Railway Archive Issues 11-20 (ISSN
1477-5336)
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The Railway in the landscape. 2-3.
Britannia bridge across Menai Strait, c1890.
Christensen, Mike. Annan (Shawhill) and the Solway
Viaduct. 4-18.
Solway Junction Railway: constructed to link the Caledonian Railway
at Kirtlebridge with the railways accessing to the Cumbrian iron ore supplies,
thus avoiding congestion in Carlisle. The main feature of the line was a
lightly constructed viaduct across the Solway which was seriously damaged
by ice. The line opened to Annan in 1869, but the viaduct was not opened
to passenger traffic until 8 July 1870. Running powers over the NBR Silloth
branch from Kirkbride Junction to Abbey Junction enabled the CR to reach
the Maryport & Carlile line at Brayton in Cumberland. Severe ice damage
to the viaduct in Januatu 1881 led to closure until 1884. The viaduct closed
during the latter part of WW1 and reopened briefly in 1920 and finally closed
in 1921. The Annan branch survivedd longer..
Map (skeletal) | 4 |
Viaduct looking north from shore (DSM Barrie), Rly Mag, 1932 January | 5 |
Viaduct looking north from bridge deck c1930 | 6u |
Viaduct decking | 6l |
Viaduct looking south | 7u |
gap in decking looking down onto girders and Solway | 7l |
Bowness station looking towards junction with NBR | 8 |
Compound and Manson 4-6-0 on express passing junction between former GSWR & Solway Junction Rly | 9u |
Annan (Shawhill) | 9l |
CR 4-4-0T No. 15027 at Annan (Shawhill) | 10 |
CR 4-4-0T No. 15027 off rails at Annan whilst shunting | 11 |
CR 4-4-0T No. 15027 enlargement of sun device on smokebox door | 11e |
CR 4-4-0T No. 15027 approaching Annan with single coach | 12 |
CR 4-4-0T No. 15027 approaching Annan on mixed train | 13u |
CR 4-4-0T No. 15027 same train with its crew on arrival | 13l |
CR 4-4-0T No. 15027 pauses between shunting at Kirtlebridge (excellent view of locomotive) | 14u |
CR 4-4-0T No. 15027 leaving Annan with long mixed train | 14m |
CR 0-6-0 No. 17101 (Neilson, 1868) No. 17101 at Annan with single coach | 14l |
17101 at Annan with Barrie and Aston? authors of Rly Mag article. | 15ul |
Oban bogie 4-4-0 with four-wheel tender at Annan | 15ur |
Dunalastair II 4-4-0 No. 14432 with single coach approaching Annan (not Dunalastair II but Pickersgill 113: see letters from Jim MacIntosh and Bill Aves: 12 p. 70) | 15l |
train above at Annan Shawhill with nameboard giving full name rather than Annan (J.J. Cunningham) | 16 |
Ordnance Survey plan 1903: Annan station | 17 |
Pickersgill 113 class No. 14432 at Annan | 18u |
Pickersgill 4-4-0 No. 14463 with mixed train on last day of passenger service: 25 April 1931 | 18l |
Fly shunted 1. [Atbara class 3382 Mafeking at Pontypool
Road]. 19.
John Alsop forwarded postcard view: see also
front cover and
page 86 lower in Issue 9.
Fidczuk, Peter. Gas by rail Part 2: Imperial Chemical
Industries. 20-41.
Covers the period from 1930 to the 1950s when ICI was the major producer
and transporterr of chlorine. The Department of Scientific & Industrial
Research (DSIR) recommended that water gas welding should be employed in
the construction of pressure vessels for chlorine. See
also letter in Issue 12 p. 70 from Albyn Austin noting Hornby Dublo of
chlorine tank and comment on renumbering of tanks.
Down postal [correspondence]. 42.
Some GN corrections. Allan Sibley.
See Issue 10 page 7:
concerning caption: K1 0-8-0 haulage capacity was 52 loaded
wagons on the up jouney; Confirms NLR origins of coach visible in
picture on p. 20 (Issue 10); suggests that
caption is incorrect for picture of page 88 lower: Michael Vanns Illustrated
history of Great Northern Railway signalling (2000) states that GNR signal
boxes were built by signalling contractors but to GNR designs. Also adds
information about orientation of NER 4-4-0 (page
10) and mishap involving Hornsey water tank
(page 12 upper).
Lancaster L&Y. Alan Cliff.
See illustration Issue 10 p. 67
upper: argues that Lancaster Midland Railway shed was
improbable location for LYR 4-4-0
More on the Hull & Barnsley card. Mick
Nicholson.
See Issue 10 p. 41 letter from Nick
Fleetwood: states that probably No. 34 at Leeds Wellington Street 9 June
1906.
2F or not 2F. Tom Lloyd.
See Issue 10 p. 50
top: not NSR E class, but MR 2F
Memories of Harringay and Hornsey. R. Hawkins.
See Issue 10: p. 12
lower caption refers to Henry Stirling!; Remaining
observations relate to text (begins p. 4)
p. 24 footpath to Dagmar Road not closed until about 1958. Also mentions
a "tunnel". These issues led to a response from A.A.
Jackson on p. 70 of Issue 12
Rugby to Leicester. D. Horne.
See Issue 9 page 86
upper: could not be a train for Leicester as signalling
did not permit a move in that direction
Old Pontypool Road. Desmond Coakham
See Issue 10 page 40 letter from Ian
Griffiths referring back to
front cover of Issue 9 (painting of train
at Pontypool Road)
North London carriage. Michael V.E. Dunn
See RA 10 page 20:
NLR vehicle
Pouteau update RA 10. Barry C. Lane
See feature in 10 page 65 et
seq: Interesting letter in that it comments upon L&YR
locomotive classification and approves of the avoidance of Rush's system
(which was not an official classication: that used numbers as employed by
the GWR). Also observations on caption writers notes on painting over of
brasswork on splashers, and specific note on illus.
on page 74 lower: tender weatherboards
were provided to protect footplates crews from water spilling from fillers
at front of tenders.
Stirling 8ft single 4-2-2 No, 1006 at Nottingham Victoria in April 1906 | 44u |
C1 4-4-2 No. 1404 leaving turntable at Nottingham Victoria c1905 | 44m |
Small boilered Atlantic No. 258 at Nottingham Victoria | 44b |
Stirling 120 class 0-4-4BT at Nottingham Victoria on Shirebrook train 1906 | 45u |
6ft 6in 2-4-0 No. A291 at Nottingham Victoria on 8 January 1909 | 45l |
D2 4-4-0 No. 1360 at Nottingham Victoria c1912 | 46u |
206 class 2-4-0 No. 204 at Gedling c1908 with passenger train for Basford | 46l |
L1 0-8-2T No. 137 at Ilkeston with miners' train | 47 |
78 class 2-4-0 No. 78 at Daybrook with passenger train for Nottingham Victoria on 5 September 1909 | 48u |
0-4-4BT No. 516 at Daybrook on 16 May 1912 with train for miners (colliers) | 48l |
D2 4-4-0 No. 316 at Daybrook with two bogie corridor coaches for Nottingham Victoria on 23 September 1912 | 49u |
J15 0-6-0ST shunting at Daybrook on 23 September 1912 | 49l |
369 class 0-6-0 No. 197 at Basford & Bulwell with train of 6-wheel carriages, c1910 | 50u |
G1 0-4-4T No. 822 at Basford & Bulwell with passenger train for Pinxton, c1920 | 50l |
J22 0-6-0 No. 35 at Basford & Bulwell with miners' train on 1 May 1913. See also letters in Issue 12 page 70 from Michael Hardy concerning unacceptable name given to this train which carried colliers and which suggests extent of original photographic collection, and from R.H. Horn concerning livery of J22 class (probably Gresley grey). | 51u |
G1 0-4-4T No. 940 at Basford & Bulwell c1912 | 51l |
D2 4-4-0 No. 1353 at Basford & Bulwell on 18 December 1910 | 52u |
K1 0-8-0 No. 410 at Basford & Bulwell c1912 | 52l |
K1 0-8-0 No. 448 at Basford & Bulwell c1920 | 53 |
1061 series 2-4-0 No. 1062 at Basford & Bulwell on 11 May 1913 | 54u |
Small Atlantic No. 985 in Basford & Bulwell bay platform with corridor stock | 54l |
Small Atlantic No. 259 at Basford & Bulwell in 1912 | 55u |
1031 series 0-6-0 No. 1035 at Daybrook on freight on 5 June 1913 | 55l |
Fly shunted 2. 56.
Cheltenham Leckhampton
Looking west in 1953
Midland Railway wagon works.
but where
Alsop, John. Pouteau listings. Part 11: The London,
Brighton & South Coast Railway. Part 1. 57-76.
B4 4-4-0 No. 58 Kitchener at London Bridge, c1904 | 58u |
B1 0-4-2 Hayling and B class 2-4-0 Bickersteth at Victoria | 58l |
G class 2-2-2 No. 326 Grosvenor on down passener train at Balham c1906 (NB six-wheel carriage with central lavatory) | 59 |
D1 0-4-2T Wallington at New Cross shed, c1905 | 60u |
B2 4-4-0 on Pullman train near Balham | 60m |
B2 4-4-0 No. 207 Brunel near Balham | 60b |
G class 2-2-2 No. 326 Grosvenor on train of 4-wheel empty stock at Three Bridges | 61u |
E4 0-6-2T No. 580 Sharmanbury (photographer may have been F. Burtt) | 61l |
E4 0-6-2T No. 490 Bohemia (lever reverse clearly visible) at London Bridge | 63u |
E4 0-6-2T No. 491 Hangleton at London Bridge with Stephenson Vlark 7-plnk wagon No. 3575 in background | 63l |
A1 Terrier No. 673 Deptford at Brighton on Kemp Town train | 64u |
D1 No. 239 Patcham derailed on freight train at Cocking on 9 September 1904 | 64l |
G class 2-2-2 No. 326 Grosvenor on short down Pullman train at Balham in 1907 | 65u |
H1 4-4-2 No. 41 inside Victoria | 65l |
G class 2-2-2 No. 326 Grosvenor on Littlehampton shed | 66 |
D1 No. 275 Cranleigh | 67u |
E1 0-6-0T No. 119 Rochelle at Lewes | 67l |
A1 Terrier No. 643 with balloon coach at Brighton | 68u |
2-2-2 No. 325 Abergavenny in Lewes station with train including carriage on carriage truck | 68m |
B2 No. 213 Bessemer at Three Bridges | 68l |
C3 0-6-0 No. 302 at Brighton | 69u |
C2 0-6-0 No. 536 at Brighton | 69l |
B4 4-4-0 No. 53 Richmond at Westbourne Park | 70ul |
I1 4-4-2T No. 597 departing Paddington for Brighton in 1906 | 70ur |
A1 Terrier No. 82 Boxhill running as 2-4-0T | 70l |
E5 No. 399 Middleton running as 2-4-2T | 71u |
B4 No. 73 at Fratton | 71l |
B4 No. 55 Emperor on Sunny South Express (LNWR stock) at Balham: photograph probably by C.A. Copping | 72u |
B4 No. 60 Kimberley at East Croydon | 72l |
B1 0--4-2 departing Littlehampton with semi-fast | 73 |
C2 0-6-0 No. 524 (Vulcan class) | 74 |
B4 No. 49 inside Victoria station. See also letter in 12 p.70 from M. Back on electrical depression bars. | 75u |
B1 0-4-2 No. 189 Edmund Blount (had nameplates been removed) with Hammond air-heating apparatus at Brighton | 75l |
Victoria station with D1 arriving | 76u |
H1 4-4-2 No. 40 | 76l |
Digby, Nigel J.L. Marriott reinforced concrete signal
posts. 77-85.
William Marriott of the Midland & Great Northern Joint Railway
manufactured ferro-concrete fence posts, and from 1915 signal posts, at Melton
Constable. During WW1 he was asked by the Government to develop building
blocks for postwar housing. Suggests that when LNER took over the MGNJR the
formers and instructions were taken to Lowestoft and "quietly forgotten"
possibly due to patents rights, although before that concrete signal posts
had been employed on other railways; Illus.: Melton Constable bracket signal
1922; Melton West advanced starter for Cromer line; Melton bracket signal
and concrete telegraph post, portrait of William Marriott with beard (suggests
wife forced him to grow one, but North Norfolk winters more likely cause).
Marriott's "trade mark" on gate post; concrete casting works at Melton Constable;
double arm signal at Eye Green (also concrete sleepers with bullhead rail).
extant signal post at Sheringham West down distant (fully exposed to breezes
from Spitsbergen) and diagram. See also letter from Allan
Silbey (Issue 12 p. 69) concerning "siting committee" which gives interesting
information on work of sighting committee to ensure correct location of colour
light searchlight signals on Lea Valley Line, especially on sharp curves
in Clapton area..
Parkhouse, Neil. Wish you were here? Railway postcards of Shropshire. 86-95.
States Ironbridge (but is Coalport Bridge) c1908 looking over Severn to LNWR Coalport station. See flood of letters in Issue 12 from Michael Dunn Richard Bradley, Alan Rhodes and Peter Swift (presumably all visitors to the nearby pub) also spotted error. | 86 |
Ironbridge c1906 looking north with station (roof under repair) and 2-4-0 on passenger train heading west: town behind | 87 |
Coalport station (GWR Severn Valley line) c1910 | 88u |
Eardington station: GWR | 88l |
Abdon Clee Quarry: Manning Wardle (626/1876) 0-6-0ST Trent with train of internal wagons, c1909 | 89 |
Tenbury station (in Shropshire) with steam railmotor (railcar) and Class 517 0-4-2T, c1908 | 90u |
Craven Arms station with standard goods 0-6-0 No. 453 heading south and LNWR gas tank wagon in a bay, c1906 | 90l |
Broome station (LNWR): also reproduced Br. Rly J., 1993, 5, (47), 332-3: caption therein noted sombre nature of passengers | 91u |
Horderley on Bishops Castle Railway in 1920s with lady on platform and Kitson 0-6-0 Carlisle in late 1920s? | 91m |
Bishop's Castle station with train of ex-LNWR chain brake 4-wheel carriages | 91b |
Plealey Road station with party of Methodists: shows twin signal arm slotted signal and level crossing | 92u |
Minsterley terminus station | 92l |
Kinnerley station, Shropshire & Montgomeryshire Railway with Ilfracombe Goods on mixed train, 1920s | 93u |
No. 3824 County of Cornwall crossing Severn Bridge Junction (signal box behind) at Shrewsbury: pre-WW1 date suggested: KPJ favours 1920s | 93m |
Baschurch station | 93l |
Hadnall station | 94u |
Adderley station looking north c1910 | 94m |
Hodnet station c1905 | 94l |
Horsehay station c1910 | 95u |
Coalbrookdale station c1910 | 95m |
Rushbury station | 95l |
Fly shunted 3: Bridgnorth. 96
c1875 view looking towards tunnel of station (looking very new) with
town above, timber traffic in station awaiting loading, road down to Severn
and two churches all clearly visible: remarkable clarity.
The Railway in the landscape [Royal Albert Bridge]. 2-3
c1865: looking towards Saltash
Mullay, A.J. and Neil Parkhouse. Oil for coal:
the plan to convert British steam locomotives to oil fuel, 1945-48. 4-15;
62-8.
Due to a severe shortage of coal in the immediate post-WW2 period
the railways were encouraged to adopt oil-firing in spite of a shortage of
finance to pay for the oil. This was part of Britain's desperate economic
problems which faced or were created by the Attlee administration which came
to power in 1945. The GWR anticipated Government policy and was taking measures
to introduce oil firing and progress was sufficient to enable oil-firing
to be become moderately widespread as is shown by the illustrations. The
Southern was also fairly rapid in its implementation, again as is shown by
the illustartions. The LMS converted several locomotives (mainly 7F 0-8-0s),
but the LNER contribution was one locomotive (a WD 2-8-0). Inevitably, this
is mainly about conversion on the Great Western Railway, Text mentions
comversions on NCC (W class Mouls Nos. 100/1)
2-6-0 No. 6320 passes Gloucester Horton Road engine shed with express on 26 April 1947 (W. Potter) | 4 |
GER 2-4-0 No. 760 Petrolea | 5 |
converted tender for 2802 | 6 |
5955 Garth Hall modified ex-Swindon | 6 |
5955 Garth Hall on inaugural train | 6 |
5955 tender (ex-GWR Mag) | 7 |
5955 driver at controls (ex-GWR Mag) | 7 |
5955 at Paddington with Viscount Portal and Hawksworth (ex-GWR Mag) | 7 |
oil fuelling plant at Severn Tunnel Junction | 8 |
4808 (ex-2834) on mixed freight | 9 |
5083 Bath Abbey in December 1946 | 10u |
oil fuelling plant at Swindon in 1947 | 10l |
4856 (ex-3803) on passenger train at Reading probably in late 1947 (R.K. Blencowe) | 11u |
3904 (ex-4972) St Brides Hall passing Southall on up express on 20 September 1947 (A. Delicata) | 11m |
3954 (ex-5986) Arbury Hall in May 1947 | 11bl |
3903 (ex-4907) Broughton Hall at Old Oak Common in December 1947 (A. Delicata) | 11br |
diagrams of modifications to locomotive and tender from Loco. Rly Carr. Wagon Rev., 1947, 53, 15 March pp.12-13 | 12-13 |
T9 No. 114 at Eastleigh in late 1947 | 14u |
tender of N15 No. 740 Merlin at Eastleigh in 1948 (S.C. Townroe) | 14l |
N15 No. 749 Iseult at Eastleigh on 10 April 1948 (W. Gilburt) | 15u |
N No. 1831 at Eastleigh (B. Aswell) | 15m |
21C119 Bideford after fire in oil bath at Eastleigh in May 1948 (S.C. Townroe) | 15b |
T9 No. 280 in October 1947? (W. Gilburt) | 62u |
L11 No. 148 at Eastleigh in October 1947(W. Gilburt) | 62m |
L11 No. 148 at Andover Junction in 1948 (A.W.V. Mace) | 62l |
8F as WD 70300 at Crewe on 5 December 1948 (F.A.. Wycherley): see letter from John Edgington (13-59) which corrects caption: 8F not converted to oil fuel, but former NBL-constructed WD oil-burner returned to UK and LMR in April 1948 as 48246. Similar letter from Bill Aves (13-59) which also noted returned from Iran, stored at Crewe for over a year and entered service as 48246 in December 1949. | 63 |
3953 Leighton Hall at Olton on local passenger in 1948 | 64u |
4807 (ex-2848) climbing Dainton Bank with freight in late summer of 1947 (John Scott-Morgan) | 64m |
4808 at Plymouth Laira on 8 August 1948 | 64b |
100 A1 Lloyds piloting coal burning Hall on express on 24 June 1948 | 65u |
4855 (ex-3813) in sparrkling condition at Plymouth Laira | 65m |
5079 Lysander at Truro in January 1947 (O.S. Nock) See also Nock's Fifty years of Western running Table 85 p. 290 | 65b |
3955 Haberfield Hall at Newton Abbot on 3 August 1948 (W. Potter) | 66 |
L11 No. 157 at Eastleigh on 2 June 1951 (W. Potter) | 67t |
D15 No. 463 at Eastleigh on 2 June 1951(W. Potter) | 67um |
abandoned tanks at Swindon on 2 December 1951 | 67lm |
two LNWR tenders with tanks at Eastleigh c1951 (S.C. Townroe); see letter from Bill Aves (13-59) which cites Rly Obsr, 1947 (Oct) which noted that tenders converted for oil storage eraly in WW2. | 67b |
MacIntosh, Jim. Blue pigments and Caledonian
locomotives. 16-24.
The Caledonian Railway appears to have painted its locomotives in
both dark blue (which was probably very similar to the colour used by the
Great Eastern Railway) and in a lighter shade. Amongst the problems which
the author confronts are terminology (Royal blue, sky blue, the blue of the
Saltire, etc) and the very great difference in paints based upon ultramarine
and on Prussian blue. Like all colours perceptions are dependent upon, the
presence of other colours (the background colour of numberplates, for instance,
and in light intensities and overall backgrounds. Five books on paints and
pigments contemporary with the CR have been analysed to show the different
characteristics of paints based upn ultramarine and Prussian blue. The official
records have also been surveyed. The article is illustrated in both black
& white and in colour. See also letter from KPJ
(Issue 13 p. 60) concerning the quality of the lithographs reproduced
in the Railway Magazine.
fourteen Dunalastair I and II 4-4-0s at Carlisle Kingmoor on 7 September 1899 (day when works outing from St Rollox Works was to Carlisle). | 16 |
4-6-0 No. 50 Sir James Thompson (dark blue) from plate in Rly Mag. 1903, 13, facing page 89: name on centre splasher | 18 |
4-6-0 No. 54 (dark blue) leaving Oban on passenger train (Locomotive Publishing Co PC) F. Moore | 19t |
4-4-0 No. 780 (dark blue) on express (Raphael Tuck postcard) | 19um |
4-4-0 No. 140 (Caledonian Railway postcard) washed jeans blue | 19lm |
4-6-0 No. 50 Sir James Thompson (Caledonian Railway postcard) washed jeans blue: name on front splasher | 19b |
4-4-0 Dunalastair I No. 723 Victoria (light blue) | 20 |
4-4-0 No. 86 (dark blue) at Balornock | 21 |
CR 4-4-0 No. 769 (dark blue): colour plate Locomotive Mag., 1898, June: F. Moore | 22u |
GER 4-2-2 No. 10 (royal blue): colour plate Locomotive Mag., 1899, September: F. Moore | 22l |
CR 4-6-0 No. 903 Cardean (light blue): colour plate: Rly Mag., 1907, September | 23 |
CR 4-2-2 No. 123 (dark blue) with two light blue Dunalastair IIIs waiting Royal Train duty (123 as Royal pilot) b&w | 24 |
British express trains: a lantern lecture. 25-8.
