Llanymynech Hill 263, 264, 268, 270, 274, 277
Lloyd, Reverend Roger 185, 191; The Fascination of Railways 7, 257–8
Locomotion 6
London see under individual station name
London & Birmingham Railway 157, 251, 253, 259
London & North Eastern Railway 78, 95, 101, 106, 108, 183, 187, 192, 196, 290, 291, 310
London & North Western Railway 3, 57, 61, 66–7, 104, 139, 200, 210, 253, 256, 257, 261, 264, 294
London & South Western Railway 16, 157, 180, 200, 220, 224, 225, 273, 274
London & Southampton Railway 247
London Midland & Scottish Railway 98, 142
London Transport 64–5
London Transport Museum 69
London Underground v, 8, 52, 54, 63, 64–6, 116–17
London, Brighton & South Coast Railway 3, 6, 201, 284, 286
London, Midland and Scottish Railway 101, 142, 144, 159, 201, 248
Lord of the Isles 200, 241
Lord President 191
Lyn 173, 180
Lynmouth 168, 172, 175
Lynton & Barnstaple narrow-gauge railway vi, 167–81
Lynton 167, 168, 172, 173, 174, 175, 176, 177, 178, 179, 181
Lytham St Annes 303
Maben, Reverend Brydon 305, 306
Mackey, Jack 128
Macmillan, Harold 255
Madge Wildfire 187
Mallard 106, 187, 298
Man of Kent 293
Manchester 10, 18, 57, 63, 103, 107, 110, 143, 152, 158, 162, 173, 185, 207, 211, 243–4, 245, 246, 281, 284, 286, 289, 293; Central 243–4, 246; Exchange 246; Piccadilly 281; Victoria 103, 281
Manchester, Bolton & Bury Railway 158
Manchester, Sheffield & Lincolnshire Railway 57, 63, 162
Manxman 107
Marochetti, Carlo 256
Marples, Ernest 46, 83, 255, 294
Marsh, Richard 302, 304
Martin, Andrew: Belles and Whistles 209; The Blackpool HighFlyer 290
Mary, Queen 36, 42
Marylebone 101, 140, 146, 166, 214, 238
Masbury summit 15, 18, 22, 24, 25
Master Cutler 109, 245
Maunsell, Richard 187
Mawson, Thomas 289–90
McGonagall, William 92, 93
McLoughlin, Barry: Railway Heritage: Blackpool and the Fylde 289
McMillan, Ian 7
Meldon Junction 236
Meldon Viaduct 226
Melrose 298, 299, 300, 311
Melverley viaduct 265, 274, 278
Melville, Herman 119
Mendip Hills 15, 18, 19, 107
Merchant Venturer 109
Merrygill Viaduct 77, 90
Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 116, 122, 127
Merseyside Express 107
Methley Junction Incident 159
Metroland 52–73
Metropolitan Railway 53–73, 208
Middleton Railway 200
Midland & Great Northern Railway 12, 222
Midland & South Western Junction 12
Midland Counties Railway 157
Midland Railway 15, 16, 19, 134, 139, 194, 198, 206, 207
Ministry of Defence 152, 153
Minnis, John 241; Britain’s Lost Railways 244–5
Mons Meg 191
Morgan, Bryan 8, 190, 206
‘My Little Metroland Home’ (Lawrence/Thrale) 59
Nagelmackers, Georges 31
namers 96, 102, 108, 109
narrow-gauge railway 167–81
National Express 109, 300
National Railway Museum 6, 7, 47, 89, 180, 186, 200, 314
nationalisation 20, 102, 158, 166, 195, 198, 211, 277
Nellie (Emmet) 262
Network Rail 236, 312
Network SouthEast 91
New York 112, 114, 205; Central Railway 189; High Line 123
Newbattle Viaduct 300
Newnes, Sir George 171–2, 173, 177
Nichols, Maria 67
Night Ferry (Behrend/Buchanan) 32–4, 37–9, 40–2
Night Ferry (Victoria to Continent) v, 26, 29–51
Night Scotsman 102
Nord Express 31
North British Railway 92, 198, 298, 307–12
North Briton 298
North by Northwest 210
North Cornwall Railway 218, 222, 224, 232–3
North Eastern Railway 76, 83, 157, 192, 307, 310
North London Railway 247
Northampton & Banbury line 136
Northern Rail 165
Norwood Junction 286
Nottingham Victoria 9, 244–5
Nuttall, James 173
O’Brien, Sean 4
Olivier, Lord 108, 209
Orient Express 31, 49–50, 204
Orwell, George 2, 7
Owen, Wilfred 246
