76
Bourne, John Cooke 124
Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire 154
Brading, Isle of Wight 44
Bragg, Lord 83
Branson, Sir Richard 63, 121
Brassey, Thomas 57
Braunton 90
Bridport line 158, 159
Briggs, Thomas 108, 109
Bristol and Exeter Railway 9
Bristol Temple Meads 151
British Rail 2, 22, 23, 25, 35, 44, 47, 55, 89, 90, 143
Modernisation Plan (1955) 91
British Railways 14, 15, 48, 53, 56, 65, 95, 104, 106, 131, 141, 174, 190
Britten, Benjamin 176
Broad Street station, London 102–3, 105, 107–8
Brogden, John 70
Brontë parsonage, Haworth 34
Brundall, Norfolk 164, 165, 168, 169
Brunel, Isambard Kingdom 10, 52, 105, 151, 152, 155, 158, 159
Brunel, Marc 105
Brunlees, James 72
Buckenham station, Norfolk 165, 166–9
Bulmers 90
Burningham, Richard 14–15, 17
Calbourne 47–8
Calder Valley Line 186
Cambrian Railway 59, 141
Camden Road station, London 110–11
Canadian Pacific 90
Canterbury, Kent 85, 93–5
Canterbury and Whitstable Railway 94
Carbis Bay 12–13
Carlisle 21, 23, 27
Carnforth, Lancashire 69
Castle, Barbara 15, 16, 17, 153, 175, 190
Cathedrals Express 85–99
Cefn station, North Wales 56–7
Cefn-Mawr Viaduct 57
Channel Tunnel 52, 91
Channel Tunnel Link 97, 111
Chapel-en-le-Dale, North Yorkshire: St Leonards church 33-4
Chapman, Colin 164
Charles, HRH The Prince of Wales 28, 123
Charles Edward Stuart, Prince (Bonnie Prince Charlie) 132
Cheltenham Flyer 18
Chester-le-Street, County Durham 193–4
Chiltern Railways 63, 64
Chirk Viaduct 57–8
Clarkson, Jeremy 93
Collett, C B 7
Coniston, Cumbria 74-5
Cornish Riviera Express 6–7, 16
Cowes line, Isle of Wight 43–4, 47
Cowper-Powys, John 151
Crewe, Cheshire 124–5, 139
Crianlarich, Perthshire 127, 135
Cumbrian Coast line 66–83
Cynghordy Viaduct 145, 146
Dalston Junction, London 104–5, 109
Dalston Kingsland station, London 105, 106
Deerstalker Express 116–35
Dent, Cumbria 22, 30–32
Deutsche Bahn 63
Devon and Cornwall Rail Partnership 14–15
Diana, Princess 96
Dickens, Charles 173
Dorchester 150–51
Dorchester West station 154–5, 159
Dover 97
Drigg, Cumbria 79
Dutch State Railways 23
Dyfrbont Pontcysyllte 61, 62
Early, Tom 17
East Coast Main Line 68, 93, 180
East Suffolk Line 164, 174–7
Eastern Counties Railway 163
Elephant 9
Elizabeth II, Queen 123
Ellis, C Hamilton 53
Eurostar 96, 98
Fiennes, Gerard 175
Fiennes, Sir Ranulph 175
Finchley Road & Frognal station, London 113
First Great Western 7, 151–2
Flanders, Michael 1, 5, 6, 15, 60, 179–80, 186
Flying Scotsman 90, 91
Folkestone 97, 98
Formby, Merseyside 180, 181
Formby-Chester-le-Street 178–94
Fort William 130, 134
Foxfield, Cumbria 73, 74
Fraser, Tom 104
Friends of the Settle and Carlisle Line 25, 30, 35
Furness Abbey 72
Furness Railway 69, 70, 73, 75, 76, 77, 79, 80
Garsdale, Cumbria 28, 30
Gatwick Express 88
General Motors 55
Glasgow 126
Glastonbury Tor 156
Glyn Valley Tramway 58
Gobowen station, Shropshire 58–9
Golden Arrow 85, 86, 97
Gooch, Sir Daniel 152
Gosse, Edmund 158, 159
Grace, W G 65
Grand Junction Railway 121
Grange-over-Sands, Cumbria 70–72, 80
Great Central Railway 51, 54, 62, 65, 99
Great Eastern Railway 101, 102–3, 175, 176
Great Northern Railway 21
Great Train Robbers 123
Great Western Railway 5–12, 13, 18, 54, 56, 58, 59, 61, 62, 68, 90, 138, 139, 141, 147, 153–6, 160, 185
Great Yarmouth 174
Greene, Graham 106
Gresley, Sir Nigel 130, 175
Grey, Alastair 82–3
Grimond, Jo 104
Hackney Wick, London 103–4
Haddiscoe church, Suffolk 173
Hampstead Heath station, London 113
Hampstead Junction Railway 112
Hansom, Joseph 125
Hardwick, Philip 117
Hardy, Th
omas 150–51, 157–8
Harper, Jess 41
Harvey, John 11
Havenstreet, Isle of Wight 48
Haworth, West Yorkshire 34