A successful bid for several lots of lantern slides on e-Bay led to
the acquistion of eight coloured lantern slides from about 1910 and the lecture
notes which accompanied them. The slides are reproduced slightly larger than
the originals. Most of the slides bear a strong similarity to "F. Moore
paintings" and these probably formed the basis. Slide 8 is reproduced in
reverse as an examination in a mirror will show. The colour illustrations
are of a high standard as lantern slides, but not as reproductions of the
locomotives and trains concerned: NER Atlantic picking up water; LBSCR Atlantic
with Southern Belle; Midland compound with clerestory stock; Great Western
Star with Dreadnough rolling stock; GER Claude Hamilton leaving Liverpool
Street with Cromer express; Great Central Atlantic with express; SECR D class
with American Car boat train; LNWR Precursor on visit to USA (that is reproduced
back-to-front. Feature ends with a question relating to the unusual expression
of speeds adopted in the notes which Graham Beare (Issue
17 page 38) attempts to resolve.: see letter from
KPJ Issue 13 p, 60..
Some early notes on the Royal Albert Bridge,
Saltash. 28
Painting instructions
Pope, Ian. The Forest of Dean Central
Railway. 29-61.
Broad gauge line which set out to exploit the supposed coal reserves
in the centre of the Forest of Dean and hoped to construct a port for its
coal exports at Brimspill on the River Severn (not shown on meager map),
but ended at a junction with the South Wales Railway at Awre Junction. The
line served collieries at Wallsend (homograph) and Howbeech and passed through
Blakeney (Gloucs. and further homograph). The line beyond Blakeney closed
in 1932 and the residual stub closed in 1949. See also
letter from George Harris (13 page 60) who had walked
along remains in 1988 who found broad gauge rails in situ: also photo. of
Howbeach c1912. Further photographs of Wallsend
Collier, Howbeech in Issue 21 page 32..
Down Postal [letters]. 69-70.
Pouteau Great Western corrections. Peter Rich
Claims that illustration in Issue 7 page
64 upper cannot be No. 6433 City of Bath as claimed
in caption as the smokebox ring is tooo narrow; the nameplate is too far
from the boiler, the buffers are of the wrong type and the front step is
also doubtful, thus likely to be 1905. Also corrects caption notes to
illustration on page 65 lower (Issue 7):
the external piping was not for boiler feed, but for steam valves to injector;
No. 530 illustrated in 7 p. 58 confirms chocolate
livery and notes white or cream for cab interior and special lining applied.
In Issue 9 notes that on page 74 lower train
is probably for Birmingham and the North. Lastly
in Issue 9 page 87 Rich comments on steam fountain visible in
cab.
Back to Ferme Park & Harringay. Alan A. Jackson.
See Issue 11 p. 42 for letter from R.
Hawkins concerning footpath to Dagmar Road and "tunnel"
under mainline. Latter probably linked Harringey Houes with Hornsey station
and disappeared when earthworks formed for new freight yards.
M&GN concrete signals. Allan Sibley.
Mainly concerning "siting committee" which gives interesting information
on work of sighting committee to ensure correct location of colour light
searchlight signals on Lea Valley Line, especially on sharp curves in Clapton
area; iinspired by Nigel Digby feature in Issue 11
page.77.
Which Bridge?! Michael Dunn
See Issue 11 page 86 (Editor's
wish it was where it should have been): not Ironbridge as stated in caption,
but Coalport Bridge (over which one can still drive) with Coalport LNWR station
behind (to which one can cycle).
Which Bridge?! Richard Bradley
See Issue 11 page 86 as previous
Which Bridge?! Alan Rhodes
See Issue 11 page 86 notes incorrect orientation:
looking north not south
Which Bridge?! Peter Swift
See Issue 11 page 86 notes LNWR carriages in station
Getting in a Pickersgill. Jim MacIntosh
No. 14432 (Issue 11 photos: 15 lower,
16 and 18 upper) was not a Dunalastiar
II, but a Pickersgill 113 class: to distinguish note splasher type, square
spectacle glasses and snifting valves.
Getting in a Pickersgill. Bill Aves.
No. 14432 (Issue 11 photos: 15 lower,
16 and 18 upper) was not a Dunalastiar
II, but a Pickersgill locomotive based at Carlisle Kingmoor: noted that the
working showed the decine in status of this class
The Gillford Collection. Michael Hardy.
See Issue 11 page 51 upper concerns unacceptable
name to reproduce given to this train which carried colliers and which suggests
extent of original photographic collection,.
GNR goods locomotive livery. R.H. Horn.
See Issue 11 page 51 upper livery of J22 class
(probably Gresley grey.
Chlorine tanks. Albyn Austin.
See Issue 11 page 20 et seq: notes excellent
Hornby Dublo model and that ICI tanks were renumbered.
Electrical depression bars. M. Back.
See Issue 11 p. 75 (upper):
electrical depression bars at Victoria station
NER loco tenders. M.R. Grocock.
See Issue 10 page 11
upper: comment on tender fitted to Q class, both its design
and its livery (which included a garter around the coat of arms)
B2X 4-4-0 No. 317 approaches Brighton with Southern Belle: locomotive with indicator shelter, 1909? | 72u |
Pullman parlour brake Alberta, c1909. | 72l |
I3 class 4-4-2T No. 25 at speed south of Haywards Heath. | 73 |
B2 class 4-4-0 No. 209 near Plumpton. | 74u |
I2 4-4-2T No. 12. (W. Bennett). | 74l |
I3 4-4-2T No. 23 with train of clerestory Pullmans at Epsom Downs. | 75u |
B2 class 4-4-0 No. 317 and H1 4-4-2 No. 41 in Grosvenor Road carriage sidings, between 1906 and 1908. | 75l |
B4 class 4-4-0 No. 42 His Majesty passing Haywards Heath on express; turntable visible. | 76u |
B4 class 4-4-0 No. 48 Australia near Billingshurst. | 76l |
B4 No. 54 Princess Royal at Brighton: Bennett? August 1906 | 77u |
B4 No. 68 Marlborough at Grosvenor Rd on up Portsmouth express passing under electrification gantries | 77l |
A1 Terrier Boxhill (running as 2-4-0T) with balloon push & pull trailer for Brighton to Worthing working April 1905 | 78 |
Tunbridge Wells shed with E1 No. 128 Avignon and D1 No. 255 Willingdon, pre-1900 | 79 |
B1 0-4-2 No. 184 Stroudley in September 1906, Bennett? | 80u |
B2 4-4-0 No. 319 in umber livery | 80l |
D1 0-4-2T No. 221 with suburban bogie coaches at Kensington Addison Road | 81u |
D3 0-4-4T No. 394 Cowfield on turntable at Lewes | 81l |
E6 0-6-2T No. 407 at Edenbridge | 82u |
C1 0-6-0 No. 427 on Brighton shed c1900: see letter from John Edgington (13-59) which corrects caption: No. 430 was not sole Jumbo to survive Grouping as No. 428 sold to Stratford upon Avon & Midland Junction Railway in 1920 became its No. 7 and then LMS 2303 and not withdrawn until 1924 | 82l |
E4 0-6-2T No. 509 Southover at Hove West c1904 | 83u |
C2 0-6-0 No. 538 | 83l |
E5 0-6-2T running as 2-4-2T No. 587 c1906 | 84u |
I1 4-4-2T No. 600 at Victoriia on suburban train | 84l |
Alsop, John and Neil Parkhouse. Wish You Were Here?
Railway postcards of South West Scotland. 85-96.
See also letter from M.E. Quick (13 p. 59)
who noted that dates stated in captions for Girvan &
Portpatrick Junction line need to be corrected.
Largs station, c1908 with four trains in platforms, one of which hauled by a 4-4-0 consists of vans; | 85 |
Fairlie station, | 86u |
Imposing station at Saltcoats with crowds on both platforms (and train in down platform) c1906 | 86m |
Saltcoats accident (collision) of 18 August 1906 | 86l |
Saltcoats (Caledonian Railway) with Drummond 4-4-0 No. 60 running in with train to pick up crowds; | 87u |
Ardrossan South Beach station with Manson 4-4-0 with train of six-wheelers (notice "J. Morton Collector"), c1903; | 87l |
Loudonhill station on Strathaven & Darvel Railway, station dominated by drumlin to rear, and derrick presumably for handling timber; caption noted closure in 1909 and from 1917-22 and final in 1939 | 88u |
Galston station with train arriving | 88l |
Mauchline station with GSWR 4-4-0 (Class 8) No. 188 with local passenger train (graceful footbridge), c1906 | 89u |
Catrine branch opening on 1 September 1903 (train includes clerestory vehicle and dress of lady particpants is indicative of what persons of a certain class would wear to a railway opening, the two children present (of similar class) are also of interest, most of the men present appear to have been railway servants). See also letter from Ian Middleditch (13 page 59) on the opening day and the Shebeen (Director's reception room presumably with Johnny Walker on tap) and notes on steam railmotor); Peter Bunce (13-59) makes similar observations about shebeen and noted that a drawing had appeared in Model Rly News by F.W. Shuttleworth | 89l |
train used on opening day of Catrine branch hauled by Class 8 4-4-0 No. 112 (Alsop makes much of the bracket signal) | 90 |
New Cumnock station; | 91u |
Dalmellington station looking towards buffer stops and ironworks beyond, c1908; | 91m |
Monkton station c1910 with attractive footbridge | 91l |
Alloway station c1912; | 92u |
Kilkerran station c1910 showing freight yard with wagons from GNR, GCR and MR; | 92m |
Girvan station c1905: see letter from Sandy Mullay in Issue 13 p. 59 correcting caption and illustyrating new station building of 1951 | 92l |
Pinwherry station looking south | 93u |
1908; New Luce station c1905 | 93m |
Viaduct new Luce with angler in river and Stirling 4-4-0 crossing above: Peter Bunce (13-59) argues that CR train crossing with LNWR or WCJS brake at front. | 93l |
Garliestown Old Station with Wigtownshire Railway No. 1, possibly 1 March 1903: letter from Geoff Goslin (13 p. 59) claims to see ticket platform | 94u |
Millisle for Garlieston [sic] | 94l |
Wigtown station with CR Class 92 2-4-0 No. 97A | 95u |
Luce Viaduct with CR 4-4-0 hauling LNWR train over it | 95m |
Darracq-Serpollet steam bus owned by Portpatrick & Wigtownshire Railway outside Queens Hotel in Drummore 1907 or 1908 | 95l |
Stranraer station with Smellie 119 class 4-4-0 No. 127 arriving from east direction: Peter Bunce (13-59) states that rear van had six not four wheels | 96u |
Stranraer Harbour station with ferry alongside (but no trains) c1903. | 96l |
GSWR Connor 7ft class 42/30 2-4-0 with short train leaving
Portpatrick for Stranraer c1905: colour-tinted postcard. rear cover (upper)
See letter from Ian Middleditch: (13 page 59)
locomotive was a CR product!
Furnace Valley Blakeney, Forest of Dean: sepia? rear cover (lower)
The Railway in the landscape: Wiveliscombe GWR c1910. 2-3.
Church on page 2: Wiveliscombe station on extreme edge of page
3.
Turton, Keith. The early years of London's railway
coal trade. 4-39.
Much of the text is based on an article written by Hylton Dale, a
former director of Charrington, Gardner & Locket, the oldest established
firm in the London coal business published in the weekly trade paper Coal
Merchant and Shipper on 30 October 1926. Turton notes that although there
is an extensive literature on the sea-borne coal trade which used to exist
between Northumberland and Durham and the Thames little has been written
about railway involvement in bringing coal into London. Canal trade is briefly
mentioned (Jack mentioned how coke for the Camden depot of the London &
Birmingham Railway was brought by canal). Mentions the Company of Coal Meters
which became the Coal Meters Committee; the Coal Factors Society; the Coal
Porters Society and the Coal Exchange. George Locket was involved in bringing
Welsh coal to Mitcham brewery. Samuel Plimsoll (1824-98) was a coal merchant
who established the Yorkshire to London coal trade in association with the
GNR and Messrs Newton & Chambers.In 1867 there was a House of Lords
Parliamentary Inquiry into coal trade. Coal from Clay Cross was arriving
via the Blackwall Railway in 1854. The incipient North London Railway was
involved in bringing sea coal from Poplar Docks to locations in North London,
but it was the Great Northern and Midland Railways which encouraged the railway
transport of coal from the collieries to London (a trade which the GWR and
LNWR had deliberately discouraged). See also letter from
Michael J. Smith (14 p. 64): on page 22 herein there is a muddle concerning
the North & South West Junction Railway: it did not provide access to
the Widened Lines, but linked MR with LSWR. There is also muddle concerning
access from the MR to the Widened Lines via King's Cross and misuse of
Metropolitan for Metropolitan District Railway. The supposed River Ware (p.
29) must have been either the River Lea or the synonymous River Lee snorted
Paul Humphries (14 p. 81) from banks of the Stort.
Cyril Crawley (14 p. 81) argues that Park listed
as coal depot was solely an access to gasworks. Letter
from Keith Turton (Issue 19 page 52) gives further information about
Samuel Plimsoll, and the wagons he employed for the London coal trade
(information from Birmingham City Library, Archives & Heritage Section
(Access 2006/24, boxes 1-292) and from the records of the Midland Wagon Co..
...
Midland Railway Cambridge Street coal depot, Somers Town in March 1905: coal drops, horse drawn wagon traverer | 4 |
Windsor Castle in 1869 with 8 ton coal wagons from T.S. & C. Parry and Clay Cross Co. | 6 |
coal heavers at work (early 19th century engraving) | 7 |
sea-borne coal being unloaded at Thames wharf from Cory vessel by small steam crane and loaded into cart owned by G. Bavill | 8 |
Ordnance Survey plan: Holloway, Agar Town and St Pancras 1862 | 9 |
GNR Cambridge Street coal depot: diagram & plan | 10-11 |
GNR goods yard & warehouse; Regent's Canal. St Pancras gasholders | 12 |
Map King's Cross/St Pancras 1888 | 13 |
NLR Poplar Works with Hirwain Coal & Iron wagon; Sharp Steweart 2-4-0 No. 20 and NLR 4-4-0T No. 1 | 15 |
Wm Cory six plank end/side door being emptied rhough end door into vessel in Poplar Docks, 22 June 1898 | 16 |
Poplar Docks with coke wagon from Staffordshire Chemical Co., Bradwell Wood, Chatterley, NSR being tipped sideways | 17 |
coal transfer system from standard gauge to broad gauge at Wolverhampton, GWR | 18 |
MR Cambridge Street coal drops in March 1905 | 20 |
MR Cambridge Street depot inerior with J.K. Harrison being discharged through its botttom doors/traverser rails | 21 |
North London coal depot with Pinxton wagons: Huw Edwards (14-64) suggests MR at East India Dock | 22 |
Great Eastern Railway coal depot at Spitalfields: salt wagon from Premier Salt Works, Winsford | 23 |
Crystal Palace Low Levvel station with coal depot | 24 |
diagram of mechanism for side-tipping coal from wagon into vessel on dockside | 25 |
Earl of Dudley's canal basin at Brierley Hill with wharf for transshipment from wagon to barge | 26 |
diagram of coal tipping apparatus | 27 |
Walworth Road coal depot in 1950s | 28 |
Walter Moore's coal depot at Uxbridge | 29 |
Geo. J. Cockerell coal van | 30u |
Rickett Smith coal cart | 30m |
Cockerell coal van leaving depot during strike | 30l |
Birley Colliery wagon being unloaded | 31u |
unloading coal from top of wagon | 31m |
Cart belonging to Fellows, Morton & Clayton, probably during strike | 31l |
Delivery trolleyof Diamond Coal Co. | 32 |
Gloucester Railway Carriage & Wagon coal van for E. Draisey at GWR Acton coal depot | 33u |
Gloucester Railway Carriage & Wagon coal van for G. Bartrip of Chingford GER coal depot | 33l |
C.J. Cockerell & Co. | 5375 | 5 | s/b/e | P 1902 | 36 |
T.C. Freeman | 25 | 7 | s/e | P | 36 |
Green, Holland & Sons | 323 | 7 | s/e D | G 1883 | 36 |
Gamman, Son & Carter | 66 | 6 | s/b/e D | G 1870 | 36 |
J & C Harrison | 300 | 6 | s/b/e D | G 1881 | 37 |
Horne & Hinton | 120 | 7 | s/e D | G 1894 | 37 |
Henry Bradshaw | 59 | 5 | s/b/e D | G 1881 | 37 |
Henry Bradshaw | 83 | 5 | s/b/e D coke | G 1882 | 37 |
Jeayes Kasner | 95 | 6 | s D | G 1886 | 38 |
Locket & Judkins | 206 | 7 | s | G 1896 | 38 |
Tudhope & Sons | 30 | 6 | s | G 1884 | 38 |
L. Newell | 107 | 7 | s | P 1904 | 39 |
L. Newell | 98 | 6 | s/e | P 1906 | 39 |
L. Newell | 100 | 7 | s | P 1906 | 39 |
G.E. Wood & Sons | 1 | 6 | s/e | G 1885 | 39 |
Extensive correspondence in Issue 14 p.64: several (Nigel Lemon; Ron Allison and Michael Dunn) noted that Cargoes was written by John Masefield and not by Rudyard Kipling indicating that the Forest of Dean is not a leader in education); Harry Jack argues that the London & Birmingham Railway had a greater interest in the transport of coal than implied by Turton and opened sidings to handle coal at Kilburn in 1845 which received coal from Clay Cross and Ince Hall collieries. Larger fascilities were opened at Camden in 1851..
Swift, Peter H. The Drummond 'S11' Class 4-4-0s of
the London & South Western Railway. 40-53.
Mixed traffic design with 6ft coupled wheels and 5ft diameter boiler:
fireboxes orginally fitted with cross water tubes, but feedwater heaters
were not fitted. They had balanced crank axles. Intended for work west of
Salisbury. All ten were superheated between 1920 and 1922. Their Scottish
parallels are considered: the Caledonian 80 class of 1888, and Peter Drummond's
Ben and Big Ben types of 1898 and 1908 for the Highland Railway. All locomotives
in table are S11 unless noted otherwise (W indicates fitted with cross water
tubes: E=extended smokebox). Nick Pomfret (Issue 14 p.
81) considers that the Plymouth photographs were taken by F.
Pascoe.
395 at Plymouth Friary c1908 | W | 40 |
CR 80 class No. 82 at Gourock on up boat train, c1900: see letter from Jim MacIntosh (14-81): locomotive not in Drummond original state, for which see Cornwell p. 69 top | 41 | |
K10 137 at Nine Elms | W | 42 |
L11 30442 (BR lined black) at Eastleigh on 9 October 1948 | 43 | |
395 at Plymouth Friary | W | 44u |
398 at Exmouth Junction | W | 44l |
396 at Plymouth Friary | W | 45 |
400 at Plymouth Friary (left hand side) | W | 46u |
400 at Plymouth Friary (right hand side) | W | 46l |
402 at Plymouth Friary c1910 | W | 47u |
404 at Plymouth Friary c1905 | W | 47l |
395 on Waterloo to Exeter express west of Seaton Junction formed of non-corridor stock | W | 48u |
396 on Waterloo to Exeter express west of Seaton Junction formed partially of corridor stock | W | 48l |
unidentified S11 descending Honiton Bank with non-corridor stock probably on stoping train service | W | 49u |
unidentified S11 near Honiton with corridor express including clerestory dining car, thus post 1905 | W | 49m |
397 leaving Wnchester with up express c1904 | W | 49l |
395 on Waterloo to Southampton train via Alton on mainline south of Winchester Junction c1904 | W | 50u |
395 on Southampton to Waterloo train departing Winchester c1904 | W | 50l |
T9 piloting S11 on up express near Honiton Tunnel c1905 (T9 not fitted with cross water tubes) | W | 51u |
399 at Yeovil shed in 1930s | E | 51m |
30400 in fully lined BR black with stovepipe chimney | E | 51l |
Stirling, David. When Skye was the limit. 54-7.
Skye Bogie No. 48 on up midday mixed train east of Achnasheen c1910;
Skye Bogie No. 33 on freight at Achnasheen showing McKenzie & Holland
signals, c1910; Skye Bogie No. 34 with double deck cattl;e trucks for sheep
near Kyle of Lochalsh c1910; Strath 4-4-0 No. 100 Glenbruar on heavy
passenger special excursion train near Kyle of Lochalsh in 1907; Strome Ferry
Pier c1880
Fly shunted 1: Somerset & Dorset Railway 2-4-0 No.3.
58.
Supplied by George England in 1861 and photographed in 1862. See also
letters in Issue 15 page 43 from Russ Garner and
Gerry Nichols who attempt to postulate a location
(between Burnham and Templecombe, or in case of latter south of Bruton).
In case of former hints that might be on another railway. .
Down Postal [letters]. 59-60.
More on Catrine. Ian Middleditch.
See Issue 12 page 89 lower on the opening day
and the Shebeen (Director's reception room presumably with Johnny Walker
on tap) and notes on steam railmotor): also rear cover (upper)
of Issue 12: CR not GSWR locomotive!
South West Scotland observations. Peter Bunce
See Issue 12 page 89 lower makes similar
observations about shebeen and noted that a drawing by F.W. Shuttleworth
had appeared in Model Rly News; train on viaduct at New Luce
(12-93 lower) consisted of CR locomotive and either
LNWR or WCJS brake at front; Stranraer station (12-96
upper): van at rear of train had six wheels, two more than caption
stated
South West Scotland observations. M.E. Quick.
See postcard feature beginning page 85 (12):
dates quoted for Girvan & Portpatrick line stations in captions are
incorrect. Line opened to New Luce on 19 September 1877 and to Stranraer
on 5 October 1877. Dates came from Ayrshire Argus of 27 October. RAIL
1005/108 states 5 October.
Garlieston ticket platform. Geoff Goslin
See Issue 12 p. 94 upper surprised
at such a feature in such a small place, but noted that in 1930s tickets
for St Ives were collected at Carbis Bay.
Girvan's noo station. A.J. Sandy Mullay.
Illustration of Girvan station as rebuilt with style in 1951:
see caption relating to old building (12 page 92
lower)
'Oil for coal' some corrections. Bill Aves.
See Issue 12 p. 63: corrects caption:
8F not converted to oil fuel, but former NBL-constructed WD oil-burner returned
to UK from Iran and stored at Crewe for over a year, emerging as 48246 in
December 1949. Concerning LNWR tender stored at Eastleigh
(12-67 bottom) cites Rly Obsr, 1947 (Oct) which
noted that tenders converted for oil storage eraly in WW2.
Same writer adds a little non-information on page 45
of Issue 15..
