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Number 32 (September 2011)

G.A. Sekon. The history of the London, Chatham & Dover Railway. Part One. 2-33.
Reprinted from Railway & Travel Monthly. The original version suffered from very poor reproduction partly due to WW1 and its after effects, but the original glass plates were rediscovered by Andrew Emmerson.of the South Eastern & Railway Society and are reproduced herein. In general Sekon's text has been retained, wiith slight editing, but there are new captions and redrawn maps and diagrams. Continued in Number 33 page 30..

London, Chatham & Dover Railway map of 1895. 2
E class No. 507 crossing Medway with up Ramsgate to Victoria express. 4
Sketch maps showing developmnt of East Kent Railway. 5
M3 class No. 485 at Chatham station with military train (Saxby & Farmer signal box). 6
Sittingbourne station with Saby & Farmer signals and Grande Vitesse fruit & luggage vans. 7
Queenborough Pier station. 8
M3 class No. 482 on down train at Faversham station (comment on treadles and points and crossings). 9
F1 class with ballast hoppers on curve at foot of Sole Street bank in Strood. 10
Dover Priory station looking northward. 11
King Ferry Bridge viewed from Sheerness side. Letter from Bob Ratcliffe RA 33 page 64 states looking towards Sheerness 12
Sheerness Dockyard station. 13
Chatham Station looking east from Fort Pitt Tunnel: D class No. 732 14
Faversham junction with engine shed 15
Beckenham Junction with Saxby & Farmer signal box 16
Gradient profile Strood to Canterbury 17 upper
Canterbury East Station 17 lower
Lydden Tunnel southern portal with Stonehall & Lydden Down fishtail distant signal 18 upper
Dover Harbour Station with Kirtley M3 class 4-4-0 No. 650 on three-coach birdcage set 18 lower
Victoria station with A class 0-4-4T No. 560 shunnting horse box and double ducket luggage van 19
Sevenoaks Bat & Ball station 20
Queenborough Pier 21
Swanley Junction station with E class No. 507 in up plaform 22
Penge Tunnel from Sydenham Hill station 24 upper
London, Chatham & Dover Railway map of lines in 1861 24 lower
Ramsgate Harbour station with up  15.00 express departing behind D class Nos. 747 and 744 25 upper
Tunnel entrance at Ramsgate Harbour station 25 lower
George Augustus Nokes (G.A. Sekon) portrait 26
Gradient profile Penge Junction to Strood 28
Proposed Strood and Chatham avoiding line sketch map 29 upper
Gradient profile Canterbury to Dover 29 lower
Cray Viaduct: (Farningham, Horton Kirby or South Darenth Viaduct) 30
Margate West station 32
Margate map of termini including ones authorised 33

Down postal. 34; 48
Hopwood GCR 2-4-0T No. 449B in RA29. Martin Bloxsom.
Suggests date should be c1915 as locomotive appears to be No. 449B. According to Yeadon. Locomotives of the LNER Vol. 30 pp. 9 and 93 this was reboilered in December 1915. Same locomotive is illustrated in Dow Great Central Vol. 2 p. 345 prior to being placed on duplicate list.
Industrial loco musings. Andrew Neale.
Hunslet 4-6-0T at Manston may have been WN 1213/1916: writer contributed to Taylorson's Narrow gauge at war (Plateway)
Avoncliff Siding. Chris Osment.
Suggests earlier date as Siding and Avoncliffe Siding Signal Box close on 13 April 1905: further locomotive in picture was not at station but at entrance to Bath & Portland Stane siding.
Peterborough Yards - some corrections. Gordon Griffin.
Corrections and addiations to captions relating to illustrations in RA 31 on pp. 53 (final sentence incorrect), 54 (additional information) and 55 (M&GNJR train still on its own rails before joining the oblivion of the City's road system)
Hertfordshire, GWR broad road transport and other matters. Malcolm Parsons.
See RA 31 68 lower: suggests Northwood rather than Rickmansworth; Metropolitan & Great Central Joint Committee remained in existence until nationalisation; see also RA 31 page 57 et seq on GWR bus services: quibbles with phrase "compelled to hand over": in 1928 the railway companies obtained formal authority to operate bus services, but exploited this by obtaining substantial shareholdings in the major bus groupings; and 31 page 63 wonders if Alexandria in Egypt rather than Alexandra Docks;
Jacob & Co's Siding query. Keith Fenwick.
Queries date on caption as Herbert Morris did not start manufacture in Loughborough until 1897: suggests date in 1920s
Mystery industrial loco King Arthur. Chris & Judy Rouse. 33/48
Manning Wardle 0-6-0T named King Arthur, possibly worked on construction of Trentham Park branch around 1910. See also photograph and letter from David Morton in RA 33 p. 80 and in Issue 34 page 40 also from David Morton and from Russell Wear
GWR bus services. Reg Davies. 48
Quibbles with phrase "compelled to hand over" and cites names of British Automobile Traction and Tilling..  
William Adams - not such a great locomotive artist? Nick Holliday
Challenges Williams Adams as being a designer of "artistic" locomotives citing solid bogie wheels and visible rivets and pipework on early designs.

