tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-40313724897796968622024-03-13T16:40:03.612+00:00Turnip Rail's Waiting RoomDavid Turnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01017077771376316618noreply@blogger.comBlogger149125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4031372489779696862.post-65836277416072700622014-08-05T14:53:00.002+01:002014-08-05T14:55:32.929+01:00INSTRUCTIONS TO RAILWAY TRAVELLERS - 1843<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>INSTRUCTIONS TO
RAILWAY TRAVELLERS</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">To nearly all the Railways
in Great Britain.</span></div>
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Proceed at once to the booking-office and procure a
ticket for the class carriage you intend to travel by, and if near the time of
starting, enter the departure shed. </div>
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Have your name legibly written
on your luggage, and see it stowed away, and then take your seat in a carriage,
carrying with you carpet bags or other light luggage, and wait till the
starting bell rings. </div>
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Take care of your ticket to
deliver at your journey's end, or to the attendant at starting, as the case may
be. </div>
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The weight generally allowed
to each passenger for luggage is about 100 lbs. and a charge is made for
excess. </div>
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No smoking is allowed at the
stations, nor in any of the carriages. </div>
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No dogs allowed to be taken
inside the carriages, but they are conveyed in a proper vehicle at a small
charge for each. </div>
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Do not leave your seat at any
station, except the one at which refreshment is allowed, nor attempt to open
the carriage doors yourself. </div>
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Females are in attendance at
each terminus, and at the central refreshment station, to wait upon ladies and
children. </div>
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Carriages and horses should be
at the stations at least a quarter of an hour before the time of starting. </div>
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Post horses can always be obtained
at each terminus and most of the stations. </div>
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Omnibuses, flys, coaches and
cabs are always waiting the arrival of the trains at each terminus. </div>
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Children under ten years of
age half-price, infants in arms, unable to walk, free of charge. </div>
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Every train is provided with
guards and a conductor, who is responsible for the order and regularity of the
journey. </div>
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Every guard, porter or
policeman employed by the company has a distinguishing number on the collar of
his coat. </div>
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The companies' servants are
strictly enjoined, on pain of dismissal, to observe the utmost civility and
attention towards all the passengers, nor are they to receive any fee or
gratuity.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">From: Henry Tuck, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Every Traveller's Guide to the Railways of
England, Scotland, Ireland, Belgium, France, and Germany</i>, 1843</b></div>
David Turnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01017077771376316618noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4031372489779696862.post-39232383297391674532014-07-31T22:07:00.002+01:002014-07-31T22:09:03.647+01:00Complaining about the habits of Victorian railway passengersIt seems that the gripes Victorian railway travellers had about their fellow passengers were very similar to ours...<br />
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"Once I found myself racing north alone with an elderly
spinster of forbidding aspect. She had long since left the “springs of fifty
years” behind. She was gaunt, grey, and bony, She wore gleaming spectacles. She
was like the elderly Englishwoman dear to Parisian caricature. And the first words
she uttered of sepulchral tones were these: “I always travel in a ladies’
compartment when going even the shortest journey, for you never know what might
happen!” This prudent spinster, it will be seen, was gifted with that priceless
possession, a vivid imagination. With her, I remember, I was moved to formulate
my views as to the Ideal Train. I argued that the whole classification of
passengers required immediate rearrangement. There should not only be separate carriages
for children, but compartments for the newly-wed, for men who smoke inferior
cigars, for schoolboys, for people who want to discuss their private affairs,
for folks recovering from dangerous illnesses, for ugly people, for “engaged”
couples – or those who ought to be – for young ladies who giggle (there is no
form of nerve-torture to compare to this on a long journey), and for people who
regard railway travelling as an excuse for gnawing chicken-bones, drinking,
