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