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125 High Speed Train 76–7
Advanced Passenger Ticket Information System (APTIS) 184
Advanced Passenger Train (APT) 74–7, 314
aeolipile 74
agriculture 120–67
Allan, Ian 310
Archer, Henry 26
architecture, station 115–19
Argentina 133, 160
Armagh rail disaster 245
Army Postal Service 191
Ashes, The 280
Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen (ASLEF) 237
atmospheric railways 109
Aylesbury Dairy Company 139, 140
Balaklava 103
ballast 105, 106
Barrow 71
Batthyany, Count 62
‘Battle of Saxby’, the 94, 96
‘Battle of the Gauges’, the 227
Bedlington ironworks 63, 66, 67, 69
Beeching, Dr Richard 260, 263
Beeton, Mrs 179
Berlin 69
Bessemer process 71
Bessemer, Henry 71
Big Four, The 184, 255
Birkinshaw, John 63, 66, 67, 68
Birmingham New Street 117
bitumen 94, 99, 101
Black, Robert 39
Blackett, Christopher 47
Blackpool 293–8
Blodwell stone quarry 105
bloomeries 68
books 204–5
Boulton, Matthew 41, 68
bovine tuberculosis 149–50
bowler hat 82–3
Bradshaw’s Railway Guide 172
Brassey and Betts 103
Brassey, Thomas 103, 104–5
British Rail 211, 260, 263, 285
British Railways 214, 259
Brunel, Isambard Kingdom 109, 117, 132, 215, 227, 228–9, 299
Burns, Robert ‘Rabbie’ 153
Camden 79, 82
Cardiff 69
Cardiff docks 69
carousels 291
Carroll, Lewis 92
Carron colliery 40
Caselli, Giovanni 208
cattle wagons 134
cleaning 238–9
coal 48
coal, cooking with 54–5
Coalport 94
Coke, Edward 82
Cole, Henry 187
Comet, The 298–9
communication 168–215
Cook, Thomas 300, 301
Cooke, William Fothergill 215
cooking with coal 54–5
coopering and distilling 159
Cornwall 71, 167, 302
Covent Garden 165
cricket 276, 280
Crimea 103
Crimean War 103, 254
Crystal Palace 117, 164–5, 272–5, 281
Dahl, Roald 10
Darlington Eastern Transport Corridor 86
death on the railways 232, 236, 237
Defoe, Daniel 126
Derby 71
Dickens, Charles 203
distilling 159
Doric arch 119
Dowlais Iron Company, the 63
Dowlais ironworks 63, 66, 68, 69, 71
droving 126–7, 129
Dwryrd, river 26
Earl of Carlisle 66
Earl of Harborough 94
Eastern Counties Railway 135
Ebbw Vale ironworks 71
Edison, Thomas 276, 277
Edmondson, Thomas 115, 182, 184
electric telegraph 208–15
Electric Telegraph Company 215
Elizabeth I 27
Engels, Friedrich 97, 98, 99
Euston station 117, 119, 208
fairs and markets 285–91
Faraday, Michael 215
Ffestiniog 32, 314
Ffestiniog railway 26–35, 41
Flying Scotsman, The 23, 257, 259, 265
Forest of Dean 71
Forster, Jonathan 47
Geddes, Campbell Eric 253
Giza 78
Gladstone, William 250, 253
Glasgow 101, 117, 289, 291
Glasgow University 38
Golden Spike, the 130
goods 227
Gouraud, Colonel George 275
Grand Duke Constantine of Russia 69
Grand Junction Railway 185
Grand Tour, The 268, 269, 300
Great Exhibition, The 164–5, 272–5
Great Western Railway 86, 129, 132, 140, 149, 173, 208, 222, 255, 259
Greenwich Mean Time 176, 226
Gresley, Sir Nigel 257, 259
Grouping, The 253
Gunton saw mill 88–9, 90, 91, 92, 93
Hackworth, Timothy 47
Harbord, Doris 89
Harborough, Lord 122, 123
Hedley, Thomas 47
Hetton Colliery 60
Hill, Sir Rowland 187, 191
Hither Green rail crash 114
holidays 292–305
Holland, Samuel 26
hop picking 303, 304–5
Hornby, Frank 311
Huish, Mark 208
Hull, Joseph 122
Huskisson, William 62
Hyde Park 117
Illustrated London News, The 104
industry 24–71
iron industry 63–71
Ironbridge 94
James I 87
Jones, Rees 44
Keighley and Worth Valley Railway 108–114
