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Victorian railway studies This page brings together essays and other materials on this site (and some that are hosted elsewhere) which explore themes in Victorian railway history. Links are given below, and are also listed, with my other work, in the research section of this site. Scholarly essays on the Victorian railway ‘Biological metaphor and railway systems: aspects of nineteenth-century perceptions of the railway’ (1999) Read>> ‘Perceptions of the locomotive driver: image and identity on British railways, c.1840-c.1950’ (1999) Read>>[external link] ‘Trains, technology and time-travellers: how the Victorians re-invented time’ (2003) Read>> ‘The sage of the train: Ruskin and the Victorian railway’ (2005) Read>> ‘Ghosts, trains and trams: the technologies of transport in the ghost stories of M. R. James’ (2005) Read>> ‘Representing the Victorian railway: the aesthetics of ambivalence’ (2006) Read>> Web exhibition ‘Railway heraldry’ (2003) – a web exhibition for the Institute of Railway Studies, University of York Read>> [external link] Illustration: Illustrated London News picture of the aftermath of the railway accident at Staplehurst, Kent, 9 June 1865. [Public domain image: source.] © greycat.org