Chapter 27

Harrel, Sir David:448Harrison, William:114Hawkshaw, Sir John:396Henderson, M.P., Arthur:448Hereford, Ross and Gloucester Rly.:131Herepath, John:262-3,275,278Hermits and road repairs:13Highwaymen:95Historical Manuscripts Commission Reports:12,13n.Holinshed:31Homer, Henry:73Hops:25Horne, Benjamin:325,327Horseback, travelling on:16,36Horses: Number used for long waggons,35,37;restrictions in regard to,43-5;horses used for coaches,325;mortality on roads,327-8Horwich Mechanics' Institute:420-1Hours of labour, Railwaymen's:441-2Howells, Clarence S.:306Hull, Trade of:122,123,147Humpherus, Henry:37,63Hunter, The Rev. J.:123,124,148,149Hutchinson, William:198,199Hutton, William:54,90,176Hyde, W. H.:401Inglis, Sir James C.:421Insurance Bill, National:375Ireland: Control of roads,319;cheap conveyances,333Iron industry:4,7,9,26,117,134,161-2,178,188-91Jacob, Giles:21-3James I.:196James, William:234Jeans, J. S.:226,227,306,308Jersey, Lord:353Jessop, William:49,122,206Jusserand, J. J.:11,12,13Kellawe, Richard de:11Kendal as a packhorse station:36Kinderley, Nathaniel:119,154Knoop, Douglas:427Lancashire and Yorkshire Rly.:289,367,420-1,423,426-7Land-beacons:65Lead industry:6,9,26Leeds cloth market:145-7Lees, Sir Edward:333Lefevre, Shaw:456n.Leicester and Swannington Rly.:242-4Leigh, Charles:36Levy, Lewis:318Light railways:457,463,507Linen industry:115,134,138Litters, Use of:16Liverpool: Early waggons and coaches,36,54,56;isolation,135-7;improvement of Mersey,137;river communication with Manchester,139;effect on Liverpool trade of navigation facilities on the Weaver and the Douglas,139-41;Sankey Brook Canal,165-6;Bridgewater Canals,167-72;Leeds and Liverpool Canal,179;Liverpool and Manchester Rly.,230-41,494Loads, Restrictions on:43-5Locks on canals:302-4London and Birmingham Rly.:249-52,254,256,326,417London and North-Western Rly.:252,276,285,289,298-9,339,366,367,370,376-84,391,417-8,422-3,432,438,440,451,507London and South-Western Rly.:254,256,289,326,353,367,440London, Brighton and South Coast Rly.:254,256,275,289,367London Electric Railway Coy.:492,493,507London General Omnibus Coy.:485London Railways Athletic Association:431London School of Economics:425-6,506nLondon, Tilbury and Southend Rly.:496n.London traffic problem:490-3,497,499,507London Traffic, Royal Commission on:462,493London United Tramways:492Long service on railways:445Lord Mayor's coach, The:58Lowther,M.P., J. W.:459n.Lynn, Early importance of:24,26,119-20Macaulay, Lord:94,95Mackay, Dr Charles:93Mackworth, Sir Humphry:202Macpherson, David:29,30,32,42,72Manby, Charles:401Manchester: Coaches,53-4;early trading conditions,91;goods despatched viâ Bewdley and Bridgnorth,161,172;Mersey and Irwell Navigation,138-9,168-9,171;Worsley-Manchester Canal,168,171;cost of transport,169;privations due to defective transport,170;Liverpool and Manchester Railway,230-40Manorial courts:19Manor, Lord of, and transport:18Markets:20Marriott, H.:350,427Mathew, Francis:131-3,158McAdam, J. L.:50,99,101-7,192,318,325,480McAdam, Sir James:314,318Metcalf, John:99-100Midland Rly.:244,277,289,366,367,376,420,427,432,451Midland Railway Institute:420Monasteries:11,12,14,15Montagu of Beaulieu, Lord:503Moon, Sir Richard:339Morrison, James:260-1,265,271,509Moryson, Fynes:38,57Motor-vehicles: Competition of motor-omnibuses with electric tramways,466-7,497-8,with horse-omnibuses,485-7,with railways,496,498-503;comparison of motor-omnibus and railless electric traction,467-8;early days of steam-coaches,473-4;traction engines,475;hostile legislation,475-6;the Magna Charta of automobilism,476;Motor-Car Act of 1903,477;Heavy Motor-Car Order of 1904,477-8;pleasure cars in use,478;Royal Automobile Club,478-9;Automobile Association and Motor Union,479;road improvements,480-2;commercial motors,482-5;motor-cabs,485-7;motor industry,487-90;imports and exports,489-90;motors and railway strikes,503Municipal Tramways Association:469Nails, Cart-wheel:44,49-50Nash, T.:114Newcastle-on-Tyne: Coaches,53;salt trade,140Nicholson, J. Shield:2"Nimrod":107North British Rly.:289,367North-Eastern Rly.:287,289,290,367,371,424-5North Staffordshire Rly.:210-11,307Nottingham, Early importance of:121,122,137Oakley, Sir Henry:339,340,341Ogilby, John:33-4Omnibuses: Introduction of,63;motor-omnibuses: competition with tramways,466-7,497-8,with railways,496,499,501-3;succeed horse-omnibuses,485-7Outram, Benjamin:204Overton, George:225,240Owner's risk rates on railways:351-2Oxford: