Sources for Eleven Minutes Late

Modern book-buyers are said not to like footnotes to interfere with their reading, and this ancient tradition has now retreated to academic texts.

Eleven Minutes Late is not an academic text, but it still strives for scholarly accuracy. And the community of railway enthusiasts is a punctilious one.

So for readers wondering “Where are on earth did he get that from?”, here are the page references and footnotes that would have appeared in the book had we put them there.

Page Topic Source
1 Gobowen station Gordon Biddle, Britain’s Historic Railway Buildings (2003) p 315
9 CEM Joad’s conviction The Times, 13 April 1948
9 Tony Blair’s escape The Times, 22 April 2008
14 The Syracusans Andrew C O’Dell, Railways and Geography (1956) p 13
16 Railway deaths in 1650 Jack Simmons and Gordon Biddle, The Oxford Companion to British Railway History (1997) p 2
17 Gilt and crimson drapes Hunter Davies, George Stephenson (1975) p 197
18 Flung beneath the wheels Garfield op. cit. p 157
19 Burst upon the world CF Adams jr, Railroads (1886)
25 Road deaths Figures supplied by Professor Andrew Evans, Imperial College
25 A babyish hobby The Times, 2 August 1855
27 The most miserable job Interview with author, 2008
28 Ruth Kelly on electrification Railnews.co.uk, 12 June 2008
28 Stephenson on electricity Quoted in The Engineer, 10 December 2004
28 Obsolete in 1904 The Engineer, as above
39 Railways to Land’s End
and St Just		 The Times, 13 August 1898
39 Buses in 1904 The Times, 2 July 1904
40 22 hours to Aberdeen Christian Wolmar, Fire & Steam (2007), p 241
59 Bling in Northampton The Guardian, 15 May 2008
60 The defence of Northampton Joan Wake, Northampton Vindicated OR Why the Main Line Missed the Town (1935)
61 Squire Thornton Wake op. cit. p 17
61 Pulling Power Terry Coleman, The Railway Navvies (1965) p 34
61 Robert Stephenson’s comment Quoted originally in The Iron Roads of Northamptonshire by C. A. Markham (1904). Markham says that’s what Robert Stephenson told his father.
61 The Rise of Leicester Jack Simmons, The Railway in Town and Country 1830-1914 (1986)
61 Maidstone, Windsor & Oxford Development of Transportation in Modern England by WT Jackman (1916) p 501
63 The randies and the fighting Coleman op. cit. p 27
63 Follow my leader ibid, p 28
63 Great alarm in Acton & c. The Times, 30 November 1836
64 The most expensive and arduous work The Official Illustrated Guide to the North-Western Railway by George Measom (1859) p 90
64 A new road or an ancient
fort		 Coleman op. cit. p 34
65 The Times on the arrival of the papers 18 September 1838
65 Monopolistic overchargers The Victorian Economy by François Crouzet (1982) p 278
65 The finest public transport system The Coaching Age by David Mountfield (1976), p 11
66 A great snorting vehicle ibid, p16
66 No coachmen became engine-drivers ibid, p173
66 Harry Littler Stage-Coach and Mail in Days of Yore by C. G. Harper (1903)
67 The coaching inns fell silent Mountfield, op. cit., p 172
67 Tempus fugit Stagecoach to John o’Groats by Leslie Gardiner (1961), p 187
67 A brief revival Road Scrapings: Coaches and Coaching by Captain M.E Haworth (1882) p 5
70 Bloated, vulgar etc Brian Bailey George Hudson: the Rise and Fall of the Railway King (1995) p 108
70 No statistics on my railway! ibid. p 29
72 Railways should revert to the public Robbins, The Railway Age (1962) p 116
72 Prejudicial to the landed interest The Times, May 4 1836
72 Wellington’s argument The Times, June 17 1836
72 The Morrison plan The Times, May 17 1836
74 The parliamentary train Jack Simmons and Gordon Biddle op. cit p 369
76 Committees meeting elsewhere The Times, 27 May 1845
77 Revulsion Charles P. Kindelberger, Manias, Panics and Crashes (1978) p 18-19
77 80 pages of ads Ernest F Carter, An Historical Geography of the Railways of the British Isles (1959)p 93
77 Ruin The Times, 21 October 1845
77 Young gentlemen with theodolites John Francis, A History of the English Railway 1851) p 170
77-8 The poetic melancholy Francis op. cit p 243 and 149. The Times, 8 December 1845, 14 and 22 January 1846.
