Edinburgh41,44Egypt and the Nile170Elliott, Thomas120Employers’ Liability Act, 188088Engineer, Midland Railway32
Family album20Fares, first-class, reduction of37Farmer, Ned22Fashions, Victorian days18Father, my4Fay, Sir Sam191Fenton, Sir Myles76Findlay, Sir George131,136,141“First-footin’”40First public speech46Fitzgibbon, G180Forbes, Sir William191Foster, the Right Hon. Sir George201Franks, Temple193Friends in Glasgow78Funeral customs20
Galloway, Andrew86Galway, “City of the Tribes”129Galway, Trans-Atlantic Steamship Service129Garnett, Tom201Garrotters20Gauge of railways51General managers’ conference191General managers in Ireland90General Manager’s Office, Derby57General Railway Acts of Parliament49Gibb, Sir George158Gill, W R113,114Gillies, F H69Glasgow & South-Western Railway37Glasgow & South-Western Railway, my removal to the47,57Glasgow Bailie, the61,79Glasgow, Bridge Street Station47,66Glasgow, Buchanan Street Station40Glasgow flats41Glasgow landlady, our41Glasgow, S. Enoch Station58,66Golf, its introduction in Ireland110Gooday, J F S192Goods-train-delays Clerk22Goulding, Right Hon. Sir William179,180,190Grand Canal, arbitration151Granet, Sir Guy57,193Great Eastern Railway35,Great Eastern steamer7Great Northern Railway to King’s Cross37Great Southern & Western Railway134,156Great Western cooking depôts44Greene, George William119Gresham, Thomas Michael195Grierson, James76,83,103Guinness & Co., astoutresistance139“Gumpots”24Gweedore Hotel1
Haggard, Sir Rider201Harcourt, Viscount198Harding, E J, C.M.G202Harrison, Sir Frederick77Health, delicate5,17,21,28,91,181Healy, T M, K.C.180Hogmanhay40Holland, Cologne and the Rhine151Holliday, William157Hopwood, Sir Francis (Lord Southborough)139Hornsby, John P120Horsemanship5,102Hospitality, Ballinasloe126Hours of work of railway men107,142,143Hudson, George, the “Railway King”12Hunt, Henry217
Imperial Development Board213Income Tax, 3d in the £45Ingram, Joseph179Interference of outsiders95Interlocking points and signals106International Railway Congress144,150,166Inverclyde, Lord (Mr John Burns)73,133Ireland, general managers in90Ireland, holiday66Irish Board of Works148,174,180,216Irish Department of Agriculture154Irish Railway Clearing House15,97,148Irish railways abused178Irish railways, progress of169,190Isle of Man, a steamboat service112
Jekyll, Sir Herbert, K.C.M.G.183Johnstone, Mr. Glasgow & South-Western Railway56Jubilee, the railway62Junior clerk, salary21
Kaiser, the177Kedleston Inn31Kelly, R W85,94Kempt, Irvine65Kilkelly, John177King Edward, visit to Ireland173Kinnegar, the first golf links in Ireland110Knox, Vesey, K.C.155,180
Ladies’ manners, Victorian days18Lands Clauses Act, 184551Langerman, Sir Jan201Letterkenny to Burtonport Railway152,215Light Railway Acts, Ireland, 1860-1883108Light Railway, definition of109Light Railways Act, 1896150Light railways in Connemara, Kerry, Mayo and Donegal108Light railways in Great Britain109,167Light Railways (Ireland) Act, 1889107Limerick, the joybells161“Little Jim”23Littler, Sir Ralph135,136,155,157,159Liverpool and Manchester Railway, the13,50,195Londonderry and Lough Swilly Railway Company152,215Long Jack26Lorimer, Sir William201
McCorquodale & Co42McDermott, Edward141McDermott, F141MacLaren, James65Mann, Sir Daniel206Martin, Robert, of Ross128Martin, Sir Theodore161,162Mathieson, John64Maximum rates and charges104,106Maypole, the31Meerschaum pipe, colouring of20,35, 102Midland and Glasgow and South-Western Alliance58Midland Great Western Railway and “Balfour Lines”108Midland Great Western Railway Benefit Society130Midland Great Western Railway, extent of, &c.113,116Midland Railway, comparison with year 185111Midland Railway, present general manager4,57Midland Railway, progress of36Midland Railway, proposed amalgamation with L & NW12Miller, R G92Mills, A E123Mills, W F121,123Mills, W H169Ministry of Transport179,187Money grants for light railways, Ireland107Monte Carlo177Montreal Herald, the67Moore, Charles A99Morris, Sir George128,163Morrison, Robert120“My old Wife’s a good old cratur”23Mylchreest, Joseph, the “Diamond King”112
National Insurance Act131New Year’s Day44Newcastle golf links, County Down111Newcomen Junction battle120North British Railway75North West Donegal1,218Notice of Accidents Act, 1894143Nugent, the Hon Richard153,175,186,199Nugent, Sir Walter, Bart198
