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CHAPTER FIVE: The Bridges

Chapter 5 Footnotes
Page
 Topic Source
115
As full of moods as a mountain:
C Hamilton Ellis, The North British Railway (1955) p 132
118
The sins of the people:
Francis, op.cit. vol 2 p 59
119
170 dead:
Daily Mail, 7 October 1999
119
Sexuality out of control:
Schivelbusch op.cit. p 78
120
Lock, block and brake:
Rolt op.cit. p 31-32
120
Swift and awful majesty:
Rolt op.cit. p 37
121
Some terror from his imagination:
Ackroyd op. cit p 964
121
Passenger interest:
The Times, 13 September 1873
122
An Englishman loves speed:
New York Times, 28 September 1873
122
Fairground attraction:
Faith op. cit. p 252
122
5.284 dead in a year:
Andrew Dow, Dow’s Dictionary of Railway Quotations (2006) p 203
122
Thirteen died:
There are slightly different versions of this figure.
124
Feudal power:
Frank McKenna, The Railway Workers, p 26
124
Organization men:
ibid p 31
125
Jailed for quitting:
ibid p 155
126
Number taker Casey:
Philip S Bagwell, The Railway Clearing House in the British Economy 1842-1922  (1968) p 175
126
24 hours a day:
Philip Unwin,  Travelling by Train in the Edwardian Age  (1979)  p. 67
127
An angry red in the distance:
ibid p 74
127
Carelessness in the signalmen:
ibid p 75-76
128
The stratified taverns...the private pews:
See Paul Langford, Englishness Identified: Manners and Character 1650-1850 (2000) p 104
128
A special military class:
Faith, op. cit, p 235
128
Dissolution of reality:
Schivelbusch, op.cit, p 64
128
Empedocles on Etna:
Judith Flanders, Consuming Passions (2006) p 192
128
As long as they did not interrupt:
Michael Curtin, Propriety and Position (1987) p 133
128-9
Permission to smoke:
Joan Wildeblood and Peter Brimson, The Polite World (1965) p 242
129
Fresh air letters:
Daily Mail, 17 and 18 January 1906
130
The boredom of my isolation cell:
Quoted by Schivelbusch op.cit. p 74
130
Garlic sausage and wet straw:
ibid p 77
131
Train times to Exeter:
Leslie S Klinger ed., The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes (2006) p 86
132
So opposed to the social habits of the English:
Bagwell op. cit. p 193
133
The baseness of the French:
Charles Dickens, Christmas Stories: Mugby Junction, Chapter III
133
Secret travelling lavatories:
Unwin, op. cit, p 51
135
Oh my! Think I’ve got to die!:
The Times, 15 November 1864
136
Light in every carriage rejected:
CE Lee, op. cit. p 34
136
27,000 footwarmers:
Simmons and Biddle, op.cit. p 535
136
The Lynton & Barnstaple:
GA Brown, JDCA Prideaux and HG Radcliffe The Lynton & Barnstaple Railway (1964) p 41
136-7
At first I loved thee – thou wast warm:
Mr Punch’s Railway Book (1906) p 48
137
I had a good deal of rest:
Victoria RI, More Leaves from The Journal of A Life in the Highlands (1884) p 164
137
I had been much annoyed:
Ibid p 72
138
They sat back and
dozed off:
Jack Simmons, Parish and Empire (1952) p 171
139
120,000 displaced:  
Simmons, The Railway in Town and Country p 34
140
The contempt of decent travellers:  
Pimlott op. cit. p 163-64

 

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