Coaches to,53;University and river transport,125Packhorse, Transport by:15,16,32,36,90,91,127,138,139,140,146,161Paley, W. P.:224n.Palmer, John:55Parnell, Sir Henry:326Passengers: In packhorse panniers,16;by long waggon,38,42;stage-coach,38-42;canals,172,265;rail,498-9Patten, Thomas:138Paving, Early Britons and:6Pearson, Charles:5,8,108,111Pedlars:17,21,93Peel, Sir Frederick:353Peel, Sir Robert:259,262,263,271,281Pension funds, Railway:438Permanent Way Institution:428Perry, G.:117Philippe, William:13Phillipps, W. D.:210-11Phillips, J.:183,184,193,214Pilgrims:16Plymley, Joseph:44,114,117,152,153,164,220,312Polyhistor, T. S.:202Porter, G. R.:74,106,255-6,266-7Porter, Robert P.:458,464n.Posting:57Post Office and Railways:264-5Potter, F.:351-2,428Pottery industry:159-61,175,176,307Powell, E. T.:402Preferential railway rates:352Priestley, Joseph:120Private Owners of Railway Rolling Stock, Association of:361n.Prussian State Railways:255,291,292,357,359,365Public Service Commission of New York City:493Railless electric traction:467-70,507Railway agreements and amalgamations:278,283-91,433,508-11Railway and Canal Commission:278n.,355,508Railway Benevolent Institution:439Railway Classification:337-40,345-6Railway Clearing House:284,337,338,359Railway Club, The:430Railway directors, Functions of:378Railway electrification:492,494-5,507Railway Guards' Universal Friendly Society:438Railway mania, 1845-6:271-5Railway nationalisation:279-81,511-2Railway rates: Early proposals for revision,260-1,279-80;canals and railway rates,310;basis on which early rates fixed,335-7;early classification,337-40;revision of rates by Board of Trade commissioners,338-40;Confirmation Acts of 1891-2,340-1;Act of 1894,342;restrictions on companies,342-3;equal mileage rates,344;"cost of service,"344-5;"what the traffic will bear,"345,347;present classification,345-6;sea competition,347-8;"anomalies,"348;sliding scale principle,349;American railway rates,349-50,357;exceptional rates,350-1;owner's risk rates,351-2;preferential rates,353-4;agricultural interests,353-4,355;machinery for dealing with traders' grievances,355-6;comparisons with Continental rates,357-8;Government promise of legislation in respect to increases,448,511;survival of fittest,494-5;competition of omnibuses and electric tramways,496;effect on suburban traffic,496-7;competition of private motors,498;passenger journeys,498-9;suburban goods transport,499-500;roadv.rail,501-3;railway system complete,506;needs of to-day,507;railway agreements,508-9;Departmental Committee,509-10;railway nationalisation,511-12Railway Savings Banks:432Railway shareholders:263-4,377Railway Signalling, Schools of:421-3Railway strikes:447,450,503,512Railway system: Length of line,359;single track,359;length of track,360;rolling stock,360;traffic statistics,361;railway capital,361;gross receipts and expenditure,361;dividends,362-3;share-holders and their holdings,363-4;taxation,364-75Railway Temperance Unions:432Railway warehouses:390-4Railways: Rise of the coal trade,195-7;wooden rails adopted at collieries,198-200;introduction of cast-iron wheels,201;double rails,203;iron "plates,"203;cast-iron rails,203;flanged rails,205;edge rails,206;wrought-iron rails,206;significance of expression "iron" railway,207;inclined planes and gravity,208;stationary engines,208;length and character of colliery lines,209;railways adopted by canal companies,210-13;position in South Wales,213-4;canal interests overcome the first proposed competing railway,214-9;railways supplement canals,219-21;their superiority recognised,220-1;railways before 1825,222;Surrey Iron Rail-way,223-5;Stockton and Darlington,225-8;advocates of general railways,229-30;Liverpool and Manchester Railway,230-40;opposition of canal companies,234-8;Leicester and Swannington Railway,242-4;hostility to railways,245-9;London and Birmingham Railway,249-52;landowners and railways,250-1,252-5;cost of Parliamentary proceedings,255-7;canal precedents inspire State policy,258;competition between carriers,359-60;Morrison's proposal,260-1;Duke of Wellington's motion,262-3;early taxation,263-4;attitude of Post Office,264-5;competition between companies,265;lack of national policy,266-8;proposals by Mr Gladstone's Committee,269;special department of Board of Trade created,269;set aside,270;"railway mania" of 1845-6,271-5;Private Bill Committees and the special department,276;Board of Railway Commissioners,277;Committee of 1844,279-81;