Oakley, Sir Henry76,77,193O’Connor, Sir Nicholas163Office hours, 186822Office life, beginning of21O’Neill, Michael130Owens, Sir Charles198
Parcel post receipts, Irish railways137Paris80,166,198Parker, William22,23Parliament yields to popular clamour105Parliamentary Committee, evidence before135,156Pay-day in office26Pease, Edward62Peel, Isle of Man112Pember, Mr. K.C.135,155,159Penmanship, imitation of22Pim, F W182Pinion, James94,99Pirrie, Lord85,92,183Pitman’s shorthand29,32Plews, Henry97,150,153Poë, Colonel Sir Hutcheson183Poetical productions6Pope, Mr Samuel, K.C.135,155,159,160Portrush golf links110Post Office (Parcels) Act, 188288Power, John F157Practical railway work97,103Pratt, Edwin A105,182,193Prince and Princess of Wales34,145Privy Council Order, Burtonport Railway217Prize fights, trains for54Pullman Cars36,38,58
Quirey, John179
Railway Accounts, analysis of59Railway Accounts, form of53,193Railway and Canal Commission54,120Railway and Canal Traffic Act, 185452Railway and Canal Traffic Act, 1888103,113,121,132Railway and Canal Traffic Act, 1894144Railway Benevolent Institution67,84,121Railway Clauses Act, 184551Railway Clearing House15Railway Companies (Accounts and Returns) Act, 1911,193Railway Companies’ Association192Railway Companies’ Powers Act, 186453Railway Construction Facilities Act, 186453Railway Employment (Prevention of Accidents) Act, 1900161Railway Gazette, the141Railway life in Ireland115Railway mania, 184514,50Railway News, the67,100,141Railway Ramblers67Railway Regulation Act, 184050Railway Regulation Act, 184450Railway Regulation Act, 1893142Railway Regulation (Gauge) Act, 184652Railway Societies68Railway Statistics59Railway system of Scotland63Railways (Electric Power) Act, 1903176Railways Fires Act, 1905176Railways, Inspection of54Railways Ireland Act, 1896149Railways of the Dominions207Railways, Scotland, England and Ireland compared,64,142,169Railways, State purchase of51Railways, the future of187Rates and fares32,82Regulation of Railways Act, 186853Regulation of Railways Act, 187154Regulation of Railways Act, 187354Regulation of Railways Act, 1889106Reid, A G65,157Revision of railway rates104,138Roberts, William152Robertson, Tom65,91,98,137,148,150,151Robson, Sir Mayo181Rock Villa32Rolling stock, County Down Railway92Running powers135,156,159,160Russell, George69Russell, Lord John126Ryan, Martin, cattle dealer135
Sabbath, breaking the41St. Enoch Station, Glasgow58,66St. Pancras Station, opening of36St. Rollox, Glasgow, lunch45Saloon, the Dargan124Schooldays, country walks18Schooldays, reading and drawing17Scotter, Sir Charles180,183Scottish railways63Second-class carriages, abolition of37Select Committee, 184050Select Committee on railway charges, 188182Select Committees, 1858 and 186353Settle and Carlisle line36,37,38Sexton, Thomas183Shanahan, George180Shaw, Sir Alexander157Shorthand, Pitman’s29,32Sighthill Cemetery, lunch on a tombstone45Sinclair, the Hon Sir John201Sinclair, Right Hon Thomas110Skipworth, W G97,113Sleeping cars38Smiles, Samuel141Smoking compartments53Smyth, G E179Southborough, Lord (Sir Francis Hopwood)140Spain and Portugal, visit to146Speech, first in public46Spencer, Lord158State purchase of railways51Stephens, Mr Pembroke K.C.136,147Stephenson, George62Stevenson, Sir George, K.C.B216Stirling, James65Stockton & Darlington Railway50,62,195Superannuation funds39,116Swarbrick, Samuel35Swearing, an accomplishment20,26
Tailor’s dummy, a perambulating24Tatlow, Frank57Tatlow, William132Terminals82Theodore Hook’s old joke22Third-class carriages by all trains36,38Thompson, Sir James77,138Time-tables and train working33Tom29,70Trade unionism22Trades Disputes Act, 1906176Trans-Atlantic steamship service, Galway129
Ulster & Connaught Railway174
Visinet, Tony80
Wainwright, Mr W J46,56,59,60,66,73,76,86Waldron, the Right Hon Laurence A.194Wales, Prince and Princess of34Walker, John75,133Walklate, Thomas22Walks, favourite18,30Warming pans20Waterford & Limerick Railway134,135,155,156Watkin, Sir Edward56,76,77Way bills21Wells, E W57Workmen’s Compensation Act, 1906177
Young, Right Hon John99Youthful benedict, A25