Paddington 7, 20, 56, 98–9, 101, 105, 108, 140, 152, 158, 164, 166, 190, 215, 238, 240, 241, 246, 248–9, 250, 291, 292
Padstow 109, 217–19, 221, 222, 223, 224–5, 227, 228, 230, 231, 233–4, 235, 236
Paget, Cecil 198
Paget, Dick 148
Paris 8, 9, 27, 28, 29, 31, 32–4, 38, 40, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 97, 108, 123, 191, 204, 281
Paris-Orleans Railway 191
Parker, Sir Peter 48
Paterson, Don 4
Patriot vi, 182
Pease, Henry 82
Pegler, Alan 187
Pendolino 90, 95
Pennines v, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 82, 83, 86, 91, 100, 102, 163, 245, 299
Penzance 101, 108, 109, 215, 220
Peppercorn, Arthur 187
Perth & Dundee Railway 29
Peters, Ivo 24
Pick, Frank 58
Pines Express 18, 19, 21, 107
Pinza 303
Plymouth 101, 106, 158, 216, 219, 221, 232, 235, 236, 244, 250
Podgill viaduct 75, 77, 90, 91
Pontefract Line 154–6, 159–62, 165
Portillo, Michael: Great British Railway Journeys 3–4
Postgate, Oliver: Ivor the Engine 262
Potteries, Shrewsbury & North Wales Railway 263–4
Preston & Wyre Railway 282
Prince of Wales 188, 206–7
Puffing Billy 200
Pullman Car Company v, 29, 31, 35, 52, 54, 63, 65, 70, 71–2, 97, 99, 102, 106, 107, 108, 164, 187, 203, 204, 205, 206, 208, 211, 213, 214, 215, 216, 238, 245, 290
Pullman, George 31
Purdon, Iain 304–5
Quainton Road 62, 63, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 73
Queen Mother, the 151, 205
Queen of Scots, The 211, 241
Rail-o-Phone 141–2
Railway Act, 1844 156
Railway Club, London 6
Railway Regulation Act, 1844 158
Railway Station: a social history, The (Richards/MacKenzie) 4–5, 240, 251, 284
Railway Travellers’ Handybook, The 98
Raven, Sir Vincent 192
Read, Robert 13, 14
Red Dragon 241
Red Guide to Lynton and Lynmouth 175
Red Rose 110
Redbridge Viaduct 311
Redgategill viaduct 77
Reid-Ramsey locomotive 198
Reid, William 149–50
Reno, Jesse 118
Riccarton Junction 303, 308–9, 312
Richards, J.M. 255
Riddles, Robert 198
Ro-Railer 142
Robin Hood 298–9
Roche, T. W. E. 220–1, 228–9, 234
Rocket 184, 200, 258
Rolt, L. T. C. 265, 266, 272–3, 275
Rothermere, Lord 42–3
Rothschild, Baron Ferdinand de 67
Royal Highlander 110
Royal Scot 100, 104, 105, 241, 257
Royal Train, The 151, 310
Ruston, H. Maxwell 128
Saunders, C.A. 157
Scarborough Flyer 106
S
cotch Express 95, 99
Scotland vii, 8, 10, 29, 76, 80, 94–5, 96, 104, 105, 109, 183, 187, 208, 209, 211, 212, 241, 242, 282, 293, 296–312
Scott, George Gilbert 247, 299
Scott, Sir Walter 297, 298
Seaforth Sands 118, 126, 128, 130
Searle, Muriel: Lost Lives 9
Second World War, 1939–45 43–4, 69, 102, 114, 150, 210, 257
Selbie, Robert H. 59–60
Settle & Carlisle Railway 12, 22, 74, 78, 86, 100, 299, 301, 308
Sevenoaks Tubs Hill 43
Shakespeare, William 131, 133, 141, 149
Shankend Viaduct 310, 311
Shaw, Frank: My Liverpool 121
Sheffield Continental 108
Sheffield Pullman 245
Sheffield Victoria 245
Sherwood, James 49
Shippea Hill 162
Shrewsbury 260, 261, 263, 264, 268–9, 270, 271, 274, 275, 277, 278
Shropshire & Montgomeryshire Light Railway 260–78
Sidmouth 211, 287–8
Silver Jubilee 101, 209
Simmons, Jack: The Railways in Town and Country 287, 288; The Railways of Britain 135
Simon, Sir John 32
Sims, George R.: ‘It was Christmas Day in the Workhouse’ 59
‘Slow Train’ (Flanders/Swann) (song) 23, 161
Smardale Gill Viaduct 77, 90
Snowdrift at Bleath Gill (documentary) 86
Somerset & Dorset Joint Railway v, 5, 11–25, 107
Somerset Central Railway 13–14
South Durham & Lincolnshire Union Railway 77
South Eastern Railway 57
Southern Railway 20, 30, 35, 106, 169, 170, 171, 175, 177, 178, 186–7, 209, 221, 222, 230–1, 291