Brian Arman. The Gooch standard goods' 0-6-0s of the broad gauge. 34-47.
This is a relatively fresh approach as it examines one particular type of broad gauge type, rather than the whole output, and it is a forceful reminder that the broad gauge locomotives were markedly more powerful than their standard gauge contemporaries. Although all broad gauge 0-6-0 designs are examined ponly the later ones are illustrated and thus it is still necessary to refer to the RCTS Locomotives of the Great Western Railway. Part 2. See also Issue 35 page 54.

E.T. Lane drawings of 5th and 6th series of Ariadne class. 36
Ariadne and Amphion at Swindon alongside timber sheerlegs in 1857. 37
Ariadne enlargement. 38
Amphion enlargement. 39 upper
Flirt at Gloucester (modifications: blower, spring buffers, weatherboard, large sandbox) 1860s. 39 lower
Pearl with injector, better weatherboard, new chimney and cast iron nameplate. 40 upper
Liffey with plate frames 1860s. 40 lower
Romulus in collision at Trowbridge in January 1871. See also letter from Jeffrey Wells: 33 p. 64 41
Standard goods at unknown location in winter, but probably on turntable with bonnet wagon at right angles to it. 42.
Xerxes at Westbourne Park shed (tender with iron frame) c1880. 43
Ethon at Westbourne Park shed. 44
Tay (with cab) at Westbourne Park shed. 45
Nemesis: Mike Jolly 7mm drawings. 46
Europa at Plymouth Millbay c1890. See also Issue 35 page 54. 47 upper
Europa on Swindow scrap roads 1892. 47 lower

Fly shunted... 48
Watchet Harbour c1930 with LMS wagon loaded with esparto grass? being shunted by horse and SS Bodil

John Alsop. Invicta at Canterbury. 49-54.
David Lionel Salomons, a Director of the South Eastern & Chatham Railway arranged for Invicta to be presented to the City of Canterbury in 1906. It was accepted by the Mayor F. Bennett-Golney. Letter from Bob Ratcliffe RA 33 page 64 notes involvement in Stockton & Darlington Centenary; its restoration at the NRM and current resting place in the Poor Priests Hospital

Opening day of Canterbury & Whitstable Railway 3 May 1830 (artist's impression). 49
Unloading Invicta at Canterbury East yard 50 upper
Invicta in sling viewed from left handside 50 lower left
Invicta in sling viewed from right handside 50 lower right
Horses hauling Invicta up Pin Hill 51 top left
Aveling steam roller hauling Invicta. See also letter in RA 33 page 64 from Bill Briggs.   51 main
Mr Reid with Invicta 52 upper
Invicta transfer to plinth 52 lower
Mr Reid with Invicta on plinth 53 upper
Invicta on plinth rails clearly visible 53 lower
Invicta on plinth with railings and notice 54 upper
Invicta on plinth in Dane John Gardens c1920 54 middle
Model of Invicta: caption noted that preserved locomotive was radically different from original 54 lower

A.J. Mullay. Britain's railway canals: 100 years of railway control, and ownership of Britain's waterways. Part 3. Canals for the Nation. 55-68.
Part 1 in Issue 30 from page 2. Part 2 in Issue 31 page 15. Examines the role of the British Transport Commission and the formation of the Docks & Inland Waterways Executive and the composition and organisaation of this body. Notes the major exclusion of the Manchester Ship Canal due to its municipal ownership and other waterways excluded from State ownership. The head of the D&IWE was Sir Reginald Hill. Other full-time members were Robert Davidson, John Donovan and Sir Robert Letch. The role of the Inland Waterways Association and its Chairman Robert Fordyce Aickman is considered. Canal preservation is considered at length.

Cairbaan Lock on Crinan Canal c1900 55
Newry Canal 2008 56 upper
BR (LMR) narrow boat No. 22 with cargo of firebricks at Brierly Hill 56 lower
Strood Basin, Gravesend canal with Thames sailing barge Sirdar on 1 June 1961, See letter from Bob Ratclife in RA 33 p. 64 noting that basin since filled in 59
Stover Canal with Jetty Marsh in mid-1930s 61
Clyde puffer carrying pit props at upper lock at Camelon, Forth & Clyde Canal: see also RA30 page 13 62
Lydney Docks c1950 with motorised trow Jonadab and three masted schooner Eilian loads coal from No. 9 tip 63
British Waterways maintenance boat No. 177 at Watford Lock, Grand Union Canal in 1950s 64
Willow Wren's Grebe and Godswall at Brentford Lock on 8 July 1961 65
British Waterways carrying craft at Bulls Bridge near Hayes on 4 August 1961 (with washing drying) 66
Bull's Lock, Kennet & Avon Canal on 17 August 1962 67
Droitwich Canal c1905 68
Avonside 0-4-0ST (WN 1446/1902) at Sharpness Docks SD No. 3 (colour) rear cover lower

Jeffrey Wells. Wish you were here! Railway postcards of ... small town and suburban stations of the L&YR. 69-80; rear cover upper