Oil and Jumbos. John Edgington.
See Issue 12 p. 63: corrects caption:
8F not converted to oil fuel, but former NBL-constructed WD oil-burner returned
to UK and LMR in April 1948 as 48246. The Jumbo considered by LMS expert
was not CR type, but LBSCR Jumbo (12-82): corrects
caption: No. 430 was not sole Jumbo to survive Grouping as No. 428 sold to
Stratford upon Avon & Midland Junction Railway in 1920 became its No.
7 and then LMS 2303 and not withdrawn until 1924
LB&SC dockside queries. Nick Holliday.
Asks for information about sheer legs at Newhaven Harbour and how
the power was transmitted to the hydraulic cranes which worked there.
See response from Peter Barker in Issue 14 page
64
Deep in the Vorest! George Harris. 60
See feature on Forest of Dean Central Railway (12
page 29): had walked along remains in 1988 and found broad
gauge rails in situ above Howbeach and below Roman Bridge: also photo.
of Howbeach c1912..
Lantern slides. Kevin P. Jones
See Issue 12 page 25 et seq
for feature on lantern slides (last was reproduced
back-to-front) and feature on Caledonian blue by Jim MacIntosh
(page 16 et seq) for comment on lithographs in Rly Mag as reproduced
in Rly Arch.
Pontypool Road observations. Roger Martin-Mason.
See Issue 9 page 86 lower: Bulldog
4-4-0 No. 3344 Pluto with stopping train of clerestory non-corridor
stock. present writer wondered if in view of the splashing water (strictly
taboo) and the boater-hatted gentlemen whether the photo was some form of
theatrical publicity stunt..
Fly Shunted 2 ... 82.
Solway Viaduct Annan, nearly dismantled. upper
1934-5: notes that bridge had formed walkway for Scottish Sunday drinkers
venuring across to England. Also submerged piles formed a hazard to
shipping.
Oil-fired 48XX (28XX) 2-8-0 passing above Neath Riverside and its signal
box. lower.
Peter Treloar . Wish you were here? Railway postcards of Cornwall. 83-96.
Penzance Station with Cornish Riviera and 3521 class 4-4-0 c1907 | 83 |
517 class 0-4-2T above Carbis Bay with St Ives train, c1912 | 84u |
Two 45XX class with main line rolling stock including Centenary coaches for Cornish Riviera at St Ives in 1930s | 84l |
Hayle looking south across harbour to viaduct (with 0-6-0ST on short freight) | 85 |
Helston station with GWR motor bus probably for The Lizard and horse drawn bus for Poldhu Hotel (Mullion) | 86u |
Electric locomotive with side tipping wagons conveying tin ore on branch off Camborne & Redruth Tramway at East Pool Mine | 86l |
Portreath Harbour with wagons at foot of incline c1910 see also Archive (1) page 55 et seq | 87u |
0-6-0ST Miner on 4ft gauge Redruth & Chasewater Railway probably at Devoran | 87l |
Metro tank crossing Collegewood timber viaduct with Falmouth train | 88u |
Falmouth station with horse-drawn conveyances (PC posted 1907) | 88l |
Truro timber viaduct with broad gauge freight train (photographed late 1880s) | 89u |
St Austell with new masony viaduct alongside still in use timber structure in 1898 | 89l |
Pentewan Harbour, St Austell with extensive notes on Pentewan Railway locomotives: see also Backtrack 8 p. 237 and Archive (32) p. 58 | 90 |
Newquay station with train for Par post 1905 pre-1914 | 91u |
Newquay harbour with horse shuinting coal wagons | 91l |
45XX crossing Trenance Viaduct, Newquay with passenger train and junction for Chacewater branch air-brushed out | 92u |
Fowey harbour with china clay wagons on quayside | 92l |
Girder bridge over Petherick Creek, near Padstow, shortly after opening, c1900 | 93u |
Bude stastion exterior in 1939 with WW2 child evacuees arriving | 93l |
GWR 4-4-0T No. 13 departing Looe, c1909 | 94u |
New St Germans viaduct with train crossing and old timber viaduct still in situ | 94l |
Calstock quay c1905 with East Cornwall Mineral Railway 3ft 6in gauge track and steamer Albion | 95u |
Calstock viaduct with wagon hoist c1908: see also Archive (2) 33 et seq | 95l |
Royal Albert Bridge with two steam railcars leaving Saltash (caption states arriving: see signals) | 96u |
Carbis Bay with either No. 34 or 35 0-4-2T constructed in 1890 (outwith Treloar sourced material) | 96l |
See also rear cover
Steam railcar (railmotor) No. 94 and trailer at Camborne
on Penzance to Truro service c1908. upper
Falmouth station with baulk permanent way (caption states
c1905): both from coloured postcards. lower rear cover
The railway in the landscape: Bursledon station. 2-3.
Between Netley and Fareham on River Hamble: magnificent steam yacht
and steam launch, c1906. See also similar view in next
Issue, and letter from John Fletcher (15 page 45)
who corrects caption mention on "Portwood", should havve been
Portswood.
Treloar, Peter. Stroudley's Gladstones. 4-16.
Argues that Stroudley did design locomotives for Edinburgh
& Glasgow Railway when his chief, W.S. Brown was ill. Briefly records
Stroudley's stay at Inverness and how he replaced Craven's chaos by standard
types at Brighton. Asserts that the tender 0-4-2 type did not suffer from
the instability problems which plagued 0-4-4Ts, notably the LSWR M7 and GWR
3521 classes. Notes that restored Gladstone had been intended for
Science Museum (but space was not available)
D2 Lyons class 5ft 6in 0-4-2 No. 312 Albion at Clapham Junction: Photograph by T.F. Budden (letter J. Minnis (15-44)) | 4 |
D3 Richmond class No. 208 Richmond: letter J. Minnis (15-44) stated that location was Eastbourne | 6 |
Remainder B1 or Gladstone class: | |
215 Salisbury | 7u |
190 Arthur Otway at New Cross (O.J. Morris): letter J. Minnis (15-44) states location to be New Cross | 7l |
192 Jacomb-Hood near Balham on down Brighton express: see also LBSCR ventilated meat van at head of train: letter J. Minnis (15-44) | 8u |
198 Sheffield near Balham on down Hovve & Worthing express. Peter Treloar (letter 15-44) added that locomotive fitted for oil firing using Johnson's patented vaporiser burner in which oil was burnt as a gas. Oil tank also noted by Paul Newman and by J. Minnis (15-44) who also observes Midland Railway fruit and milk vans at head of train | 8l |
186 De La Warr: J. Minnis (15-44) at Bognor | 9u |
173 Cottesloe: R. Billinton modified with injector/umber livery | 9l |
186 De La Warr crossing timber viaducd between Shoreham and Lancing: photographed E.J. Bedford: J. Minnis (15-44) | 10 |
188 Allan Searle decorated for LB&SCR Station Masters & Inspectors annual outing in 1897 | 11u |
193 Freemantle on coal train near Littlehampton | 11m |
189 Edward Blount with Hammond's air-heating apparatus approaching Balham with Hastings express | 11b |
184 Stroudley with Ramsbottom saftey valves and umber livery: photographed by J.N. Maskelyne at Edenbridge: J. Minnis (15-44) | 12u |
197 near Balham with Sunny South Express formed of LNWR stock: not Balham Intermediate box according to Mike Christensen | 12l |
185 at Lewes in August 1922 (O.J. Morris) E.G. Best (letter Issue 15 p. 44 notes that locomotive must have been condensing as steam is issuing from tender as it is filled. | 13u |
194 (SR livery) on Sunny South Express (LNWR stock mainly LMS red livery) at Eastbourne on 28 May 1925 (O.J. Morris) | 13m |
unidentified Gladstone on horsebox special | 13b |
SR No. 198 with Marsh boiler leaving London Bridge (Victoria according to J. Minnis 15-44) under the wires with passenger train: | 14u |
Restored Gladstone with No. 850 Lord Nelson on display at Waterloo on 14 May 1927 | 14l |
Restored 214 Gladstone with No. 197 (lettered LBSC and in umber?) and with Marsh modifications in May 1927 | 15 |
Nos. 172 and 197 outside Victoria in 1932 (O.J. Morris): see letters in Issue 15 page 44 from John Minnis and E.G. Best which state that location was Brighton | 16 |
London & North Eastern Railway (North Eastern Area) goods
motor services. 17-38.
Virtually a facsimile reproduction of "rare" LNER publication from
1935: contains list of pick-up and drop-off points, such as "R.A.F. Station";
"Fir Tree"; "Park" and best of all "Ogle". The illustrations (most of very
inferior resolution) include K3 No. 156 on express freight; pigs (more pigs
in next Issue) and sheep (separate illus.) being loaded into LNER lorries;
pea picking (looks like Steppes of Central Asia); sacks being loaded onto
LNER lorry; Morris lorry being loaded; Ford lorry with parcels for village
store (definitely pre-Tesco, about the only good feature); Fordson loading
and unloading sacks; 33 lower: container being loaded and
transhipped to railway flat lorry (stated to be Albion, but was an Associated
Daimler: see letter from David Harvey in Issue 15 page
44; wholesaler distribution via LNER warehouse; cage containers being
loaded into motor van; furniture removal; train ferry; control office (controller
attempting to establish which "Carlton". Cover of Goods Motor Facilities
on rear cover (colour). See published letter from old
grump KPJ in Issue 15 page 43 and from Michael Brooks,
and some support from N.P. Fleetwood: should
anyone read this electronic version it is worth noting that nearly all the
viindictive (indeed comment in general) travels by e-mail.
Greaves, Jim. The travails of early rail travel. 39-45.
Text consists of letters to The Times from the 1840s onward and concern
the dreadful conditions imposed upon the poor (some of the examples are very
well known). Many of the illus. are also well known. Illus.: arrival of Eastern
Counties Railway Christmas train at Shoreditch (Illustrated London News
1850); elevation and plan of LSWR 3rd class Parliamentary "carriage"; Euston
and Birmingham Curzon Street shown at time of opening from LNWR postcards
c1906; Reading station c1850; Punch cartoon rerlating to smoking;
The Excursion Train Gallop by Frank Musgrave (cover); first class
smoking carriage ECR (very well known, but so much better than One has to
offer); Punch 3rd class carriage interior; Derby Day 1842
engraving.
Parkhouse, Neil and Miles, John. Bridge improvements
on the Midland in the 1880s. Part 2: Overline and underline bridges.
46-61.
Soar Lane bridge (Leicester & Swannington Railway: ornate cast
iron across Soar); Cleeve bridge (road over: timber truss with stone abutments:
three views: one dated 1884 and in 1885 as rebuilt with new stone abutments
and parapets and cast iron arches); Bridge No. 33 at Bredon (road over: steel
or cast iron under-girder and considerable amount of masonry, 1884); Bridges
Nos. 30 and 32 at Bredon (before (1884/6) and after (1885/6) photographs:
timber spans of 1840 replaced by structures similar to previous: the before
pictures give an excellent impression of how the Birmingham & Gloucester
looked when opened); Washstone's Bridge near Frisby between Systn and
Peterborough (bridge crossing Wreake being replaced: primitive earlier structure;
new structure steel or cast iron girder with stone piers; Nar Bridge (King's
Lynn): original flimsy structure: timber struss of 1864 as replaced in 1885
by steel or wrought iron girder span with brick abutments as incorporated
into Midland & Great Northern Railway (before photograph shows coffer
dam used to construct abutments; Spetchley Bridge; King's Heath bridge (brick
arch original of 1840 and girder replacement of 1886); Bridge No. 48 at Abbott's
Wood (original timber structure of 1840 awaiting replacement in 1886); and
as replaced in 1887 with girder and stone replacement; bridges over streams
at Fleam, Hargate and Egginton Brook where timber structures were replaced
by girder and stone structures. See also letter from Brian
Lewis in Issue 15 page 44 who had found alternative views in collections
held in National collections (NRM and National Archives) and who observes
that timber structures were in "as-built" condition. See
also letter from J.W. Mann (Issue 16 page 56) which adds to the information
about the bridge at Cleeve; and at Bredon (where the unpainted girders would
have been treated with red lead prior to fabrication); the correct terminology
for the timber bearer at the top of a trestle is a corbel; and at Abbotswood
where the date of reconstruction was 1886..
Sibley, Alan. The boundary post at Potters Bar. (Fly Shunted 1).
62-3.
C1 small Atlantic No. 950 passing City of London Coal Tax boundary
post (obelisk) at Potters Bar; also drawing and notes of others on LNER
Accident involving broad gauge 4-4-0T Meteor. 63.
Requests location of accident
'Down Postal' (letters). 64.
The L&B's contribution to London's railway coal trade.
Harry Jack.
See Issue 13 p. 4:
opened sidings to handle coal at Kilburn in 1845 which received coal
from Clay Cross and Ince Hall collieries. Larger fascilities were opened
at Camden in 1851.
Poetic licence. Nigel Lemon
See Issue 13 p. 4: Cargoes by
John Masefield, not Rudyard Kipling
Poetic licence. Ron Allison
See Issue 13 p. 4: Cargoes
by John Masefield, not Rudyard Kipling
Poetic licence [and satellite navigation]. Michael
Dunn
See Issue 13 p. 4: Cargoes
by John Masefield, not Rudyard Kipling; supposed location of
Grayrigg (13 p. 70 upper) on branch line rather than
on WCML; and (13 p. 75) Tebay looking north not
south
Newhaven Docks query a reply. Peter Barker.
See Number 13 p. 59 for letter from Nick
Holliday: and feature which
included Newhaven Dock in Issue 9 page 59: mechanism of sheer legs, also
standpipes for hydraulic power. Further information from
Peter Barker (giving dimensions): Issue 15 page 45
London coal depots and bridges. Huw Edwards.
See unidentified location in Issue 13 p. 22:
suggests MR East India Dock. The bridges are those quoted
as "Hatch End" in captions to illustrations in 13 on Pouteau LNWR listings:
62 lower is probably bridge No. 38; those
on 71 lower and 80 upper are
probably bridge No. 37. See also response from John
Alsop (15 page 45) who rightly considers that "Harrow" was adequate
designation for both Kenton and Hatch End (KPJ who was born in "Kenton" is
proud to have "Harrow-on-the-Hill" on his birth certificate)
Midland Railway coal trains to Kensington. Michael
J. Smith.
See feature in 13 beginning page 4: on page 22 there
is a muddle concerning the North & South West Junction Railway: it did
not provide access to the Widened Lines, but linked MR with LSWR. There is
also muddle concerning access from the MR to the Widened Lines via King's
Cross.
Colour vision getting technical. Tony East.
Notes that human beings lack the greater colour perception of some
other creatures, such as dinosaurs: cites Scientific American
article.
L&SWR photographs. Nick Pomfret. 81.
See feature in Issue 13 page 40: considers that
the Plymouth photographs were taken by F. Pascoe.
Drummond correction. Jim MacIntosh.
See illustration on p. 41 of Issue 13: CR locomotive
illustrated not in Drummond original state, for which see Cornwell p. 69
top
Park Coal Depot. Cyril Crawley.
See feature in 13 beginning page 4: Park was not
a coal depot; only gave access to Tottenham & District Gas
Works.
The River Where? Paul Humfries.
On p. 29 of Issue 13 (feature begins page
4) the supposed River Ware must have been either the River
Lea or the synonymous River Lee snorted reader from banks of the Stort.
Greater Britain 2-2-2-2 No. 528 Richard Moon near Harrow on down local for Rugby | 65 |
Benbow not Alfred the Great 4-4-0 probably No. 1980 Neptune on arrival at Euston (H.C. Doyne): John Alsop (letter 15 p. 45) | 66 |
Kilsby Tunnel ventilator/construction shaft protective wall | 67u |
Precursor 4-4-0 No. 412 Marquis leaving King's Cross (GNR) in 1909 | 67l |
DX goods 0-6-0 No. 1612 at Keswick station on passenger train | 68 |
2-4-0T No. 2248 outside Buxton shed c1907: caption calls this G1 class? John Alsop (letter 15 p. 45) agrees that is not G1 | 69u |
Bill Bailey class 4-6-0 picking up water on Brock troughs with train of 6-wheel coaches | 69l |
Webb compound 0-8-0 piloting G1 No. 2552 on coal empties at Sudbury | 70 |
steam navvy possibly on construction of new line to Watford, c1910 | 71 |
18 inch goods piloting 2-4-0 passing below Conway Castle (panoramic view) | 72 |
Bunker-first Precursor 4-4-2T entering Harrow c1907 on suburban train for Euston | 73u |
Precursor 4-4-2T awaiting departure from Euston (note boarded paved surface beyond platform ends): also NLR tank engine on left: see letter from Bill Aves in Issue 15 page 45 who explains why it was there | 73l |
4ft 6in 2-4-2T No. 816 at London Victoria with Willesden train | 74 |
Large Bloomer 2-2-2 No. 992 | 75u |
4-6-0 Experiment No. 1406 George Findlay at Llandudno probably in 1909 with bicycle van. See also letter from R. Hawkins (15-45) in which date quoted for withdrawal is disputed and .see also letter from Bill Aves in Issue 15 page 45 who gives another date for its demise | 75l |
Dx 0-6-0 No. 1660 post 1900 | 76u |
Class A Webb compound 0-8-0 No. 2549 on Castlethorpe troughs with heavy freight | 76l |
Renown 4-4-0 No. 1935 Collingwood following collision at Northampton on 20 April 1910: see also follow up from Mike Christensen in 15 page 46 | 77u |
0-6-0ST Special tank No. 3137 at Euston post-1905 | 77l |
0-4-0ST No. 3243 at Liverpool Edge Hill with spark arrestor | 78u |
Maryport & Carlisle Railway 0-6-0 No. 25 fitted with chaldron-type buffers | 78l |
Maryport & Carlisle Railway 0-6-0 No. 9 as rebuilt in 1898 | 79u |
Maryport & Carlisle Railway 0-4-2T No. 18 at Carlisle | 79l |
Maryport & Carlisle Railway 0-4-2 No. 2 with horsebox at Carlisle post 1903 | 80 |
Curthwaite station | 81 |
Fly Shunted 2. 82
Hope Mill station on 1 October 1892. upper
with decorated locomotive on opening day: Cranbrook & Paddock
Wood Railway
Hertford Great Northern Railway station. lower
Caption implies that station became "Hertford North": known as Cowgate
once separate Hertford North station opened.
John Alsop . Wish You Were Here? Railway Postcards
of Durham. 83-95.
See also rear cover for reproduction
of coloured PC of Trimdon station.
Yarm-on-Tees with 2-4-0? entering station off viaduct with passenger train | 83 |
Carlton station | 84u |
Aycliffe station & signal cabin c1906 | 84l |
Gainford station | 85u |
Broomielaw private station for Bowes-Lyon family | 85l |
Shildon station | 86u |
Brusselton Incline (disused) c1908 | 86l |
West Auckland station c1908 (separate platforms both facing same direction) | 87u |
Evenwood station c1910 | 87l |
Wearhead station shortly after opening in 1895 | 88 |
Willington station with 2-4-0 on passenger train with horsebox (caption calls this "mixed train") | 89u |
Hesleden station c1910 | 89l |
Horden station c1910 | 90u |
Ushaw Moor station c1910 | 90m |
Autocar (push & pull) with Fletcher BTP 0-4-4T (not as caption) approaching Plawsworth, c1907: also spotted by Mick Nicholson (letter 15 page 45) | 90b |
Knitsley Viaduct (timber tressle) during conversion to embankment in 1919-20 | 91u |
Shotley Bridge station with Fletcher 2-4-0 arriving (clearly shows NER enamel station sign) | 91l |
cattle train near Ebchester (Derwent Valley line) with 0-6-0 at front banked by another 0-6-0 at rear | 92 |
High Westwood station (Derwent Valley line) under construction in 1909 | 93u |
High Westwood station with Fletcher 2-4-0 No. 929 arriving | 93l |
Blaydon station and signal box with 2-4-0 on passenger train waiting departure for Newcastle | 94u |
Dunston-on-Tyne station c1914 | 94l |
Royal Train arriving with King Edward VII behind S class 4-6-0 No. 2110 to open King Edward Bridge on 10 July 1906: see slso letter from G.N.G. Tingey (15-45) which supports correction imposed by KPJ: No. 2110 was clearly an S class not as caption | 95u |
Queen Alexandra Bridge, Sunderland under construction | 95m |
Seaham Hall private station (Hall Dene station) Londonderry Railway | 95b |
Fly Shunted 3. 96
Tay Bridge looking north, nearing completion in spring of 1887.
Trimdon station (from coloured postcard). rear cover.
The railway in the landscape: Bursledon station. 2-3.
Whilst still single track with steam yacht, c1906. See
also previous Issue for another similar view
Parkhouse, Neil and Miles, John. Bridge improvements
on the Midland in the 1880s. Part 3: footbridges. 4-16.
Footbridges: Bridge No. 31 at Burton-on-Trent; under construction
in unidentified works; Bagworth, Kettering, Ashchurch, Berkeley Road, Fish
Ponds (Bristol); Kettering (another); Stamford and Hay-on-Wye. Also plans
and drawings for reconstruction of Bridge No. 12 near Cheltenham dated February
1897; also Bredon as in late 1950s and Bredon station
c1910.See also letter from J.W. Mann (Issue 16 page 56)
relating to bridges at Fishponds and Bredon .
Arman, Brian. Didcot circa 1892: a broad gauge photographic delight. 17-23.
4-2-2 possibly Prometheus on down express for Plymouth (all rolling stock, except one) were convertibles: letter from Brian Arman (17-82) notes that locomotive was probably Crimea of Rover class | 18 |
4-2-2 Bulkeley double-heading with Sebastopol on down express, c1890 | 19 |
Rover class Great Western on 19 May 1892 | 20 |
2-2-2 No. 3028 possibly on down Flying Dutchman in May 1892 | 21 |
Bulkeley on last up broad gauge Night Mail at 04.05 on 21 May 1892 | 22 |
Overall view of Didcot station showing mixed gauge pointwork | 23 |
This led to an interesting letter from John Miles
(Issue 16 page 55) which rightly congratulated eveybody for the wonderful
pictures, but demolishes the Brunel genius myth: see therat for the
demolition.
Fidczuk, Peter. Gas by rail Part 3: Murgatroyd's.