78 It reached every hearth, it saddened every heart Francis op, cit. p 195
79 Purdon’s celebrated reply Coleman op. cit. p 110-111
79 Paying more in Leeds Francis op. cit p 182
80 God forbid! The Times, 15 August 1845
81 A London trader 24 October 1845
81 Dickens quote Bailey op. cit, p vii
82 Hudson’s obituary The Times, 16 December 1871
83 Ball-games at Douai station Eugen Weber, Peasants into Frenchmen: The Modernisation of Rural France 1870-1914 (1977) p 196
84 Standing stiff at attention J. H. Clapham, The Economic Development of France and Germany 1815-1914 (1921) p 349
84 Leave it to your servant The Railway Traveller’s Handy Book of Hints, Suggestions and Advice (1862) p 90-91
86 Baltimore riot Ernest F Carter, Railways in Wartime (1964) p 11
86 Austrian fiasco ibid p 15
87 Inefficiencies worse than thought Mark Casson, The Efficiency of the Victorian British Railway Network: A Counterfactual Analysis (research paper, Reading University, 2007)
92 The bourgeoisie, the capitalists and the Quakers C Hamilton Ellis, Railway History (1966) p 21
93 The almighty, monopolistic railway Nicholas Faith, The World the Railways Made (1990) p 17-18
94 The seats were 18 inches high Charles E Lee, Passenger Class Distinctions (1946) p 15
94 A sudden jolt: LTC Rolt, Red for Danger (1955) p 28-29
94 A den of infamy Quoted in Lee op. cit p 23
96 Cook and the Great Exhibition Michael Leapman, The World for a Shilling (2001) p 228
96 The masses were accustomed John Pimlott, The Englishman’s Holiday (1947) p 94
96 Wilson’s hanging The Times, 17 September 1849
96 The fall of the magsman Kellow Chesney, The Victorian Underworld (1970) p 246
97 Tippoo Sahib’s tent The Times, 25 May 1844
97-8 One could hardly help regretting… The Times, 7 November 1846
98 Degrading dissipation Wolmar op.cit. p 68
98 Rugby governors act TW Bamford, Thomas Arnold (1960) p 32-33
98 Dust, filth and Gladstone Roy Jenkins, Gladstone(1995) p 59
99 Quite charmed Robbins op. cit p 58
99 A rash investment Philip Ziegler, Melbourne (1976) p 241
99 Only encourage the lower classes Wolmar, op. cit.p 42
100 Destroy the noblesse! Hunter Davies, George Stephenson (1975) p 217
100 Never travel on the Carlisle & Silloth Bay Jack Simmons, The Railway in Town and Country p 300
100 Wellington gave way ibid p 308
101 How long, asked The Times 9 December 1847
101 The effrontery Philip S Bagwell, The Railway Clearing House in the British Economy 1842-1922 (1968) p 192
101 So excessively improper Robbins op. cit. p 53
105 Kill a bishop Hesketh Pearson, The Smith of Smiths (1934, new edition 1984) p 293
106 Railways, cream tarts, the guillotine etc Julian Barnes, Flaubert’s Parrot (1984) p 108
107 Dvorak the trainspotter Ian Carter, British Railway Enthusiasm (2008) p 5
109 Ruskin on Turner Ian Kennedy and Julian Treuherz, The Railway: Art in the Age of Steam (exhibition catalogue, 2008)
110 Train as projectile Wolfgang Schivelbusch The Railway Journey (1969) p 53
111 In the event of repression The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud Volume VII 1901-1905 (1953) p 202
111 A pronounced bodily pleasure Selected Papers of Karl Abraham MD (1926)
111 The theatre of libido Peter Gay, The Bourgeois Experience: Victoria to Freud. Volume II – The Tender Passion (1986) p321
112-3 Sucking off Hansard, 8 July 2008, column 1267
115 As full of moods as a mountain C Hamilton Ellis, The North British Railway (1955) p 132