Church & Oswaldwistle station exterior (entrance) 69
Great Harwood down platform, 1912 70
Church & Oswaldwistle on 9 July 1913 with Royal Train passing hauled by Hughes 4-6-0s Nos. 1914 and 1925 71
Rose Grove station pre-1898 72
Rose Grove station post 1905 73 upper
Castleton station c1908  with two light engines approaching (both tank engines on saddle tank) 73 lower
Castleton arerial view c1930 including station, Rochdale Canal, cotton mills, terraced housing 74
Preston Road station in 1900s 75
Meltham station c1906 with five-coach train hauled by 2-4-2T (train known as Coddy locally) 76
Sowerby Bridge: horse lorry with heavy crate and strong horse 77 upper
Sowerby Bridge station with Aspinall 4-4-0 on Manchester express c1905 77 lower
Liversedge station c1890 78 upper
Liversedge station as rebuilt c1910 78 lower
Low Moor station post 1922 with Aspinall 2-4-2T on Halifax train 79 upper
Low Moor broader perspective with No. 2 East signal box 79 lower
Bowling Junction station c1902 80
Sowerby Bridge station exterior c1905 (coloured) rear cover upper

Number 33 (December 2011)

Roger Langley. Two days in May: the conversion of the broad gauge in Devon and Cornwall in May 1892: a new account. 2-29.
Detailed account mainly based on contemporary documents: (but instructions to staff an especially those relating to diversion of Post Office Royal Mail onto Great Western Railway steam packet and over the London & South Western Railway. Notes that in spite of the use of prefabricated trackwork work at Truro overran and had to be completed on the Monday and Tuseday. There were spectators both for the final broad gauge workings and for the work of narrowing the track (police and porters ere employed at Truro to ensure that the work was not interupted. See also letter from John Lewis (34 p. 40) on terminology used on p. 16 regarding "fish plant".

Cowley Bridge Junction 1865 with mixed gauge single track using 4 rails over bridge, policeman and capstan for points: see also letter from Peter Tatlow (34 p. 40) and Editorial response. 2
Parson's Tunnel c1880 5
Truro station interior c1868 7
Redruth station: probably at start of broad gauge services 8u
Redruth station: mixed gauge c1890 8l
Plympton station c1865 9
Penzance terminus c1880 10
Liskeard viaduct c1890 11
St. Ives terminus and view over harbour 1880s 12
Map of railways in Devon and Cornwall 1868 13
GWR packet SS Gazelle at Plymouth c1907 14
Ivybridge station c1880 15
Torquay station 1892 ready for conversion 16
Saltash station and Royal Albert Bridge 1880 17
Gauge conversion form 18
Glazebrook masonry viaduact under construction alongside timber viaduct 10 May 1892 19
Plymouth Millbay during conversion 20u
S.R. Jones drawing of lifting switches at Plymouth Millbay during conversion 20l
S.R. Jones drawing of ganger broiling bacon with red hot bar 21u
S.R. Jones drawing of men eating breakfast in goods shed at Saltash 21l
S.R. Jones drawing of converting line below Exeter 22
Chapman photograph of Dawlish station during conversion 23
Slewing track at St. Germans 24
Carbis Bay soon after conversion in 1892 or 1893 26
Lelant Quay with mixed gauge track still on quay post St. Ives branch conversion 27u
Completed gauge onversion certificate 27l
Broad gauge wagon dump at Swindon 28
Broad gauge locomotive dump at Swindon (mainly 4-4-0ST; one 2-4-0ST 29

G.A. Sekon. The History of the London, Chatham & Dover Railway, Part Two. 30-60.
Began in Issue 32 p. 2. . Len Wood (letter in RA 35 page 16 asks whether photograph of Martley's Enigma exists.

Herne Hill station 30
Dover Harbour station 32
PS John Penn (painting) 33u
PS Samphire moored to Crosswall in Dover tidal basin 33l
Ruby class 2-4-0 Onyx Sharp Stewart locomotive of 1855 purchased from Dutch Rhenish Railway in 1861 34ul
Tiger class 2-4-0 Leopard c1875 (rebuilt from Slaughter Gruning 4-4-0 of Decemebr `86`) 34ur
Tiger class 2-4-0 Xanthus at Faversham in 1868 (R. & W. Hawthorn of 1862) 34ll
Tiger class 2-4-0 Jackall at Faversham in 1881 (Slaughter Gruning 1862 34lr
2-2-2 Eclipse purchased secondhand from Hawthorn & Co. in 1861 (drawing) 35
Map showing LCDR approach to Victoria including bad gradient route 36
Mouth of Paxton Tunnel from Crystal Palace High Level approach 38
Bickley Junction 39
Original Blackfriars Bridge and part of St. Paul's Junction signal box 40
Gradient profile: Faversham to Ramsgate 41
Kearnsey Loop Junction with steps to signal box 42
11.00 ex-Victoria at Margate West hauled by D class No. 747 with Pullman cars in train 43
Maidstone East station with D class 4-4-0 No. 477 and M3 class 4-4-0 No. 476 44
Nunhead Junction station 45
Crystal Palace High Level station with A2 class 0-4-4T 47
Gradient profile: Swanley Junction to Maidstone East 48
Dover Admiralty Pier: Great Northern Railway 6-wheel stock alongside? 49
St. Paul's Bridge Blackfriars goods station 50
Orpington Junction (now Petts Wood Junction) 52
Map of London and Suburbs (including Greenwich branch (LCDR) 53
Deal station with O1 0-6-0 No. 279; also bircage roof slip carriage 54
Holborn Viaduct station with R1 0-4-4T No. 696, A1 class No. 628 and D class 4-4-0 No. 247 55
Medwat East Medway Bridge of 1874 (weak bowstring girder); also Medway Corn Mills 57
Chislehurst Junction 58
Gravesend West Street with O1 0-6-0 59