Hayle, Cornwall 11
Heart of Wales Line 136–47
Heart of Wessex Line 154, 155, 161
Hellifield station, North Yorkshire 34
Helston branch line 16
Hendry, Dr George 129
Hepworth, Barbara 17
Heysham nuclear power station, Cumbria 72
Hogwarts Express (Harry Potter books) 93, 132
Hollingsworth, Brian 92
Hope Valley Line 186
Horne, E H 104, 111
Hosking, Jeremy 90
Huddersfield 189–90
Hudson, W H 17
Hughes, Robin 30, 31
Hughes, Ted 186
Hutchinson, Sheila 170
Invicta 94–5
Ipswich, Suffolk 176
Iron Duke 86
Island Line (Isle of Wight) 36–44, 49
Isle of Wight Railway 42
Isle of Wight Steam Railway 44, 46, 47–9
Ivor the Engine (children’s animation) 95
Javelin bullet trains 91
Jenkins, Simon 173
Jessop, William 123
Jones, John Paul 81
Joslin, Jeremy 18-19
Keighley and Worth Valley line 34
Kent Viaduct 70
Kentish Town Viaduct, London 112
Kew Gardens station, London 115
Kilsby Tunnel, Northamptonshire 123–4
King George V 56, 90
King Lear 97
Kington, Miles 131, 133
Kirkby Stephen, Cumbria 28, 29, 30
Knighton, Powys 139
Knill, John 13
Knucklas, Powys 140
‘La’al Ratty’, Ravenglass 75, 76
Lakes Express 82
Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway 181, 183, 185, 190
Lancaster and Carlisle Railway 125
Larkin, Philip 2, 48
Leach, Bernard 17
Lee, Christopher 83
Leeds 27, 34–5
Lelant 9, 10, 11, 18
Lelant Saltings 8–9
Leven Viaduct 72
Lindisfarne Gospels 194
Liskeard-Looe line 16, 17
Liverpool and Manchester Railway 10, 94, 109, 129
Livock, J W 124
Llandrindod Wells, Powys 141–3
Llanelli 147
Llangammarch, Powys 143–4
Llangollen Railway 56
Llanwrtyd Wells, Powys 144–6
Lloyd, Canon Roger 45, 120
London and Birmingham Railway 112, 118, 121
London and North Eastern Railway 93
London and North Western Railway 21, 62, 105, 118, 121
London and South Western Railway 153
London, Brighton and South Coast Railway 42, 87
London, Chatham and Dover Railway 42
London Euston station 117-19, 190
London Liverpool Street station 164, 177
London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS) 146
London Overground 63, 103
London St Pancras 22, 91, 102, 194
London Transport 37
London Underground/Tube 38, 41, 42, 49, 86, 105
London Victoria station 85, 86, 87
Lonsdale, William Lowther, 2nd Earl of 71
Lord Nelson 90
Lord of the Isles 130-31, 134
Lowestoft, Suffolk 174
Lowland Express 121
Lowry, L S 187
Lucas Brothers 174
McAlpine, Sir William 91, 132
McGill, Donald 192
Macmillan, Harold 118
Maiden Newton, Dorset 157, 158
Major, John 53
Mallaig 130, 133
Manchester Piccadilly 184
Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway 51–2
Manchester Town Hall 32
Manchester Victoria 184–6
Marchington, Tony 91
Marples, Ernest 123
Marsden, West Yorkshire 188–9
Martin Mill gradient 96
Marylebone station, London 51, 56, 65
Maryport, Cumbria 83
Masset, Louise 109
Merseyrail system 181
Mid-Wales Line 143
Midland Railway 21, 26, 29, 33, 34, 98, 157
Millom, Cumbria 67–8, 74, 77, 78
Minghella, Anthony 39
Moore, John 172
Morecambe Bay 70
Morville, Sir Hugh 30
Muller, Franz 109
National Railway Museum, York 69, 91, 98, 105, 115
Nelson, Alex 193-4
Network Rail 25, 59, 72, 92, 111, 118, 124, 147
Newlyn, Cornwall 13
Nicholson, Ben 17
Nicholson, Norman 78, 83
Night Ferry 85
Night Mail (film) 126
Night Riviera 7
North British Railway 125
North Eastern Railway 193
North London Railway 100–115
Northern Rail 23, 69, 77, 184, 190
Norwich Thorpe station 164
Old Coppernob 69–70
Oliver Cromwell 86, 88–91, 93–6
Olympics (2012) 101, 160
Orient Express 86, 98, 180
Outram, Benjamin 188
Paddington station, London 5, 6, 7, 18
Parker, Peter 92
Parkinson, Michael 193
Pegler, Alan 91
Pendragon Castle, Cumbria 30