Harrel, Sir David:448

Harrison, William:114

Hawkshaw, Sir John:396

Henderson, M.P., Arthur:448

Hereford, Ross and Gloucester Rly.:131

Herepath, John:262-3,275,278

Hermits and road repairs:13

Highwaymen:95

Historical Manuscripts Commission Reports:12,13n.

Holinshed:31

Homer, Henry:73

Hops:25

Horne, Benjamin:325,327

Horseback, travelling on:16,36

Horses: Number used for long waggons,35,37;

restrictions in regard to,43-5;

horses used for coaches,325;

mortality on roads,327-8

Horwich Mechanics' Institute:420-1

Hours of labour, Railwaymen's:441-2

Howells, Clarence S.:306

Hull, Trade of:122,123,147

Humpherus, Henry:37,63

Hunter, The Rev. J.:123,124,148,149

Hutchinson, William:198,199

Hutton, William:54,90,176

Hyde, W. H.:401

Inglis, Sir James C.:421

Insurance Bill, National:375

Ireland: Control of roads,319;

cheap conveyances,333

Iron industry:4,7,9,26,117,134,161-2,178,188-91

Jacob, Giles:21-3

James I.:196

James, William:234

Jeans, J. S.:226,227,306,308

Jersey, Lord:353

Jessop, William:49,122,206

Jusserand, J. J.:11,12,13

Kellawe, Richard de:11

Kendal as a packhorse station:36

Kinderley, Nathaniel:119,154

Knoop, Douglas:427

Lancashire and Yorkshire Rly.:289,367,420-1,423,426-7

Land-beacons:65

Lead industry:6,9,26

Leeds cloth market:145-7

Lees, Sir Edward:333

Lefevre, Shaw:456n.

Leicester and Swannington Rly.:242-4

Leigh, Charles:36

Levy, Lewis:318

Light railways:457,463,507

Linen industry:115,134,138

Litters, Use of:16

Liverpool: Early waggons and coaches,36,54,56;

isolation,135-7;

improvement of Mersey,137;

river communication with Manchester,139;

effect on Liverpool trade of navigation facilities on the Weaver and the Douglas,139-41;

Sankey Brook Canal,165-6;

Bridgewater Canals,167-72;

Leeds and Liverpool Canal,179;

Liverpool and Manchester Rly.,230-41,494

Loads, Restrictions on:43-5

Locks on canals:302-4

London and Birmingham Rly.:249-52,254,256,326,417

London and North-Western Rly.:252,276,285,289,298-9,339,366,367,370,376-84,391,417-8,422-3,432,438,440,451,507

London and South-Western Rly.:254,256,289,326,353,367,440

London, Brighton and South Coast Rly.:254,256,275,289,367

London Electric Railway Coy.:492,493,507

London General Omnibus Coy.:485

London Railways Athletic Association:431

London School of Economics:425-6,506n

London, Tilbury and Southend Rly.:496n.

