World History of Railway Cultures 1830-1930

<p>This 4-volume collection is the first compilation of primary sources to historicize the cultural impact of railways on a global scale from their inception in Great Britain to the Great Depression. Gathered together are over 200 rare out-of-print published and unpublished materials from archival and digital repositories throughout the world. Organized by historical geography, this first volume covers the United Kingdom.</p> <p>Volume I. The United Kingdom </p><p>Table of Contents</p><p>Author Acknowledgements</p><p>Part 1: The Rocket, Rainhill Trials, and Early Promotion of Railways</p><p>1. Early Illustrations of the Rocket and Liverpool and Manchester trains.</p><p>Figure 1. <i>The Rocket</i> with wagon car from the cover of<i> Mechanics’ Magazine</i>, 24 October, 1829. </p><p>Figure 2. Isaac Shaw’s lithograph of Liverpool and Manchester passenger train. S. G. Hughes aquatint (1831). Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection. </p><p>Figure 3. Isaac Shaw’s lithograph of Liverpool and Manchester freight train. S. G. Hughes aquatint (1831). Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection.</p><p>2. The Rainhill Trials and Inauguration of the Liverpool & Manchester Railway, "Account of the Competition of Locomotive Steam-Carriages on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway," in <i>Mechanics’ Magazine</i> 12: 322 (October 10, 1829), 114-116; 12: 323 (October 17, 1829), 135-141; 12: 324 (October 24, 1829), 146-147; 12: 325 (October 31, 1829), 161; 14: 372 (September 25, 1830), 64-69.</p><p>3. Charles Maclaren. <i>Railways Compared with Canals & Common Roads, and Their Uses and Advantages Explained</i>. Edinburgh: Constable, 1825, pp. 48-54. </p><p>4. Nineteenth-Century Engravings, Lithographs, and Prints.</p><p>Figure 4. "View of the Entrance to the Liverpool and Manchester Railway." <i>Mechanics’ Magazine</i> XIV: 342 (September 25, 1830).</p><p>Figure 5. Isaac Shaw. "View on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway with the Locomotive "Twin Sisters" in a Siding." (1830). Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection.</p><p>Figure 6. Isaac Shaw. "Opening of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway," (1830). Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection.</p><p>Figure 7. Isaac Shaw. "Railway Office Liverpool," (1830). Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection.</p><p>Figure 8. "Metropolitan Railway." <i>The Wonders of the Universe: A Record of Things Wonderful and Marvelous in Nature, Science, and Art</i> (New York: Cassell & Co., 1885), 53.</p><p>Part 2: Engineering Enemies</p><p>5. Joseph Sandars. <i>A Letter on the Subject of the Projected Rail Road between Liverpool and Manchester</i>. Second ed. London: W. Wales, 1824, pp. 3-32.</p><p>6. "Second Prospectus of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway Company," <i>Liverpool Mercury</i> XV (30 December 1825), 203.</p><p>7. George Eliot. <i>Middlemarch</i>. New edition. Edinburgh and London: W. Blackwood, 1874, pp. 407-414. </p><p>8. <i>The Creevy Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the Late Thomas Creevy</i>. Ed. Sir Herbert Maxwell. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1904, pp, 429-431, 545-546.</p><p>9. William Wordsworth, ‘On the Projected Kendel and Windermere Railway’, 147, "Letters on the Kendal and Windermere Railway, 301-311" From Vol. 8 of <i>The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth</i>. Ed. William Angus Knight. (Edinburgh: W. Paterson, 1888-1889), p. 147, 301-311</p><p>Part 3: Cultures of Railway Construction</p><p>10. John Francis. <i>A History of the English Railway: Its Social Relations and Revelations</i>. 