24-42.
New chlor-alkali works at Elworth, near Sandbach, Cheshire, opened
in 1950. New fleet of vehicles acquired from Charles Roberts, including probably
last wagons to be constructed with timber underframes. The feature, in addition
to the photographic illus. tabulated below contains drawings for a bogie
tank wagon and photographic details of health & safety type and ownership
notices, safety caps, etc.
T4 | four-wheel open wagon with timber underframe: not withdrawn until August 1969 | 24u |
T65 | four-wheel hydrochloric acid tank wagon | 24l |
T77 | 20 ton caustic liquour tank wagon with steam heating coils | 25 |
T87 | 14 ton chlorine tank wagon | 26u |
T84 | 14 ton chlorine tank wagon modernized with roller bearing axleboxes and Oleo self-contained buffers | 26l |
T82 | as above bu lettered BP a Crewe in 1969 | 27 |
T81 | BPCM 47133 at Esso Fawley in 1879/80 | 28 |
T93 | ex British Geon at British Celanese, Sondon 1975 | 29 |
5695 | ICI General Chemical Division 40 ton bogie tank wagon for caustic liquour | 30u |
T204 | L&Y Wagon Co. witth Dean-Churchward ratchet brake | 30l |
T209 | Hurst Nelson (1959) with roller bearing axleboxes | 31 |
T215 | Charles Roberts bogie tank wagon being filled at Elworth | 32 |
T233 | BP Chemicals bogie tank wagon at Crewe with | 33 |
T203 | ||
T204 | Hay's Chemicals: BBCM 77004 bogie tank wagon | 34 |
T211 | BPCM 77011 (1959 design) bogie tank wagon | 35u |
T228 | BPCM 77028 bogie tank wagon | 35l |
T243 | BP Chemicals from Standard Wagon | 40u |
T241 | BP Chemicals from Standard Wagon | 40l |
T242 | BP Chemicals from Standard Wagon | 41 |
'Down Postal'. 43-5.
Return to Lee-on-the-Solent. David Morton
See Issue 8 page
4: Scott did not become S&DR No. 11, but was acquired
by the LSWR Engineer's Department and was named after Archibald Scott, the
Traffic Manager, was moved to the Locomotive Department from January 1874,
was sent to the Bodmin & Wadebridge line in Cornwall and returned in
1886. Also describes S&DR No. 11 which also came from George England:
it had been constructed for the Imperial Exhibition held in London in 1862.
The 2-4-0T was supplied in England's standard blue livery and was bought
in 1863 by thhe S&DR where it was known by the saff ass "Bluebottle",
but it was not the source for S&DJR blue livery. In 1870 it was sold
to the Admiralty at Sheerness...
Somerset & Dorset Railway No. 3. Russ Garner.
See Issue 13 page 58: an attempt to postulate
a location (between Burnham and Templecombe) and hints that might
be on another railway. .
Somerset & Dorset Railway No. 3. Gerry Nichols
See Issue 13 page 58: an attempt to postulate
a location: "south of Bruton"
L&NER Motor Services: brickbat and a bouquet.
Kevin Jones.
See protracted ad absurdum feature in Issue
14 page 17 et seq also cites
Backtrack Editorial by himself
and article on future of electronic information in
J. Rly Canal Hist. Soc.,
2006, 35, 277.
L&NER Motor Services: brickbat and a bouquet.
Michael Brooks.
See feature in Issue 14 page 17 et seq concurs
with KPJ, but far less cruel.
L&NER Motor Services: brickbat and a bouquet.
N.P. Fleetwood. 44
See feature in Issue 14 page 17 et seq
who noted that concentration of freight probably had a considerable effect
upon local carters.
Midland bridges. Brian Lewis.
See Issue 14 page 46 et seq: writer
had encountered alternative views in NRM and National Archive collections
(notably RAIL 491/836 and 1014/37) and notes that the timber bridges as
illustrated were in as-built condition.
L&NER lorries. David Harvey.
See Issue 14 page 33 lower: vehicle
is not an Albion, but an Associated Daimler
More on the Gladstones. E.G. Best.
See Issue 14 page 16: location
was Brighton (as agreed by John Minnis, below): adds
that No. 172 was fitted with a live steam injector. Also
notes that illus. on top of page 13 (Issue 14) of No. 185 (not
as text of letter) appeared to have been condensing as steam was issuing
from tender as it was being filled.
More on the Gladstones. Peter Treloar
See 14-8 lower: locomotive fitted for oil firing
using Johnson's patented vaporiser burner in which oil was burnt as a
gas
More on the Gladstones. Paul Newham.
See 14-8 lower: locomotive fitted for oil
firing
More on the Gladstones. Mike Christensen.
See Issue 14 page 12 lower not Balham Intermediate
box
More on the Gladstones. John Minnis.
See Issue 14 table: 4 photographed T.F. Budden:
6: at Eastbourne; 7 lower at New Cross,
not Bognor; 8 upper see also LBSCR ventilated meat
van at head of train; 8 lower: also notes oil-burner
and observes Midland Railway fruit and milk vans; 9 upper
at Bognor; 10 photographed by E.J. Bedford; photographed
by J.N. Maskelyne at Edenbridge; 14 upper: Victoria;
and page 16: location was Brighton.
L&NWR Experiments. R. Hawkins. 45
See Issue 14 page 75 lower: staes locomotive
withdrawn in August 1935 and cites W.B.
Yeadon's A compendium of L&NWR locomotives, 1912-1949. Part 1. Passenger
tender engines. Challenger, 1995.
L&NWR Pouteau revisions. John Alsop
Reaction to letter from Huw Edwards (Issue 14
page 64) and to the Pouteau listings
in Issues 13 and 14: mainly a pontification on
bridge numbers in vicinity of Harrow; the movement of the view at Tebay;
caption in Issue 14 to illus on pagge 69 upper is
incorrect; also illus on page 66 is a Benbow not an
Alfred the Great
Nice sheerlegs! Peter Barker.
See Issue 9 page 59
and earlier letter in Issue 14 page
64: dimesnions now given
From our Hull correspondent. Mick Nicholson.
See bottom illus. on page 90 (Issue
14): clearly an 0-4-4T not as stated. Letter writer's
loose reference to Whyte notation led to a useful letter
from John Power (Issue 16 pages 55/6) on origins of Whtye notation and
its instigator.
A North Eastern loco correction. G.N.G. Tingey.
See illus. page 95 upper (Issue 14): locomotive
was S class 4-6-0 not R class 4-4-0
Bursledon. John Fletcher
See caption to Issue 14 page
2:Portswood not Portwood
Oil for coal and L&NWR matters. Bill Aves.
Follow up to letter in Issue 13 page
59 which as writer notes adds to confusion! See also Issue
14: Pouteau LNWR photographs: 73 lower: when LNWR tooks
over NLR motive power three of the 4-4-0Ts were taken into LNWR stock and
used on London area parcels workings; page 75 lower:
offers alternative date for demise of George Findlay
Christensen, Mike. Accident at Northampton, 20th April
1910. (Follow up). 46-7.
Relates to Pouteau listings in Issue 14 page 77
upper: accident was due to signalman (Alfrerd Charles Adams) error and
involved a passenger train running into rear of stationary freight: Col.
H.A. Yorke in Board of Trade report (30 May 1910) was critical; of signalling
and working methods.
Where? [Achilles class 4-2-2 Sir Richard Grenville possibly at Flax
Bourton]. 47.
Caption includes notes on Achilles class
L&NER livestock lorry c1926-8 (Follow Up).
48-9.
Associated Daimler 428 type with Charles Roberts double-deck body
for carrying sheep. Livery Royal blue: 4 illus. See letters in Issue 16 on
page 55 from Adrian Gray, Ian
Maddams and Bob McCunn all of which solve the riddle of how the ramp
fitted within the confines of the lorry: Maddams also points out the location
of the petrol tank and the 20 mph speed limit.
Parkhouse, Neil. Moments in time at Mistley Quay.
50-60.
Photographs by Alf Mustoe of quay on River Stour in even-then (early
1900s) only semi-rural Essex: see also letter from Keith
Garwood (Issue 16-55) who actually lives there as did his parents and
grandparents and who was listed in the original credits.
Mistley Quay from above Harwich branch with maltings and British Xylonite factory at Brantham (to employ Margaret Thatcher), 1902-3 | 50u |
Spritsail barge Jane at Mistley Quay in late 1902 with Brooks maltings | 50l |
Brookes maltings with barges Edme and Agnes Mary | 51u |
Y14 0-6-0 No. 945 shunting at Mistley in 1903 | 51l |
Horlock family group with GER 5-plank wagons | 52u |
Bagged barley from GER 5-plank wagon being loaded into lighter with Free, Rodwell & Co.'s No. 1 Malting behind | 52l |
Loading GER van direct from Brooks' warehouse using sack trucks and blank in 1904: note electric light | 53 |
Ketch Fearless in 1904 | 54u |
Steam,m coaster India | 54l |
Pigs at Mistley Quay | 55u |
Alf Horlock heaving sack of barley onto cart | 55m |
Bulk barley being unloaded off barge Marjorie and being placed in sacks and weighed, 1905: see letter from Keith Garwood (16-55) noting that the "bucket" visible was a bushel | 55l |
Free, Rodwell & Co.'s No. 5 Malting with schooner & spritsail barge | 56 |
Spritsail barge Percy with sails hoisted and one leeboard clearly visible | 57u |
Original horse-worked tram route to Quay | 57l |
Free, Rodwell & Co.'s Nos. 5 and 6 Maltings | 58 |
Free, Rodwell & Co.'s No. 1 Malting with spritsail barge becoming a stackie loaded with hay & tug behind it | 59 |
Hay waggon with pair of horses (hay wain?) | 60 |
Alsop, John. Pouteau listings. Part 15: The London
& South Western Railway. 61-81.
282 class (Ilfracombe goods) 0-6-0 No. 394 | 61 |
Waterloo station platforms 1,2,3 looking towards country, 1898 | 62 |
T9 on 11.00 for Plymouth passing Nine Elms in 1903 | 63u |
T9 No. 715 with two three-coach sets in October 1903. Location was Wimbledon see letters from Peter Swift and Greg Tingey in Issue 16 page 55 | 63l |
L12 No. 421 (following Salisbury disaster of 1906) under repair at Nine Elms Works | 64 |
T6 4-4-0 No. 680 departing Waterloo and M7 0-4-4T possibly No. 242 | 65 |
700 class 0-6-0 No. 687 on freight at Swathling, c1903 | 66u |
Southampton Terminus with 415 class 4-4-2T No. 171 and No. 167 and O2 0-4-4T No. 188: see letter from Peter Swift noting that "No. 167" was probably No. 367 (a T1 class 0-4-4T); also records destinations (see letter): | 66l |
C8 4-4-0 No. 293 passing Shawford Junction signal box on express for Bournemouth formed from very old rolling stock; see letter from Peter Swift noting that caption's reference to bogie tender going to an S15 in 1935 is not quite correct: | 67 |
E10 4-2-2-0 No. 369 near Swaythling with troop train for Southampton thence to India | 68 |
273 class 0-6-0 No. 0276 on Guildford turntable | 69 |
T1 0-4-4T No. 61 at Sidmouth outside engine shed: see letter from R. Hawkins (Issue 16 page 56) which corrects caption: there was no engine shed at Exmouth Junction (Exmouth Junction supplied motive power once Sidmouth shed closed. | 70 |
Terrier 0-6-0T No. 735 at Exmouth Junction between 1903 and 1907: see also Backtrack, 1989, 3, 172 for its use on Lyme Regis branch | 71u |
T3 4-4-0 No. 564 double heading with T9 on up express approaching Salisbury (both locomotives carried headcodes: GWR baulk road in foreground: see letter from Peter Swift noting that not a T3, but a T6, probably No. 664 (locomotive features Drummond modifications) | 71l |
2-4-0WT No. 0298 at Wadebridge | 72 |
Steam railmotor/railcar near Bournemouth West | 73u |
Plymstock with train from Turnchapel c1900 | 73l |
Camberley & York Town (for Sandhurst) station and its staff | 74 |
A12 (Jubilee) class 0-4-2 No. 606 | 75 |
Canute class 2-2-2 No. 132 Conqueror c1869 | 76u |
Improved Clyde class 2-4-0 Fireball at Nine Elms in ealy 1870s: see letter from Peter Swift noting that photograph was probably taken after 1878 | 76l |
M7 No. 40 with T9 on heavy Sunday Waterloo to Portsmouth rain leaving Petersfield | 77u |
T9 No. 280: three-quarter view from rear showing cab interior | 77l |
0-4-0ST No. 0110 Ritzebuttel (Alexander Shanks, Arbroath) with condensing gear for working to Southampton Town Pier | 78 |
F13 4-6-0 No. 331 at Eastleigh coal stage being prepared: see also feature by Peter Swift in Number 6 page 3 | 79 |
G14 4-6-0 No. 457 at Salisbury waiting to take over over up express for Waterloo: note also pneumatic signal which according to Mick Nicholson (letter 16 page 56) makes date post November 1902. | 80u |
A12 (Jubilee) 0-4-2 No. 552 at Waterloo | 80m |
X2 4-4-0 No. 580 at Waterloo on Dorchester vai Ringwood train: see letter from Peter Swift noting that caption incorrect in asserting that Nos 577 to 581 had narrow cabs and splashers: only No. 577 was fitted thus. | 80l |
Chard Junction station platforms photographed by J.B. Sherlock | 81u |
E14 4-6-0 No. 335 and T7 4-2-2-0 No. 720 (showing crosstubes rhough opening hatch) inside Eastleigh Works | 81l |
Fly Shunted: [Taunton c1895]. 82.
Replacement of baulk road with large number of participants &
observers; also whitewashed cattle trucks & new signals: see also Issue
16 page 56 for letters from Mick Nicholson,
Richard Brice and John Hill
(who provided further photograph probably taken at same time (during
reconstruction of Taunton station)..
Nigel Bowdidge. Wish you were here? Railway postcards of Essex. 83-96.
Witham station post 1905 | 83 |
Wickford station | 84u |
White Notley station c1910 | 84m |
Theydon Bois station with up train c1910 | 84l |
Bishops Stortford looking east with private owner wagons: Fosdick of Ipswich with dumb buffers; William H. Booth of Ipswich; Bradbury of London; Coote & Warren of Peterborough; Peterborough Co-operative Wholesale Society | 85u |
Shenfield & Hutton station c1902 | 85l |
Ilford Corporation tramcar No. 5 outside Seven Kings station 1905 | 86u |
Rochford station with T19R 2-4-0 entering with train for which ladies in straw hats were waiting c1910 | 86m |
Mistley Quay with hints of wagons and spritsail barge | 86l |
Parkeston Quay station with workman's train in bay platform | 87u |
Maldon East station exterior | 87l |
Loughton carriage sidings with train for Fenchurch Street | 88u |
Ilford station road fronatage with electric tram route | 88l |
Hatfield Peveril station | 89u |
Squirrel's Heath & Guidea Park in 1913 | 89l |
Forest Gate station with West Ham Corporation tram car No. 16, c1910 | 90u |
Dunmow station | 90m |
Clacton-on-Sea station exterior with GER double-deck bus, c1913 | 90l |
Chingford sation entrance with policeman. ladies on bicycles and horse-drawn bus, c1909 | 91u |
Chelmsford station exterior with GER double-deck buses, c1912 | 91m |
Chelmsford goods yard with cattle trucks | 91l |
Bradfield station c1913 | 92u |
Billericay with T19 on local train | 92m |
PS Suffolk at Harwich Quay c1908 | 92l |
Train ferry with J65 shunting at Harwich, 1920s | 93u |
SS Berlin (lost February 1907) and SS Colchester at Parkeston Quay, c1905 | 93m |
Leigh-on-Sea with paddlers and pleasure boats and LTSR freight train behind including fish wagon | 93l |
Benfleet station platforms | 94u |
Upminster station platforms & name sign | 94m |
Tilbury Riverside from Thames, c1910 | 94l |
Walton-on-the-Naze Pier and electric railway/tramway c1910 | 95u |
Shoeburyness station | 95m |
Jaywick miniature railway with "Stirling Single" just visible, shacks, and wonderful 1930s cars: Ian Maddams (Issue 16 page 55) notes that one vehicle not marketed until summer of 1937 | 95l |
Kerr Stuart 0-4-2T Kynite on Corringham Light Railway with train including toast rack carriages | 96u |
GER bus signed Chelmsford & Great Waltham at Chelmsford garage c1913 | 96l |
Chlorine tank wagons. Paul Bartlett. rear cover
Coloured illus. of BPCM tank wagons: four-wheel 47143 (T91) at Fawley
on 16 August 1979; bogie 77026 (T226) at British Celanese, Spondon on 5 August
1978
The railway in the landscape: Llanfihangel Station c1905. 2-3.
Raailway station on bottom margin: John Morgan open wagons with dumb
buffers just visible in Cambrian Railways' station.
Hill, Norman. Timothy Hackworth's essential place in
early locomotive development. 4-26.
An attempt to increase the historical standing of Hackworth, and possibly
to downgrade that of George Stephenson who is almost accused of industrial
espionage, the word "plundered" is used, on behalf of The Grand Allies (Sir
Thomas Liddell, James Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie and the Earl of Strathmore)
who supplied him with a horse. The references are highly selective: Dendy
Marshall and Reed are excluded, Clement Stretton's skeletal line drawings
are used without giving any warning that they may be inaccurate.
See also letter from R.A. Fox in Issue 19 page 52
which refers back to contributions in Issue 17 page 38 from Harry Jack and
Kevin Jones. See also letter in Issue 18 (inside back
cover) from Michael Hardy who is critical of the claim made in Robert
Young's Timothy Hackworth and the locomotive that three locomotives
constructed by Hackworth were the first in British North America:
Dorchester built by Stephenson's for the Champlain & St Lawrence
Railroad in 1836 was the first .Letter from Peter Treloar
(Issue 19 page 52) notes that Pavlovsk was displaced from near Moscow
to the Black Sea.
SDR locomotives No. 5 Royal George, No. 1 Locomotion and No.8 Victory at Shildon (pencil drawing John Wigston) | 4 |
Portrait of Hackworth | 5u |
Wylam: pit village: R.P. Leitch contemporary engraving via Samuel Smiles Lives of the engineers | 5l |
West Moor Colliery, Killingworth: R.P. Leitch contemporary engraving via Samuel Smiles Lives of the engineers | 6u |
Trevithick's Pen-y-darren locomotive: contemporary engraving | 6l |
Early plateway & railway track from Robert Young's Timothy Hackworth | 7u |
Trevithick's Gateshead locomotive from Tomlinson's North Eastern Railway | 7l |
Trevithick's Catch-me-who-can locomotive | 8l |
Catch-me-who-can running on circular track near to future site of Euston station (Thomas Rowlandson) | 8r |
Wylam Grasshopper locomotive of 1811 from Robert Young's Timothy Hackworth | 9ul |
William Hedley's Wylam Dilly at Craghead Colliery c1880 | 9ur |
Engraving of "Puffing Billy" as included in Clement E. Stretton's Development of the locomotive See letter from Harry Jack in Issue 17 page 38 | 9l |
Blenkinsop-Murray rack locomotive from Tomlinson's North Eastern Railway | 10u |
Blenkinsop rail from Tomlinson's North Eastern Railway | 10m |
Blenkinsop-Murray rack locomotive hauling train from Robert Young's Timothy Hackworth | 10b |
George Stephenson's first locomotive from Stretton's The development of the locomotive | 11u |
Edward Pease from Tomlinson's North Eastern Railway | 11m |
Drive for Stephenson's 1814 locomotive from G. Drysdale Dempsey Rudimentary treatise on the locomotive engine | 11b |
George Stephenson's second locomotive from Tomlinson's North Eastern Railway | 12u |
Killingworth No. 2 LPC photograph c1865 | 12b |
George Stephenson from Tomlinson's North Eastern Railway | 12 |
Robert Stephenson from Robert Young's Timothy Hackworth | 12 |
Locomotion No. 1 as preserved and prepared for exhibition from Tomlinson's North Eastern Railway | 13u |
Locomotion No. 1 as preserved on Darlington Bank Top station | 13l |
Map of SDR published 1828 from Robert Young's Timothy Hackworth | 14 |
Scene at Skerne Briadge on opening day SDR 27 September 1825 from F.S. Williams: Our iron roads | 14i |
Chittapratt after Seguin sketch presumably in Pearce Locomotives of the Stockton & Darlington Railway | 15 |
Royal George from Tomlinson's North Eastern Railway | 16 |
Experiment after rebuilding by Hackworth in 1828 from Stretton's The development of the locomotive | 17u |
Stylised view of Rainhill trials from Samuel Smiles Lives of the engineers | 17m |
Lancashire Witch from Stretton's The development of the locomotive | 17l |
Hackworth's Sans Pareil from F.S. Williams: Our iron roads | 18u |
Sans Pareil outside Soho Works with driver perched high up (watercolour by John Wigston) | 18l |
J. Swain engraving of No. 23 Wilberforce (Engineer. 21 October 1879) from Tomlinson's North Eastern Railway | 19t |
Drawing of No. 13 Coronation from Robert Young's Timothy Hackworth | 19um |
Rocket of 1831(Hackworth 0-6-0) from Robert Young's Timothy Hackworth | 19lm |
Robert Stephenson's Patentee (L&MR No. 33) from Stretton's The development of the locomotive | 19b |
Hackworth's 0-4-0 passenger locomotive Globe from Robert Young's Timothy Hackworth | 20ul |
Stephenson's Planet from Stretton's The development of the locomotive. See letter from Harry Jack in Issue 17 page 38 | 20ur |
Globe as depicted on Hackworth's business card from Tomlinson's North Eastern Railway | 20l |
Hackworth's first locomotive for Russia from Robert Young's Timothy Hackworth | 21u |
Leader: one of Hackworth's final locomotives for SDR from Robert Young's Timothy Hackworth (photograph) | 21m |
Inside a locomotive engine factory from Pictorial gallery of arts. 1845 | 21l |
Plan of Soho engineering works at New Shildon, 1850 from Robert Young's Timothy Hackworth | 22u |
Rear of erecting shop New Shildon from Robert Young's Timothy Hackworth | 22ll |
Main building New Shildon from Robert Young's Timothy Hackworth | 22lr |
John Gray 2-2-2 constructed Soho Works for LBSCR from Robert Young's Timothy Hackworth | 23u |
Hackworth's second Sans Pareil of 1849 from Robert Young's Timothy Hackworth | 23l |
Soho Works today (i.e. 2000): two photographs | 24 |
Masons Arms crossing c1895 | 25u |
Masons Arms crossing in "1925" (1975): see letter from Mick Nicholson (17-38) who notes presence of APT in photograph | 25m |
Masons Arms crossing in 2000 | 25l |
Hackworth 0-6-0 after conversion to snowplough at South Hetton Colliery in 1935 | 26t |
Hackworth 0-6-0 No. 25 Derweant as preserved on Darlington Bank Top station. c1910 | 26um |
Hackworth family tomb in St. John's churchyard, Shildon | 26 |
Statue of Timothy Hackworth in Shildon park | 26 |
Hackworth family home: Soho Cottage, Shildon | 26 |
Christensen, Mike. The Cambrian Railways photographs
of H. Burman: Part 4. 27-34.