Southport 118, 126, 213, 287, 288, 292
Spaven, David: Waverley Route 304–5
St Helen’s Railway 271
St John Thomas, David: Double-Headed 5, 56; The Country Railway 56, 219, 310; The Great Days of the Country Railway 228, 229, 232
St Pancras 26, 99–100, 108, 109, 139, 146, 182, 242, 245, 246, 258, 296, 299, 303, 306, 314
Stanier, Sir William 104
Stainmore railway v, 74–93
Stalybridge Flyer, the 161–2
Standard Gauge Steam Trust 243
Stansby, J. B. 257
steam locomotives see under individual locomotive and route name
Steel, David 302, 305–6
Stein, Rick 217–18, 236
Stephens, Colonel Holman Fred 147, 262–3, 266–8, 269, 270, 271, 272, 273, 274, 276, 277, 278
Stephens, Frederic George 262–3
Stephenson, George 6, 195–6, 288
Stephenson, Robert 14, 86, 184, 189, 251, 256, 259
Stepney 273
Stevenson, Robert Louis: ‘From a Railway Carriage’ 4; The Wrong Box 25; Treasure Island 53
Stirling Single 97
Stockton & Darlington Railway 12, 77, 79, 81, 156–7, 183
Strang Steel 299
Stratford-upon-Avon & Midland Junction Railway vi, 131–53
Stratford-upon-Avon, Towcester & Midland Junction Railway 139
Sud Express 31
Sunny South Express 293
Surtees, R. S.: Plain or Ringlets 288–9
Talisman 105
Tarka Line 235
Tay Bridge 76, 79, 92
Taw 173
Tees Viaduct 80, 84
Teeside Airport 163
Terriers, The 272, 273
Tees-Tyne Pullman 102, 187
Thames-Clyde Express 100
Thane of Fife 191
Theroux, Paul 2–3, 98
third-class 156–7, 208
Thomas, Edward 4, 223
Thomas, Reverend W. Awdry: Thomas the Tank Engine 19, 182–3, 262
Thomas, William 252
Thompson, Edward 192
Thompson, Mike 78–9, 89, 91
Three Cocks Junction, Brecknockshire 222
Titanic 120
Titfield Thunderbolt 262
titled trains 34, 94–110, 317
Tornado 183–4, 188, 201–2
Torrington 106, 219, 221, 226, 232
Towcester 134, 136, 139, 140, 146
Tower Hill 223, 226, 234
Train Songs (anthology) 4
trainspotting 6–7, 25, 63, 100, 106, 153, 185, 188, 189, 195, 227
Trollope, Anthony 214–15
Tufnell, Robert: Prototype Locomotives 198–9
Ulster Express 102
Unknown Warrior, The 201
Valori, Frank 255–6
Verney Junction 54–5, 56, 61, 62, 63–4, 65, 67, 69, 70, 73
Verney, Sir Harry 62, 64
Victoria 27, 29, 34, 43, 45, 46, 48, 49–50, 203–4, 205, 247
Victoria, Queen 207, 310
Virgin Trains vii, 90, 96–7, 110, 203, 204, 214
Volk’s electric railway, Brighton 117
Vortigem 50
W. G. Bagnall 171
Wadebridge 219, 222, 223–4, 225, 226, 227, 230, 234, 235
Wakes Week 289–90
Wales 99, 136, 143, 151, 168, 170, 186, 211, 214, 215, 222, 263, 264, 268, 285
Walker, Sir Herbert 30
Walton, Peter: The Stainmore and Eden Valley Railways 85
Wandering Willie 299
Wardle, Manning 142–3, 173
Waterloo 106, 178, 218, 220, 221, 223, 224, 229, 236, 241
Watkin, Sir Edward 57
Watkinson, Harold 127
Waugh, Arthur: One Man’s Road 15
Waugh, Evelyn 13, 15; Decline and Fall 59
Waverley line 296–312
Waverley, Edinburgh 94–5, 244, 296, 299
West Coast Main Line 77, 80
West Highland Line 22
West Midlands, Shrewsbury & Welsh Coast Railway 263
West Shropshire Mineral Railway 263
Westmorland 75, 79, 80, 81, 83, 84, 90
Whitaker, Alfred 17, 22
Whitaker, Nicholas: Platform Souls 188
White Rose 102, 211
Whitehouse, Patrick 228
Whyte, Frederick 189
Willans, Bill 275–6
Williams, Captain W. E. 121
Williams, Mansel 260–2
Williamson, Henry 179
Willmott, Harry 140, 141
Willmott, Russell 140, 141
Wilson, Sir Harold 44, 184
Winslow Road 62, 70
Withered Arm vii, 217–36
Wolf of Badenoch 191, 241
Woodham, Dai 186, 187
Woody Bay 170, 171, 177
Wotton Tramway 65, 66
Yeo 173, 178
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