2 vols. London: Longman, Brown, Green, & Longmans, 1851. Vol. 2, Chapter 3 pp. 67-91. </p><p>11. Benjamin Disraeli. <i>Sybil or The Two Nations</i>. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1913, pp. 433-441. </p><p>12. Stephen W. Fullom, "The Brawl Viaduct", "English and Irish" and "The Reward of Merit," in <i>The Great Highway: A Story of the World’s Struggles.</i> Third ed. London: G. Routledge & Co., 1854, pp. 119-146. </p><p>13. Patrick MacGill. <i>Children of the Dead End: The Autobiography of a Navvy</i>. London: H. Jenkins, 1914, pp. 129-145, 209-212, 225-229, 254-262. </p><p>14. Patrick MacGill. "A Platelayer’s Story" and "The Navvy’s Sunday" and from <i>Gleanings from a Navvy’s Scrapbook</i>. Second ed. Derry, North Ireland: Derry Journal, 1911, pp. 52-53, 55. </p><p>Part 4: Novel Impressions: Early Victorian Railway Cultures</p><p>15. Frances Ann Kemble. <i>Records of a Girlhood</i>. Second ed. New York: H. Holt, 1884, 278-284.</p><p>16. ‘Railroad Travelling’, <i>Herapath’s Railway Journal</i> [The Railway Magazine] 1 (Mar.-Dec. 1836), 110-112. </p><p>17. Charles Greville. <i>Memoirs (Second Part): A Journal of the Reign of Queen Victoria from 1837 to 1852</i>. 3 vols. Ed. Henry Reeve. New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1885. I, p. 11. </p><p>18. William Makepeace Thackeray, ‘Two Days in Wicklow’, in <i>The Paris Sketch Book of Mr. M.A. Titmarsh, The Irish Sketch Book, & Notes of a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo</i>. New York: Caxton, 1840, pp. 491-493.</p><p>19. William Makepeace Thackeray, "Physiology of the London Idler," <i>Punch</i> 3 (1842), p. 102, "Railway Parsimony," <i>Punch</i> 13 (1847), 150, "Natural Phenomenon," <i>Punch</i> 14 (1848), 87, and "Railway Charges," <i>Punch</i> 14 (1848), 218. </p><p>20. Albert Richard Smith. <i>The Struggles and Adventures of Christopher Tadpole at Home and Abroad</i>. London: Willoughby, [1847], pp. 481-483. </p><p>21. Charles Dickens, "Paul’s Second Deprivation," in <i>Dombey and Son</i>. 2 Vols. New York: Harper & Bros, 1852. I: 70-72. </p><p>22. Charles Dickens, "Mugby Junction" in <i>Stories from the Christmas Numbers of "Household Words" and "All Year Round.</i>" New York: Macmillan and Co., 1896. PP. 464-465, 500-512. </p><p>23. Charles Dickens, <i>Our Mutual Friend</i> (New York: Macmillan, 1907), p. 720.</p><p>24. Charles Dickens, "A Flight," in <i>Reprinted Pieces</i>. New York: University Society, 1908. PP. 151-161. </p><p>Part 5: Timetables, Calendars, and Stations: Mid-Victorian Railway Cultures</p><p>25. Henry Booth. <i>An Account of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway</i>, "Considerations, Moral, Commercial, Economical." Liverpool: Wales and Baines, 1830, pp. 85-94.</p><p>26. "Easter Travelling," <i>Illustrated London News</i>, 29 April 1905, 626.</p><p>27. Figure 9. William Powell Frith. "The Railway Station." [Paddington Station] (1862).</p><p>28. George Catlin. <i>Adventures of the Ojibbeway and Ioway Indians in England, France, and Belgium</i>. Third ed. London: n.p., 1852, pp. 15, 17, 20-26, 34-35, 123-127, 129, 145-146.</p><p>29. John Overton Choules, <i>Young Americans Abroad</i>. Boston: Gould and Lincoln, 1853, pp. 48-52, 92-95.</p><p>30. Miss [Julia] Pardoe, ‘On the Rail’, <i>Reginald Lyle</i>. New York: Burgess & Day, 1854, pp. 103-106.</p><p>31. Elizabeth Gaskell, ‘Mischances’ <i>North and South</i>. London: Oxford University Press, 1908, pp. 312-317.</p><p>32. George Augustus Sala, "The Art of Sucking Eggs" in, <i>Temple Bar</i> 1 (1861), 558-564.