Part 3 see Issue 9 page 51 et seq.
Page 27: Sharp Stewart 4-4-0 No. 68
Pages 28-9: No. 10 (GWR 196 class 2-4-0 No. 213) used with No. 212 to demonstrate
Arthur Reginald Angus's automatic train
control system as demonstrated on the West Somerset Mineral Railway in
1911 and acquired via Bute Supply by the Camvbrian Railways in 1921: four
illustrations
page 30 4-4-0 ex-No. 50 as GWR No. 1110 at Machynlleth
31 two view of unidentified 4-4-0s: lower leaving Harlech
32 upper: unidentified 4-4-0 below cliffs at Harlech
32 lower 0-6-0 GWR No. 908 (ex-Manchester & Milford Railway No. 9, supplied
Sharp Stewart in 1888)
33 upper 0-6-0 GWR No. 900 (ex-Cambrian Railways No. 45 (Sharp Stewart 1864)
at Barmouth Junction
33 lower 0-6-0 GWR No. 884 (Neilson 1899)
34 Unidentiified 15 Class 0-6-0 on long freight
Alsop, John. The railway photographs of E. Pouteau.
Part 16: The Lynton & Barnstaple Railway, the Midland &
Great Northern Joint Railway, the Midland & South Western Junction Railway
and the Midland. Railway Part 1. 35-54.
See also short feature in Issue 17 page
81 with more photographs and letters from/between Mike
Barnsley and John Alsop concerning the one photograph (below) and the information
in the lists
Lynton & Barnstaple Railway coach with central observation area at Barnstaple Town (J.B. Sherlock). See also letter from Steve Phillips in Issue 17 page 38 which corrects "Bristol Carriage & Wagon" to Bristol Wagon & Carriage Works | 36u |
M&GNJR 4-4-0 (Beyer Peacock 1883) No. 25 at Yarmouth c1905 | 36l |
M&GNJR 4-4-0 (Beyer Peacock 1883/reboilered 1907 with Derby boiler) at Cromer c1910 | 37 |
M&GNJR Cross Keys Bridge at Sutton Bridge 1908 (F.E. MacKay) | 38 |
M&GNJR Sharp Stewart 4-4-0 (Johnson design 1894) No. 51 at South Lynn (F.E. MacKay) | 39u |
M&SWJR Dubs 1898 2-4-0 No. 10 | 39l |
MR Johnson 0-6-0 cab with engienmen | 40 |
MR 0-6-0 No. 1365 hauling Leeds to Morecambe excursion with American Pullman cars at front, North of Hellifield | 41u |
Carlisle Durran Hill locomotive depot (R.E. Charlewood) | 41l |
1102 class 0-6-0T No. 1136 as rebuilt in 1891 at Durran Hill pre-1903 | 42u |
60 class 4-4-0 No. 86 at Durran Hill c1902 | 42l |
156 class 4-4-0 No. 205 at Manchester Trafford Park c1900 | 43 |
1327 class 4-4-0 (Dubs 1877, rebuilt 1890) No. 1335 at Trafford Park c1900 | 44 |
1808 class 4-4-0 No. 1816 at Trafford Park c1900 | 45u |
156 class 2-4-0 No. 77A at Bradford Forster Square (caption states Exchange) on 18 March 1905 (J. Harold Wright) | 45l |
Class 1 2-4-0 No. 71 with smokebox door open at Leeds Wellington c1900 | 46u |
Thackley Tunnels West end with train emerging, 14 August 1907 | 46l |
Matlock Bath with station and Manchester to St Pancras express passing | 47 |
Johnson Belpaire 4-4-0 heading north leaving Elstree unnels | 48 |
Two up coal trains posed at Elstree (both hauled by 1142 class 0-6-0s as rebuilt in 1903), one identified as No. 1190 | 49 |
2303 class No. 197 at Hawes c1903 | 50u |
Ribblehead Viaduct (original caption: Batty Moss Viaduct) with scaffolding on centre arches | 50m |
1357 class 0-6-0 No. 1364 at Lancaster | 50b |
Hellifield station see also long letter in Issue 18 page 30 from George Harris | 51u |
Fox Walker (1878) 0-6-0ST No. 2067A inside Burton-on-Trent engine shed in 1906. See also letter from Bill Aves (Issue 17 page 38) concerning this locomotive, | 51l |
Blea Moor signal box and water tower c1905 | 52 |
Up local passenger train leaving Blea Moor Tunnel c1907 (J.M. Tomlinson) | 53 |
Up local passenger train at Horton | 54u |
Baldwin 2-6-0 No. 2526 (J.M. Tomlinson). See also letter from Steve Phillips in Issue 17 page 38 which states that locomotives were delivered in fully lined MR livery | 54l |
'Down Postal'. 55-6.
Pouteau L&SWR: matters arising. Peter Swift.
See Issue 15
page 63 lower: location was Wimbledon
page 66 lower: destinations: class 415 for Bournemouth
via Sway; T1 for Portsmouth via Netley and the O2 is for the Newbury line
on train of GWR stock (at that time were locomotives changed at Winchester?
KPJ)
see page 67: caption's reference to bogie tender going
to an S15 in 1935 is not quite correct
see page 71 lower: not a T3, but a T6, probably No.
664 (locomotive features Drummond modifications)
see page 76 lower: photograph was probably taken after
1878
see page 80 lower: notes that caption incorrect in asserting that X2 class
Nos 577 to 581 had narrow cabs and splashers: only No. 577 was fitted thus.
Pouteau L&SWR: matters arising. Greg
Tingey.
See Issue 15 page 63 lower: location was
Wimbledon
L&NER livestock lorry. Adrian Gray.
See Issue 15 page 48: describes
the means by which the ramp was fitted into lorry
L&NER livestock lorry. Ian Maddams
See Issue 15 page 48: describes the means by
which the ramp was fitted into lorry and points out the location of the petrol
tank and the 20 mph speed limit. Also notes that picture
of Jaywick (Issue 15 95 lower) could not have been before summer of 1937
as Ford van visible was not marketed until then (a real Essex man letter)
L&NER livestock lorry. Bob McCunn
See Issue 15 page 48: describes the means by
which the ramp was fitted into lorry
More Mistley memories. Keith Garwood
See feature beginning page 50 in Issue
15: further observations, including a caption correction:
the bucket was a bushel (makes one think of school exercise books (back page:
KPJ)
Brunel not so great. John Miles.
See Issue 15 page 17 for collection
of wonderful photographs of broad gauge, but writer (a professional engineer)
condemns Brunel not for his magnificent bridges and choice of route, but
on the folly of the broad gauge and his traction policy (his locomotives
and the atmospheric system): the latter led to a line which continues to
be difficult and costly to work. Brian Arman responded
to Professor Miles' observations in Issue 17 page 38..
Whyte's locomotive classification, John
Power.
See Mick Nicholson letter in Issue 15 page
45: states that Whyte
system was outlined by Editor of American Engineer & Railroad
Journal in December 1900 Issue.
No shed. R. Hawkins. 56
See Issue 15 page 70 to correct caption: there
was no engine shed at Exmouth Junction (Exmouth Junction supplied motive
power once Sidmouth shed closed
Midland bridges. J.W. Mann
See Issue 14 page 46: additional
information about the bridges at Cleeve, and at Bredon (where the unpainted
girders would have been treated with red lead prior to fabrication); the
correct terminology for the timber bearer at the top of a trestle is a corbel;
and at Abbotswood where the date of reconstruction was 1886;
and Issue 15 page 4.
Baulk road to power signalling. Mick Nicholson
See Issue 15 page 80 upper note also pneumatic
signal which according to Mick Nicholson (letter 16 page 56) makes date post
November 1902. See Issue 15 page 82:postulates that
photograph possible marked removal of last section of baulk road in
vicinity..
Removing the baulk road: mystery view. Richard
Brice
See Issue 15 page 82: comment on bran (not brand)
new shovels
Removing the baulk road: mystery view. John Hill
See Issue 15 page 82: provided further photograph
probably taken at same time, during reconstruction of Taunton station.
Peter Fidczuk . Gas by rail .Part 4: Associated Octel and Tank Rentals.
57-82.
Associated Octel grew out of 1930s activity sponsored by the Ministry
of Aviation to ensure the supply of a strategic material, namely anti-knock
compounds for petrol engines ued in cars and aero engines. These are based
on tetraethyl lead used with the ethylene dibromide (for aero engines) or
ethylene dichloride to act as scavengers. The dibromide (bromine) requires
a supply of chlorine and is produced from warm seawater: the initial plant
was located at Hayle power station in Cornwall. The tetraethyl lead plant
was located at Lostock Gralam, known variously as Plumley, Plumbley, Holford
and Winnington. Following WW2, a further bromine plant was established at
Amlwch on Anglesey and this was built in association with a new Associated
Octel plant at Ellesmere Port. Illus. include 20 ton ethylene dibromide tank
wagon constructed by Charles Roberts in 1940 No. G26 for Hayle to Plumley
traffic. Hayle Wharf branch with 57XX shunting two tank wagons (one for chlorine,
the other for sulphuric acid) in April 1959 (two photos Hugh Davies); Associated
Octel tank wagon No. 404 supplied by Charles Roberts in 1940 in about 1964;
Associated Octel tank wagon No.907 for chlorine transport at Stoke Gifford
in May 1972; Associated Octel tank wagon No.926 constructed by Jurst Nelson
in 1957/8. .
John Alsop. Wish you were here? Railway postcards of Carmarthenshire. 83-95.
Cynghordy Viaduct with LNWR 4-6-2T hauling express towards Craven Arms | 83 |
Llandovery Station | 84u |
Llangadock statiom | 84l |
LNWR 2-4-2 No. 2143 assisting GWR 0-6-0 with passenger train at Llandilo (Llandeilo) station | 85u |
Llandebie (Llandybie) station with southbound freight | 85m |
Glanamman station | 85l |
Garnant station with GWR 0-6-0ST on passenger train | 86u |
Pontyberen station (Burry Port & Gwendraeth Valley) with 0-6-0ST No. 2 Pontyberen? & ex-Metropolitan Rly carriages | 86l |
Pontyates (Pontyeates) station: BPGVR corrugated iron structure | 87 |
Trimsaran Colliery land sales yard during WW2 | 88u |
BPGVR terminus at Burry Port pre-1912 | 88l |
Llanelly station with down local passenger train hauled by 806 class 2-4-0 | 89u |
Pembrey East signal box (Dyvatty) having been impaled by a locomotive on 4 March 1912 | 89m |
Pembrey & Burry Port station in 1906 | 89l |
Ferrybridge station with Edwardian day trippers arriving for day on beach: station had chalet roof | 90u |
St Claers station with passenger train which included an open poultry & fish truck loaded with trunks (luggage), also cattle trucks | 90l |
Whitland station early 1920s | 91u |
Clynderwen station with chalet roof | 91l |
Clynderwen station with 0-6-0ST on train of ballast hoppers in 1905, presumably running in association with works at Fishguard station. Also visible Caepontbren Colliery and Trimsaran Anthracite wagons | 92 |
Carmarthen station in 1902 | 93u |
GWR bus at Llanstephen on opening day 1 May 1909 with Milnes-Daimler LC6704 | 93l |
Bronwydd Arms station | 94u |
Conwil station | 94l |
Pencader station with Manchester & Milford Haven Railway 2-4-0 Lady Elizabeth (Sharp Stewart 1866, rebuilt 1890) | 95u |
Newcastle Emlyn with ex-M&MR 2-4-2T No. 6 Cader Idris as GWR No. 1306 in 1913 | 95m |
Llanbyther station decorated with banners | 95l |
Fly shunted: Dorstone goods yard on the Golden Valley line. 96
Horse and waggon owned by Roger Haines of Snodhill Court, Peterchurch.
Sacks being loaded from waggon into GWR iron mink van, c1920.
Llandilo station with southbound passenger train hauled by LNWR tanke engine
(Coloured post card). Rear cover (upper)
Manchester Ship Canal diesel locomotive No. 3003 hauling Associated Octel
tank wagons at Ellesmere Port in September 1991. (T. Mann: colour photograph).
Rear cover (lower)
The railway in the landscape: Bethesda c1895. 2-3.
LNWR station in foreground with mineral wagons (see
enlargement page 23 (bottom)). and six-wheel coaching stock: in middle
distance Penrhyn slate quarries and Penrhyn Railway train with locomotive
at foot of inclined plane and mountains in vast background.
See also long commentary on the picture from Peter Swift
in Issue 18 (inside back cover) who detected one of three large Hunslet
locomotives on the Penrhyn Quarry Railway and notes on the inclines and on
slate traffic on the LNWR branch..
Pirie, A. Gordon. Strabathie Light Railway (or the
Blackdog Light Railway or the Murcar Railway. 4-23.
The Seaton Brick & Tile Company built a brickworks at Strabathie
on the North Sea coast north of Aberdeen in 1898 and in 1899 acquired a Light
Railway Order to construct a narrow gauge (3ft) from the works to Bridge
of Don. The line was 3¼ miles long. Alexander Christie, the manager
of the brickworks hoped that it would be possible to work the firm's traffic
from there into the City centre using Aberdeen Corporation Tramways and vehicles
were designed, but not constructed to cope with two different gauges. A Hunslet
outside-cylinder 0-4-0ST Newburgh was the motive power and open wagons
were supplied by W.G. Bagnall and later by Gray, Harrow & Co. of Aberdeen.
Subsequently, the Seaton Brick & Tile Co. was pursuaded to carry golfers
to the links and these were conveyed in former tramcars supplied from Aberdeen
Corporation, and built by R.&J. Shinnie of Aberdeen. When the Hunslet
was withdrawn on closure of the brickworks it was acquired by William Tawse,
an Aberdeen contractor. From 1909 a petrol-engined railcar was employed,
supplied by John B.Duff and this was known as the buggy or the trainie.
See also congratulatory letter from Martin
Gregory, but with some cryptic comment upon the source of power for the
railcar. The Hunslet with a train of two carriages is illustrated on page
9. At the bottom of page 8 there is a drawing (S. and f. els.) of a wagon.
There are several pictures of the railcar from its prime through until its
semi-demise. On page 10 upper there is a postcard photograph of Great North
of Scotland Railway mail omnibus (bus) at Newburgh: Milnes-Daimler No. 2368:
registered as SA 311. The buggy's driver was Jim Fiddes and he is shown with
his handbell on page 18......
Fly shunted 1. 23.
Enlargement of part of photograph of Bethesda station
(pp. 2/3) to show mineral wagons in great detail: two belonged to Robert
Williams & Sons Ltd, coal merchants of Liverpool and the other was lettered
Garswood, possibly Garswood Coal & Iron Co. wagon
Digby, Nigel. 'Our carriages': the story of the Midland
& Great Northern Joint Railway's own carriages and what happened to them.
22-34.
The story 'Our carriages' as they were known at the Melton Constable
works of what became the M&GNJR were ordered by the Lynn & Fakenham
Railway from the Birmingham Railway Carriage & Wagon Co, in 1882. By
delivery the railway had become the Eastern & Midlands Railway and William
Marriott was its Engineer and Locomotive Superintendent who termed these
vehicles the 'Large Stock'. They had semi-elliptical roofs and were six-wheelers.
From 1892 Marriott produced what he termed 'New Stock' at Melton Constable
using parts from withdrawn MR and NLR vehicles, but with the overall appearance
conforming with the 'Large Stock'. The basis for much of this article is
Marriott's Day Book which is kept in the National Archive at Kew.
4-4-0T No. 8 with New Stock at North Walsham c1902 | 22 |
Large stock third No. 47 as delivered in 1882. | 23 |
General arrangement drawing of Large Stock third No. 55 as running in 1890s | 25 |
Remains of third No. 47 in a Lincolnshire fruit field in 1989 | 26 |
Remains of third No. 47 in a Lincolnshire field in 1989 | 27u |
Large Stock composite No. 56 as newly painted in 1894 | 27l |
General arrangement drawing of Large Stock composite No. 11 (former No. 60) as from c1904 | 28u |
General arrangement drawing of rebuilt composite No. 8 as running c1914 | 28l |
Rebuilt third No. 52 (clearly a composite KPJ) with LNER style lettering at Melton Constable | 29u |
Remains of Large Stock third No. 55 in 1992 | 29l |
Garnish rail No. 55 on remains of Large Stock third No. 55 in 1992 | 30u |
Luggage brake No. 204 | 30m |
Large Stock luggage brake No. 31 | 30l |
General arrangement drawing of Large Stock luggage brake No. 184 as at c1914 | 31u |
Remains of flat-topped ducket on Large Stock brake No. 184 at Themelthorpe in 1986 | 31 |
Remains of Large Stock brake No. 184 at Themelthorpe in 1986 | 31 |
Remains of Large Stock brake No. 184 at Themelthorpe in 1986 (end view) | 32 |
Great Western Trust. The Bristol & Exeter Railway versus the Great Western
Railway, 1841-9: the Weston-Super-Mare branch and other matters. 35-7.
Papers acquired by R. King Bird and donated to the Great Western Trust
throw light upon a dispute between the BER and the GWR concerning the
Weston-super-Mare branch
Down postal. 38-
RA8 close to the hedge. Nick de Courtais.
See Issue 8 pp. 2-3
for double hedges in picture of South Eastern Railway
train in snow. SER probably planted this type of hedge (KPJ: probably a sort
of precursor to CTRL razor wire)
RA12 a matter of time. Graham Beare.
See end of feature in Issue 12 (page
28) where mph and time are expressed in form 6 1-3, etc:
writer suggests that this was due to the shortage of fractions by Edwardian
printers in their collections of lead slugs . 6 1-3 would be 6 hours 20 minutes.
(KPJ: this problem is still encountered within html)
Midland 0-6-0STs the answer. Bill Aves.
See Issue 16 page 51 (lower)
for photograph of MR 0-6-0ST No. 2067A. Cites
Summerson's Midland Railway
locomotives Vol. 3 pp. 189-90 which states that MR purchased two
Fox Walker 0-6-0STs: original running numbers 1428/9, Works Numbers 377 and
384 in 1879 for dock shunting at Gloucester. No. 1428 became 1428A in 1890
and 2067A in 1891 and remained in service until 1906.
Matters arising. Steve Phillips.
See Issue 16: 54 lower: Baldwin 2-6-0s: letter
states that locomotives were delivered in fully lined MR livery; and
page 36 upper: corrects "Bristol Carriage & Wagon"
to Bristol Wagon & Carriage Works
In defence of Isambard. Brian Arman.
See letter in Issue 16 page 55 from Professor
John Miles which condemned Brunel for his lack of mechanical
engineering ability: letter writer prays to justify Brunel's flawed genius
by placing him alongside Euclid, Augustine, Thomas More, and so on, and by
noting that Brunel perceived Paddington as being the departure point for
New York.
Time warp! Mick Nicholson.
See middle photograph on page 25 of Issue 16: presence
of APT invalidates suggested date of 1925
Hackworth undermined. Harry Jack.
See article in Issue 16 beginning page
4: questions the use of illustrative material from Clement
Stretton's The development of the locomotive, noting that Stretton
is regarded as being unreliable: notes that the drawing
of Stephenson's Planet (page 20 upper right) is inaccurate and
that the picture of "Puffing Billy" (9 lower) was based
upon a photograph of Wylam Dilly. See also letter
from R.A. Fox in Issue 19 page 52. Norman
Hill responded in Issue 20 page 59+.
Hackworth undermined. Kevin P. Jones.
See article in Issue 16 beginning page
4: takes exception to phrase "knowledge plundered from
his neighbours" used to describe George Stephenson's working methods and
uses bibliographical warrant to contrast the relative significance of the
two engineers. See also letter from R.A. Fox in Issue
19 page 52. KPJ also used this letter to accuse Railway Archive
of lacking a sense of direction: such nonsense was firmly squashed not only
by the Editor, but also in letters in Issue 18 (inside back cover) from
Tony Wisdom, Cyril Crawley
and Steve Phillips, and from KPJ who considers
Issue 17 to be absolutely super. Norman Hill responded
in Issue 20 page 59+..
Sackcloth & ashes. Brian Arman. 82.
See feature in Issue 15 page 18 by writer for
picture stated to be Prometheus was probably Crimea of Rover
class
Arman, Brian. The 'Bear' at Bath. 39-43.
No. 111 The Great Bear: six photogrphs with Star class No.
4017 Knight of the Black Eagle in two of them. Views probably taken
in 1908. See also upper illustration on rear cover,
and correspondence on the state of the locomotive when the photographs were
taken. Letter from Bob McCunn (Issue 18 inside back
cover) relates to photograph on page 41 which appears
to show a rearward facing headlamp and letter from Graham
Beare in Issue 18 on front steps and associated handrail which led to
letters in Issue 19 from David Patrick and from
Peter Treloar. See
also feature by Michael Wrottesley in Backtrack, 2008, 22,
547-52.:.
Greaves, Jim. Ramsgate Town, 1913: train through the wall. 44-50.
On 11 March 1913 an accident occurred through the failure of Driver
James Woodward of H class 0-4-4T No. 324 to connect the vacuum brake hose
between the locomotive and its train at Margate Sands and this led to the
train demolishing a wall at Ramsgate Town (both stations were closed during
the Southern Railway's improvement of railway routes on the Isle of
Thanet).