London traffic problem:490-3,497,499,507

London Traffic, Royal Commission on:462,493

London United Tramways:492

Long service on railways:445

Lord Mayor's coach, The:58

Lowther,M.P., J. W.:459n.

Lynn, Early importance of:24,26,119-20

Macaulay, Lord:94,95

Mackay, Dr Charles:93

Mackworth, Sir Humphry:202

Macpherson, David:29,30,32,42,72

Manby, Charles:401

Manchester: Coaches,53-4;

early trading conditions,91;

goods despatched viâ Bewdley and Bridgnorth,161,172;

Mersey and Irwell Navigation,138-9,168-9,171;

Worsley-Manchester Canal,168,171;

cost of transport,169;

privations due to defective transport,170;

Liverpool and Manchester Railway,230-40

Manorial courts:19

Manor, Lord of, and transport:18

Markets:20

Marriott, H.:350,427

Mathew, Francis:131-3,158

McAdam, J. L.:50,99,101-7,192,318,325,480

McAdam, Sir James:314,318

Metcalf, John:99-100

Midland Rly.:244,277,289,366,367,376,420,427,432,451

Midland Railway Institute:420

Monasteries:11,12,14,15

Montagu of Beaulieu, Lord:503

Moon, Sir Richard:339

Morrison, James:260-1,265,271,509

Moryson, Fynes:38,57

Motor-vehicles: Competition of motor-omnibuses with electric tramways,466-7,497-8,

with horse-omnibuses,485-7,

with railways,496,498-503;

comparison of motor-omnibus and railless electric traction,467-8;

early days of steam-coaches,473-4;

traction engines,475;

hostile legislation,475-6;

the Magna Charta of automobilism,476;

Motor-Car Act of 1903,477;

Heavy Motor-Car Order of 1904,477-8;

pleasure cars in use,478;

Royal Automobile Club,478-9;

Automobile Association and Motor Union,479;

road improvements,480-2;

commercial motors,482-5;

motor-cabs,485-7;

motor industry,487-90;

imports and exports,489-90;

motors and railway strikes,503

Municipal Tramways Association:469

Nails, Cart-wheel:44,49-50

Nash, T.:114

Newcastle-on-Tyne: Coaches,53;

salt trade,140

Nicholson, J. Shield:2

"Nimrod":107

North British Rly.:289,367

North-Eastern Rly.:287,289,290,367,371,424-5

North Staffordshire Rly.:210-11,307

Nottingham, Early importance of:121,122,137

Oakley, Sir Henry:339,340,341

Ogilby, John:33-4

Omnibuses: Introduction of,63;

motor-omnibuses: competition with tramways,466-7,497-8,

with railways,496,499,501-3;

succeed horse-omnibuses,485-7

Outram, Benjamin:204

Overton, George:225,240

Owner's risk rates on railways:351-2

Oxford: Coaches to,53;

University and river transport,125

Packhorse, Transport by:15,16,32,36,90,91,127,138,139,140,146,161

Paley, W. P.:224n.

Palmer, John:55

Parnell, Sir Henry:326

Passengers: In packhorse panniers,16;

by long waggon,38,42;

stage-coach,38-42;

canals,172,265;

rail,498-9

Patten, Thomas:138

Paving, Early Britons and:6

Pearson, Charles:5,8,108,111

Pedlars:17,21,93

Peel, Sir Frederick:353

Peel, Sir Robert:259,262,263,271,281

Pension funds, Railway:438

Permanent Way Institution:428

Perry, G.:117

Philippe, William:13

Phillipps, W. D.:210-11

Phillips, J.:183,184,193,214

Pilgrims:16

Plymley, Joseph:44,114,117,152,153,164,220,312

Polyhistor, T. S.:202

Porter, G. R.:74,106,255-6,266-7

Porter, Robert P.:458,464n.