Brian Arman. A Christmas tragedy: Midland Railway No. 48 and the Hawes Junction Disaster, 24th December 1910. 61-3.
Collision between double-headed express hauled by 800 class 2-4-0 No. 48 and 4-4-0 No. 549 with two light engines of 4-4-0 type Nos. 448 and 548 which had entered the section ahead of the express due to errors on the part of the signalman, and the failure of their crews to comply with Rule 55 by letting their presence be known. The impact caused the two light engines to be propelled forward and then partially derail and to the train engines derailing rapidly which led to damage to the train which caught fire due to the use of gas lighting leading to 12 fatalities and 19 severely injured passengers. Rolt's Red for danger adds that Driver George Tempest was a key witness to the tragedy and presumably features in the Report conducted by Pringle.

No. 48 on side with No. 549 also on side and smoke from fire

61

View from rear showing burnt out carriages and locomotives

62u

Breakdown craanes at work (viewed from above)

62l

No. 48 awaiting scrapping at Derby

63

Down Postal. 64; 80
Locomotives found at sea. John Lusted
The Stephenson Locomotive Society Library holds a La Meuse Works List prepared by Jens Merte: this records WN 2419 as a 2-6-2T built in 1911 for the CF de Thessalie (CF Hedjaz, Soc. Ottoman?) and  WN 2420/1 as two more built in 1914, together with WN  2431-2436 being 0-10-0Ts for the CF Hedjaz; that is for service in the Ottoman Empire. From Lebanon southwards, the 1,050mm gauge was one of the two main gauges in use in 1914. Is it unreasonable to speculate that the Hedjaz Railway made a provisional order for nine engines for which Works Nos were allocated, with No. 2419 going out in 1911 (and being reported in Railway & Travel Monthly) and the rest in 1914? Builders allocate blocks of numbers in advance, but delivery of part orders may be delayed. Deutsche-Levante Line was in the process of delivering the balance of this order when WW1 broke out and the Royal Navy interrupted its services: the rest is described in Hugh Hughes' Middle East Railways (1981 verified BLPC). By 1905, the 1050mm gauge lines in the Ottoman Empire had reached Beirut and Haifa on the Mediterranean and had been extended to Hijaz or Hedjaz in what is now Saudi Arabia. In 1914 a further branch was under construction to link this system with Jerusalem. Perhaps the La Meuse engines were destined for this branch? Then the Ottoman Empire declared war on Britain and France in September 1914.
In 1916, the British Army began to advance on Jerusalem from Egypt and had got as far as Gaza by March 1917. Presumably around then, someone in the War Office felt that the six engines which had been captured in 1914 would be useful during the advance. In November 1917, General Allenby was appointed to give the campaign some drive and direction. The British and Australians reached Jerusalem in December 1917 and Damascus in October 1918.
The La Meuse engines cannot have been of use for very long as many of the 1,050mm lines were converted to standard gauge during 1918. R. Tourret's Hedjaz Railway (1969 verified BLPC) gives more details of the conversion and suggests that at least for a time a third rail was laid to allow 1,050mm engines to operate at night when the track gangs were sleeping. But whilst the conversion was going on they would have been useful and as they advanced ahead of the gauge convertors, they would have been left in that part of the Ottoman Empire that became Transjordan when the victors had finished re-arranging the losers' boundaries in about 1922.
The Hedja: Railway gives more dimensional details of the 2-6-2Ts on page 52, but writer finds it difficult to believe that they could ever have operated on the 750mm Egyptian Delta Railways: all the evidence is that the War Office in 1917 decided to give the Palestine campaign a sharp shove.  As well as a new General, these three engines were put through Swindon Works and sent them to the front via Egypt. Presumably Swindon at least repainted them in War Department grey and that is how they are shown in the Works photograph. The La Meuse works plate had been removed and at a guess was not replaced but the works number was painted on – for the rest of their existence all six ex-Hedjaz engines operated under their works numbers only. Probably the incomplete parts of Works No's 2431/3/4 ended up in the British scrap drive in 1915 and their boilers and other parts may never have left German controlled Belgium and might well also have been melted down, in this case as German Army shell casings.

John G Robinson and other locomotive artists John Lusted.
Is it right, even in a non-technical magazine such as RA, to so divorce function and appearance? Whilst agreeing that many of the engines liked by Grainger were both attractive and reasonably effective by the standards of their day, the Robinson 4-6-0s performed badly: the types he likes best were the worst! Robinson made nine attempts to design an effective 4-6-0 and never really succeeded, apparently because he was unable to appreciate that the ashpan needed to be raised up to clear the trailing axle if ash were not to block air getting to most of the fire after 50 miles! Even by the standards of the Edwardians, that was pretty dire and I find it impossible to regard those engines with admiration.
For a truly beautiful example of form following function I offer Bulleid's Q1 Class 0-6-0 of 1941, with not a wasted plate or frill spoiling a much maligned design which did all that it was asked to do and more.

