A World History of Railway Cultures, 1830-1930 | Volume I | Matthew Es

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A World History of Railway Cultures, 1830-1930

ABSTRACT

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 Gathered together are over 200 rare out-of-print published and unpublished materials from archival and digital repositories throughout the world.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.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter |39 pages

England as Epicenter of Railway Cultures and the Pax Britannica

part 1|28 pages

The Rocket, Rainhill Trials, and Early Promotion of Railways

chapter 1|3 pages

Early Illustrations of the Rocket and Liverpool and Manchester Trains

chapter 2|14 pages

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 Mechanics’ Magazine 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

chapter 3|4 pages

Railways Compared with Canals & Common Roads, and their uses and Advantages Explained (Edinburgh: Constable, 1825), pp. 48–54

chapter 4|5 pages

Nineteenth-Century Engravings, Lithographs, and Prints

part 2|41 pages

Engineering Enemies

chapter 5|16 pages

A Letter on the Subject of the Projected Rail Road between Liverpool and Manchester. Second Ed. (London: W. Wales, 1824), pp. 3–32

chapter 6|6 pages

‘Second Prospectus of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway Company’, Liverpool Mercury XV, December 30, 1825, 203

chapter 7|8 pages

Middlemarch. New Edition. (Edinburgh and London: W. Blackwood, 1874), pp. 407–414

chapter 8|2 pages

The Creevy Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the Late Thomas Creevy. Ed. Sir Herbert Maxwell. (New York: E. P. Dutton, 1904), pp. 429–431, 545–546

chapter 9|7 pages

‘On the Projected Kendel and Windermere Railway’, 147, ‘Letters on the Kendal and Windermere Railway, 301–311’, from Vol. 8 of The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth. Ed. William Angus Knight. (Edinburgh: W. Paterson, 1888–1889), pp. 147, 301–311

part 3|55 pages

Cultures of Railway Construction

chapter 10|9 pages

A History of the English Railway: Its Social Relations and Revelations. 2 Vols. (London: Longman, Brown, Green, & Longmans, 1851). Vol. 2, Chapter 3 pp. 67–91

chapter 11|6 pages

Sybil or the Two Nations (London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1913), pp. 433–441

chapter 12|16 pages

‘The Brawl Viaduct’, ‘English and Irish’, and ‘The Reward of Merit’, in The Great Highway: A Story of the World’s Struggles. Third Ed. (London: G. Routledge & Co., 1854), pp. 119–146

chapter 13|19 pages

Children of the Dead End: The Autobiography of a Navvy (London: H. Jenkins, 1914), pp. 129–145, 209–212, 225–229, 254–262

chapter 14|3 pages

‘A Platelayer’s Story’ and ‘The Navvies’ Sunday’ and from Gleanings from a Navvy’s Scrapbook. Second Ed. (Derry, North Ireland: Derry Journal, 1911), pp. 52–53, 55

part 4|44 pages

Novel Impressions

chapter 15|5 pages

Records of a Girlhood. Second Ed. (New York: H. Holt, 1884), pp. 278–284

chapter 16|2 pages

‘Railroad Travelling’, Herapath’s Railway Journal (The Railway Magazine) 1 (Mar.–Dec. 1836), 110–112

chapter 17|1 pages

Memoirs (Second Part): A Journal of the Reign of Queen Victoria from 1837 to 1852. 3 vols. Ed. Henry Reeve. (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1885), I, p. 11

chapter 18|3 pages

‘Two Days in Wicklow’, in The Paris Sketch Book of Mr. M.A. Titmarsh, The Irish Sketch Book, & Notes of a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo (New York: Caxton, 1840), pp. 491–493

chapter 19|5 pages

‘Physiology of the London Idler’, Punch 3 (1842), p. 102, ‘Railway Parsimony’, Punch 13 (1847), 150, ‘Natural Phenomenon’, Punch 14 (1848), 87, and ‘Railway Charges’, Punch 14 (1848), 218

chapter 20|3 pages

The Struggles and Adventures of Christopher Tadpole at Home and Abroad (London: Willoughby, 1847), pp. 481–483

chapter 21|3 pages

‘Paul’s Second Deprivation’, in Dombey and Son. 2 vols. (New York: Harper & Bros, 1852), I: 70–72

chapter 22|11 pages

‘Mugby Junction’, in Stories from the Christmas Numbers of “Household Words” and “All Year Round.” (New York: Macmillan and Co., 1896), pp. 464–465, 500–512

