Railways and Victorian cities/ by 247223 Kellett, John R.

Victoria station : railway stations in England and Wales 1830-1923 / by 342941 Biddle, Gordon

All Aboard! A re-enactment approach to Victorian Railway Guard’s Clothing by Anthony Dawson

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Art, archaeology, imperialism: Western Anatolia and its railways in the Victorian imagination (1854-1877) by Solovyev, A

Decolonising from London. An Indian psychogeography around Victorian railway spaces (1870-1914) by Arup K. Chatterjee

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“Lay down branch roads, provide town sites, build barracks”: A Practical Stylistic Investigation of Hyde Clarke’s Colonization, Defence, and Railways in Our Indian Empire (1857)... by Daniela Francesca Virdis

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London’s Great Starfish: The Construction of Mid-Victorian Suburban Fiction by Tamara Silvia Wagner

“…In Trollope's 1858 The Three Clerks, the coming of commuter railways generates a peculiarly modern image of suburbanised, starfish-like, London: ‘London will soon assume the shape of a great starfish. . . . .The old town, extending from Poplar to Hammersmith, will be the nucleus, and the various railway lines will be the projecting rays.’ …”
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The prospects for European railways : is the second railway age still here or yet to begin? by Givoni, M, Holvad, T

“…But there is a spectacular exception: railways, written off thirty years ago as a Victorian anachronism destined to atrophy before the steady growth of motorway traffic, have suddenly become one of the basic technologies of the twenty-first century. …”

Railways, Ghosts and Charles Dickens’ “The Signalman” by Seda Coşar Çelik

“…As perhaps the leading symbol of Industrialization, the railway constructions changed the Victorian Britain in many different ways. …”
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The neuroses of the railway: trains, travel and trauma in Britain, c.1850-c.1900 by Harrington, R

“…It argues that the railway was of central importance in creating and shaping Victorian attitudes to the machine and to mechanized civilization in a world increasingly dominated by large scale-technologies. …”

National infrastructure assessment : analysis of options for infrastructure provision in Great Britain. Interim results by Tran, M, Hall, J, Hickford, A, Nicholls, R, Alderson, D, Barr, S, Baruah, P, Beavan, R, Birkin, M, Blainey, S, Byers, E, Chaudry, M, Curtis, T, Ebrahimy, R, Eyre, N, Hiteva, R, Jenkins, N, Jones, C, Kilsby, C, Leathard, A, Manning, L, Otto, A, Oughton, E, Powrie, W, Preston, J

“…We owe a considerable debt to the legacy left by the Victorian builders of railways, reservoirs and sewers. …”

On the Possibility and Plurality of Worlds: from The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde to Le Crime étrange de Mr Hyde by Jean-Pierre Naugrette

“…Such aesthetic models as German expressionism, both filmic and pictorial, but also Klee, Bacon or Kubrick constitute as many references and material for building up a new narrative world. If the railway metaphor of switching used by Eco in Lector in fabula is relevant in order to connect one narrative world to another one (eg. …”
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Apocalypse Now: Dombey in the Twenty-First Century by Jennifer Gribble

“…And renewed currency is being given to the Victorian debate about God, pursued in this novel’s remorselessly ticking clocks and watches, weighing railway time against the end-time of 1840s millenarianism and the timelessness of eternity. …”
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Enchanting sites: places and folkloric figures in nineteenth-century England by Huxley, A

“…The construction of factories and railway lines transformed the scenery in which many folktales were set, while rural communities that had passed down folktales for generations dispersed to the growing cities for work. …”