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Authors: Michael Williams

On the Slow Train (29 page)

Stephenson, Robert 24, 52, 112, 117–18, 121-4, 129, 155, 168

Stevenson, Robert Louis 128–9

Strategic Rail Authority 90

Stratford, London 101, 106

Sutch, Screaming Lord 144

Swann, Donald 1, 5, 6, 15, 60, 179–80, 186

Swansea 147

Tate St Ives, Cornwall 6, 17

Telford, Shropshire 63

Telford, Thomas 57, 58, 62, 129, 131

Temple, William, Archbishop of Canterbury 45

Thatcher, Margaret 68, 96, 144, 186

Theroux, Paul 8, 13-14, 96–7, 181

Thomas, David St John 1-2, 16, 59–60, 165–6

Thomas, Edward 2, 77, 157

Thomas, John 126–7

Thomas the Tank Engine books (Awdry) 45, 76, 93

Tintagel Castle
7

Titfield Thunderbolt, The
(film) 45, 190

Top Gear
(BBC television programme) 93

Tornado
56, 93

Transport for London 114

Treacy, Right Reverend Eric (the ‘Railway Bishop') 27

Tregenna Castle
18

Trevithick, Richard 11

Tyne Valley Line 186

Vaughan, Adrian 60–61

Victoria, Queen 39, 40, 109, 123

Virgin 54, 60, 63

Walton, Izaak 124

Waterman, Pete 125

Watkin, Sir Edward 51–2, 62, 64, 65

Welsh Guardsman
35

West Coast Main Line 96, 184

West Coast Railway Company 130

West Hampstead station, London 114

Weymouth 151, 160–61

Wharton, Lord Thomas 29

Wherry Line 164, 166, 167

Whitechurch, Canon Victor 45

Whitehaven, Cumbria 69, 71, 81–2

Wicker Man, The
(film) 83

Wigton, Cumbria 83

Wilkinson, John 71

Williams, Stanley 105

Wilson, Harold 15, 189, 190

Wiltshire, Somerset and Weymouth Railway 153

Woodbridge, Suffolk 176

Woodward, Edward 83

Woolf, Virginia 11, 18

Wordsworth, William 72

Workington, Cumbria 82

Wrexham, North Wales 51, 54, 56

Wrexham & Shropshire Railway 50–65

Wrexham Central station 51, 54

Wrexham General station 53, 54–5

Yarmouth and Norwich Railway 168, 170

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