chapter 23|1 pages

Our Mutual Friend (New York: Macmillan, 1907), p. 720

chapter 24|8 pages

‘A Flight’, in Reprinted Pieces (New York: University Society, 1908), pp. 151–161

part 5|42 pages

Timetables, Calendars, and Stations

chapter 25|5 pages

‘Considerations, Moral, Commercial, Economical’, An Account of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway (Liverpool: Wales and Baines, 1830), pp. 85–94

chapter 26|3 pages

‘Easter Travelling’, Illustrated London News, April 29, 1905, 626

chapter 27|1 pages

‘The Railway Station’, (Paddington Station) (1862)

chapter 28|8 pages

Adventures of the Ojibbeway and Ioway Indians in England, France, and Belgium. Third Ed. (London: N.P., 1852), pp. 15, 17, 20–26, 34–35, 123–127, 129, 145–146

chapter 29|4 pages

John Overton Choules, Young Americans Abroad (Boston: Gould and Lincoln, 1853), pp. 48–52, 92–95

chapter 30|3 pages

‘On the Rail’, Reginald Lyle (New York: Burgess & Day, 1854), pp. 103–106

chapter 31|4 pages

‘Mischances’, North and South (London: Oxford University Press, 1908), pp. 312–317

chapter 32|7 pages

‘The Art of Sucking Eggs’, in Temple Bar 1 (1861), 558–564

chapter 33|1 pages

Miss. Muloch (Dinah Maria Mulock Craik), A Life for a Life: A Novel (New York: Carleton, 1864), pp. 196–197

chapter 34|1 pages

Veronica, ‘The Railway Waiting Room’, in All the Year Round, New Series V.2 (September 25, 1869), p. 386

chapter 35|3 pages

‘The Prehistoric Railway Station’, in Tremendous Truffles (New York: Dodd, Mead, 1909), pp. 260–267

part 6|30 pages

Subterranean Railways and the Underground

chapter 36|5 pages

‘The Metropolitan Subterranean Railway’, The Times (London), November 30, 1861, p. 5

chapter 37|1 pages

The Vivian Romance (New York: Harper, 1870), pp. 31–32

chapter 38|5 pages

‘On the Track’, from Henry Dunbar: The Story of an Outcast, Three Vols. (London: J. Maxwell, 1866), III, pp. 187–201

chapter 39|4 pages

The Lovels of Arden (Leipzig: B. Tauchnitz, 1871), pp. 92–97

chapter 40|1 pages

The Workmen’s Train, Ludgate Hill, and Over the City by Railway. Illustrations Originally Printed in Doré and Blanchard Jerrold, London: A Pilgrimage. (London: Grant, 1872)

chapter 41|9 pages

‘A Railway Journey’, Blackwood’s Magazine 121 (April 1877), pp. 497–503

chapter 42|1 pages

Cover Illustration of H. L. Williams’s Adaptation of Dion Boucicault’s Play After Dark (1880s), Depicting Railway Rescue Scene in the London Underground/Subterranean Railway

chapter 43|2 pages

Scene II from After Dark: A Drama of London Life in 1868, in Four Acts. (New York: Dewitt, N.D.) pp. 36–37

part 7|44 pages

Netherworlds and Nostalgia

chapter 44|6 pages

‘10 Saturnalia!’, in The Nether World (London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1890), pp. 105–113

chapter 45|1 pages

Through Ten English Counties (London: Richard Bentley & Son, 1894), pp. 392–393

chapter 46|2 pages

Jude the Obscure (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1896), pp. 341–343

chapter 47|7 pages

‘The Cuckoo Valley Railway’ and ‘Punch’s Understudy’, in The Delectable Duchy: Stories, Studies, and Sketches (New York: C. Scribners’ Sons, 1898), pp. 61–69, 107–115

chapter 48|6 pages

The Brookes of Bridlemere (London: Ward, Lock, 1899), pp. 156–161, 200–205

chapter 49|6 pages

When the Sleeper Wakes (New York: Harper & Bros., 1899), pp. 201–211

chapter 50|2 pages

‘London’, English Hours (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1905), pp. 36–39

chapter 51|2 pages

‘Isle of Wight’, Portraits of Places (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1911), pp. 292–294

chapter 52|5 pages

‘Saviours of the Train’, The Railway Children (London and New York: Macmillan, 1906), pp. 127–137

chapter 53|5 pages

Howards End (New York: G. P. Putnam Sons, 1911), pp. 12–19

part 8|41 pages

The Railway Accident, Public Health, and Military Deployment

chapter 54|1 pages

‘Wolverhampton’, The Spectator, February 24, 1838, pp. 176–177

chapter 55|2 pages

‘In the Temple Gardens’, Temple Bar 2 (July, 1861), pp. 286–287

chapter 56|1 pages

‘Armagh’, The Spectator, June 15, 1889, 813

chapter 57|7 pages

‘The Influence of Railway Travelling on Public Health’, The Lancet, 1862, pp. 15–17