Alsop, John. The railway photographs of E. Pouteau. Part 16: The Midland. Railway Part 2. 51-70..
0-4-4T No. 1261 possibly still in green livery outside Lancaster shed possibly pre-1900 | 51 |
890 class 2-4-0 No. 901 still in green livery pre-1886 | 52 |
4-2-2 No. 689 pilot to 4-2-2 No. 123 passing Mill Hill on down Manchester express in 1907 | 53u |
4-2-2 No. 20 (old number) with No. 21 (new number on tender) passing Mill Hill on down Scotch express in 1907 | 53l |
4-2-2 No. 618 pilot to 4-4-0 No. 1757 (old number) passing Mill Hill on down express in 1907 | 54u |
1804 class 4-4-0 No. 1814 in original condition at Trafford Park c1888 | 54l |
890 class 2-4-0 No. 136 between 1890 and 1907 | 55 |
800 class 2-4-0 No. 820A at St. Pancras c1905 | 56 |
4-4-0 No. 2424 (150 class) pilot to 4-4-0 No. 847 (840 class) passing Mill Hill on down Liverpool & Manchester express in 1904-6 | 57u |
Compound No. 2635 with bogie tender at Kentish Town probably in late 1903: Peter Bunce (Issue 18 page 30) suggests that these were "yellow bellies" and that compounds were very much 'experts' engines | 57l |
690 class 0-4-4T No. 786 pre-1907 | 58u |
Hampton station with 0-6-0 on freight heading towards Whitacre: Oh no it wasn't: see letters from Mike Christensen and John Edgington (Issue 18 page 30) who place the location firmly as West Hampstead. | 58l |
1873 class 0-6-0 No. 3215 near Leigh on Southend excursion post 1907 | 59u |
25 class 4-2-2 No. 1860 at St Pancras in c1905: Peter Bunce (Issue 18 page 30) suggests that these were "yellow bellies" | 59l |
Sharnbrook accident of 4 February 1909: head-on collision of two freight trains. See also letter from Bill Aves (Number 18 p. 30) who refutes statement about locomotives being withdrawn as result of accident | 60 |
4-2-2s Nos. 1872 and 2602 double-head up express near Mill Hill with two open wagons with milk churns and a ventilated van at front of train: Peter Bunce (Issue 18 page 30) suggests that the open wagons were either CR or NBR and conveyed fish in barrels, the ventilated van (probably from the CR) may have conveyed meat. | 61 |
60 class 4-4-0 No. 2597 on down express at Mill Hill c1906 | 62u |
Beyer Peacock condensing 4-4-0T No. 206A at Kentish Town c1901 | 62m |
1502 class 2-4-0 No. 1505 | 62l |
2000 class 0-6-4T No. 2008 at Cheadle Heath c1908 | 63 |
2000 class 0-6-4T No. 2004 at Trafford Park shed c1908 | 64 |
Cheshire Lines shed at Trafford Park with GCR, GNR and MR locomotives, c1908 | 65u |
Tender with No. 316 at Trafford Park shed | 65m |
0-4-0ST No. 1523 in Swansea area | 65l |
2-4-0s Nos. 9 and 199 (probably with incorrect tenders for respective locomotives) at St Pancras c1907 | 66 |
115 class 4-4-2 No. 124 on down express at Mill Hill c1906 (F.E. Mackay) | 67 |
1737 class 4-4-0 No. 420 and 4-2-2 backing out of St Pancras c1907 | 68u |
4-2-2 pilot to 2606 class 4-4-0 No. 857 departing St Pancras in 1906: letter from Peter Bunce (18 page 30) argues that this should have been called the 850 class | 68l |
Compound No. 1017 at Mill Hill on down express with NER clerestory coach at front of train post 1907: letter from Peter Bunce (18 page 30) firmly states that saloon is one of six family saloons built in 1879: one features in a picture of Sarah Barnhardt. By the time of the photograph the vehicle may have been downgraded to a picnic saloon. | 69u |
690 class 0-4-4T as rebuilt in 1890 No. 1200 at St Pancras | 69l |
West Hampstead station being rebuilt between 1905 and 1906 with northbound express hauled by 4-2-2 passing | 70 |
Mullay, A.J. The loss of Colchester and other tales:
Great Eastern ships in World War One. 71-80.
The Great Eastern Railway lost several of its ships during WW1, notably
the Colchester. On 2 April 1916 the company's cargo ship Cromer
attempted to ram a German U-boat (submarine) which forced it to crash-dive.
Captain F.F. Beeching was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for this
action. On 23 June 1916 the Brussels was stopped and taken as as prize
to Zeebrugge and its Captain Charles Fryatt was murdered by the the Germans
following a court martial: execution was by a firing squad (German readers
should remember that this is written in Nurse Edith Cavell country). At the
end of WW1 Captain Fryatt was honoured with a service at St Paul's Cathedral
prior to being reinterred with honour at Dovercourt. This article is a trailer
for the author's For the King's service: railway ships at war. (to
be published by Tempus). Corrections in Issue
21 page 29 et seq: from Jerzy M. Swieszkowski (Shipping Research
Coordiantor, Great Eastern Railway Society)t.
SS Amsterdam c1908 | 71 |
SS Dresden shown on advertising correspondence card | 72u |
SS Vienna | 72l |
SS Brussels built by Gourlay Bros of Dundee | 73u |
GER publicity postcard showing Great Eastern Railway Hotel, Harwich, and pier | 73l |
SS Brussels aground, c1907 | 74 |
TSS Antwerp arriving in Antwerp in 1920 | 75u |
SS Cromer moored off Parkeston Quay | 75l |
SS Brussels sunk in Zeebrugge harbour: Belgian postcard with murdered Captain Fryatt in inset | 76u |
Harwich: pier and hotel c1908 | 76l |
SS Brussels: Belgian postcard with murdered Captain Fryatt mentioned in caption | 77u |
Salvaged SS Brussels in port of Zeebrugge in August 1919 | 77l |
SS Colchester at Parkeston Quay c1905 | 78u |
TSS Copenhagen (John Brown Ltd 1907) | 78l |
SS Colchester: GER postcard printed by Edgar Schmidt of Dresden | 79u |
SS Roulers (former SS Vienna) at Zeebrugge in1920 | 79l |
SS Munich as hospital ship at Newhaven in 1914 prior to being remaed St. Denis: Sheer legs cause of earlier correspondence clearly visible | 80 |
See also rear cover (lower) for coloured postcard view of the SS Dresden
Pouteau M&SWJR update. 81.
Letters from Mike Barnsley (with further photographs) which relate
to lists of Pouteau photographs in Issue 16 page 35 et seq
and only photograph 39 lower. The further photographs
are of 2-6-0 No. 16; 2-4-0 No. 10 and 0-6-0s Nos. 24 and 27.
John Minnis (Issue 18 page 70) comments at length
on the "Pouteau M&SWJR photographs": these were taken by A.F. Selby and
then importantly states where these (and other) Selby photographs have been
reproduced..
Neil Parkhouse. Wish you were here: railway postcards of North Somerset. 83-96.
Bath Queen Square interior c1910 [Green Park]: see also letter from Richard Kelham (18 p. 70) who states that the coaches visible were S&DJR rather than MR stock | 83 |
Midford station with Johnson 0-6-0 approaching, c1910 | 84u |
Midford station and viaduct with GWR Camerton branch and Somerset Coal Canal, c1925 | 84l |
Radstock Somerset & Dorset Railway with engine shed and Earl Waldegrave coal wagons | 85 |
Radstock station, GWR, with Metro tank arricing, c1905 | 86u |
Newbury Railway Hudswell, Clarke & Rogers 0-6-0ST 153/1874 at Vobster stone crushing works, c1910 | 86l |
Frome station with Metro tank and baulk rail c1905 | 87u |
Cranmore station | 87l |
Shepton Mallet station exterior (GWR), c1930 | 88u |
Oakhill Brewery 2ft 6in railway with Bagnall 0-4-0ST Oakhill crossing viaduct over Binegar Bottom: fuller account see Archive 69 p. 40- | 88l |
Wells Tucker Street (GWR) in 1922 | 89u |
Wookey station with passenger train, passengers and luggage, c1905 | 89l |
Cheddar station with standard goods and strawberries being loaded into ventilated vans, c1905 | 90 |
Langford station | 91u |
Yatton station pre-WW1 | 91m |
Bleadon & Uphill station, c1912 | 91l |
Weston Clevedon & Portishead Railway Manning Wardle 0-6-0ST No. 5 at Weston c1930 | 92u |
Weston Clevedon & Portishead Railway station at Portshead possibly on opening day: 7 May 1907 | 92l |
Pensford viaduct | 93u |
Hallatrow station with Metro tank on train with passengers changing for Camerton branch railmotor | 93m |
Hallatrow signal box with "S" and "T" plates visible: see Br. Rly J., 1983, 1, 17 for article by G. Beale. See also letter in Issue 18 page 70+ from Michael Dunn who notes that this was tthe original structure from the 1880s. | 93b |
Rope-worked incline Lower Conygre Colliery c1900 | 94u |
Norton Hill Colliery, Midsomer Norton with Bristol Wagon & Carriage Works dumb-buffer wagon, c1910 | 94l |
Monkton Combe station shortly after opening on 9 May 1910: see letter in Issue 18 p. 70 from John Scotford who corrects caption: Limpley Stoke is on Bath to Westbury line, not the Bath to Chippenham mainline. | 95u |
Twerton-on-Avon station | 95l |
Bath: view from Beechen Cliff including GWR station and 4-6-0 hauled express | 96 |
No. 111 The Great Bear leaving Paddington on the
Plymouth Limited c1910. rear cover (upper)
See letter from Peter Treloar (Issue 19 page 52)
concerning the modifications made to the photograph by
the colourist "F. Moore" this includes the livery of the coaches (from chocolate
and cream to overall crimson lake, and the addition of steps in front of
the cylinders and the article to which this directly relates,
namely photographs of The Great Bear when new..
Great Eastern Railway steamship Dresden departing
Rotterdam for Harwich c1904. rear cover (lower)
Coloured postcard
Jenkins, Stanley C. The Jersey Eastern Railway.
2-29.
Standard gauge railway opened in 1873 and closed in 1929. Unlike the
narrow gauge Jersey Railway the Jersey Eastern operated on a relatively level
route with few engineering structures. The trains lacked continuous brakes
and relied on the brakes provided on the engine and by the guard. There was
only one signal, but electric lighting had been installed by 1929. Illus.:
Mount Orgueil c1890 prior to construction of railway; Gorey Pier station
c1905; St. Luke's with station c1906; Kitson's official works photograph
of 0-4-2T Mount Orgueil prior to delivery; same locomotive in
service c1920; 0-4-2T Calvados; 0-4-2T Carteret outside Green
Street carriage shed on 7 July 1922 (Harold Hopwood); Calvados coupled
to vehicle with post box c1900; semi-open second class carriage; brake
end coach with letter box; Calvados on train; Sentinel railcar (WN
5655) as regauged for 3ft 6in Jersey Railway and named Normandy c1930;
St. Helier (Snow Hill) station exterior c1912; St. Helier (Snow Hill) station
interior on 29 June 1922 (Harold Hopwood); view towards terminus c1905;
carriage shed probably in June 1913 (Harold Hopwood); sole semaphore signal
on 22 June 1913 (Harold Hopwood); level crossing at Le Dicq c1920; Pontac
station c1912 and in c1905; crowd on La Rocque station with train arriving
c1910; Mount Orgueil (probably) in rural setting c1920; Caesarea
(probably) at Gorey Village station c1905, c1912 and c1920; approach
to Gorey Pier station c1905; four postcard view of Mount Orgueil with station;
Caesarea waiting to leave Gorey Pier on 2 July 1921; exterior of Gorey
Pier station with castle above in Edwardian period; 0-4-2T Mount Orgueil
with acetylene headlamp at Mount Orgueil in 1928; 0-4-2T Calvados
at Gorey Pier station on 26 June 1913 (Harold Hopwood); remains of Sentinel
railcar (locomotive portion) as acquired George Cohen at Wood Lane c1935
and at Mertsham Lime Quarries as No. 2 Dom on 4 January 1936.
Further photographs in Issue 24 beginning page
50..
Down postal [letters]. 30+
Midland matters arising. George Harris.
See Issue 16 page 51 upper:
information about Hellifield: the carriage shed was initially used by L&YR,
then by MR. The shed was also used to store some of the Americal Pullman
cars. There are also details of the first station at Hellifield built by
the old North Western Railway
Midland matters arising. Bill Aves.
See Issue 17 page 60: locomotives
involved in Sharnbrook accident of 4 February 1909 (4-4-0 No. 3338 and 0-6-0
No. 3698) were not destroyed, but were rebuilt with G7 and H type boilers
respectively.
Midland matters arising. Mike Christensen.
See Issue 17 illus. p. 58 lower: West
Hampstead.not Hampton (in Arden)
Midland matters arising. John Edgington
See Issue 17 illus. p. 58 lower: West
Hampstead.not Hampton (in Arden)
Midland matters arising. Peter Bunce.
Very generous letter which adds a considerable amount of information:
Issue 17 page 61: with two open wagons with "milk churns"
and a ventilated van at front of train: writer suggests that the open wagons
were either CR or NBR and conveyed fish in barrels, the ventilated van (probably
from the CR) may have conveyed meat.:Page 69 upper:
Compound on down express with "NER clerestory coach" at front of train post
1907: firmly states that saloon is one of six family saloons built by Midland
in 1879: one features in a picture of Sarah Barnhardt. By the time of the
photograph the vehicle may have been downgraded to a picnic saloon; see
17 57 lower and 59 lower suggests
that the locomotives illustrated were "yellow bellies" (that is they had
the boiler cladding in front of the driving wheels painted a cream
colour to reflect light upon the motion); furthermore the early compounds
were very much 'experts' engines with the ability to adjust the valve gear
for each set individually; finally, see 17 68 lower:
argues that this should have been called the 850 class
.
Pouteau M&SWJR photographs the mystery solved!
John Minnis. 70.
See short feature in Issue 17 page 81: letter
comments at length on the "Pouteau M&SWJR photographs": these were taken
by A.F. Selby and then importantly states how he and Mike Higson acquired
albums of Selby photographs and where these (and other) Selby photographs
have been reproduced: Minnis's New century
on the South Eastern & Chatham Railway (1985)..
Railway postcards from North Somerset. Richard
Kelham.
See Issue 17 page 83: states that the coaches
visible in Bath Greeen Park station were S&DJR rather than MR
stock
Railway postcards from North Somerset. John
Scotford
See caption to illus on page 95 upper of Issue 17:
Limpley Stoke is on Bath to Westbury line, not the Bath to Chippenham
mainline.
Railway postcards from North Somerset. Michael
Dunn.
See bottom photograph on p. 93 of Issue 17:
notes that illus. shows Hallatrow signal box as original structure from the
1880s.
Bethesda. Peter Swift. inside
back cover
See Issue 17 pp. 2-3: detected one of three large
Hunslet locomotives on the Penrhyn Quarry Railway and notes on the inclines
and on slate traffic on the LNWR branch.
Early locomotives in Nova Scotia. Michael Hardy
See feature in Issue 16 page 4 et seq: writer
is critical of the claim made in Robert Young's Timothy Hackworth and
the locomotive that three locomotives constructed by Hackworth were the
first in British North America: Dorchester built by Stephenson's for
the Champlain & St Lawrence Railroad in 1836 was the first .
The Great Bear. Bob McCunn.
See Issue 17 illustration on page
41: writer notes that the locomotive appears to carrying
either an inward facing headlamp or a double-sided headlamp.
The Great Bear. Graham Beare.
See Issue 17: photographs on page 39 et
seq and that on rear cover: writer observes that the front
steps shown on the pp. 39 et seq should have been removed by the time of
the F. Moore painting shown on the rear cover: this led
to letter and photograph from Peter Treloar (Issue 19) which shows that
F. Moore did indeed modify the image and from David Patrick concerning front
handrail formerly associated with front steps..
And finally... some bouquets. Tony Wisdom
See ill-advised part of letter from KPJ (Issue
17 page 38+) concerning the direction taken by Railway
Archive: this leapt to the defence of the current path followed by the
Editor.
And finally... some bouquets. Cyril
Crawley
See ill-advised part of letter from KPJ (Issue
17 page 38+) concerning the direction taken by Railway
Archive: this leapt to the defence of the current path followed by the
Editor.
And finally... some bouquets. Steve
Phillips.
See ill-advised part of letter from KPJ (Issue
17 page 38+) concerning the direction taken by Railway
Archive: this leapt to the defence of the current path followed by the
Editor.
And from the man himself. Kevin P. Jones
See ill-advised part of letter from KPJ (Issue
17 page 38+) concerning the direction taken by Railway
Archive: this acknowledged that Issue No. 17 was a
superb Issue inspite of the vitriolic comments made by one old grumpy..
Arman, Brian. The H.L. Hopwood Collection, 1901-1923.
Part 1: A Great Northern selection. 31-8.
Harold Hopwood was born in 1881 and joined the Great Northern Railway
in January 1897, becoming a clerk in the Locomotive Department in 1902. In
July 1907 he was moved to the Train Running Section at King's Cross and following
the Grouping he was moved to Liverpool Street before returning to King's
Cross. He was a founder member of the Railway Club. He died in 1927: obituary
Rly Mag., 1927 June. Arman also relates how he obtained the collection
of prints and it is noted that the glass photographic plates are held by
the Locomotive Club of Great Britain as
part of the Ken Nunn Collection. Michael Hardy (letter
Issue 19 p. 70) states that death was on 23 April 1927, citing
Locomotive Magazine for 14 May 1927). Also notes that Hopwood advertised
his prints for sale in Locomotive Magazine in 1904. Also records that
Steam in camera 1898-1959 (Ottley 10465) records the movement of the
Hopwood collection by Ken Nunn and Bernard Maycoack..
Harold L. Hopwood (portrait) | 31 |
Class 6 2-2-2 No. 14 at Lincoln on 4 August 1902 | 32 |
251 class 2-4-0 No. 258 at Hitchin on 5 July 1902 | 33 |
Class 168 0-6-0 at Hornsey on 16 September 1902 | 34 |
Class 275 0-4-2T No. 279 at Hatfield on 12 April 1902 | 35 |
0-4-2 No. 592. See letter from Barry C. Lane (Issue 19 page 70) who confirms that carriages behind the engine were Lancashire & Yorkshire vehicles and submitted photograph of LYR 4-4-0 at identical, but still unknown location. According to later letter from Barry Lane (Issue 22 page 66) location was Leeds Central station. | 36 |
Class 120 back tank No. 625 at Hatfield on 13 September 1902 | 37u |
0-4-2ST No. 501 at Essendine on 16 July 1904 | 37l |
Stirling 0-4-2 No. 12 arriving Hitchin on 14.30 ex-King's Cross on 1 August 1903 | 38 |
Greaves, Jim. Holiday traiuns to Ramsgate: the Southern
Railway of the 1930s from the camera of S.A.W. Harvey. 39-50.
Information about photographer in final
part. Includes a plan (c1935) of station which icludes engine shed and
carriage shed. The Southern Railway had constructed these fascilities and
opened them in 1926 to replace the former competitive chaos
Part 2 see Issue 19 page 33.
E1 No. A19 passing Brixton on 15.10 to Ramsgate | 39 |
Sample page from album | 42u |
V class No. E906 Sherborne departs Ramsgate in 1930 | 42l |
F class (not identifiable) with birdcage set at Ramsgate in 1930 with train for Canterbury West and Ashford | 43u |
King Arthur No. 801 Sir Meliot de Logres outside Ramsgate shed on 29 April 1934 | 43l |
B1 4-4-0 No. A456 pilots unidentified E1 4-4-0 on down Ramsgate train through Herne Hill | 44 |
E1 4-4-0 No. 1067 backs carriages into siding at Ramsgate | 45u |
King Arthur No. 764 Sir Gawain on Ramsgate express at St. Mary Cray Junction in June 1935 | 45l |
D1 4-4-0 No. 1735 shunting its carriages at Ramsgate station | 46 |
C class 0-6-0 No. 1242 on Ramsgate shed on 29 April 1934 | 47u |
H class 0-4-4T No. 1259 near coaling tower at Ramsgate shed on 29 April 1934 | 47l |
E1 4-4-0 No. 1497 on Ramsgate shed on 29 April 1934 | 48u |
J class 0-6-4T No. 1597 on Ramsgate shed probably in summer of 1939 | 48l |
L class No. 1766 outside Ramsgate shed on 9 July 1939 | 49u |
E1 4-4-0 No. 1067 outside Ramsgate shed on 9 July 1939 | 49l |
L1 class No. 1786 outside Ramsgate shed on 9 July 1939 | 50 |
Alsop, John. Pouteau listings Part 18. The North British Railway.
51-65.
Uses North British Railway Study Group classification which is similar
to that adopted by LNER.