118 The sins of the people: Francis, op.cit. vol 2 p 59
119 170 dead Daily Mail, 7 October 1999
119 Sexuality out of control Schivelbusch op.cit. p 78
120 Lock, block and brake Rolt op.cit. p 31-32
120 Swift and awful majesty Rolt op.cit. p 37
121 Some terror from his imagination Ackroyd op. cit p 964
121 Passenger interest The Times, 13 September 1873
122 An Englishman loves speed New York Times, 28 September 1873
122 Fairground attraction Faith op. cit. p 252
122 5.284 dead in a year Andrew Dow, Dow’s Dictionary of Railway Quotations (2006) p 203
122 Thirteen died There are slightly different versions of this figure.
124 Feudal power Frank McKenna, The Railway Workers, p 26
124 Organization men ibid p 31
125 Jailed for quitting ibid p 155
126 Number taker Casey Philip S Bagwell, The Railway Clearing House in the British Economy 1842-1922 (1968) p 175
126 24 hours a day Philip Unwin, Travelling by Train in the Edwardian Age (1979) p. 67
127 An angry red in the distance ibid p 74
127 Carelessness in the signalmen ibid p 75-76
128 The stratified taverns…the private pews See Paul Langford, Englishness Identified: Manners and Character 1650-1850 (2000) p 104
128 A special military class Faith, op. cit, p 235
128 Dissolution of reality Schivelbusch, op.cit, p 64
128 Empedocles on Etna Judith Flanders, Consuming Passions (2006) p 192
128 As long as they did not interrupt Michael Curtin, Propriety and Position (1987) p 133
128-9 Permission to smoke Joan Wildeblood and Peter Brimson, The Polite World (1965) p 242
129 Fresh air letters Daily Mail, 17 and 18 January 1906
130 The boredom of my isolation cell Quoted by Schivelbusch op.cit. p 74
130 Garlic sausage and wet straw ibid p 77
131 Train times to Exeter Leslie S Klinger ed., The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes (2006) p 86
132 So opposed to the social habits of the English Bagwell op. cit. p 193
133 The baseness of the French Charles Dickens, Christmas Stories: Mugby Junction, Chapter III
133 Secret travelling lavatories Unwin, op. cit, p 51
135 Oh my! Think I’ve got to die! The Times, 15 November 1864
136 Light in every carriage rejected CE Lee, op. cit. p 34
136 27,000 footwarmers Simmons and Biddle, op.cit. p 535
136 The Lynton & Barnstaple GA Brown, JDCA Prideaux and HG Radcliffe The Lynton & Barnstaple Railway (1964) p 41
136-7 At first I loved thee – thou wast warm Mr Punch’s Railway Book (1906) p 48
137 I had a good deal of rest Victoria RI, More Leaves from The Journal of A Life in the Highlands (1884) p 164
137 I had been much annoyed Ibid p 72
138 They sat back and
dozed off		 Jack Simmons, Parish and Empire (1952) p 171
139 120,000 displaced Simmons, The Railway in Town and Country p 34
140 The contempt of decent travellers Pimlott op. cit. p 163-64
144 The first railway suburb Simmons (1986) op.cit. p 64
145-6 Unwin’s evocation Unwin op. cit. p 14-15
147 Smoky stinkpots C Hamilton Ellis, The Midland Railway (1955) p 71
149 The chairman’s assurance Manchester Guardian, 6 November 1874
149 Cack-handed intervention Christopher I Savage, An Economic History of Transport (1959) p 71
150 Liberal Mr Wills The Times, 23 May 1892
150 The short darkness of a summer’s night The Times, 21 August 1895
151 The Clergy Female Orphanage School Tony Lewis, Double Century (1987) p 150
152 33 petrol stockists John Montgomery, 1900: The End of an Era (1968) p 15