potent-smelling liquors, and strewing themselves and everybody else with
crumbs."</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Miss Hepworth
Dixon, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Ladies Pictorial</i>, August 1896</b></div>
David Turnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01017077771376316618noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4031372489779696862.post-83618305959132019122014-07-14T11:57:00.000+01:002014-07-14T11:57:59.618+01:00"No sound is heard in the cold air" - Observations on the arrival of trains in 1849No sound is heard in the cold air but the hissing of a
pilot engine, which, like a restless spirit advancing and retrograding, is
stealing along the intermediate rails, waiting to carry off the next down-train; its course being marked by white steam
meandering above it and by red-hot coals of different sizes which are
continually falling from beneath it. In this obscure scene the Company's
interminable lines of gaslights (there are 232 at the Euston Station),
economically screwed down to the minimum of existence, are feebly illuminating
the damp varnished panels of the line of carriages in waiting, the brass
doorhandles of the cabs, the shining haims, brass browbands and other ornaments
on the drooping heads and motionless backs of the cab-horses; and while the
blood-red signal lamp is glaring near the tunnel to deter unauthorised
intrusion, the stars of heaven cast a faint silvery light through the long
strips of plate-glass in the roof above the platform. On a sudden is heard —
the stranger hardly knows whence — the mysterious moan of compressed air,
followed by the violent ringing of a bell. That instant every gaslight on and
above a curve of 900 feet suddenly bursts into full power. The carriages, cabs,
&c. appear, comparatively speaking, in broad daylight, and the beautiful
iron reticulation which sustains the glazed roof appears like fairy work.
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Sir Francis Head</i>, Stokers and Pokers,
1849</b></div>
David Turnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01017077771376316618noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4031372489779696862.post-71480033503829358912014-06-17T18:51:00.000+01:002014-06-17T18:51:19.170+01:00"We would have the public…somewhat more mindful" a view on the benifits of railways from 1856We would have the public…somewhat more mindful of the benefits they
have already derived from the railways; it would improve their patience
under evils for the time unavoidable…They save the public two-thirds of
their time in transit, and two-thirds in fares and tills; they have
given us the penny post, which would not have existed without them; they
have intersected the country with telegraph wires employing 3000
persons, stretching a distance of 86,000 miles and flashing a million
messages a year, many of them to and from places hundreds of miles
apart; they have reduced the cost of many articles of general
consumption, and rendered others common where nature seemed to plant an
interdict against them…In 1854 they transported 111,000,000
passengers…in such safety that in the first half of the year but one
accident happened to every 7,195,341 passengers. In these journeys, each
passenger gains an hour in time, amounting in all to 38,000 years of
working life at eight hours a day. Supposing the day’s labour to be
worth three shillings, these deplorable railways save the nation
£2,000,000 a year in the item of time alone.<br />
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<i>Chamber’s Journal</i> (1856), 227
David Turnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01017077771376316618noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4031372489779696862.post-66544892850853243382013-12-24T09:40:00.000+00:002013-12-24T14:39:24.319+00:00Advertising Christmas: Posters for Christmas trains before 1914<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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David Turnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01017077771376316618noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4031372489779696862.post-47206709383235050982013-10-08T13:17:00.002+01:002013-10-08T13:17:34.281+01:00Dismissed for being drunk - 1899These chaps were dismissed by Great Northern Railway in 1899 for having a bit too much...<br />
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Pallender, J.W. - Parcels Porter, Peterboro' Passenger [station], for being asleep and under the influence of drink when on duty.<br />
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Thorndike, Geo. Wm. - Superior Foreman Prorter, Manchester Goods [station], for being under the influence of drink, and asleep in a wagon whilst on duty. <br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Source: The National Archives, RAIL 236/160, Traffic Committee Minute Book, 5/10/1899, p.257</span>David Turnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01017077771376316618noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4031372489779696862.post-47414989611569722832013-10-03T15:07:00.001+01:002013-10-03T15:12:34.672+01:00London and North Western Railway Criminal Prosecutions - December 1878In December 1878 the London and North Western Railway prosecuted