Locomotives found at sea. Bill Aves
Henry Hughes Middle East Railways quotes the La Meuse 2-6-2Ts as built in 1914 and it may be assumed that they were captured by the Royal Navy, in the Mediterranean during their delivery voyage to Haifa, which at that time was under Ottoman Turkish rule (that they were on board a German ship might indicate that they were shipped after the Germans had occupied Belgium, probably October 1914). What is strange is that they were then shipped back to the United Kingdom, from Alexandria in Egypt to Newport in South Wales, and placed in store for two years before being auctioned. They must have then been bought by the War Office (who realised that by this time they would come in handy - but didn't the British Government own them anyway, after their capture? - sent to Swindon for overhaul ready to go to Palestine, which by the time they would have arrived was in British hands. Writer owns a different photograph taken at Swindon, showing a three-quarter rear view of one of the engines. There is one error in the article. Swindon only repaired two Belgian 0-6-0s — Type 32S No. 3414 (which had been coupled to the tender of No. 3776) and Type 32 No. 3548 (with the tender of No. 2976). These were also McIntosh 0-6-0s, neither of which were used by the ROD. Both engines were repainted with the letters 'R O D' and the tender numbers on their tenders — despite having their own proper numbers on brass cabside numberplates. This seems to have been a not infrequent occurence with the Etat Beige engines taken over and used by the ROD (see William Aves. The Railway Operating Division on the Western Front : the Royal Engineers in France and Belgium, 1915-1919. Shaun Tyas, 2009)

Locomotive aesthetics. Nick Holliday 
Grainger claimed all William Adams engines 'were superb' and this might well be considered true of his output from around 1880, when his first express 4-4-0s, the 135 Class appeared, but until then his design skills were not truly honed. His first two classes for the L&SWR were clumsy, with steamroller wheels, and a plethora of rivets and pipework, and his output earlier for the GER were even uglier, such as his 0-4-4T 61 Class, with their tanks about twice the height of the curiously squat bunker, or the awkwardly modern looking Ironclad outside cylinder 4-4-0s and the 2-6-0 Moguls. All of these locomotives had a very short working life and have been largely erased from enthusiasts' memories due to their general awfulness, apart from the trail-blazing Mogul, although few would be able to say what it looked like.
It is intriguing to speculate what happened that turned Adarns's ugly ducklings into the swans he produced later. As a Brighton fan, I like to think that he had a Damascene moment at Portsmouth at the sight of one of Stroudley's masterpieces and saw the error of his ways but, more prosaically, I suspect that changes in the drawing office at Nine Elms around 1880 saw a more artistic hand in charge of the draughtsmanship. In addition, there is a slight slip in that Adams did not succeed Joseph Beattie directly. Following Joseph's death, his son William George took the reins for six years. It is interesting to note that, whereas his father, as Grainger states, seemed to produce harmonious designs, even when encumbered with extra chimneys, pipe and other accoutrements of his experiments, 'WG', when he had the chance to stamp his ideas on designs, managed to get it all wrong. The square splashers on the well tanks did not improve their looks and his 4-4-0 was one of the clumsiest ever produced, although Adams finally redeemed them in his final rebuilding, creating one of the daintiest small 4-4-0s to run on Southern metals.
As a final thought, keeping with the L&SWR, it is interesting to see how major rebuilding or re-boilering of classes changed their aesthetics. The application of larger superheated boilers at grouping radically changed the appearance of the sleek Drummond classes, not for the better. It is only time and pleasant associations that now endear to us the dubious charms of the re-boilered T9 and Black Motor classes. However, on the neighbouring Brighton, the same process seemed to produce a far more coherent result, updating the elegant Victorian lines of Billinton's C2 and B2 classes into equally elegant contemporary looking Edwardian engines, although I have to admit that the solitary 'DIX' 0-4-2 tank was a visual and operational disaster as unfortunate as the rebuilt L&SWR M7.

The Gooch Broad Gauge 'Standard Goods' 0-6-0s. Jeffrey Wells
RA32: p. 41 refers to an accident near Trowbridge involving Romulus. The following details, obtained from The Morning Post, 27 January 1871, note the cause of the accident, which occurred on Tuesday, 24 January between 05.00 and 06.00 when several goods trains arrived near Trowbridge station and shunting took place. One goods train passed the junction (not named) and ascended the incline 'in a cutting, just beyond the aqueduct'. The engine failed to haul its train along the incline, whereupon three wagons and the guard's van were detached and left standing in the cutting about half a mile short of the station. The guard in charge, for some reason neglected to run to the junction to signal danger to oncoming traffic.
A second goods train, loaded with freestone and drawn by Romulus, thundered into the cutting. Unable to stop in time, Romulus ploughed into the standing guard's van and wagons. Next to the van was a large tar tank, which mounted Romulus knocking off the funnel and smashing the front of the engine (the tar tank can be seen in the photograph). Romulus was derailed on impact. The driver escaped injury by clambering onto the tender coals and lying flat. The stoker was severely injured and was taken to Trowbridge Cottage Hospital.
As many as six passenger trains were held up by the blockage and had to run back to Holt and Bradford on Avon where they could cross over to the other line to pass. Heavy blame fell upon the guard of the first train for not keeping a look-out for approaching trains. Among the debris was a shattered hogshead of treacle upon which a bevy of boys descended, 'like bees round a hive', plundering the sticky treat with cupped hands, cans and pieces of broken metal.

