Since the invention of printing, no discovery has been made that has exercised so great a change and produced such remarkable and beneficial results to the whole human race as has the introduction of railways and that of steam carriages. By steam-locomotive power distance has been comparatively annihilated, and in conjunction with steam navigation, it has practically reduced the dimensions of the earth. — the Illustrated London News (October 1864)
General
- The Growth of Victorian Railways
- George Hudson of York, the Railway King
- UK Passenger Service in 1840
- The Parliamentary Select Committee of 1844 on Railways
- The Illustrated London News on “Railroad Monopoly”
- Victorian Railways: Suggested Readings
- The Victorian Railroad Station — a New Building Type
- “For Godsake be done with railways and shares!” — the Railway Panics of the 1840s
- Train wrecks and other disasters
Railway Technology and Equipment
- Early British Locomotives and Rolling Stock (sitemap)
- The Development of the Passenger Carriage (sitemap)
- How Queen Victoria traveled (sitemap)
- United States Railroad [Passenger] Car
- British Railways compared to American Railroads
- Wrong Turnings: Pneumatic Propulsion
- Changing between trains of railroads running on different track gauges
- Waterpoint near St. Pancras Station
- Locomotives used in constructing railways
- Constructing Tunnels
- New Iron Railway Viaduct at Manchester, 1844
- Safety on Late-Victorian Railways: Deaths and Injuries, 1884-91
Individual Railways
- The Personalities of Victorian Railways
- The Birmingham and Shrewsbury Railway Railway
- The Caledonian Railway
- The North-Eastern Railway
- The South-Eastern Railway
- The Great Western Railway
- The Caledonian Railway
- The Highland Railway, Aberfeldy Branch
- The London and South-Western Railway
- The London and North-Western Railway
- The Glasgow and South Western Railway
- Works of the Midland Railway at King's Cross
- The Higham-Strood tunnel on the North Kent Railway (1845)
- The Lincoln and Honington Railway
- Isle of Mann Railway
- Railways on the Isle of Wight (sitemap)
- South Wales Railway
- Welsh Railways (sitemap)
- Scottish Railways (sitemap)
- A trip across London in 1851 on the Camden-town Railway
- The Cork and Bandon Railway
- The Great Southern and Western Railway from Dublin to Cork
- Railway lines in Northern, South-Eastern, and South-Western England
- The Amalgamation of Victorian Railways; or What Followed the Railway Mania
- The Settle-Carlisle Railway: Derby Gothic
- Railways in British India (sitemap)
- Volks Electric Railway, Brighton (and the Brighton and Rottingdean Seashore Electric Tramroadline)
Railways and British Society
- The Social Effects of Victorian Railways
- Danger inside the Train: Crime on Victorian Railways
- Railway Insurance Advertisement (1851)
- Railways, Suburbs, and Public Health (needed)
- The First Railway Fatality: William Huskisson
- Punch on Railway safety
- 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
- "The Spiritual Railway" (1845) — A Poem using the Railway as Image
- “Ringing down the grooves of change:” Tennyson's mistaken railway analogy
- 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 (needed)
Visual Arts
- Drawing and Painting the Railways
- Architecture: The Victorian Railroad Station — a New Building Type
- Railways and Victorian jewelery — locomotive earrings!
Related Material
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 Gauge Railway Museum (Wales)
- Wylam Railway Museum
Last modified 7 February 2023