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Robbery <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 3;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>6</div>
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Drunk and disorderly<span style="mso-tab-count: 3;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>4</div>
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Attempting to enter a train in motion<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 3;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"></span> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>3</div>
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Travelling in a superior class of carriage to that for
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held + obstructing the company’s servants in the execution
of their duty<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"></span>3</div>
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Receiving stolen property<span style="mso-tab-count: 4;"> </span>3</div>
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Travelling without a ticket<span style="mso-tab-count: 4;"> </span>2</div>
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Interfering with comfort of passengers + obstructing the
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Travelling with platform tickets<span style="mso-tab-count: 4;"> </span>2</div>
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Pocket-Picking<span style="mso-tab-count: 6;"> </span>1</div>
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Drunk and assaulting a company’s servant<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>1</div>
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Travelling with ticket over date<span style="mso-tab-count: 4;"> </span>1</div>
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Assaulting Company’s servant<span style="mso-tab-count: 4;"> </span>1</div>
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Trespass<span style="mso-tab-count: 6;"> </span>1</div>
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Source: The National Archives, RAIL 410/183, Traffic Committee minute book, Minute 31173, 10 January 1879</div>
David Turnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01017077771376316618noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4031372489779696862.post-62368775560209737152012-06-15T16:00:00.000+01:002012-08-22T20:08:59.308+01:00A Temporary End to Turnip RailDear all. It is with much sadness that I write this post.<br />
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On Monday I had my Thesis Advisory Panel, where, after much discussion, it was decided that I need more work on my PhD than could be done within the three months of my remaining registration. Indeed, I may even need to extend my work until Christmas. Consequently, this has left me very disheartened, as I was hoping to start a book in October. <br />
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<i>*UPDATE* I have decided not to pursue a career as an author and have
decided to go into academia full-time when my PhD is over. It is why I
did the PhD and, ultimately, I'll have the opportunity to do the thing I
love, research. I am not saying I will never write a popular book -
just not yet.</i><br />
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However, this said, I am determined to get the work done as soon is as humanly possible (before Christmas hopefully). The problem with a thesis, any thesis, is by the end those doing them want to get shot of them. Indeed, while I love my topic and the subject matter, I feel that after six years it is time to move on. Therefore, to speed my work, I have taken the decision to virtually suspend working on anything new for my sites, 'Turnip Rail' and 'Turnip Rail's Waiting Room'. Given my lovely, loyal readership, this decision has not been taken easily, and I do feel I am letting down the people who like the site and who have made it such a success over the past two and a half years. I thank everyone from the bottom of my heart for their support. But I have to get the thesis done ASAP. My career, and my sanity perhaps, depends on it.<br />
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But I will leave you with this thought: Turnip Rail will return, you can be sure of it.<br />
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With Love<br />
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DavidDavid Turnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01017077771376316618noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4031372489779696862.post-1315510422660420702012-06-11T11:39:00.000+01:002012-06-11T11:39:58.217+01:00Some Images of Railfest 2012<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />David Turnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01017077771376316618noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4031372489779696862.post-48242501017267730822012-06-10T07:00:00.000+01:002012-06-10T07:00:02.802+01:00Weekly Round-UpI have been working on my book proposal this week before my big meeting on Monday (in York) with my supervisor which, I hope, will set me up for four months of hard editing of the thesis. Bring it on! <br />
