''Bradshaw's'' was a series of railway
timetables
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and travel
guide book
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s published by W.J. Adams and later Henry Blacklock, both of
London
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. They are named after founder
George Bradshaw
George Bradshaw (29 July 1800 – 6 September 1853) was an English cartographer, printer and publisher. He developed Bradshaw's Guide, a widely sold series of combined railway guides and timetables.
Biography
Bradshaw was born at Windsor Brid ...
, who produced his first timetable in October 1839. Although Bradshaw died in 1853, the range of titles bearing his name (and commonly referred to by that alone) continued to expand for the remainder of the 19th and early part of the 20th century, covering at various times
Continental Europe
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,
India
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,
Australia
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and
New Zealand
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, as well as parts of the
Middle-East
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. They survived until May 1961, when the final monthly edition of the British guide was produced.
The British and Continental guides were referred to extensively by presenter
Michael Portillo
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in his multiple television series.
Early history
Bradshaw's name was already known as the publisher of ''Bradshaw's Maps of Inland Navigation'', which detailed the
canal
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s of
Lancashire
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and
Yorkshire
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, when, on 19 October 1839, soon after the introduction of railways, his Manchester company published the world's first compilation of railway timetables. The cloth-bound book was entitled ''Bradshaw's Railway Time Tables and Assistant to Railway Travelling'' and cost
sixpence (p). In 1840 the title was changed to ''Bradshaw's Railway Companion'', and the price raised to
one shilling. A new volume was issued at occasional intervals and from time to time a supplement kept this up to date. The original Bradshaw publications were published before the limited introduction of standardised
Railway time
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in November 1840, and its subsequent development into
standard time
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. The accompanying map of all lines in operation (and some "in progress") in
England
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and
Wales
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, is cited as being the world's first national railway map.
![Bradshaw's Railway Timetables 1839 - Cover](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f0/Bradshaw%27s_Railway_Timetables_1839_-_Cover.jpg)
In December 1841, acting on a suggestion made by his London agent, William Jones Adams, Bradshaw reduced the price to the original sixpence, and began to issue the guides monthly under the title ''Bradshaw's Monthly Railway Guide''.
Many railway companies were unhappy with Bradshaw's timetable, but Bradshaw was able to circumvent this by becoming a railway shareholder and by putting his case at company AGMs.
Soon the book, in the familiar yellow wrapper, became synonymous with its publisher: for Victorians and Edwardians alike, a railway timetable was "a Bradshaw", no matter by which railway company it had been issued, or whether Bradshaw had been responsible for its production or not.
![1850 Bradshaw Whitby](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3d/1850_Bradshaw_Whitby.jpg)
The eight-page edition of 1841 had grown to 32 pages by 1845 and to 946 pages by 1898 and now included maps, illustrations and descriptions of the main features and historic buildings of the towns served by the railways. In April 1845, the issue number jumped from 40 to 141:
the publisher claimed this was an innocent mistake, although it has been speculated as a commercial ploy, where more advertising revenue could be generated by making it look longer-established than it really was. Whatever the reason for the change, the numbering continued from 141.
When in 1865 ''
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'' praised Bradshaw's publications, it stated that "seldom has the gigantic intellect of man been employed upon a work of greater utility."
At last, some order had been imposed on the chaos that had been created by some 150 rail companies whose tracks criss-crossed the country and whose largely uncoordinated network was rapidly expanding.
Bradshaw minutely recorded all changes and became the standard manual for rail travel well into the 20th century.
By 1918 Bradshaw's guide had risen in price to two shillings (10p) and by 1937 to half a crown (12½p). Although historic money values are difficult to calculate, this would have been equivalent to perhaps £6.00 at 2009 values.
Later history
Bradshaw's timetables became less necessary from 1923, when more than 100 surviving companies were "grouped" into the
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.
[ This change reduced dramatically the range and number of individual timetables produced by the companies themselves. They now published a much smaller number of substantial compilations which between them covered the country.
Between 1923 and 1939 three of the Big Four transferred their timetable production to Bradshaw's publisher Henry Blacklock & Co., and most of the official company timetables therefore became reprints of the relevant pages from Bradshaw. Only the ]Great Western Railway
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retained its own format.
Between the two world war
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s, the verb 'to Bradshaw' was a derogatory term used in the Royal Air Force
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to refer to pilots who could not navigate well, perhaps related to a perceived lack of ability shown by those who navigated by following railway lines
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.