153 American confidence and strength Manchester Guardian, 1 January 1901
153 The absurdity, the impertinence Percy Williams, Our Decrepit Railway System (1903) p 10
153 Obstacles to progress Manchester Guardian, 21 February 1903
154 Walking at dawn… Juliet Nicholson, The Perfect Summer (2006) p 135
156 Bravo, Mr Whale Railway Magazine, 1904
156-7 Soap, poached salmon… Unwin, op. cit. p 60
157 Painswick Simmons (1986) op. cit. p19
157 A great boon The Times, 11 May 1900
157 A child of sorrow C Hamilton Ellis, The North British Railway (1955) p 186
158 The closure no one noticed AD Farr, The Campbeltown & Machrihanish Light Railway (1987) p 37
158 Model T Fords The Colonel Stephens Railway Museum website
158-9 The Potts Line BBC website article [dead as of 2014-09-24]
159 The theatrical companies Henry Maxwell ed, Railway Magazine Miscellany 1887-1919 p 169-70
160 Class distinctions in death AKB Evans and JV Gough eds, The Impact of the Railway on Society in Britain (2003) p 114
161 Co-operation no dearer than competition Savage, op. cit. p 79
161 Any word but nationalization Manchester Guardian, 15 November 1913
161-2 The Davies Tract Emil Davies, The Case for Railway Nationalisation (1913)
162 A wonderful stimulus to the highway: The Times, 22 September 1913
163 The only sound that would disturb Sir Charles Petrie, Scenes from Edwardian Life (1963) p 88
164 The stationmaster’s politics Roy Jenkins, Gladstone(1995) p 513
167 Mainly because of railway timetables AJP Taylor, How Wars Begin (1979) p 120
167-8 The Schlieffen Plan Ibidp 117
168 It cannot be done Barbara W Tuchman, The Guns of August (1962) pp 75-79
168 .…and ended up in lunatic asylums: ibid p 80
169 Those helpful Germans Ernest F Carter (1964) op. cit. p 78
169 German rejection of electrification Allan Mitchell, The Great Train Race: Railways and the Franco-German Rivalry 1815-1914 (2000)
170 The English visitors refused to budge: Manchester Guardian, 4 August 1914
170 The Earl of Ronaldshay Hansard, House of Commons, 23 April 1914
171 Not Aunt Sallys but heroes Wolmar op. cit. p 207
171 The Northern Junction Ernest F. Carter (1964) op. cit. p 81
171 Light duties Manchester Guardian, 9 July 1915
172 Walking through a blizzard Ernest F. Carter (1964) op. cit. p 211
172 Railway shares rally Manchester Guardian, 2 and 5 January 1917
173 JL Hammond’s triumphant explanation Manchester Guardian, 8 October 1919
175 No obligation, says Geddes The Times, 27 May 1921
176-7 Sir Josiah Stamp’s complaint Manchester Guardian, 28 February 1931
177 Dreary Cornwall Bradshaw’s Monthly Descriptive Guide and Illustrated Hand-book of England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland , May 1857, p 112
178 Selling transport to customers Interview with author, 2008
178 Just a single second Don Hale, Mallard (2005) p 146
178-9 The corridor tender Wolmar, op.cit, p 246
179 Pathé cinema van Daily Mail, 3 July 2008
179 A golden age for the railway The Guardian, 16 June 2006
180 Premature, to say the least The Times, 31 December 1932
180 A NEW RAILWAY: The Times, 7 July 1922
181 It turned up too late: Interview with author, 2008
181 We had two people on Monday David St. John Thomas, The Country Railway (1965) p 130-1
183 Mr Bushnell, waving a stick The Times, 12 September 1932
183 Traffic did not develop…: GA Brown, JDCA Prideaux and HG Radcliffe, op. cit. p 37