Posting:57

Post Office and Railways:264-5

Potter, F.:351-2,428

Pottery industry:159-61,175,176,307

Powell, E. T.:402

Preferential railway rates:352

Priestley, Joseph:120

Private Owners of Railway Rolling Stock, Association of:361n.

Prussian State Railways:255,291,292,357,359,365

Public Service Commission of New York City:493

Railless electric traction:467-70,507

Railway agreements and amalgamations:278,283-91,433,508-11

Railway and Canal Commission:278n.,355,508

Railway Benevolent Institution:439

Railway Classification:337-40,345-6

Railway Clearing House:284,337,338,359

Railway Club, The:430

Railway directors, Functions of:378

Railway electrification:492,494-5,507

Railway Guards' Universal Friendly Society:438

Railway mania, 1845-6:271-5

Railway nationalisation:279-81,511-2

Railway rates: Early proposals for revision,260-1,279-80;

canals and railway rates,310;

basis on which early rates fixed,335-7;

early classification,337-40;

revision of rates by Board of Trade commissioners,338-40;

Confirmation Acts of 1891-2,340-1;

Act of 1894,342;

restrictions on companies,342-3;

equal mileage rates,344;

"cost of service,"344-5;

"what the traffic will bear,"345,347;

present classification,345-6;

sea competition,347-8;

"anomalies,"348;

sliding scale principle,349;

American railway rates,349-50,357;

exceptional rates,350-1;

owner's risk rates,351-2;

preferential rates,353-4;

agricultural interests,353-4,355;

machinery for dealing with traders' grievances,355-6;

comparisons with Continental rates,357-8;

Government promise of legislation in respect to increases,448,511;

survival of fittest,494-5;

competition of omnibuses and electric tramways,496;

effect on suburban traffic,496-7;

competition of private motors,498;

passenger journeys,498-9;

suburban goods transport,499-500;

roadv.rail,501-3;

railway system complete,506;

needs of to-day,507;

railway agreements,508-9;

Departmental Committee,509-10;

railway nationalisation,511-12

Railway Savings Banks:432

Railway shareholders:263-4,377

Railway Signalling, Schools of:421-3

Railway strikes:447,450,503,512

Railway system: Length of line,359;

single track,359;

length of track,360;

rolling stock,360;

traffic statistics,361;

railway capital,361;

gross receipts and expenditure,361;

dividends,362-3;

share-holders and their holdings,363-4;

taxation,364-75

Railway Temperance Unions:432

Railway warehouses:390-4

Railways: Rise of the coal trade,195-7;

wooden rails adopted at collieries,198-200;

introduction of cast-iron wheels,201;

double rails,203;

iron "plates,"203;

cast-iron rails,203;

flanged rails,205;

edge rails,206;

wrought-iron rails,206;

significance of expression "iron" railway,207;

inclined planes and gravity,208;

stationary engines,208;

length and character of colliery lines,209;

railways adopted by canal companies,210-13;

position in South Wales,213-4;

canal interests overcome the first proposed competing railway,214-9;

railways supplement canals,219-21;

their superiority recognised,220-1;

railways before 1825,222;

Surrey Iron Rail-way,223-5;

Stockton and Darlington,225-8;

advocates of general railways,229-30;

Liverpool and Manchester Railway,230-40;

opposition of canal companies,234-8;

Leicester and Swannington Railway,242-4;

hostility to railways,245-9;

London and Birmingham Railway,249-52;

landowners and railways,250-1,252-5;

cost of Parliamentary proceedings,255-7;

canal precedents inspire State policy,258;

competition between carriers,359-60;

Morrison's proposal,260-1;

Duke of Wellington's motion,262-3;

early taxation,263-4;

attitude of Post Office,264-5;

competition between companies,265;

lack of national policy,266-8;

proposals by Mr Gladstone's Committee,269;

special department of Board of Trade created,269;

set aside,270;

"railway mania" of 1845-6,271-5;

Private Bill Committees and the special department,276;

Board of Railway Commissioners,277;

Committee of 1844,279-81;


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