chapter 58|10 pages

‘Railway Accidents’, in Medical Evidence in Railway Accidents (London: Longmans & Co. 1868), pp. 27–42

chapter 59|5 pages

‘Navvies for the Crimea’ and ‘The Balaclava Railway Corps’, Illustrated London News, 13 January 1855, 28–29, 304

chapter 60|3 pages

‘The Invasion of the Free State’, The Spectator, March 17, 1900, 229

chapter 61|10 pages

Boer War: Diary of Eyre Lloyd, 2nd Coldstream Guards, Assistant Staff Officer, Colonel Benson’s Column, Killed at Brakenlaagte, 30th October 1901 (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

part 9|41 pages

The Great War and Interwar Railway Cultures

chapter 62|7 pages

‘Railways and the War’, in The Times History of the War 6 (1915), pp. 161, 167, 169–174

chapter 63|8 pages

‘Employment of Women and Girls’, in British Railways and the Great War: Organisation, Efforts, Difficulties and Achievements, 2 vols. (London: Selwyn and Blount, 1921), pp. 475–482

chapter 64|1 pages

‘Midnight on the Great Western’, in The Poetical Works of Thomas Hardy, 2 vols. (London: Macmillan, 1919), I, p. 483

chapter 65|6 pages

‘Making up Lost Time’, The Railway Magazine 50 (Jan.–June 1922), pp. 157–160

chapter 66|11 pages

‘Railway Art and Literature in 1922’, The Railway Magazine 51 (July–Dec. 1922), pp. 59–66

chapter 67|2 pages

‘Flying Scotsman’s First Run’, Times (London), 2 May 1928, p. 13

chapter 68|4 pages

‘Cargoes through the Clouds’, Harper’s 140, 1919–1920, pp. 189–191

part 10|63 pages

Railway Cultures of Scotland and Ireland

chapter 69|1 pages

Anon. (David Croal), Early Recollections of a Journalist, 1832–1859 (Edinburgh: Andrew Eliot, 1898), pp. 8–10

chapter 70|2 pages

Two Months in the Highlands, Orcadia, and Skye (London: Longmans, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1860), pp. 4–6

chapter 71|9 pages

Norman Sinclair 3 vols. (Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1861), I, pp. 250–251, 271–274, II, pp. 102–114

chapter 72|4 pages

In the Hebrides (London: Chatto & Windus, 1883), pp. 201–204, 420–422

chapter 73|2 pages

Memories (Edinburgh: W. Blackwood, 1904), pp. 440–441

chapter 74|8 pages

‘The Dublin and Kingstown Railway’, Dublin Penny Journal 3, 113, 30 August 1834, pp. 65–68

chapter 75|1 pages

A Summer’s Jaunt Across the Water (Philadelphia: J. W. Moore, 1846), pp. 46–47

chapter 76|3 pages

Masters and Workmen: A Tale Illustrative of the Social and Moral Condition of the People, 3 vols. (London: Newby, 1851), I, pp. 7–17

chapter 77|2 pages

My First Visit to Europe (New York: G. P. Putnam, 1851), pp. 48–50

chapter 78|4 pages

A Fortnight in Ireland, 2nd ed. (London: John Murray, 1852), pp. 70, 108–114

chapter 79|2 pages

Travels in England, France, Italy and Ireland (Boston: P. Donahoe, 1856), pp. 265–266, 269

chapter 80|7 pages

Michael Cavanagh (ed.), Memoirs of General Thomas Francis Meagher Comprising the Leading Events of his Career (Worcester, Mass.: The Messenger Press, 1892), pp. 245–253

chapter 81|5 pages

The Adventures of a Civil Engineer: Fifty Years on Five Continents (London: Alston Rivers, 1909), pp. 8–13, 47–53

chapter 82|4 pages

In Wicklow, West Kerry and Connemara (Dublin: Maunsel, 1911), pp. 65–67, 157–165

chapter 83|3 pages

The Aran Islands, 4 vols. (Dublin: Maunsel, 1912). I, pp. 115–120

chapter 84|2 pages

Fifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland and Ireland (London: The Railway Gazette, 1920), pp. 110–111

chapter 85|2 pages

‘Into Munster: On the Train’, The Road Round Ireland (New York: Macmillan, 1926), pp. 416–419