Kemble, Fanny 62
Kyan, John Howard 93
Lawry, James Walter 165
Laxey, Isle of Man 11
Leipzig 69
leisure 264–314
Lickey Incline 86
Liverpool and Manchester Railway 52–3, 59, 62, 69, 77, 184, 248–9
Locke & Co 82
London and Greenwich Railway 117
London and North Western Railway 208
London Necropolis Company 284
London, Midland and Scottish Railway 86
Lord Harborough 122, 123
‘Lord Harborough’s Curve’ 94, 96–7
Mallard, The 256
marshalling yards 228–231, 263
Martin, Kit 89
Matuscenitz, Count 62
memorabilia 305–14
Merthyr Tydfil 41, 68
Mid-Hants Railway 161
Midland Railway 94, 122, 250
milk 134–50
moving people 72–119
Mushet, Robert Forester 71
National Union of Railwaymen (NUR) 236–7
navvies 78–9, 87, 94, 101, 102–4
navvy camp 78–9, 87
New Zealand 133, 160
Newcomen, Thomas 38, 39, 40
newspapers 198–205
Nightingale, Florence 103
Northampton 71
Old Trafford 276
Onion, Peter 67
Oval, the 277, 280
Paddington station 117, 148, 149, 208
passenger services 248–52
Pasteur, Louis 144–9
pasteurisation 149
Pauloffsky 69
Paxton, Joseph 117
Pen-y-darren ironworks 41, 44
Pendolino 74
Pennsylvania Railroad 69
Penny Black 187, 190
‘penny dreadfuls’ 201
Penny Red 190
Permanent Way, the 77, 112, 115
pig iron 68
pit saw 92, 93
preserved heritage railways 314
Preston and Longridge Railway 83
Pryce-Jones, Pryce 247
Puffing Billy 17, 41, 45, 47, 48, 49, 52, 53, 60
Pullman 251
quarrymen 32
Quechuas 83
Railway Clearing House 176, 228
railways and war 254, 260
‘railway time’ 176, 222
Rainhill Trials 49, 58–9, 218
Rastrick, John Urpeth 59
Ricardo, John Lewis 215
Richards, Colin 78, 101
rinderpest 139
road versus rail 261
Rocket, The 41, 49, 50–51, 52, 53, 59, 63, 218
Roebuck, Joe 40–41
Roman baths 266
Royal Mail, the 184–97
Russell, W. H. 103
Savage, Frederick 291
Savery, Thomas 38, 77
saw mill 83
‘Saxby, the Battle of’ 94
Scott, Sir George Gilbert 119
Sebastopol Peto 103
signalling 170–71
signalmen 170–71
Singer Company, The 247
slate 30–37
slate mining 36
slums 20
Smith, W. H. 199, 203, 205
Smithfields Market 288–9
Snowdonia 30
South Devon Railway 143, 152
Southern Railway 255
Spain 71
SS Great Britain 299, 300
SS Great Eastern 215
SS Great Western 132–3
St Pancras station 117–19
St Petersburg 69
Stapleford Park 94, 122, 123
station architecture 115–19
steam 37–41
steam engine, workings 240–41
Stephenson, George 49, 60–61, 62, 63, 67, 98, 122, 218, 227
Stephenson, Robert 49, 208
Stockton and Darlington Railway 60–61, 69, 77, 86
stone crushing 105, 106–7
Strathspey Railway 152
Suffield, Lord 89
Taff Vale Railway 69, 71
Tamar Bridge 166–7
Tay Bridge 242–3
Tay Bridge Disaster 243, 244
technology, benefits of new 126
telegraph, electric 208–15
Telegraph, The 200
Tenniel, Sir John 92–3
tickets 176–83
Times, The 103, 198, 199, 200
timetables 173, 176
Tindal Fell 66
tonnage 17
top hat 82–3
track laying 112–13, 114
tracked hovercraft 109
trade 216–63
Travelling Post Office (TPO) 191, 192–5
tree felling 87, 88
Trevithick, Richard 44, 47, 48
United States 69, 130–31, 132, 133
Victorian diet 106, 108
Vinci, Leonardo da 111
‘Walrus and the Carpenter, The’ 93
war and the railways 254, 260
Watercress Line, the 161
waterwheels 90–91
Watt, James 37–44, 47, 68
Waverley 298
Wembley 281
wheat 133–4
Wheatstone, Charles 215
whisky 150–60
Whitehaven 71
Wordsworth, William 292
wrought iron 68
Wyatt, Matthew Digby 117
Wylam Dilly 16
Wylam colliery 45, 48, 60