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So here's the round-up:<br />
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<i>Monday:</i> <a href="http://turniprailswaitingroom.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/britains-first-dining-car-1879.html">Britain's first Dining Car - 1879</a><br />
<i>Tuesday:</i> <a href="http://turniprailswaitingroom.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/he-was-ordered-to-leave-drunk-at.html">"He was ordered to leave" - A Drunk at the Victoria Station - 1872</a><br />
<i>Thursday:</i> <a href="http://turniprailswaitingroom.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/special-trains-to-london-for-duke-of.html">"Special Trains to London for the Duke [of Wellington's] Funeral" - 1852</a><br />
<i>Friday:</i> <a href="http://turniprailswaitingroom.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/britains-largest-employers-in-1907.html">Britain's Largest Employers in 1907</a><br />
<i>Saturday:</i> <a href="http://turniprailswaitingroom.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/same-railway-workers-accidents-in-1880s.html">Some Railway Worker's Accidents in the 1880s</a><br />
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No main blog post this week (I've too much on I'm afraid). But check out last week's offering<a href="http://turniprail.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/did-manger-ever-control-britains-19th.html">Did the Management Ever Control Britain's 19th Century Railways?</a><br />
<br />David Turnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01017077771376316618noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4031372489779696862.post-78545950343758080102012-06-09T17:42:00.000+01:002012-06-09T17:42:48.087+01:00Some Railway Worker's Accidents in the 1880sOccasionally, I just like to browse the railway staff records on the Ancestry.com website. One of the saddest files I know is the London, Chatham and Dover Railway's book of injuries that its employees sustained. Indeed, there are some truly shocking stories recorded that highlight how dangerous working on the Victorian railway was:<br />
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<i>Date:</i> 14 November 1882<br />
<i>Name:</i> Hibbert, G.<br />
<i>Grade:</i> Engineman<br />
<i>Nature of Accident:</i> Forefingers taken off (end of) had his hand on Brake block when fireman unexpectedly applied the brake - fingers caught between block and wheel.[1]<br />
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<i>Date:</i> 4 January 1884<br />
<i>Name:</i> Driver of a cart<br />
<i>Nature
of Accident:</i> Knocked down while shunting train in Hatton's Yard, Faversham Creek, arm had to be amputated - Pilot Engineman R. Broadberry [2]<br />
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<i>Date: </i>12 June 1885<br />
<i>Name: </i>None given<br />
<i>Grade:</i> Platelayer<br />
<i>Nature
of Accident:</i> Forefingers taken off (end of) had his hand on Brake block
when fireman unexpectedly applied the brake - fingers caught between
block and wheel.[3]<br />
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<i>Date: </i>18 July 1887<br />
<i>Name: </i>Foster, W.G.
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<i>Grade:</i> Fireman<br />
<i>Nature
of Accident:</i> Head cut and body bruised thro. slipping off into pit in Battersea Shed. Engine 118, Driver, Goodhew [4]<br />
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<i>Date: </i>31 December 1888<br />
<i>Name: </i>J. Coventry<br />
<i>Grade:</i> Engineman<br />
<i>Nature
of Accident:</i> When oiling engine at Victoria was struck on the back of his head with a bottle thrown from the 5.30 pm boat train. [5]<br />
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[1] The National Archives [TNA], RAIL 415/108, Register of injuries to workmen: 1880 - 1891, p.45<br />
[2] TNA, RAIL 415/108, Register of injuries to workmen: 1880 - 1891, p.46<br />
[3] TNA, RAIL 415/108, Register of injuries to workmen: 1880 - 1891, p.87<br />
[4] TNA, RAIL 415/108, Register of injuries to workmen: 1880 - 1891, p.112<br />
[5] TNA, RAIL 415/108, Register of injuries to workmen: 1880 - 1891, p.124David Turnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01017077771376316618noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4031372489779696862.post-9376508385239557472012-06-08T07:44:00.002+01:002012-06-08T07:44:54.733+01:00Britain's Largest Employers in 1907Britain's railways before 1914 were some of Britain's
largest employers. Indeed, table below shows that of Britain's twenty-five leading employers in 1907, thirteen were railways. <br />