187 9,000 instances of enemy damage Robert Bell, History of British Railways During the War 1939-45 (1946) p 57-58
187 The Potts line Website Link
188 The Golden Valley line WH Smith, The Golden Valley Railway (1993) p 74
188 The tarpaulin armada: British Railway Press Office, It Can Now Be Revealed (1945) p 42-43
189 Lacking in dramatic force The Times, 22 November 1945
191 Just little wreaths or black flags The Guardian, 2 March 1959
194 The nation woke up… Manchester Guardian, 6 May 1947; David Henshaw The Great Railway Conspiracy (1991) p 41
194 The North Sunderland and the mental hospital line Manchester Guardian, 12 June 1948
194 No celebrations, by order Manchester Guardian, 30 December 1947
195 Do you mean like this? Charles Loft, Government, the railways and the modernization of Britain: Beeching’s last trains (2006) p 21-22
195 The railways are a disgrace Hansard, House of Commons, 17 December 1946
196 Staggering Christian Wolmar, Broken Rails (2001) p 35
196 Robbery and confiscation Manchester Guardian, 1 May 1947
196 A blush of shame Manchester Guardian, 8 March 1947
196 A new staff relationship Manchester Guardian, 1 January 1948
196 Mr Seaman of King’s Lynn Manchester Guardian, 7 July 1948
197 I’m paid by the buffet at Didcot AN Wilson, Betjeman (2006) p 160
197-8 Conflicts and conspiracy TR Gourvish, British Railways 1948-73: A Business History (1986) p 47
198-9 Sir Gilmour Jenkins John Boyd-Carpenter, Way of Life (1980) p 108
200 Choking on his whisky Ibid p 114
201 Once those gaunt strong engines… The Observer, 6 February 1955
201 The commission never had figures Christopher Foster, The Transport Problem (1963) p 94-101
202 It was full of mistakes: Sir Christopher Foster interview with author, 2008
202 Whatever the failings of management Loft, op. cit., p 29
203 The allure of train-spotting Manchester Guardian, 7 August 1951
204 Boys at Hatfield The Times, 26 July 1946
204 Ian Allan’s Loco-spotters’ Club Ian Carter, op.cit., p 60-98
205 Listening out for trains Manchester Guardian, 13 May and 15 July 1954
205 Drunken youths The Guardian, 24 July 1964
206 Is there any reason? Manchester Guardian, 10 May 1951
206 Dozens and dozens and dozens: Quoted in Henshaw, op.cit. p 75
207 The Isle of Wight ibid p 66-71
207 Civilization and progress Manchester Guardian, 25 September 1953
208 The Dartmoor line Manchester Guardian, 15 October 1955
208 The Woodstock line The Times, 21 August 1953
208 The Mumbles line Manchester Guardian, 8 February 1959
209 Clifton Mill David St John Thomas, The Rural Transport Problem (1963) p 28
210 Harold Watkinson groaned Quoted in Loft, op. cit., p 45
213 Ridgway obituary Daily Telegraph, 28 March 2002
214 An exotic private life Loft, op. cit, p. 54
214 Chocolate brown suits: Gourvish, op, cit. p 571
215 With real affection Hansard, 10 March 1960
215 The Beeching bombshell Anthony Sampson, Anatomy of Britain (1962) p 537
218 Brilliantly presented etc Anthony Sampson, Anatomy of Britain Today (1965) p 583
218 Newspaper reactions Daily Mirror and The Times, 28 March 1963, The Observer, 31 March 1963
221 I am without a typist Thomas (1976) op. cit. p 45
223 ‘Herculean’ Beeching Alistair Horne, Macmillan 1957-1986 (1989) p 252
223 Aden, Nyasaland, Katanga Harold Macmillan, At the End of the Day (1973) passim
225 Barbara Preston’s letter The Guardian, 1 April 1964
