Transient Communities: Travel, Knowledge, and the Victorian Railway Carriage, 1840–90

This paper explores the temporary connections formed between passengers within the Victorian railway carriage during the development of Britain’s early railway systems. Railway travel has long been established as a democratising experience. Yet the role of the passengers is not well understood. The prevailing viewpoint contends that inter-carriage communication died out over the century, but with the amalgamation of second- and third-class travel, the opportunities for mixing became much greater. The opportunities for experiencing new mobilities as a group established temporary bonds between passengers, made stronger by delay or accident.

• Record URL:
  • https://doi.org/10.1080/17450101.2012.659472
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• Supplemental Notes:
  • Abstract reprinted with permission from Taylor and Francis.
• Authors:
  • De Sapio, Joseph
• Publication Date: 2013-5

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: References;
• Pagination: pp 201-219
• Serial:
  • Mobilities
  • Volume: 8
  • Issue Number: 2
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISSN: 1745-0101
  • EISSN: 1745-011X
  • Serial URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rmob20

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Communities; Crashes; Delays; Mobility; Passenger transportation; Railroad traffic; Railroad trains
• Geographic Terms: United Kingdom
• Subject Areas: Operations and Traffic Management; Railroads; I70: Traffic and Transport;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01499190
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Nov 21 2013 9:14AM