Drummond 4-4-0 No. 486 at Carlisle Canal shed with Driver H. Mantell and Fireman W. Purdom | 51 |
Hawthorn 0-6-0 of 1848 No. 1030 at Carlisle Canal shed in 1906 | 52 |
Intermediate 4-4-0 No. 884 probably at Eastfield (rope guide & cable hook) c1906 | 53 |
2-2-2 No. 1009 at Stirling c1905 | 54 |
Edinburgh Waverley station and North British Station Hotel. See Issue 19 page 70 letter from Harry Jack: not east, but west end of Edinburgh Waverley | 55u |
Elliot Junction accident of 28 December 1906 locomotive No. 324: see also Br. Rly J., 1992, 5, 178 | 55l |
0-6-0 No. 366 on short freight at Newington c1908 | 56u |
Edinburgh Waverley with 4-4-0 No. 423 probably on a Glasgow slow | 56l |
0-6-0T No. 297 at North Leith station with pasenger train in 1904 | 57u |
4-4-0 with train of six-wheel coaches from Galashiels arriving Waverley with Calton Prison behind | 57l |
J35 (to be) No. 855 at St Margaret's shed in late 1900s | 58u |
2-2-2 No. 1001 at Haymarket shed | 58l |
D31 (to be) 4-4-0 with three other 4-4-0s alongside Haymarket Central signal box | 59u |
Y9 (to be) No. 546 | 59l |
D51 (to be) R class 4-4-0T No. 33 (with smokebox star) at Leith Central with Driver Jimmy Kay and Fireman Jock McIntosh in May 1910 | 60u |
J81 (to be) 0-6-0ST No. 221 as Edinburgh station pilot | 60m |
Y9 (to be) No. 1085 in Leith Docks post 1901 | 60l |
J82 (to be) No. 22 at Carlisle Canal c1905 | 61u |
Loch Unagan with Fort August branch alongside | 61l |
C11 (to be) No. 870 Bon Accord with well stacked tender at Haymarket shed | 62 |
Aberdeen Joint Station in 1907 | 63 |
4-4-0 and damaged wagons involved in collision at Galashiels on 1 September 1908 | 64u |
J36 (to be) No. 247 at Haymarket shed 0-4-2 | 64m |
0-4-2 No. 329 on local passnger train at Melrose in early 1900s | 64l |
D27 (to be) No. 489 Hawick heading towards Forth Bridge? on express (photographed from Glasgow express?) See letter from Irving Nichol (Issue 19 p. 70) confirms location as west of Saughton Junction. | 65u |
D25 (to be) 4-4-0 No. 592 in Carlisle Citadel with decorated smokebox See Issue 19 page 70 letter from Harry Jack: not as stated but Edinburgh Waverley | 65l |
Jack, Harry. Clement Edwin Stretton railway
historian? 66-70.
A further and more detailed examination of the excessively imaginative
railway and locomotive "historian" Clement
Edwin Stretton. Jack shows how Stretton's account of Vulcan Foundry
locomotives being "shipped" to the isolated section of the Chester &
Holyhead Railwya to work on Anglesey is a complete fabrication: the locomotives
went to the London to Birmingham section. Jack observes that Stretton is
definitely not to be trusted on the output from
Haigh Foundry where many of
the alleged "output" did not ever exist. Similarly, Stretton is completely
untrustworthy on anything relating to
Bury locomotives, and several
of his "drawings" of Bury locomotives were accepted by the Science Museum
and have since been used to mislead serious students. Jack's strictures are
even more severe on Stretton's compilations of the output from
Vulcan Foundry.. Further support for
this consignment of Stretton to the dustbin of historians
from Brian Lewis (Issue 19 page 70) who found
inaccuracies in Stretton's record of the Leicester & Swannington Railway
.
John Alsop. Wish you were here: railway postcards
of Norfolk. 71-80.
With the exception of the Yare crossing and Cromer Beach all links
with railways have long ceased to exist in the locations depicted
Balanced cantilevered swing bridge over River Yare outside Norwich with No. 1 class possibly No. 117 at head of train from Trowse; | 71 |
Wretham & Hockham station (between Thetford and Swaffham) | 72u |
Wendling station (between Dereham and King's Lynn) | 72l |
Thetford Bridge station (Thetford & Watton Railway) | 73 |
Accident (derailment of freight train) on 26 August 1912 near East and West Barsham (south of Walsingham) due to bridge damage following gale and floods | 74u |
Ryston station (Stoke Ferry branch) with mixed train, c1910 | 74m |
Ryburgh station with agricultural waggon loading into railway trauck and maltings, c1904 | 74l |
Middleton station with passenger train arriving hauled by 2-4-0, c1905 | 75u |
Hunstanton sttaion with T26 No. 478 on up train, c1905 | 75l |
Homersfield station following 1912 flood | 76u |
Aylsham GER station with westbound train in platform, c1905 | 76l |
Holkham Station | 77u |
Raynham Park station c1912 | 77m |
Y6 tramway engine No. 129 with passenger train at Upwell c1905: see also letter from Cyril Crawley (Issue 19 p. 70) who notes that caption stated six-coupled, not four coupled | 77b |
Claud Hamilton No. 1813 with Norfolk Coast Express at Cromer on 7 or 8 June 1907 | 78u |
Cromer Beach station with M&GNJR 4-4-0 working tender-first on set of six wheel coaches: see also Issue 17 page 22. | 78l |
Busy scene at Melton Constable station with Beyer Peacock 4-4-0 | 79u |
Class A 4-4-0 No. 23 at North Walsham MGNJR | 79m |
South Lynn engine shed with M&GNJR 0-6-0 No. 59 and 4-4-0T | 79l |
Stalham station for six wheel coaches: see also Issue 17 page 22. | 80u |
Terrington station | 80l |
Stoke Ferry with train arriving from Downham Market c1910. coloured postcard.
back cover upper
Train departing Gorey Pier beneat Mont Orgueil castle, c1905. coloured postcard.
back cover lower
Turton, Keith. Admiralty coal traffic during the First
World War: the 'Jellicoe Trains'. Part 1. 2-32.
During WW1 the British Fleet under the command of Admiral of the Fleet
Sir John Jellicoe was greatly dependent upon supplies of smokeless Welsh
coal which had to be transported from South Wales to ports on the East Coast
most notably on the Firth of Forth especially at Grangemouth which required
the coal to be hauled over Shap. See also Part 2 in Issue
20 beginning page 21 and "Follow up" articles
in Issue 23 by Edward Talbot (page 41) and by
John Hodge and Richard Weedley beginning page 55.. Only
one photograph relates directly to the central topic and this is particularly
interesting as it shows that the train carried three head lamps above the
buffer beam: the Jellicoe specials do not appear to have been photographed,
in spite of/because of their strategic importance.. This article was judged
by John Lusted (long letter in Issue 21 pp.
26-7) to be excessively critical of Lord Jellicoe and in particular of
his "defeat" at the Battle of Jutland, but does agree that Jellicoe failed
to address the German U-boat campaign. Further Jellicoe was far from
swashbuckling. Letter from Tony Cooper in
Issue 22 page 66 who queries why Royal Navy did not use nearer coal and comments
on calorific values. Additional information concerning Jellicoe's role
as a coal merchant from Keith Turton in Issue
23 page 24..
Penarth docks, c1921, with sidings full of coal for shipment | 2 |
Admiral of the Fleet Sir John Jellicoe | 3 |
HMS Duke of Edinburgh (light armoured cruiser) being coaled | 4 |
Coal for the Navy, news item from The Times, 12 September 1911 | 5 |
Admiralty coal train hauled by B class compound 0-8-0 No. 500 on Shap being banked (F.E. Mackay) | 6 |
Burntisland docks, c1908 (shows coal tip) | 7u |
Imperial Dock, Leith, 1925 (showing three coal tips) | 7l |
Crumlin viaduct, c1908 | 8 |
Freight train with banker passing through Knucklas station. See also letter from Michael Dunn (Issue 20 page 20) who states that train was heading towards Swansea, not as stated. | 9 |
Immingham sidings with coal hoists beyond, c1913 | 10u |
Immingham coal hoists and vesssels receing coal, July 1913 | 10l |
Coal hoists at Immingham | 11 |
Nixon's Navigation colliery, Merthyr Vale, c1911 | 13 |
Insoles' Upper Cyymmer colliery at Porth with Taff Vale Railway mainline and River Taff | 14u |
TVR 0-6-2T No. 73 with coal train passing beneath Walnut Tree viaduct at Taff's Well, c1922. | 14l |
Advice note for coal purchased by Wm Mathwin, Admiralty agents, 1916 | 15 |
Invergordon showing Naval vessel and oil tank farm, post WW1. See also letter from M.R. Grocock (Issue 20 page 20) who records that the "Naval vessel" was a battleship dressed overall | 16 |
Coal tips, Queen Alexandra Dock, Cardiff with two Cory Bros. end-door wagons, c1912 | 17 |
Great Western Railway instructioins for running Special Trains with Admiralty Coal, January 1912 | 18-19 |
Pontypool Road, new station nearing completion in 1909 | 20 |
Ordnance Survey 25 in map showing Admiralty Sidings, Pontypool Road, 1920 | 21 |
Pontypool Road shed, June 1939 | 222u |
Gloucester GWR station with train of empty coal wagons on 9 July 1919 | 22l |
Welsh or Caldicot portal of Svern Tunnel c1905 | 25 |
GWR outide-framed 0-6-0 on wetbound freight near Severn Bridge, c1910 | 26 |
Leominster station, c1905 | 27 |
Leominster station, c1930 looking south | 29u |
Leominster station, c1930 looking south | 29l |
Leominster station Signal Box train register book 25 October 1915 | 30 |
Transcript of above | 31-2 |
No. 1420 preparing to depart on Kington brnch freight in April 1964 | 32 |
In additionon on page 12 there are advertisements from collieries which supplied high quality steam coal: Powell Duffryn, Cory Brothers, Nixon's Navigation, Locket's Merthyr Collieries, Great Western Colliery Co. and Naval Colliery Co. On page 13 there is a list of collieries, owning companies, and railways serving them (GWR, TVR and Rhymney Railway) which supplied Admiralty grade steam coal. Colliery locations were Pontypridd, Treorchy, Llwynpia, Ystrad, Treherbert, Ogmore Vale, Tylorstown, Ferndale, Pentrebach, Porth, Trehaford, Tonyrefail, Maerdy, Wattstown, Penygraig, Tonypandy, Mountain Ash, Aberfan, Treharris, Treorchy, Blaengarw, Ynysbwl, Natymoel, Penrikyber, Aberman, Ystrad Mynach, Bargoed, Pontlottyn and Ynyshir. See also letter from R. Dukes in Issue 20 page 20 which givs additional information on sidings listed at Holton Heath and Bailey Gate. See also letter from Keith Turton in Issue 30 page 41 and illustrations.
Greaves, Jim. The Southern's Continental Route via
Dover: the Southern Railway of the 1930s from the camera of S.A.W. Harvey.
33-43.
Part 1 see Issue 18 page 39.
Part 3 see Issue 20 part 46
E1 No, A497 heads 10.30 down Continental express past Bechenham Junction, c1930 (although Pullman car looks overall maroon? | 33 |
Lord Nelson No. 859 Lord Hood heads down Continental express past Bechenham Junction, c1930 | 34u |
Lord Nelson No. E851 Sir Francis Drake heads down Golden Arrow past Petts Wood station in winter 1930/1 | 34l |
Lord Nelson No. E852 Sir Walter Raleigh heads down Golden Arrow through Folkestone Warren | 35u |
L1 class 4-4-0 No. A755 passing Warren Halt light engine in up direction | 35l |
L class No. 1780 on Dover shed on 29 April 1934 | 36u |
L1 class 4-4-0 No. 1754 on Dover shed on 3 May 1936 | 36l |
Lord Nelson No. 858 Lord Duncan leaving Dover Marine on Sunday 9 July 1939; also R1 0-6-0T No. 1174 | 37 |
L1 4-4-0 No. A758 and F1 4-4-0 at Dover possibly in 1936, but 1932 more probable | 38 |
L class 4-4-0 No. A773 at Dover possibly in 1936, but 1932 more probable | 39u |
N15 No. 766 Sir Geraint passing Herne Hill with Continental express | 39l |
Lord Nelson No. 852 Sir Walter Raleigh passing through junctions at Petts Wood with down Continental express | 40 |
N15 No. 772 Sir Percivale with original smoke deflectors on down Continental express near Petts Wood | 41u |
N15 No. 772 Sir Percivale with original smoke deflectors on down Continental express approaching Bickley | 41l |
N15 No. 772 Sir Percivale with later smoke deflectors with 09.00 boat train near Shortlands in September 1935 | 42 |
N15 No. 767 Sir Valence with down Continental express. This photograph led to a long letter from Peter Swift in Issue 20 page 20 on Southern Railway headcodes. | 43u |
Lord Nelson No. 856 Lord St Vincent with down Continental express passing Penge East c1930 | 43l |
Arman, Brian. The H.L. Hopwood Collection, 1901-1926.
Part 2. The Furness Railway at Barrow in 1902. 44-51.
All photographs taken on 12 August 1902: superb quality photographs:
superb standard of reproduction: due to the very extensive correspondence
generated by these photographs the entries for the photographs are in
bold type
Fairbairn 0-4-0 No.
9A page 44
Fairbairn 0-4-0 No.
14A page 45
Fairbairn 0-4-0 No.
13A page 46: stated by Rush
to have been withdrawn in 1900
Sharp Stewart 0-4-0
No. 28 page 47
Map of Barrow Docks, Furness Railway, 1895. page 48
0-4-0ST No. 4? (94)
page 49. See also letter in Issue 21
page 27 from Guy Wilson who considers that the extra pipework on No.
94A may have been for firefighting and includes an extract from the 1 February
1915 Working Timetable which records locomotives so-fitted.
See also letter from Brian Lacey in No. 22
page 66 who compares this illustration with one in Bradley's LSWR
locomotives the Adams classes (1985) where there is an engraving
on page 101 of portable Merryweather steam pump and a photograph of B4 class
No. 94 Brittany fitted with buffer beam brackets for pump..
2-4-0 No. 58 page
50
0-6-0 No. 39
page 51 upper
See also letter from Robin Barnes in Issue 20
page 20 who considers that lining may be visible in
photographs of Nos. 13A and 28; long letter from Les
Gilpin (Cumbrian Railways Association) on most of the photographs: notably
the 0-4-0s were supplied by Fairbairn not Fairburn; the Sharp Stewart 0-4-0
was supplied from Manchester, not Glasgow. Suggests that the 0-4-0ST may
have been No. 94. Adds that No. 28 is extant as restored to an 0-4-0 tender
locomotive numbered 20 and operated by the Lakeside & Haverthwaite Railway:
cites Tim Owen The great survivors, Cumbrian Railways Association.
Brian Lacey (letter Issue 20 page 59) suggests that
the 0-4-0ST may have been No. 94 (the "9" may have fallen off when the buffer
beam was modified with some extra form of coupling).
Fly Shunted. 51 lower.
Special working for transdporting a large flywheel from Sunderland
to the docks: both tracks had to be used. c1900. See letters from
M.R. Grocock and from Robin Barnes
in Issue 20 page 20 which state that NER moved the flywheel from the
South Durham Iron & Steel Co. Ltd's works at Stockton to their other
works at West Hartlepool.
'Down Postal'. 52.
A step back in time: the Leicester to Rugby line, RA6
& 7. James Howes
See Issue 6 page 61 et seq
and Issue 7 page 37 et seq:
comment on the residual diesel railcar service which operated along the once
glorious Great Central Railway. Writer is so upset by it all that he performs
occupational therapy on the Mid Norfolk Railway
More on the London coal trade. Keith Turton
See writer's article in Issue 13 page 4 et
seq: further information about Samuel Plimsoll, and the wagons he
employed for the London coal trade (information from Birmingham City Library,
Archives & Heritage Section (Access 2006/24, boxes 1-292) and from the
records of the Midland Wagon Co.. ...
The Great Bear. David Patrick
See letter from Graham Beare in Issue 18
and original feature on The Great Bear on pp. 39-43
in Issue 17: writer notes that the handrail associated with the front
steps lasted beyonfd the time when top feed was fitted and when the original
superheater was replaced. Also comments on the removal of the front steps
and handrail from some members of the Star class
The Great Bear and other matters. Peter
Treloar.
See upper coloured illustration on rear cover of
Issue 17 and black & white photograph reproduced herein,
from which it is obvious that (1) "F. Moore" had changed the livery of the
train from chocolate and cream to overall crimson (possibly to make the picture
seem more up-to-date) and (2) had added steps in front of the cylinders:
these steps had been fitted to the locomotive when it ran in as-built condition,
but had been removed by the time the photograph was taken Also
noted that on page 20 of article beginning page 4 of Issue 16 that Pavlovsk
in Russia was placed on Black Sea whereas it was only 25km from Moscow.
Norman Hill responded in Issue 20 page 59+..
Hawksworth and Stephenson. R.A. Fox
See article in Issue 16 beginning page 4 and letters
which stemmed from it by Harry Jack and
Kevin P. Jones which were critical of the original
article for relying upon Stretton and for attempting to support Timothy
Hackworth at the expense of George Stephenson's reputation which the
present writer states "never plundered anyone of anything" and that Stephenson
and Hackworth were "on good terms with each other". Norman
Hill responded in Issue 20 page 59+.
Clement E. Stretton. Brian Lewis. 70
See Issue 18 page 66 (article by Harry Jack):letter
writer found inaccuracies in Stretton's record of the Leicester & Swannington
Railway which C.R. Clinker considered might have been immune from the
fabrications which characterise Stretton's
work. .
Stretton-isms. Cyril Crawley.
See Issue 18 page 77 bottom: notes that caption
relating to Wisbech & Upwell Tramway locomotive stated that G15 No. 129
was six-coupled, not four-coupled as it should have been
Pouteau North British Railway. Irving Nichol.
See Issue 18 p. 65 upper: confirms location
as west of Saughton Junction (photographed from Glasgow-bound
train)..
Not Citadel Waverley. Harry Jack.
See Issue 18 page 65 lower: location
was not Carlisle Citadel but was Edinburgh Waverley and page
55 upper not east, but west end of Edinburgh Waverley
Hopwood remembered. Michael Hardy.
See feature Issue 18 page 31: corrects date of
Hopwood's death (23 April 1927). Also notes that Hopwood advertised his prints
for sale in Locomotive Magazine in 1904 and Steam in camera
1898-1959 (Ottley 10465) records the movement of the Hopwood collection
by Ken Nunn and Bernard Maycoack..
GN and L&Y matters arising. Barry C. Lane.
See Issue 18 page 36 for photograph of GNR 0-4-2
No. 592: confirms that carriages behind the engine were Lancashire &
Yorkshire vehicles and submitted photograph of LYR 4-4-0 at identical, but
still unknown location, probably on North Eastern Railway. .
According to later letter from Barry Lane
(Issue 22 page 66) location was Leeds Central station..
Alsop, John. Pouteau listings Part 19. The North Eastern Railway.
53-69.
I class 4-2-2 No. 1329 at York in early 20th century | 53 |
F1 class 4-4-0 No. 340 at Bridlington | 54u |
901 class 2-4-0 No. 367 pre-1893 | 54l |
38 class 4-4-0 No. 180 pre-1896 at York coaling stage | 55u |
J class No. 1521 at York station post-1894 | 55l |
T class 0-8-0 at Kirkby Stephen probably on special working. See also letter from Norman Hill (Issue 20 page 59) which notes a similar picture in Hill's Teesside railways which showed that dynamometer car tests were conducted on the Stainmore route between T class No. 2125 fitted with piston valves and slide valve locomotive No. 130 of the T1 class. | 56 |
450 class 2-2-2 No. 450 alongside York coaling stage c1890 | 57u |
Level crossing and crossing keeper's house at Mill Lane Pickering | 57l |
Deviation Junction signal cabin near Grosmont | 58u |
Kirby station with G1 class 4-4-0 No. 587 passing with a passenger train in July 1905 (G.W.J. Potter) | 58l |
398 class 0-6-0 No. 922 | 59u |
ex-SDR 0-6-0 (Shildon 1866) as NER No. 1194 | 59l |
577 class 0-6-0ST at Whitby c1900 | 60u |
M class 2-cylinder compound near Stannington on trial run of ECJS train on 22 July 1893 See letter from Michael Hardy (Issue 20 page 20) who notes a typo in the caption concerning building date for No. 1619 (1893 not as stated) and was probably a T.B. Parley photograph.. | 60l |
Tynemouth station pre-electrification (G. Hastings) | 61 |
Falloden station (private) with signal box and level crossing (G. Hastings). See letter in Issue 21 p. 26 from Alan Donaldson concerning Fallodon Station and its owner, Sir Edward Grey. | 62u |
Tynemouth station with hanging flower baskets and potted plants (G. Hastings) See also letter from Norman Hill (Issue 20 page 59) and two colour photographs on rear cover: | 62l |
Thickley Sidings, more correctlt Shildon Yard (G. Hastings) | 63 |
Snow-bound BTP with its train and rescue locomotive No. 1305 ex-Blyth & Tyne pre-1887 | 64u |
Haymarket shed, Edinburgh with R class Nos. 1665 and 1672 and S1 class No. 2114. See letter from Michael Hardy (Issue 20 page 20) who notes that Kite considered location to be Tweedsmouth. | 64l |
2-2-4T No. 957 at York station | 65u |
R class 4-4-0 No. 1235 with Sisterton superheater and extended smokebox | 65l |
S1 class No. 2115. Probably at York: see letter from Michael Dunn (Issue 20 page 20) who compares it with picture on page 68 upper (below) | 66 |
S class No. 758 crossing Bootham Junction, York with theatrical special? | 67u |
901 class 2-4-0 No. 912 inside York shed | 67l |
V class 4-4-2 No. 1794 at York station | 68u |
BTP with auto train at Crossgates | 68l |
Inside roundhouse. See letter from R.Hawkins (Issue 20 page 20) who considers that have been housing NER P3 No. 1039, not the T1 0-8-0 postulated. | 69u |
Q class 4-4-0 No. 1903? on water troughs: Wiske Moor | 69l |
Neil Parkhouse. Wish you were here: railway postcards of the GWR in Devon. 71-80.
Tiverton station en fête in 1910 with decorators still in evidence: Tercentenary of Blundells School: letter D. Coutts (22, 67) | 71 |
Ufffculme station c1930 | 72u |
Hemyock terminus c1926 | 72l |
Cullompton station c1906 | 73u |
Starcross station with building work in progress in 1906 | 73l |
Dawlish Warren station with Saint class ariiving on stopping passenger train | 74t |
Teignmouth station with down servica arrivingc1905 | 74m |
Bovey station with 0-6-0ST arriving from Newton Abbott (baulk road still in place) | 74b |
Moreton Hampstead with 44XX arriving on passenger train c1913 (baulk road still in place) | 75u |
Christow on Teign Valley line with passenger train hauled by Metro tank, c1905 | 75l |
Kinkerswell station with Metro tank arriving on [passenger train c1906 (W.R. Gays) | 76t |
Paignton station c1905 looking west | 76m |
Churston with junction for Brixham branch and goods shed c1900 | 76b |
Brent looking west | 77t |
Duke class No. 3258 King Arthur at Brent c 1907 (W.R. Gays) | 77m |
Kingsbridge terminus with horse drawn coach for Dartmouth departing c1905 | 77b |
Gara Bridge station and bridge over River Avon (W.R. Gays) | 78 |
Bickleigh station c1910: see letter from John Alsop (Issue 21 page 28: Cadeleigh station, not as stated (Bickleigh illstrated thereat) | 79t |
44XX departing Yelverton with two coach passenger train c1910 | 79m |
Two steam railmotors (railcars) with trailer between at Ford Platform 1905/06 | 79b |
Royal Albert Bridge, Saltash (aerial view) | 80u |
45XX on passenger train formed of smart clerestory stock at Horrabridge | 80l |
Number 20 (September 2008)
Front cover (Meldon Viaduct)
Editorial. Neil Parkhouse and Ian Pope.