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"SPECIAL TRAINS TO LONDON FOR THE DUKE'S FUNERAL - Although the arrangements for visiting London are not yet completed, it will be seen by advertisement that Mr. Cook is desirous of consulting teh convenience of two classes-those who wish for an opportunity of being in town at the Lying-in-State, and the working classes, who can only make it convenient to be present at the funeral. The Scottish newspapers announce a special train, under Mr Cooke's management, from the extreme point of the northern railway, commencing at Aberdeen, and bringing passengers from Montrose, Dundee, Perth, St. Andrews, Coupar Fife, Coupar Angus, Stirling, Edinburgh, Galashiels, Haddington, Berwick, and other towns. The whole distance from Aberdeen to London is about 570 miles. The train is arranged to reach Derby at 6 o'clock on Tuesday morning, November 16th and the party will stop here for an hour for breakfast, Mr Cuff having arranged to provide on liberal terms at the station refreshment rooms. It is hoped Mr Cook will succeed in promoting a spirit of reciprocity amongst those north of the Tweed who have benefited so much from his arrangements from these parts to Scotland."David Turnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01017077771376316618noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4031372489779696862.post-29995498410195405472012-06-05T07:00:00.000+01:002012-06-05T12:07:53.408+01:00"He was ordered to leave" - A Drunk at the Victoria Station - 1872On Saturday I posted a story about a drunk at the Midland Railway's Sheffield Station in 1872. However, this story was found directly below it:<br />
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'DRUNK AT THE VICTORIA STATION - <i>Thomas Williams</i>, miner, living at Handsworth was charged with being drunk at the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Station. at about seven o'clock on Saturday evening the prisoner went to the Victoria Station in a state of intoxication. He was ordered to leave, and two porters accompanied him off the premises to see him safe away. Shortly after eight he was found wandering upon the line a short distance from the station, and narrowly escaped being run over by a train. He was given into custody. - The bench inflicted a fine of 20s and costs.'[1]<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">[1] <i>The Sheffield & Rotherham Independent</i>, Tuesday, February 06, 1872, p. 7</span>David Turnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01017077771376316618noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4031372489779696862.post-44459881006282649962012-06-04T07:00:00.000+01:002012-06-08T07:48:23.979+01:00Britain's first Dining Car - 1879<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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On Monday 27 October 1879, Britain's railways witnessed the first appearance of a dining car on the Great Northern Railway (GNR). This car was not how we would expect railway dining facilities to be today, and there were actually two coaches, one when the passengers ate and another where the food was cooked. This was a widely reported event, and the press heaped praise on the GNR, with poetry being produced to mark the occasion. If you would like to read more about this event, <a href="http://turniprail.blogspot.co.uk/2011/11/passengers-praise-and-poetry-britains.html">I wrote a whole blog post on it last year</a>.David Turnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01017077771376316618noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4031372489779696862.post-67318219023882620842012-06-03T12:00:00.000+01:002012-06-03T13:05:22.686+01:00Weekly Round-UpAnother busy week, but I managed to get my work off on Wednesday so now I am a bit freer to do things. I am so glad I got a main Turnip rail Blog Post out this week. I hate it when I cannot. Anyway, on with the round-up.<br />
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<i>Tuesday:</i> <a href="http://turniprailswaitingroom.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/disgraceful-clergyman-or-not-on-train.html">'A Disgraceful Clergyman' (or not) - On a train - 1859</a><br />
<i>Thursday:</i><a href="http://turniprailswaitingroom.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/watch-out-for-fagin-and-co-on-train.html">'Watch Out' for Fagin and co. on a train - 1863</a><br />
<i>Friday:</i><br />
<a href="http://turniprailswaitingroom.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/sack-containing-overcoat-boots-etc.html">Sack containing overcoat, boots etc. without a label- 1912</a><br />
<i>Saturday:</i><br />
<a href="http://turniprailswaitingroom.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/great-western-railway-camp-coaches-1935.html">Great Western Railway 'Camp Coaches' - 1935</a><br />
<i>Saturday:</i><br /><a href="http://turniprailswaitingroom.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/could-not-give-any-account-of-himself.html">"Could not give any account of himself" - Drunk on a train -1872</a><br />
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And don't forget the latest main Turnip Rail post - <a href="http://turniprail.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/did-manger-ever-control-britains-19th.html">Did the Mangement Ever Control Britain's 19th Century Railways?</a>David Turnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01017077771376316618noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4031372489779696862.post-37347215913252581002012-06-02T18:00:00.000+01:002012-06-02T18:00:00.237+01:00"Could not give any account of himself" - Drunk on a train -1872In know people who have been in a similar situation...really I do:<br />