lnvicta at Canterbury. Bill Briggs
Appreciated first clear description of how Invicta survived. The photograph on p51 (Invicta being towed by the Corporation's roller) shows Aveling & Porter engine No. 2822, a 10 ton single which left the works on 18 April 1891 and was new to the Corporation. In 1921 it was registered FN 5002 and was later sold to R. Brett &Sons also of Canterbury, who last licenced it in 1950.This information is from the records of the late Alan Duke which are now in the care of the Road Locomotive Society. Sir David Salomons must have been a transport enthusiast as he was a pioneer motorist in the 1890s. In 1912, he endeavoured to form a collection of early historic motor cars but sadly because of WW1 his efforts came to nothing.,

Sekon's LC&DR and Invicta. Bob Ratcliffe. 64; 80
This letter covers three topics. The first concerns the excellence of the Sekon picture rescue but notes that caption for bridge on RA 32 p. 12 (towards Sheerness). The second refers to old canal basin at Strood (RA 32 p. 59) which has since been filled in and houses built thereon, also notes condition of old canal tunnel and remedial work required to keepm railway open. The third adds more information on Invicta (RA 32 p. 49 et seq): notably its appearance at the Stockton & Darlington Centenary celebration; its restoration in the workshop at the NRM in the late 1970s; its involvement in May 1980 in celebrations in Canterbury and Whitstable and its installation in Canterbury's Poor Priests Hospital.

Mystery locomotive King Arthur. David Morton. 80.
Manning Wardle K class 0-6-0ST WN 636/1876 with 12 x 17in cylinders and 3ft 1in coupled wheels supplied to contractor William Moss and named Nassington. It eventually passed to J.C. Lang, who used it on the construction of the GWR Bodmin branch when it may have received the name King Arthur. It then passed to Holme & King who used it on the construction of the GER branch from Shenfield to Wickford, on widening the LNWR between Euxton and Standish Junction. The letter from Chris and Judy Rouse seems to add work on the Trentham branch to this locomotive's varied life. Its final work was at Wrenthorpe Colliery from about 1911 until 1929 where it was owned by the Low Laithes Colliery Co.

John Alsop. Wish you were here? Railway postcards of Hertfordshire: GNR & GER Lines in the East. 65-79 + 2 (colour) rear cover.
This is an interesting collection, partly because many of the locations are known to KPJ, and partly for illuminating certain aspects of former railway operating. The picture of the two GNR freight trains posed? between the two Welwyn tunnels shows that the GNR had an early interest in express freight which would lead to Gresley's locomotives for such traffic (K1, K2, K3 and V2 classes).

Oakleigh Park 65
New Barnet with small Ivatt Atlantic on slow passenger 66u
Digswell or Welwyn Viaduct with Ivatt 2-4-0 and 4-4-0 heading north on 14.30 ex- King's Cross c1905 66m
Marshmoor Siding with Ivatt 4-4-0 passing on heavy up express 66l
Harpenden station (LNER) with N7 approaching on train for Luton 67u
Wheathampstead station with G1 class 0-4-4T No. 934 entering with passenger train c1910 67l
Ayot station with train for Luton approaching 68u
Hatfield station with E2 2-4-0 on up train with clerestory bogie coach 68l
Attimore Hall Halt in 1905 (in what became Welwyn Garden City) 69u
Cole Green station with G2 0-4-4WT No. 531 in 1900s (site on edge of Welwyn Garden City) 69m
Hertford station (GNR) in 1906 looking towards linking line to Hertford (GER) 69l
Freight trains passing on GNR main line between Welwyn tunnels: motive power Ivatt 4-4-0 and E1 class 2-4-0 70
Stevenage station (original) with E2 2-4-0 No. 711 approaching on passenger train 71u
Rebuilt Stevenage station (after line quadrupled) c1900 71l
Hitchin station with freight train in down? platform 72u
Hitchin station with Midland Railway motor (push & pull) train with 0-4-T No. 1242 in centre (Bedford branch) c 1907 72l
Letchworth station with F2 0-4-2 No. 10A arriving on local train to pick up big crowd 73u
Letchworth signal box and new station and decorative bridge over and Spirella factory under construction 73l
New Letchworth station under construction in early 1913 74
GNR steam railcar (rail motor) and trailing coach at Baldock station c1910 75u
Bayford station? under construction with Railway Club visit in September 1916 with Robert McAlpine wagons with seats and locomotive 75m
Watton-at-Staone station under construction with Railway Club visitors? and contractor's train 75l
Cheshunt station with rebuilt T19 class 4-4-0 on express (H. Gordon Tidey) 76u
Broxbourne station with S46 class 4-4-0 arriving with up train c1904 76m
Sawbridgeworth station and level crossing and signal box 76l
Hockerill Halt (Bishops Stortford) on Braintree branch 77u
Ware station c1904 77m
Mardock on Buntingford branch with sidings and level crossing 77l
Standon stsation and busy sidings 78
Braughing station 79u
Buntingford station 79l
Bishops Stortford (coloured postcard) rcu
Hertford station (GER) (coloured postcard) rcm

