Index 



529 



petition between carriers, 359- 

 60 ; Morrison's proposal, 260- 

 i ; 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 ; pro- 

 posals by Mr Gladstone's 

 Committee, 269 ; special de- 

 partment 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 ; 

 State purchase, 280 ; compet- 

 ing lines, 281-3 ; railway 

 amalgamations, 283-91 ; Rail- 

 way Clearing House esta- 

 blished, 284; Mr CardwelPs 

 Committee, 285 ; cost of con- 

 struction, 291-3 ; railway com- 

 panies and canals, 297-9, 306- 

 7 ; rail and canal transport 

 compared, 307, 309 ; railways 

 and coaches, 326, 329, 

 332 ; results of railway opera- 

 tion on industries, 386, on 

 towns, 387, on general trade, 

 387-96, on political and social 

 conditions, 397, on national 

 life, 398-402, on colonial ex- 

 pansion, 402-4 



Railways a National Industry : 

 Number of railway servants, 

 405-6 ; employees in loco- 

 motive works, etc., 407-10; 

 independent concerns, 411 ; 

 characteristics of the railway 

 service, 412-3 ; training, 413-4; 

 education for efficiency in 

 U.S.A., 415-6; railwaymen's 

 education movement : mechan- 

 ics' institutes, 416-21, rail- 

 way companies' classes, 421-5, 

 London School of Economics, 

 425-6, arrangements with 

 Universities, 426-7, literary 

 societies, 427-8 ; railway or- 

 ganisations, 428-9 ; Railway 



Club, 430 ; recreation and 

 physical culture, 431 ; rail- 

 waymen's societies, 431-2 ; 

 Temperance Unions, 432 ; re- 

 gularity of employment, 433 ; 

 wages, 434-5 ; subsidiary ad- 

 vantages, 435-7 ; superannua- 

 tion and pension funds, 438 ; 

 railway charities, 439-41 ; 

 hours of labour, 441-2 ; acci- 

 dents, 442-3 ; ambulance, 444 ; 

 railway work a "service," 444 ; 

 family records, 445 ; the agita- 

 tion in 1907, 446; strike in 

 1911, 447 ; Royal Commission 

 of Inquiry, 448-51 ; increases 

 in wages, 451 ; railway unions 

 to ballot on question of general 

 strike, 452 



" Rebecca " riots in Wales : 320-1 



" Recognition," Question of, on 

 railways: 446-52, 512 



"Red Flag Act": 475 



Rendell, f . H. : 298, 422 



Renner, P. A. : 404 



Retired Railway Officers' Society : 



431 



Rivers, Location of towns, etc., on : 

 15, 108-9, no; influence of, 

 on social and economic con- 

 ditions, 108-10 ; ports on 

 rivers, 110-11 ; causes of de- 

 cline of rivers, in, 150-8; 

 river improvements, 111-2, 

 128-41 ; navigable rivers as 

 public highways, 112-4; toll 

 collection on rivers, 128; in- 

 fluence on trade and industries, 

 114-27, 129, 132, 153, 154, 

 159-64; floods, 150-1, 161 ; 

 high tides, 151-2 ; water short- 

 age, 152-3; silting-up, 54; 

 present condition, 155-6; 

 pilfering on, 162-3 > side-cuts 

 precede canals, 165 

 Aire: 121, 123, 141, 143, 147, 



179,303,307 

 Avon (Bristol): 131 

 Avon (Warwickshire): H2, 



H5-6, 155 



Avon (Wiltshire) : HO, 131 

 Brandon: 120 

 Calder : 141, 143, 147, 303, 307 