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'DRUNK IN A RAILWAY TRAIN' - <i>Richard Shaw</i>, turner, Leeds, was charged with being drunk at the Midland Station. Mr Curtis stated that the prisoner was found drunk in a train on its arrival at the station, on Saturday evening. He had no ticket, and was so drunk that he could not give any account of himself, and was locked up. His ticket was afterwards found in the carriage - Fined 10s and costs, or 14 days.[1]<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">[1] <i>The Sheffield & Rotherham Independent</i>, Tuesday, February 06, 1872, p. 7</span>David Turnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01017077771376316618noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4031372489779696862.post-6807040121999478982012-06-02T07:00:00.000+01:002012-06-02T07:00:08.709+01:00Great Western Railway 'Camp Coaches' - 1935In the inter-war years large numbers of Victorian railway carriages were taken out of service and transformed into 'camp coaches.' One of the largest providers of these was the Great Western Railway, and in April 1935 the company's staff magazine carried a feature on them with images from one stationed at Dyffryn-on-Sea in North Wales. The article revealed that for the coming summer the number of coaches the company would be offering around its network was being increased to thirty-eight. Available for six, eight or ten people, all came equipped with a living room, kitchen and two sleeping compartments. The cost of such accommodation, which the magazine stated would not increase during the holiday season, was £3 per week for a six berth coach, £4 for an eight and £5 for a ten. <br />
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<br />David Turnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01017077771376316618noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4031372489779696862.post-21196702406081339372012-05-31T18:32:00.003+01:002012-05-31T18:33:43.486+01:00'Watch Out' for Fagin and co. on a train - 1863The Caledonian Railway's book of standing orders for the officer's and men of the company from 1863 is one of the most interesting railway instruction books that I have a digital copy of, as it contains rules that I have not seen anywhere else within the Victorian railway industry. Probably, the most interesting instruction is this one covering the petty criminals of the age, and when reading it I immediately though 'FAGIN!' What do you think?<br />
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'70. Gangs of gamblers and pickpockets are occasionally in the habit of travelling by the trains. Guards are particularly desired to make themselves acquainted with the individuals composing the gang; and having done so, to point them out to the passengers, station-masters, police, and porters, at every station the train stops at.<br />
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When the law cannot be brought to bear against these men, the object of every person must be to expose them.<br />
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Their tickets must be frequently examined; they must be watched at stations, and not allowed to enter on to the platform without having first purchased tickets. If there are more than one, they must all be locked up in one compartment, and never allowed to change carriages: and whenever they are discovered to be without tickets, or travelling beyond the station for which their tickets were issued, they must be removed from the train, and prosecuted before a magistrate for defrauding the company.<br />
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Ticket clerks must be cautious in receiving money from these men, as they endeavour to pass base coin and forged notes.'[1]<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">[1] London School of Economics, HE1 (42)/221, Caledonian Railway: standing orders based on the rules and regulations of the company, and to be observed by the officers and men in the superintendent's department in the company's services, February 1863, p.30</span>David Turnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01017077771376316618noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4031372489779696862.post-46057944969511553012012-05-29T07:00:00.000+01:002012-05-29T07:00:03.599+01:00'A Disgraceful Clergyman' (or not) - On a train - 1859Erm...<br />
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'At Lambeth police court on Friday, a lady obtained a summons against "The incumbent of a large and influential parish in the metropolis and also a popular preacher for indecent behaviour towards her in a railway carriage.[1]<br />
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Apparently, he was a acquitted:<br />
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'...the charge was dismissed, in consequence of some levity in the woman's habits, and the clergyman, we believe, stands acquitted in the opinion of the religious society in which he was very highly esteemed.'[2]<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">[1] <i>The Preston Guardian etc.</i>, Saturday, November 26, 1859</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">[2] <i>The Bury and Norwich Post, and Suffolk Herald,</i> Tuesday, September 18, 1860</span>David Turnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01017077771376316618noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4031372489779696862.post-70484948543013661022012-05-27T17:05:00.004+01:002012-05-31T23:17:44.320+01:00Weekly Round-UpI should really apologise for the lack of a main blog post this week. Again, this isn't out of laziness, I just have so much on with the end of my PhD that it is starting to get on top of me a bit. Hopefully, I will have one next, as by Wednesday, hopefully, I will have sent off my work to York in preparation for my final thesis advisory panel. So, here's the round up of what has been in the 'Waiting Room' this week:<br />
