Bailey, Walter 99, 151, 193, 194 Bailie, the, Glasgow 61, 79 Baillie, G L 110 "Balfours Act"--Light railways, Ireland 107 Ballinasloe Fair 125 Barrington, Croker 179, 190 Bateman, Sir Alfred, K.C.M.G. 201 "Battle of the Gauges" 52 Beach, Sir Michael Hicks 142 Beaux 77, 98 Belfast and County Down Railway 91, 94 Belgium, a tour in 113 Benedict, a youthful 25 Benefit Society, Midland Great Western Railway 130 "Bigg's General Railway Acts" 48 Birt, Sir William 153 Block working 106 Board of Trade inquiry as to railway rates 104 Board of Trade, the 139 Bowring, the Hon Sir Edgar 202 Boyhood, pleasures and amusements 7 Boyhood, Schoolmaster "Jessie" 9 Bridge Street Station, Glasgow 47, 66 Brother to a baronet 45 Browne, Balfour, K.C 150, 155, 159, 160, 180 Buchanan Street Station, Glasgow 40 Buncrana to Carndonagh Railway 152 Burns, Mr. John (Lord Inverclyde) 73, 133 Burtonport Railway 152, 215 Bushe, Seymour 155, 159 Butterley Tunnel, the 29 Butterworth, Sir Alexander 105 Caledonian Railway Stores Superintendent 32, 44 Cambuslang, our lodgings at 42, 43 Campbell, Donald 201 Campbell, the Right Hon. Sir James, Baronet, Lord Chancellor of Ireland 180 Cane, Arthur B 192 Carlyle, Thomas 80 Carriages, four-wheeled 5 Carriages, second-class, abolition of 38 Carriers' Act, the 1830 49 "Champagne Charley" coats 19 Charles Lamb, "plumb pudding" 49 Cheap Trains Act, 1883 89 City of Dublin Junction Railway 120 City of Glasgow Bank, failure of 76 Clerks in office, Derby 23 Colhoun, R G 137, 153 Collier, Dr. 110 Committee Rooms, Westminster 135, 136 Committee, Select, 1840 50 Companies Clauses Act, 1845 51 Competitive traffic 65 Concealed bed, a 40 Connemara 129, 173 Constantinople 162 Contagious Diseases (Animals) Act, 1878 88 Continuous brakes, a trial of, at Newark 87 Continuous Brakes Act, 1878 87, 106 Conveyance of Mails, Railways, Act, 1838 50 Cook, Thomas, & Son 170 Cooper, David 68 Cork, Blackrock & Passage Railway 170 Cotton, Edward John 97, 98, 115, 122 Country walks 18, 30 Cowie, James 199 Cromford Canal and Butterley Tunnel 28 Culverwell, G P 152 Curtsey, the 18 Cusack, Major H C 175, 199 Cusack, Sir Ralph 113, 116, 117, 118, 119, 129, 136, 138, 175 Cynicus 42, 43, 78, 126 D'Abernon, Lord 200 Dan Godfrey's band 62 Dargan, William 124 Delicate health 5, 17, 21, 91, 181 Dent, Charles 174 Derby, General Manager's Office 57 Dickens, Charles 8, 17, 30 Dickie, David 65 Directors, railway 34 Directorship, my first 194 Diseases of Animals Act, 1894 144 Drudgery of the desk 29 Dublin & Kingstown Railway, opposition to 195 Dublin & South Eastern Railway 157 Dundreary whiskers 19 Dunoon, bazaar at 42 Edinburgh 41, 44 Egypt and the Nile 170 Elliott, Thomas 120 Employers' Liability Act, 1880 88 Engineer, Midland Railway 32