Victorian Railways and their Predecessors
General
The Growth of Victorian Railways
The Parliamentary Select Committee of 1844 on Railways
Victorian Railways: Suggested Readings
The Victorian Railroad Station — a New Building Type
Railway Technology and Equipment
Early British Locomotives and Rolling Stock
The Development of the Passenger Carriage
United States Railroad [Passenger] Car
British Railways compared to American Railroads
Wrong Turnings: Pneumatic Propulsion
Waterpoint near St. Pancras Station
Locomotives used in constructing railways
Constructing Tunnels
New Iron Railway Viaduct at Manchester
, 1844
Individual Railways
The Personalities of Victorian Railways
Railway lines in
Northern
,
South-Eastern
, and
South-Western
England
The Amalgamation of Victorian Railways; or What Followed the Railway Mania
Railways and British Society
The Social Effects of Victorian Railways
Danger inside the Train: Crime on Victorian Railways
Railways, Suburbs, and Public Health
The First Railway Fatality: William Huskisson
Railway Mania
— The Financing of Early Railways, Speculation, and Stock Swindling
George Hudson, The Railway King
Victorian Literature and the Railway
Railways and Victorian Literature — An Introduction
Railways in Victorian Fiction — The Effect upon the City
Railways in the Victorian Landscape
Culture Shock and Nostalgia: Dickens, Railways, and Coaching Days
Charles Dickens on
The Positive Effects of Victorian Railways
Charles Reade's History of Early Railways — Technological Innovation and Resistance to It
Trollope on the Railway Pundit
Tenway Junction: Trollope's Picture of the Victorian Railway as Complex Organism
"What Power; -- What Grandeur": Railway Speculation in Trollope's
The Way We Live Now
Thomas Carlyle on Railway Speculators: Hudson's Statue
Thomas Carlyle on Iron Rails and Brazen Serpents
Railways and Literature: The Railway Novel
Visual Arts
Drawing and Painting the Railways
Gustave Doré's
London Underground
Augustus Egg's
Travelling Companions
, 1862
Nieman Smith's
Higham Tunnel
, 1889
J. M. W. Turner,
Rain, Steam, and Speed
The Railway in Book and Magazine Illustration
Punch
on Railway Disasters
Perfectly Dweadful:
Punch
on Railroad Travel
Related Web Resources
National Railway Museum (York)
Stephenson Railway Museum
(Tyne and Wear Museums, UK)
Steam Museum, Swindon
Buckinghamshire Railway Centre
David Fry's
Danger Ahead! -- Historic Railway Accidents
(UK website)
Narrow Guage Railway Museum
(Wales)
Wylam Railway Museum
Last modified 27 September 2006