</p><p>33. Miss. Muloch (Dinah Maria Mulock Craik), <i>A Life for a Life: A Novel</i>. New York: Carleton, 1864, pp. 196-197.</p><p>34. Frances Eleanor Trollope, <i>Veronica</i>, "The Railway Waiting Room.", in <i>All the Year Round</i>, New Series V.2 (September 25, 1869), p. 386.</p><p>35. G. K. Chesterton, ‘The Prehistoric Railway Station’, in <i>Tremendous Truffles</i> (New York: Dodd, Mead, 1909), pp. 260-267.</p><p>Part 6: Subterranean Railways and the Underground: High Victorian Railway Cultures</p><p>36. ‘The Metropolitan Subterranean Railway’, <i>The Times</i> (London), 30 November 1861, p. 5.</p><p>37. Mortimer Collins, <i>The Vivian Romance</i> (New York: Harper, 1870), pp. 31-32.</p><p>38. M. E. Braddon, ‘On the Track’, from <i>Henry Dunbar: The Story of an Outcast</i>, Three Vols. (London: J. Maxwell, 1866), III, pp. 187-201. </p><p>39. M. E. Braddon, <i>The Lovels of Arden</i> (Leipzig: B. Tauchnitz, 1871), pp. 92-97. </p><p>40. Figure 10. Gustave Doré. The Workmen's Train, Ludgate Hill, and Over the City by Railway. Illustrations originally printed in Doré and Blanchard Jerrold, <i>London: A Pilgrimage</i>. London: Grant, 1872. </p><p>41. Lady Margaret Majendie, ‘A Railway Journey’, <i>Blackwood’s Magazine</i> 121 (April 1877), pp. 497-503.</p><p>42. Figure 11. Cover Illustration of H. L. Williams’s adaptation of Dion Boucicault’s play <i>After Dark</i> (1880s), depicting railway rescue scene in the London Underground/Subterranean Railway. </p><p>43. Dion Boucicault, scene II from <i>After Dark: A Drama of London Life in 1868, in Four Acts</i>. (New York: DeWitt, n.d.) pp. 36-37.</p><p>Part 7: Netherworlds and Nostalgia: Late Victorian and Edwardian Railway Cultures</p><p>44. George Gissing, ‘10 Saturnalia!’, in <i>The Nether World</i> (London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1890), pp. 105-113.</p><p>45. James John Hissey, <i>Through Ten English Counties</i> (London: Richard Bentley & Son, 1894), pp. 392-393. </p><p>46. Thomas Hardy, <i>Jude the Obscure</i> (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1896), pp. 341-343.</p><p>47. Arthur Quiller-Couch, ‘The Cuckoo Valley Railway’ and ‘Punch’s Understudy’, in <i>The Delectable Duchy: Stories, Studies, and Sketches</i> (New York: C. Scribners’ Sons, 1898), pp. 61-69, 107-115.</p><p>48. George John Whyte-Melville, <i>The Brookes of Bridlemere</i> (London: Ward, Lock, 1899), pp. 156-161, 200-205.</p><p>49. H. G. Wells,<i> When the Sleeper Wakes</i> (New York: Harper & Bros., 1899), pp. 201-211. </p><p>50. Henry James, ‘London’, <i>English Hours</i> (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1905), pp. 36-39. </p><p>51. Henry James, ‘Isle of Wight’, <i>Portraits of Places</i> (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., [1911]), pp. 292-294. </p><p>52. E. Nesbit, ‘Saviours of the Train’, <i>The Railway Children</i> (London and New York: Macmillan, 1906), pp. 127-137.</p><p>53. E. M. Forster, <i>Howards End</i> (New York: G. P. Putnam Sons, 1911), pp. 12-19.</p><p>Part 8: The Railway Accident, Public Health, and Military Deployment</p><p>54. ‘Wolverhampton’, <i>The Spectator</i>, February 24, 1838, pp. 176-177.</p><p>55. ‘In the Temple Gardens’, <i>Temple Bar </i>2 (July, 1861), pp. 286-287. </p><p>56. ‘Armagh’, <i>The Spectator</i>, June 15, 1889, 813.</p><p>57. ‘The Influence of Railway Travelling on Public Health’, <i>The Lancet</i>, 1862, pp. 15-17. </p><p>58. John Charles Hall, ‘Railway Accidents’, in <i>Medical Evidence in Railway Accidents </i>(London: Longmans & Co. 1868), pp. 27-42. </p><p>59. ‘Navvies for the Crimea’ and ‘The Balaclava Railway Corps’, <i>Illustrated London News</i>, 13 January 1855, 28-29, 304.