When the railways were nationalised in 1948, five of the six British Railways Regions followed the companies' example by using Blacklock to produce their timetable books, but production was eventually moved to other publishers. This change must have reduced Blacklock's revenue substantially. Parts of Bradshaw's guide began to be reset in the newer British Railways style from 1955, but modernisation of the whole volume was never completed. By 1961 Bradshaw cost 12s 6d (62½p), and a complete set of BR Regional timetables could be bought for 6s (30p).
The conclusion was inevitable, and the last edition, No. 1521, was dated May 1961. ''The Railway Magazine
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'' of that month printed a valedictory article by Charles E. Lee.
Reprints of various Bradshaw's guides have been produced.
References in literature
19th-century and early 20th-century novelists make frequent references to a character's "Bradshaw". Dickens
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refers to it in his short stories "The Portrait-Painter's Story" (1861) and "Mrs Lirriper's Lodgings" (1863). In Jules Verne's ''Around the World in 80 Days
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'', Phileas Fogg
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...
carries a Bradshaw. In W. Somerset Maugham
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's "The Book Bag" the narrator states "I would sooner read the catalogue of the Army and Navy Stores or Bradshaw's Guide than nothing at all, and indeed have spent many delightful hours over both these works"
Crime writer
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The crimes most commonly include murder; about 40 per ...
s were fascinated with trains and timetables, especially as a new source of alibi
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s. Examples are Ronald Knox
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's ''The Footsteps at the Lock'' (1928) and novels by Freeman Wills Crofts
Freeman Wills Crofts FRSA (1 June 1879 – 11 April 1957) was an Irish mystery author, best remembered for the character of Inspector Joseph French.
A railway engineer by training, Crofts introduced railway themes into many of his stories, whi ...
. One mention is by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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in the Sherlock Holmes
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story ''The Valley of Fear
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'': "the vocabulary of Bradshaw is nervous and terse, but limited." Other references include another Sherlock Holmes story, "The Adventure of the Copper Beeches
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"; Lewis Carroll
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's long poem ''Phantasmagoria
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''; and Bram Stoker
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's ''Dracula
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'', which makes note of Count Dracula reading an "English Bradshaw's Guide" as part of his planning for his voyage to England. In the 1866 comic opera
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''Cox and Box
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'', the following exchange takes place:
:BOX: Have you read this month's ''Bradshaw'', sir?
:COX: No, sir. My wife wouldn’t let me.
There is also a reference in ''Death in the Clouds
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'' (1935) by Agatha Christie
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: "Mr Clancy, writer of detective stories ... extracted a Continental Bradshaw from his raincoat pocket ... to work out a complicated alibi." Bradshaw is also mentioned in her ''The Secret Adversary''. In Daphne du Maurier
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's ''Rebecca
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'' (1938), the second Mrs de Winter observes that "Some people have a vice of reading Bradshaws. They plan innumerable journeys across country for the fun of linking up impossible connections." (chapter 2). Another reference is in an aside in ''Riddle of the Sands
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'' (1903) by Erskine Childers: "... an extraordinary book, Bradshaw, turned to from habit, even when least wanted, as men fondle guns and rods in the close season."
In G. K. Chesterton
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's ''The Man Who Was Thursday
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Plot summary
Chesterton prefixed the novel with a poem written to Edmund Clerihew Bentley, revisiting the ...
'', the protagonist Gabriel Syme praises Bradshaw as a poet of order: "No, take your books of mere poetry and prose; let me read a time table, with tears of pride. Take your Byron, who commemorates the defeats of man; give me Bradshaw, who commemorates his victories. Give me Bradshaw, I say!" In Max Beerbohm
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's ''Zuleika Dobson
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'' (1911), a satirical fantasy of Oxford undergraduates, a Bradshaw is listed as one of the two books in the "library" of the irresistible Zuleika.
Anthony Trollope
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refers to Bradshaw's in ''Barchester Towers
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'' and ''The Warden
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''The Warden'' concerns Mr Septimus Ha ...
''.
Bradshaw is mentioned in modern novels with a period setting, and in Philip Pullman
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's ''The Shadow in the North'' (Sally Lockhart
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Quartet).
In Jerome K. Jerome
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's 1891 novel ''Diary of a Pilgrimage
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Itinerary
They travel by train from London Victoria to Dover ...