Penistone, West Yorkshire 192
Penistone Line 190-93
Penistone Viaduct 192
Pennines 21, 180, 183–4, 185
Penson, T M 60
Penzance, Cornwall 9
Peppercorn, Arthur 93
Peters, Ivo 149
Peto, Samuel Morton 173
Phillips, Derek 158
Pilcher, Rosamund 12
Pines Express 149
Pontcysyllte Aqueduct 57, 58, 61
Poppy Line 164
Port, Thomas 122
Porth Kidney Sands, Cornwall 11
Postgate, Oliver 95
Potter, Beatrix 187
Premier Line 125
Prior, Peter 90
Pritchett, J P 189
Pullman, George Mortimer 23
Quarr Abbey, near Fishbourne 44, 45–7
Railway Children, The (film) 34
Rannoch, Perthshire 127–9
Ravenglass, Cumbria 75, 77
Ravenglass and Eskdale Railway 75, 76
Reedham, Norfolk 170, 173
Ribblehead station, North Yorkshire 33
Ribblehead Viaduct 22, 25, 28, 32–3, 192
Richmond, Surrey 102, 115
River Irt 75, 77
River Mite 75–6
Robertson, Henry 57
Robertson, Marcus 88–9, 90–91, 99
Rocket 94
Rolt, L T C 65, 87, 99
Royal train 55, 123
Ruabon station, North Wales 56
Rugby station, Warwickshire 124
Ruskin, John 74
Ruswarp (collie dog) 30
Ryde, Isle of Wight 40–41
Ryde Pier Head station 38, 39, 40
Ryde St John’s Road, Isle of Wight 41, 42–3
St Bees, Cumbria 80–81
St Erth, Cornwall 5–8, 11, 12
St Erth to St Ives line 4–19, 180
St Ives, Cornwall 5, 6, 7, 9, 11, 13–19
Salt, Titus 34
Saltaire, West Yorkshire 34
Sandown, Isle of Wight 44
Saunders, I H 24
Saunders-Roe 40
Scargill, Arthur 96, 193
Seascale, Cumbria 80
Sellafield nuclear power station, Cumbria 79–80
Serco 23
Settle and Carlisle line 20–35, 186
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p; Shakespeare Express 86
Shanklin, Isle of Wight 38, 44
Shap incline, Cumbria 96
Sharland, Charles Stanley 24
Shepherd, David 47–8
Shrewsbury, Shropshire 60, 139
Shropshire Lad, A 55
Simmons, Professor Jack 189
Simon, Paul 184
Sinclair, Iain 104 ‘Slow Train’ (song by Flanders and Swann) 1, 5, 179–80
Smallbrook Junction, Isle of Wight 43, 44, 47
Smith, David 130
Somerleyton Hall, Suffolk 173
Somerset and Dorset line 148–61
Souter, Brian 38
South Eastern and Chatham Railway 87
South West Coast Path 11
South West Trains 38, 43, 49
Southern Railway 41, 42, 47, 48, 115, 153, 160
Southern Region 42, 90
Southern Vectis Omnibus Company 47
Southport, Merseyside 182–3
Stalybridge, Cheshire 187-8
Standedge Tunnel, West Yorkshire 188
Steam Dreams 88, 89
Stephenson, George 10, 71, 94, 168
Stephenson, Robert 24, 52, 112, 117–18, 121-4, 129, 155, 168
Stevenson, Robert Louis 128–9
Strategic Rail Authority 90
Stratford, London 101, 106
Sutch, Screaming Lord 144
Swann, Donald 1, 5, 6, 15, 60, 179–80, 186
Swansea 147
Tate St Ives, Cornwall 6, 17
Telford, Shropshire 63
Telford, Thomas 57, 58, 62, 129, 131
Temple, William, Archbishop of Canterbury 45
Thatcher, Margaret 68, 96, 144, 186
Theroux, Paul 8, 13-14, 96–7, 181
Thomas, David St John 1-2, 16, 59–60, 165–6
Thomas, Edward 2, 77, 157
Thomas, John 126–7
Thomas the Tank Engine books (Awdry) 45, 76, 93
Tintagel Castle 7
Titfield Thunderbolt, The (film) 45, 190
Top Gear (BBC television programme) 93
Tornado 56, 93
Transport for London 114
Treacy, Right Reverend Eric (the ‘Railway Bishop’) 27
Tregenna Castle 18
Trevithick, Richard 11
Tyne Valley Line 186
Vaughan, Adrian 60–61
Victoria, Queen 39, 40, 109, 123
Virgin 54, 60, 63
Walton, Izaak 124
Waterman, Pete 125
Watkin, Sir Edward 51–2, 62, 64, 65
Welsh Guardsman 35
West Coast Main Line 96, 184
West Coast Railway Company 130
West Hampstead station, London 114
Weymouth 151, 160–61
Wharton, Lord Thomas 29
Wherry Line 164, 166, 167
Whitechurch, Canon Victor 45
Whitehaven, Cumbria 69, 71, 81–2
Wicker Man, The (film) 83
Wigton, Cumbria 83
Wilkinson, John 71
Williams, Stanley 105