A quotation from David St John Thomas' West Country: the first volume
of the seminal Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain stated that
"The railway made South Devon's fortune and lost North Devon's". Parkhouse
considered that the terrain of North Devon and North Cornwall was not hospitable
to the development of either resorts or railways and cites the lack of suitable
locations for resorts between Minehead and Padstow.
Treloar, Peter. The locomotives of William Dean. Part
1. 2-19
The Author commendably uses plate numbers (used in following Table):
it is highly probable that the phottographs will create a generous correspondence
and plate numbers should assist identification.
Part 2: Issue 21 page 33 et seq.
Congratulations from Tony Cooper in Issue
22 page 66.
1076 (Buffalo) Class double-frame 0-6-0ST No. 1249 at Reading c1922 | 1 |
Two convertibles: 0-6-0ST No. 1257 and 0-4-4T No. 3557 on last broad gauge down Cornishman at Truro on 20 May 1892 | 2 |
Covertible Standard Goods broad gauge 0-6-0 No. 1206 | 3 |
Broad gauge single (2-2-2-2) Tornado on Bristol locomotive shed | 4 |
Condensing Metro tank 2-4-0T No. 1410 | 5 |
Domeless Metro tank negotiating flooded railway at Creech Michael, near Taunton | 6 |
Condensing Metro tank 2-4-0T No. 1407 with large tanks and volute springs | 7 |
Class 157 2-2-2 No. 160 at Westbourne Park | 8 |
Class 157 2-2-2 No. 162 Cobham | 9 |
Class 157 2-2-2 No. 157 with passenger train on four track main line | 10 |
2-4-0T No. 1 rebuilt from experimetal 4-4-0T | 11 |
Class 806 2-4-0 No. 2213 | 12 |
2201 class 2-4-0 passing West Ealing on up express | 13 |
1813 class 0-6-0PT No. 1850 c1910 | 14 |
2301 class 0-6-0 with domeless boiler No. 2309 (disregarded No. invented for caption) | 15 |
2301 class 0-6-0 with domed boiler No. 2348 | 16 |
2301 class 0-6-0 with Belpaire boiler No. 2543 | 17 |
2301 class 0-6-0s Nos. 2516 and 2538 at Merthyr Tydfil on 12 May 1956 | 18 |
Broad gauge 2-4-0T No. 3510 probably at Plymouth | 19 |
Broad gauge 2-4-0 No. 3508 at Exeter | 20 |
Condensing 2-4-0T No. 3516 fitted with condensing apparatus for working in Severn Tunnel (fitted with cab) | 21 |
Stella class 2-4-0 No. 3205 in original condition | 22 |
2-4-0 No. 3510 (ex-broad gauge 0-4-4T) | 23 |
2361 class 0-6-0 No. 2361 in origianl condiation | 24 |
1661 class 0-6-0ST No. 1695 | 25 |
2-2-2 No. 9 (rebuilt from experimental 4-2-4T) | 26 |
2-2-2 No. 10 Royal Albert: see also letter from D. Coutts in Issue 22 page 67 which notes the multi-tank cordon behind the locomotive | 27 |
Tandem compound 2-4-0 No. 7 | 28 |
Convertible (as broad gauge) tandem compound 2-4-0 No. 8 | 29 |
2-4-2WT No. 13 ass built | 30 |
4-4-0ST No. 13 (rebuilt from No. 13 ibid) at Looe, c1900 | 31 |
Down postal. 20+
RA5 - A Pouteau Correction! Roger Horn
See Issue 5 page 70 lower wherein
caption states that E1 2-4-0 No. 993 was near Godley Junction with short
express for London of Gresley stock with 12-wheel dining car: writer states
the location was Hemsworth on the West Riding (GN&GC Joint) and the train
was probably a Leeds to King's Cross express.
John Alsop reply see Issue 21 page 28
agrees not Godley Junction.
RA19 Fly Shunted. M.R. Grocock
See Issue 19 page 51 lower: article in The
Locomotive Magazine, 15 Jan. 1904, described route taken by the large
flywheel as an out-of-gauge load as being from the South Durham Iron &
Steel Co. Ltd's works at Stockton to their other works at West Hartlepool.
The locomotive appears to be a Class '398' 0-6-0. The train, with the exception
of the 20-and 40-ton wagons, is the Stockton Brakedown Train, which at that
time consisted of a Riding Van and two Tool Vans (painted crimson), and the
hand crane.
See also naval vessel in Issue 19 page 16: this was a battleship dressed
overall to celebrate some special occasion (such as the King's birthday)
and also possibly flying an Admiral's flag was one of the 'Royal Sovereign'
Class.
RA19 Fly Shunted. Robin Barnes
See Issue 19 page 51 lower: article
in The Locomotive Magazine, 15 Jan. 1904, showed photograph and
accompanied a short article entitled 'Removal of a large fly wheel
from Stockton-on-Tees to West Hartlepool'. The movement was for the South
Durham Steel & Iron Co, which wished to transfer it from their Moor Works
at Stockton to West Hartlepool. Weighing around 35 tons and of 20 ft diameter,
it was moved complete by placing it horizontally across two flat wagons running
side by side on the parallel Up and Down lines. On the Up line there was
only a single 20 ton wagon, the train proper running on the Down, made up
of locomotive, chock van, tool van, crane with jib wagon, 40 ton wagon (sharing
flywheel) and a travelling van (a former passenger vehicle). The transfer
was made 'without trouble' and took 6hr 40min, averaging 15mph, passing over
six junctions and around curves of 14.5 chains radius with 4.5 inch
super-elevation on the outer rail. Large crowds turned out to watch.
See also feature on old Furness Railway 0-4-0s: believes
lining is visible on the lower tender body of No. 13A, (page
46) and upper left hand comer of the cab side sheet on No. 28
(page 47). Is it possible if these locomotives on the
one hand had not been repainted for a considerable time but on the other
subjected to frequent and thorough handcleaning, then lining had simply gradually
disappeared?
'Jellicoe Trains': Holton Heath and Bailey Gate Sidings.
R. Dukes
See Issue 19 page 2: further
information on list of sidings. Holton Heath on LSWR between Poole and Wareham
was site of Royal Naval Cordite Factory built in 1915 to produce propellant
for the Royal Navy. Holton Heath station was built to serve it and many employees
arrived by train. There was roughly 4.5 miles of standard gauge track and
sidings, including access to stores buildings, as virtually everything used
on site was delivered by rail. There was also an extensive narrow gauge system
extending to all buildings, with some 17 miles of track. The factory manufactured
its own electricity and gas, and had a large steam making plant, so coal
usage was significant. The site lacked sufficient water, thus a pumping station
was built six miles north and coal sidings were put in at Bailey Gate, on
the Somerset & Dorset line, to serve it. A more extensive history was
published in A pictorial record of the Royal Naval Factory by M.R.
Bowditch and L. Hayward, Finial Press 1996. An album of some 240 photographs
taken between 1915 and 1930 was acquired by the association linked to the
Factory.
'Jellicoe Trains' a correction; and a Pouteau NER
note. Michael Dunn
See caption to picture on page 9, in Issue
19: train was heading towards Swansea, not Craven Arms.
See also pictures on pages 66 and
68: appear to be same location: York:
John Alsop reply see Issue 21 page 28
agrees.
SR 1930s that makeshift lamp iron. Peter
Swift
See Issue 19 page 43 upper for
photograph of King Arthur No. 767 and its "makeshift extended lamp iron"
on the buffer beam. The normal bracket was not broken as it is clearly visible
above the smoke deflector plate. The reason for the makeshift may have been
through the varying practices of the Southern Railway constituents. All its
pre-grouping companies used route indicating discs, but the SECR used only
four positions, three across the buffer beam and one in front of chimney.
The LSWR and LBSCR both used six positions: the LSWR put its middle discs
on either side of the smokebox at mid height, whilst the LBSCR used extended
double brackets on the buffer beam, able to carry both the lower and middle
disc. In about 1920, the SECR started to fit the additional brackets to
locomotives, but lower down on the smokebox, as shown in the various photos
of SECR 4-4-0s in Jim Greaves' article. The problem
with the LSWR arrangement is shown on No. 856, in the photo
below that of No. 767. The smokebox side, is right in the fireman's line
of sight and would be even worse when the brackets were raised, as on No.
767, after smoke deflectors were fitted. The LSWR also differed from the
other two in using sockets instead of spikes for its lamp irons, requiring
a different set of lamps and discs. The Eastern Section solved this problem
by inserting lamp irons into the sockets, as seen in the centre bufferbeam
bracket on No. 767 and, more clearly, in the two photos
of No. 772 on page 41. No. 772 also shows the final solution to the sighting
problem with the side discs moved onto the smokebox door. As
the photograph of 772 on page 42 shows, the operating department also
solved the problem in 1934 by changing the Victoria-Dover via Tonbridge headcode.
'Lord Nelson' No. 853 carried an LBSCR style double bracket on the fireman's
side for a several years. It looks as though No. 767's driver has
reproduced this with a makeshift spike put into the LSWR socket.
Pouteau NER matters arising. R.
Hawkins.
See Issue 19 page 69 upper: within the roundhouse
gloom writer considers that have been housing NER P3 No. 1039, not the T1
0-8-0 postulated. John Alsop reply see Issue
21 page 28 agrees.
Pouteau NER matters arising. Michael Hardy.
See Issue 19 page 64 lower: same
photograph appeared in J.E. Kite's 1850-1925 Vintage Album (Roundhouse
Books, 1966), where it was claimed to be Tweedmouth whilst John Alsop indicates
Haymarket. See Issue 19 page 60 lower: notes a typo
in caption No. 1619 was built in May 1893; not as printed: photograph may
have been taken by Rev. T.B. Parley. John
Alsop reply see Issue 21 page 28: Haymarket.
Hopwood Furness Railway photos. Les Gilpin.
59 note out of sequence
See also feature on Hopwood photographs of Furness
Railway 0-4-0s etc: the 0-4-0s were supplied by Fairbairn not
Fairburn; the Sharp Stewart 0-4-0 was supplied from Manchester, not Glasgow.
Suggests that the 0-4-0ST may have been No. 94. Adds that No. 28 is extant
as restored to an 0-4-0 tender locomotive numbered 20 and operated by the
Lakeside & Haverthwaite Railway: cites Tim Owen The great survivors,
Cumbrian Railways Association. See also letter
in Issue 21 page 27 from Guy Wilson who considers that the extra pipework
on No. 94A may have been for firefighting and includes an extract from the
1 February 1915 Working Timetable which records locomotives so-fitted.. .:
Hopwood Furness Railway photos. Brian Lacey.
59 note out of sequence
See also feature on old Furness Railway
0-4-0s:Suggests that the 0-4-0ST may have been No. 94 (the "9" may have
fallen off when the buffer beam was modified with some extra form of
coupling).
Hackworth versus Stephenson the author's reply.
Norman Hill. (completed on inside rear cover)
Response to several letters inspired by original article in
Issue 16 page 4 et seq: notably
Harry Jack (Strettonisms); Peter Treloar (failings
in location of Russian places, notably Pavlovsk), R.A.
Fox, and dare we repeat it Kevin (George the
pillager): at the end of it all he does admit that Stretton was a
"charlatan". Wisely, our letter writer leaves the blastpipe controversy in
silence. He also referred to the Pouteau photographs of NER items in Issue
19: to page 56 which notes a similar picture in Hill's
Teesside railways which showed that dynamometer car tests were conducted
on the Stainmore route between T class No. 2125 fitted with piston valves
and slide valve locomotive No. 130 of the T1 class. See
also page 62 lower for view of Tynemouth station, and very
recent colour views on rear cover which show that for once all is not
lost.
Turton, Keith. Admiralty coal traffic during the First
World War: the 'Jellicoe Trains'. Part 2. 21-45.
Part 1: Issue 19 page 2. The involvement of Henry
Gethin Lewis in the hire of wagons for the Admiralty is mentioned on pp.
33-6 and is the subject of an extensive letter
from Keith Turton in RA 26 page 68. On 12 July 1915 the LNWR issued a
new working timetable which detailed the increase of traffic coming off the
GWR at Warrington. (see also letter from
Keith Fenwick in Issue 22 page 66 who states that 1916 working timetable
was very similar). The Jellicoe trains were scheduled to stop for examination
at Carnforth, Tebay and Penrith, and were required to shunt clear for passenger
trains to overtake. Trains were banked from Oxenholme (and later from Milnthorpe)
to Grayrigg, and from Tebay to Shap Summit. The schedules allowed from 7¾
to 10¾ hours from Warrington to Carlisle. From October 1915 about half
of the traffic was diverted either via the Settle & Carlisle route or
onto the NER at Normanton and thence over the East Coast Main Line. Two major
railways, the Midland and the North Eastern, are noteworthy for their lack
of any extant information on their involvement in carrying Admiralty coal
traffic: the North Eastern was clearly a major player, and the GWR handed
over Admiralty coal to the Midland at Gloucester. In Scotland coal was shipped
at Leith and Burntisland as well as from Grangemouth. William Mathwin &
Son operated as Agent for the Royal Navy in the supply of coal, and as Agent
it was in charge of the overall transport arrangements from colliery to Scottish
or East Coast port. See also "Follow up" articles
in Issue 23 by Edward Talbot (page 41) and by
John Hodge and Richard Weedley beginning page 55. and
letter from Keith Turton in Issue 30 page
41 and illustrations.
Illustrations:.
Bill Bailey 4-6-0 climbing to Shap banked in rear. 21.
Shap station with southbound stopping service at platform. 23
Shap cutting. 24
Forth Bridge aerial view. 25 this aerial photograph
dated "c1930" led to an extensive correspondence in Issue 21page 27 wherein
the most probable date was mid 1920 (see
Alan Cobb); the class of the main vessel (a Bellerophon battleship) in
the picture was agreed by Cobb as well as by
Peter Griffin and
M.R. Grocock, and the actual vessel as
HMS Temeraire
Cefn Coed station and viaduct (Brecon & Merthyr Railway. 26 upper
Three Cocks Junction. 26 lower
Doldowlod station. 27
Grangemouth Docks, c1928. 30-1
Brodsworth Main Colliery with coal factor James Edge wagon 32 upper
Peckett 0-4-0ST Cambrian owned by Cambrian Wagon Works with new wagons
for Wm Morris Ltd 32 lower
Kestell Bros empty wagons involved in Quintishill disaster of 22 May 1915
(returning Jellicoe empties) 33
Hall, Lewis & Co. 7 plank end/side door 12-ton wagon supplied Gloucester
RCW in May 1910 34 upper
Hall, Lewis & Co.advertisement of 1924 34 lower
Coegnant Colliery near Nantyffylon with wagons from North's Navigation, HGL
and Hall, Lewis & Co 35
Kestell Bros 7 plank end/side door 12-ton wagon supplied Gloucester RCW in
November 1914. 37
Aberdare class 2-6-0 No. 2615. 39
28XX 2-8-0 No. 2859. 40 upper
GCR 2-8-0 No. 93. 40 lower
LNWR B class 0-8-0 with coal empties near Carlisle
Upperby: 41 upper: Huw Edwards (Issue
21 page 28) suggests north of Watford Junction.
John Alsop (letter Issue 22 page 68)
agrees Watford
LNWR D class 0-8-0 No. 2551 at Willesden. 41 lower
Huw Edwards (Issue 21 page 28) states
post May 1925 (LMS number not applied until October 1927)
CR 862 class 0-6-0 No. 665 near Motherwell with northbound mineral train
42 upper
Former NBR S class 0-6-0 No. 491 near Portobello shortly after the Grouping.
42 lower
NER T2 class 0-8-0 No. 1247 in photographic grey. 43 upper
Grangemouth NBR shed. 43 lower
Greaves, Jim. Excursion traffic: the Southern Railway
of the 1930s from the camera of S.A.W. Harvey. 46-58.
This part consists of ten photographs (tabulated below), plus a collection
of handbills and similar material which is listed separately following the
table. Some of the excursion trains photographed still consisted of six-wheelers.
Part 2 see Issue 19 page 33.
Part 4 see Issue 21 page 43 .
O1 class 0-6-0 with fourteen six-wheelers at Petts Wood heading for Sevenoaks, probably with hopping visitors | 46 |
D class 4-4-0 No. 1574 with six-wheelers passing Herne Hill | 47 |
U1 class 2-6-0 No. 1897 passing Beckenham Junction with a Kingston on Thames to Ramsgate excursion | 50u |
E1 class 4-4-0 hauling LMS stock passing Kent House in 1929 | 50l |
E1 class No. 1019 near St. Mary Cray Junction with National Sunday League Excursion in June 1935 | 51 |
N class No. 1864 near St. Mary Cray Junction with Ramblers Association Excursion in June 1935 | 54u |
Schools class 4-4-0 No. 901 Winchester at Petts Wood Junction with Folkestone and Dover excursion | 54l |
Schools class 4-4-0 No. 912 Downside on NSL excursion for Folkestone, Dover and Deal | 55 |
N15 No. 766 Sir Geraint near St Mary Cray c1933 with former LSWR six-wheeled coaches at speed | 58u |
L1 No. A785 passing Petts Wood on a damp, dull spring day | 58l |
Restall's trips (handbill for 30 June 1938), includes trips for Navy
Week (Portsmouth & Chatham) in first week of August. 48-9
National Sunday League (Jume 1939 extract from brochure): Margate & Ramsgate.
51
SR (Central Section)/LMS imetable and map for Sunny South Express,
summer, 1929 52
GWR/SR Through express Birkenhead to Ramsgate/Brighton etc., Winter timetable
1937/8. 53
National Sunday League Sunday Trips to the sea, June 1939. 56-7
Alsop, John. Pouteau listings Part 20. The North London, North
Staffordshire, Plymouth Devonport &. South Western Junction, Rhondda
&. Swansea Bay, Rhymney, Somerset &. Dorset Joint and Taff Vale Railways.
60-71
See also Issue 45 page 49 et
seq
NLR 4-4-0T No. 14 on Richmond train passing Hampstead Heath (R. Welby King): see letter (Issue 21 page 28) from Huw Edwards who locates it between West Hampstead and Brondesbury stations | 60 |
NLR 4-4-0T No. 29 in North London bay at Willesden Junction | 61 |
Kentish Town Junction signal box and junctions | 62 |
NSR Class I 0-6-0T No. 125A at Crewe with train for Stoke-on-Trent. See letter from David Patrick in Issue 21 page 27-8 which suggests 1904-6: John Alsop reply in Issue 22 page 68 concurs with David Patrick.. | 63 |
NSR Class C 2-4-0 No. 15 at Prestbury, pre-1894 | 64u |
NSR Class C 2-4-0 No. 15 (as renewed in 1906) at Llandudno station with train for Derby: letter from M.R. Grocock (Issue 21 page 27) states that locomotive was painted Victorian Brown. | 64l |
Plymouth Devonport &. South Western Junction station at Callington in 1907 | 65u |
Rhondda &. Swansea Bay Railway 0-6-2T No. 21 see also Cliff Harris Issue 21 p. 27) who notes that this was at R&SBR Swansea terminus and comments upon 30ft brake third | 65l |
Rhymney Railway J class 0-6-0ST No.51 | 66u |
Somerset &. Dorset Joint Railway 15 Class 4-4-0 No. 16 at Bournemouth West station pre-1906 | 66l |
Somerset &. Dorset Joint Railway 33 Class 0-6-0 No. 35 at Templecombe LSWR | 67 |
Somerset &. Dorset Joint Railway 15 Class 4-4-0 No. 45 as rebuilt in 1909 | 68u |
Somerset &. Dorset Joint Railway 33 Class 0-6-0 No.57 as reboilered in 1906 | 68l |
Taff Vale Railway J class 0-4-4T No. 59 as running as a 'trailing tank' in 1905 | 69u |
Taff Vale Railway Standard Goods 0-6-0 No. 273 c1904 | 69m |
Taff Vale Railway 0-6-2T No. 147 (whatsoever the caption may say: see also Cliff Harris Issue 21 p. 27) | 69l |
Wirral Railway Beyer Peacock 0-6-4T No. 12 on West Kirby train near Hoylake. but see letter from Ted Lloyd in Issue 21 page 28 which states between New Brighton and Wallasey Grove Road: John Alsop reply in Issue 22 page 68 which leavaes KPJ somewhat blinded by sand. | 70 |
Wirral Railway Beyer Peacock 0-4-4T No. 10 | 71u |
Wirral Railway Beyer Peacock 4-4-4T No. 14 | 71l |
Parkhouse, Neil. Wish you were here: railway postcards of the L&SWR in Devon. 72-80 + rear cover upper
Meldon Viaduct: Polychrom coloured PC | Front cover |
Exeter Queen Street yard | 72 |
Crediton station | 73 |
Umberleigh station | 74 |
Chapelton station, c1905 | 75u |
Ilfracombe station, c1908 | 75l |
Fremington Quay, c1930 with Adams 4-4-0 on freight | 76u |
Torrington station, c1908 | 76l |
North Tawton station with Drummond 4-4-0 arriving presumably on passenger train (if not many disappointed passengers) (Chapman) | 77u |
Bridestowe station with Drummond 4-4-0 arriving on passenger train for Plymouth c1910 | 77m |
Bere Alston station with tank engine arriving with train for Plymouth c1908 | 77l |
Clarkson steam bus at Chagford in 1905 (Chapman) | 78u |
Lympstone station | 78l |
Ottery St. Mary station with 0-4-4T arriving with train for Sidmouth Junction (Chapman) | 79u |
Sidmouth station with passenger train arriving behind an 0-4-4T | 79l |
Colyton station c1925 (Chapman) | 80 |
Halwill station (coloured postcard) c1905 | rear cover |
Rear cover illustrations (colour): Halwill in 1905 and Tynemouth station in 2007 (Norman Hill)
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