'', contains an aside called A Faithful Bradshaw. This section describes a comical incident where the author always gets misled by referring to outdated guides.
In the Terry Pratchett
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Discworld novel “Raising Steam,” Moist Von Lipwig meets a Mrs. Georgina Bradshaw who subsequently begins writing guides to rail destinations for the Ankh-Morpork and Sto Lat Hygienic Railway.
''Bradshaw's Continental Railway Guide''
In June 1847 the first number of ''Bradshaw's Continental Railway Guide'' was issued, giving the timetables of the Continental railways. It grew to over 1,000 pages, including timetables, guidebook and hotel directory. It was discontinued in 1914 at the outbreak of the First World War. Briefly resurrected in the interwar years, it saw its final edition in 1939. The 1913 edition was republished in September 2012. A travel documentary series named '' Great Continental Railway Journeys'' has been made based on the 1913 edition.
Bradshaw's and other printed timetables today
In December 2007, Middleton Press took advantage of Network Rail
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's willingness to grant third-party publishers the right to print paper versions of the National Rail timetable
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. Network Rail had discontinued official hard copies in favour of PDF
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editions, which could be downloaded free of charge.
As a tribute to Bradshaw, Middleton Press named its timetables the ''Bradshaw-Mitchell's Rail Times''. A competing edition reproduced from Network Rail's artwork, is published by TSO, This is a same-size reproduction of the Network Rail artwork, although the size is only about 70% in the Middleton Press versions to reduce the page count. A third publisher, UK Rail Timetables, The main timetable for Indian Railways
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is still known as the ''Newman Indian Bradshaw''.
List of Bradshaw's by geographic coverage
British Isles
Timetables
Bradshaw's monthly railway and steam navigation guide for Great Britain and Ireland, 1844:May - No. 30
Bradshaw's monthly railway and steam navigation guide for Great Britain and Ireland, 1845:July - No. 144
Bradshaw's monthly railway and steam navigation guide for Great Britain and Ireland, 1846:June - No. 155
Bradshaw's monthly railway and steam navigation guide for Great Britain and Ireland, 1847:March - No. 164
Bradshaw's general railway and steam navigation guide for Great Britain and Ireland, 1855:February - No. 259
Bradshaw's general railway and steam navigation guide for Great Britain and Ireland, 1855:August - No. 265
Bradshaw's general railway and steam navigation guide for Great Britain and Ireland, 1857:July - No. 288
Bradshaw's general railway and steam navigation guide for Great Britain and Ireland, 1858:January - No. 294
Bradshaw's general railway and steam navigation guide for Great Britain and Ireland, 1858:August - No. 301
Bradshaw's general railway and steam navigation guide for Great Britain and Ireland, 1859:January - No. 306
Bradshaw's general railway and steam navigation guide for Great Britain and Ireland, 1859:July - No. 312
Bradshaw's general railway and steam navigation guide for Great Britain and Ireland, 1860:January - No. 318
Bradshaw's general railway and steam navigation guide for Great Britain and Ireland, 1860:July - No. 324
Bradshaw's general railway and steam navigation guide for Great Britain and Ireland, 1861:January - No. 330
Bradshaw's general railway and steam navigation guide for Great Britain and Ireland, 1861:July - No. 336
Bradshaw's general railway and steam navigation guide for Great Britain and Ireland, 1862:January - No. 342
Bradshaw's general railway and steam navigation guide for Great Britain and Ireland, 1863:January - No. 354
Bradshaw's general railway and steam navigation guide for Great Britain and Ireland, 1865:July - No. 384
Bradshaw's general railway and steam navigation guide for Great Britain and Ireland, 1866:July - No. 396
Bradshaw's general railway and steam navigation guide for Great Britain and Ireland, 1877:June - No. 527
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Bradshaw's general railway and steam guide for Great Britain and Ireland, 1887:August
Bradshaw's general railway and steam navigation guide for Great Britain and Ireland, 1891:March - No. 692
Bradshaw's general railway and steam navigation guide for Great Britain and Ireland, 1896:June - No. 755
Bradshaw's general railway and steam guide for Great Britain and Ireland, 1910:April
Bradshaw's Guide for Great Britain and Ireland, 1944:March - No. 1328
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* ''Bradshaw's Guide to Victoria (Australia)
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