Number 34 (March 2012)

E. McKenna. Scottish traders' wagons. 2-28.
KPJ note: this is an extremely interesting contribution, especially to one who indexed the Hurst Nelson Collection of works photographs in 1960/1 at was then Motherwell Public Library and wonders if the index has survived: the photographs are he believes in the hands of the Historical Model Railway Society, or are they copies? The HN output included much for export, many tramcars (including for the London County Council) and a great variety of hutches, tubs and other industrial rail-based vehicles.
These mainly featured on the North British and Caledonian Railways and in part reflected the early toll systems which applied on systems like the Monkland & Kirkintilloch and Edinburgh & Dalkeith Railways. The other Scottish railways were less involved: the Glasgow & South Western Railway (GSWR) due to the short length of their coal hauls and a deliberate policy by the Company to avoid the system and the Highland and Great North of Scotland as they had negligible originating traffic of coal (the commonest commodity conveyed in traders wagons). The activities of John Robinson, Goods Manager, and David Cooper. General Manager, of the GSWR are mentioned. Also the Lanemark Coal Co. went into liquidation, but their assets were taken over by Coprington & Auchlochan Coal Co. In 1874 D. Middleton & Co. an Inverness coal merchant approached the Highland Railway to operate its own wagons, but this rejected. Thirled wagons were introduced by the two major companies: in 1887 the North British Railway purchased traders wagons and then assigned (thirled) them solely to the traffic of the trader, thus ensuring their custom where competition with the Caledonian was fierce, as in the Monklands. James Nimmo and William Baird were two major users of the system.
The Scottish Waggon Owners' Association was established in 1888 due in part to an action taken by the Highland Railway in respect of a Nimmo wagon which derailed in January 1887 and caused consequential damage, The wagon had been built by Harrison & Cramm.
In 1910 the Railway & Canal Commission Hearings sought to adjudicate at the High Court in Edinburgh between the coalmasters and the railways. The Commissioners were Lord Mackenzie, President, Sir James Woodhouse and the Hon. A.E. Gathorne-Hardy. The Coal Mines Reorganisation Commission was established under the Coal Mines Act of 1930 and this led to amalgamations.
Wagon building in Scotland originated with the coal bogie or Scotch wagon and the earliest were primitive vehicles. Dumb buffers were slow to die out: wagons with them being built until relatively late. 8 ton capacity gradually increased to 10 tons, and there were a few operators of 15 ton vehicles, notably the Dalmellington Iron Co. operated them and some bogie wagons were operated by a Dundee coal merchant.

Illustration table or figure p. note
Polmaise Colliery with Archibald Russell Ltd wagons including some from Dechmond Colliery

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Polmaise Colliery with Archibald Russell Ltd wagons including one from Ferniegare Colliery

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Graph: traders' wagons on Caledonian Railway: 1867-1900

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Burntisland docks with dumb buffer wagons: many belonging to Lochgelly Iron & Coal Co.

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Methil Docks with Harrison & Camm-built dumb buffer wagons owned Wemyss Collieries

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Table: numbers of traders' wagons on NBR: selected years: 1866-1916

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Graph: traders' wagons registered on NBR: 1889-1915

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Carberry Colliery during 1921 National Coal Strike: Edinburh Collieries and Waldie wagons; see note

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Table: numbers of traders' wagons authorised to run on G&SWR: 1899-1903

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Ardrossan Harbour with barque Laura loading coal for Norway: wagon being hoisted probably NBR or CR

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Kyle of Lochalsh station with James Waldie wagon (enlargement from p. 67)

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Aberdeen Gas Works with Black Hawthorn locomotive City of Aberdeen and wagons

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NBR wagon thirled to James Nimmo & Co. being shunted at St. Andrews

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Arniston Coal Co. Ltd. 8 ton coal bogie No. 151 with end door and dumb buffers

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Arniston Coal Co. Ltd. 10 coal wagon No. 151 with end door built R.Y Pickering Ltd in 1912

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James Cunninghame, Glasgow coal merchant, wagon

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Kirkliston station with Allanshaw Coal Co. bogie, Lassodie Coal Co. wagon and Wemyss wagon

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Table 3: census of traders' wagons: 1910: Scottish railways including oil tanks, English and Scottish traders

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Table: Caledonian Railway calculation relating to traders' wagons on 31 July 1909

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Female labour handling bricks with Robert Muir & Co. 10 ton wagon during WW1

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Table: distribution of traders' wagons by users and location 14
Table: wagon ownership of coal merchants in 1909 14
Table: numbers of traders' wagons in 1916 14
Lochgelly Coal & Iron Co. Ltd's Minto pit showing James McKelvie & Co. wagons 15

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Fallin Colliery with Polmaise wagons and Ellis & McHardy, Aberdeen coal merchant wagon c1908 15
King William IV Dock, Dundee with Coltness Iron Co. Ltd wagons 16
Motherwell Bridge & Engineering Co. Ltd with Salmon & Young, Waldie and other wagons, c1926 17