226 The thrusting expert Anthony Shrimsley, The First Hundred Days of Harold Wilson (1965) p 106
226 Wilson’s regret Harold Wilson, The Labour Government 1964-70 (1971) p 240
226 Castle didn’t rate Fraser Barbara Castle, The Castle Diaries 1964-70 (1984) p 22
226 And hated Marsh Castle op. cit. p 531 and 683
226 Marsh hated Mulley Richard Marsh, Off the Rails (1978) p 190
228 Seven marginals! Quoted by Marsh in Hislop Goes off the Rails, BBC4, 2 October 2008
228 Raymond’s lament Quoted in Gourvish op. cit. p 359
229 Reg Maker The Times, 12 August 2008
231 Whinger Marsh Terry Gourvish, British Rail 1974-97 From Integration to Privatisation (2002) p 48
231-2 Sniper Beeching The Times, 15 December 1975
233 Duncraig The Times, 15 December 1975
233-4 John Welsby Interview with author, 2008
234 Marsh’s chief whinge Marsh, op. cit. p 191
234-5 Fowler’s recollections Interview with author, 2008
236 How relaxing Daily Telegraph, 6 August 2008
238 Europe’s only profitable railway Wolmar (2007) op. cit. p 296
238 Cecil Parkinson The Times, 10 October 2008
243 I was making a nuisance of myself: Interview with author, 2008
244 I had a very intensive six weeks Speaking on The Reunion: Rail Privatization, BBC Radio 4, September 2006
244 Cheap and cheerful The Guardian, 11 January 1992
244-5 Freeman’s ride Christian Wolmar, Stagecoach (1998) p 125/ The Guardian 13 May 1992
245 Major not very interested Wolmar, Broken Rails (2001) p 60
248 Our aim is simple Hansard, 15 July 1992
251 Lord Simon The Guardian, 4 November 1993
251 Nick Harvey Gourvish (2002) op. cit. p 400
251 120 special staff The Guardian, 28 October 1997
253 Consultants Wolmar (2001)p 75
256 Anderson’s gamble Wolmar (1998)p 147-150
256 National Audit Office The Guardian, 6 March 1998
257 National Audit Office again: Terry Gourvish, Britain’s Railways 1997-2005: Labour’s Strategic Experiment (2008) p 6
258 Not a particularly large fraud The Guardian, 5 February 1996
259 Better litter bins Modern Railways, November 1999
262 Strang puts his finger on it Interview with author, 2008
264 Not much strategy Interview with author, 2008
265 Perverse incentives The Guardian, 25 July 1998
267 Project Destiny Gourvish op. cit. (2008) p 67
267 The railways were ripped apart Quoted by Ian Jack, The Crash that Stopped Britain (2001) p 75
268 Where has all the money gone: Interview with author, 2008/ Gourvish op. cit. (2008) p 190/ New Statesman, 14 June 2007
268-9 BR on borrowed time Interview with author, 2008
270 Punctuality is the most important thing BBC News, 11 June 2007
270 Safety better than under BR Interview with author, 2008
271 Highest fares in Europe Daily Telegraph, 31 March 2007
271 Permission to breathe in Interview with author, 2008
272 I hope they don’t come all at once Rail, 13 February 2008
272 Hoon’s chutzpah The Times, 1 December 2008
272 Bill Emery The Times, 3 June 2008
273 Bioengineered algae Rail Technical Strategy, July 2007, quoted in Modern Railways , October 2007
279 Just enthusiasts David St. John Thomas op. cit. (1976) p 102
280 Mayhem at Stromeferry John Thomas, The West Highland Railway (1965) p 103
284-5 The opening of the West Highland line Ibid p 17
292 Outbid by miles The Guardian, 15 March 2004
305 Why don’t you re-time your trains? David Nobbs, The Reginald Perrin Omnibus (1999) p 25
306 Baggini’s survey survey Julian Baggini, Complaint (2008) p 133

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