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<i>Tuesday:</i> <a href="http://turniprailswaitingroom.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/ladies-only-carriage-compartment-label.html">LADIES ONLY - Carriage Compartment Label</a><br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3drTGR090qi8GzdR0wL96HwrMVVVjyVyHbktbI-wqNVt8yC6JFgZexm7oRcxhiv2NpdKfrG4mK_c9cCRnfzIWhoJWEVmjhGrxBCLLv_dir8uX4mNWHBrvfR3B2FAJhCuw0qrkGMN8Frg/s1600/Early+Railway.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="103" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3drTGR090qi8GzdR0wL96HwrMVVVjyVyHbktbI-wqNVt8yC6JFgZexm7oRcxhiv2NpdKfrG4mK_c9cCRnfzIWhoJWEVmjhGrxBCLLv_dir8uX4mNWHBrvfR3B2FAJhCuw0qrkGMN8Frg/s320/Early+Railway.jpg" width="320" /></a><i>Wednesday:</i> <a href="http://turniprailswaitingroom.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/number-of-railway-companeis-in-britain.html">The Number of Railway Companies in Britain 1830-1910</a><br />
<i>Thursday:</i> <a href="http://turniprailswaitingroom.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/first-use-of-word-railway-1776.html">The First use of the Word 'Railway'? - 1776</a><br />
<i>Friday:</i> <a href="http://turniprailswaitingroom.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/great-western-before-great-western-1826.html">The Great Western before the Great Western - 1826</a><br />
<i>Saturday:</i> <a href="http://turniprailswaitingroom.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/guards-have-top-coat-served-out-once.html">"The Guards have a Top Coat served out once a year" - Railway clothing 1848</a><br />
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And don't forget the latest main Turnip Rail post - <a href="http://turniprail.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/brief-history-of-female-railway-clerk.html">A Brief History of the Female Railway Clerk 1830-1914</a>David Turnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01017077771376316618noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4031372489779696862.post-74965508952202645202012-05-26T09:46:00.001+01:002012-05-26T09:47:20.457+01:00"The Guards have a Top Coat served out once a year" - Railway clothing 1848Railway employee's working clothes in the Victorian period were usually provided by the company. However, because this was an expense for the companies, they were usually very precise in how much they provided to their employees, as demonstrated by these regulations from the Great Western Railway's rule book of 1848:<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">[1] The National Archives, RAIL 1134/148, General Instructions to Superintendents, Clerks, Guards, Policemen, Porters &c. &c. -1848</span>David Turnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01017077771376316618noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4031372489779696862.post-6184667903887197552012-05-25T08:48:00.002+01:002012-05-25T08:48:14.590+01:00The Great Western before the Great Western - 1826I was recently contacted by someone asking if I could help them find anything about the London and Bristol Rail Road. This wasn't an early form of the Great Western Railway that came to be promoted in the early 1830s, but another project that planned in 1826 that never came to fruition. Indeed, searching through the on-line nineteenth century newspapers only turned up one article as follows from the <i>Bristol Mercury </i>of Monday June 5 of that year:<br />
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If you have any more information on this project, please let me know!David Turnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01017077771376316618noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4031372489779696862.post-54509034277510213012012-05-24T09:55:00.004+01:002012-05-24T09:55:49.973+01:00The First use of the Word 'Railway'? - 1776While it is easy to see the railway age in Britain as beginning with the
opening of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway in 1830, or even the
opening of the Stockton and Darlington Railway five years before, it
should not be forgotten that prior to this there were a great many track
ways established for industrial or mining purposes. These lines were
usually hauled by horses, used wooden tracks, and connected with other
pieces of transport infrastructure, such as canals and ports. Therefore,
given these lines existed, I thought I would search for the earliest use
of the word 'railway' in the 17th and 18th online newspaper collections.
The first I found was from the <i>London Gazette </i>of May 11 1776, which reported.... <br />
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