</p><p>60. ‘The Invasion of the Free State’, <i>The Spectator</i> 17 March 1900, 229. </p><p>61. <i>Boer War: Diary of Eyre Lloyd, 2nd Coldstream Guards, Assistant Staff Officer, Colonel Benson’s Column, killed at Brakenlaagte, 30th October 1901</i> (London: Army and Navy Cooperative Society, 1905), pp. 3-6, 17-19, 27-28, 43, 45, 56-58, 63, 66-67, 71-78, 105-118, 124, 131, 137-141, 153, 169-171, 187, 242, 249-250, 260, 288-289. </p><p>Part 9: The Great War and Interwar Railway Cultures</p><p>62. ‘Railways and the War’, in <i>The Times History of the War</i> 6 (1915), pp. 161, 167, 169-174.</p><p>63. Edwin A. Pratt, ‘Employment of Women and Girls’, in <i>British Railways and the Great War: Organisation, Efforts, Difficulties and Achievements</i>, 2 vols. (London: Selwyn and Blount, 1921), pp. 475-482.</p><p>64. Thomas Hardy, ‘Midnight on the Great Western’, in <i>The Poetical Works of Thomas Hardy</i>, 2 vols. (London: Macmillan, 1919), I, pp. 483.</p><p>65. Lord Monkswell, ‘Making Up Lost Time’, <i>The Railway Magazine</i> 50 (Jan.-June 1922), pp. 157-160.</p><p>66. ‘Railway Art and Literature in 1922’, <i>The Railway Magazine</i> 51 (July-Dec. 1922), pp. 59-66.</p><p>67. ‘Flying Scotsman’s First Run’, <i>Times</i> (London), 2 May 1928, p. 13. </p><p>68. Frank Parker Stockbridge, ‘Cargoes through the Clouds’, <i>Harper’s</i> 140, 1919-1920, pp. 189-191.</p><p>Part 10: Railway Cultures of Scotland and Ireland</p><p>69. Anon. [David Croal], <i>Early Recollections of a Journalist, 1832-1859</i> (Edinburgh: Andrew Eliot, 1898), pp. 8-10.</p><p>70. Charles Richard Weld, <i>Two Months in the Highlands, Orcadia, and Skye</i> (London: Longmans, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1860), pp. 4-6.</p><p>71. W. Edmondstoune Aytoun, <i>Norman Sinclair</i> 3 vols. (Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1861), I, pp. 250-251, 271-274, II, pp. 102-114.</p><p>72. C. F. Gordon Cumming, <i>In the Hebrides</i> (London: Chatto & Windus, 1883), pp. 201-204, 420-422. </p><p>73. C. F. Gordon Cumming, <i>Memories</i> (Edinburgh: W. Blackwood, 1904), pp. 440-441.</p><p>74. ‘The Dublin and Kingstown Railway’, <i>Dublin Penny Journal</i> 3, 113, 30 August 1834, pp. 65-68.</p><p>75. J. Jay Smith, <i>A Summer’s Jaunt across the Water</i> (Philadelphia: J. W. Moore, 1846), pp. 46-47.</p><p>76. Frederick Richard Chichester, <i>Masters and Workmen: A Tale Illustrative of the Social and Moral Condition of the People</i>, 3 vols. (London: Newby, 1851), I, pp. 7-17. </p><p>77. Andrew Dickinson, <i>My First Visit to Europe</i> (New York: G. P. Putnam, 1851), pp. 48-50. </p><p>78. Sir Francis Bond Head, <i>A Fortnight in Ireland,</i> 2nd ed. (London: John Murray, 1852), pp. 70, 108-114. </p><p>79. George Foxcroft Haskins, <i>Travels in England, France, Italy and Ireland</i> (Boston: P. Donahoe, 1856), pp. 265-266, 269. </p><p>80. Michael Cavanagh<i> </i>(ed.), <i>Memoirs of General Thomas Francis Meagher Comprising the Leading Events of His Career</i> (Worcester, Mass.: The Messenger Press, 1892), pp. 245-253.</p><p>81. C. O. Burge, <i>The Adventures of a Civil Engineer: Fifty Years on Five Continents</i> (London: Alston Rivers, 1909), pp. 8-13, 47-53.</p><p>82. J. M. Synge, <i>In Wicklow, West Kerry and Connemara</i> (Dublin: Maunsel, 1911), pp. 65-67, 157-165.</p><p>83. J. M. Synge, <i>The Aran Islands,</i> 4 vols. (Dublin: Maunsel, 1912). I, pp. 115-120.</p><p>84. Joseph Tatlow. <i>Fifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland and Ireland</i> (London: The Railway Gazette, 1920), pp. 110-111. </p><p>85. Padraic Colum, ‘Into Munster: On the Train’, <i>The Road Round Ireland</i> (New York: Macmillan, 1926), pp. 416-419. </p>