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Table: Numbers of traders' wagons: 1929 to 1948 18
Table: Fife colliery wagons distribution by age, capacity and ownership 18

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Malleable Ironworks Co., Coatbridge with CR Jumbo 0-6-0 19

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Near Motherwell? Netherton Lime Works wagons 20

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Bowhill Colliery, Cardenan, c1900 21
Bowhill Colliery with Fife Coal Co. wagons from Bowhill, Leven, Valleyfield and Donibristle collieries 22
Leven harbour with Fife Coal Co. coal bogies and Largowood Coal Co. wagons 23
Bredisholm Collieries Ltd 7-ton coal bogie as United Collieries Ltd 23
Blairhall Colliery near Culross with LMS and LNER wagons and see notes 24

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Table: North Central Waggon Co.: list of wagon builders 25

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Table: Wagons supplied to Fife coalmasters 1861 to 1894 25

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Fife Coal Co. 10 ton No. 3224 built by Pickering in 1899 26
Table: Wagon builders registered NBR for Scottish traders by decades 26

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Oban Gas Co. wagons c1930 27
Lumphinnans Colliery with Fife Coal Co. wagons, c1930 28

Notes:
1. Other Archibald Russell collieries wagons represented include Tannochside (near Uddingston); also Cox Brothers (Dundee jute spinner) wagon
2. DCC: probably Donibristle Coal Co., Lochgelly, Bowman & Co. Muiredge Colliery and Fife Coal Co. and NBR wagons: picture from A.W. Brotchie Collection
3. Edinburgh Corporation Tramways lorry with Stevens on radiator presumably engaged in strike breaking: see also letter from E. Beauchamp in RA 35 p. 16
4. Details of locomotive: Black Hawthorn WN 912/1887. Wagons from Archibald Russell Cornshilloch Colliery, Larkhall, Marks & Son (Glasgow cannel coal merchant) and Peter Thornton, Cultrigg Colliery, Whitburn
5. Highly retouched photograph aimed to sell McKelvie coal in Edinburgh: NB NBR wagon from Morningside District
6. Salmon & Young were coal merchants at Greenock, founded in 1863 by W.B. Salmon and were still in business as coal merchants and wagon repairers at Nationalisation. The newly painted Waldie wagon carries the paint date 14/4/26 on the solebar, which provides a fairly precise date for this photograph. Jarnes Waldie started his business career in 1833, with a contract to clean dung off the streets of Leith. He then became a coal merchant and traded under the James Waldie name until October 1861, when he took his sons into partnership and the firm became James Waldie & Sons. The firm was incorporated as James Waldie & Sons Ltd in 1915 and traded under that name until the 1960s. Wagon No. 523 was built in 1901 by Hurst Nelson for the Laverock Knowe Coal Co. Dechmont Colliery was acquired by Archibald Russell Ltd in 1898. Wagons belonging to Brand & Co. of Over Dalserf and Woodside collieries; Hugh Keith, Glasgow coal merchant, in business between 1856 and 1929, and most of whose wagons were later purchased by Hurst Nelson for their hire fleet. The writer knows of no other photographs showing Brand & Co. or Hugh Keith wagons. The paintwork on the two Jas. Nimmo wagons looks pretty clean and they carry LMS branding as well as lettering for Canderrig Colliery, near Larkhall. They are flanked by Nimmo wagons with an earlier, simpler style of lettering. Note also that, to their right, two of the railway company wagons visible still carry pre-Group branding. In between these two is what is believed to be a wagon belonging to William Barr & Sons Ltd, AlIanton Colliery, Hamilton. In the foreground are examples of the Motherwell Company's products, steel girders and support beams for bridges.
7. Fife Coal Co.; Balgonie Colliery Co. Ltd.; Lochgelly Iron & Coal Co.; Fordell Colliery; Wemyss Coal Co. Ltd.; Coltness Iron Co. Ltd.; Henry Ness Ltd.; The Kinseat Co. Ltd.; Wilsons & Clyde Co. Ltd.; Tgomas Spowat Ltd.
8. Wagons owned: Barr & Higgins of Woodhall Colliery, Airdrie; James Nimmo; and Hamilton, McCulloch of Home Farm & Bog Collieries.
9. Siding off Caledonian Railway four track main line perhapds near Mothwell. Netherton Lime Works, where lime was mined, was at Auchenheath near Lesmahagow. John and William Howie associated with business with partnership with Train.
10. Wagons from J. & A. Davidson of Aberdeen; Aberdeen Coal & Shipping Co. Ltd; and many from Coltness Co.
11. Harrison & Camm, Darlington Wagon Co., John Whittle, Ince, Ashbury and Pickering
12. Coalmasters: Alloa Coal Co.; Balgonie; Barnsmuir; Wm Black; Jas. Nimmo; Donibristle; Wallace; Lochgelly. Wagon builders: Ashbury Railway Carriage & Iron Co., Manchester; David Bleloch, Charlestown, Fife; Birmingham Wagon Co.; Chorley Railway Wagon Co., Lancs; Darlingron Wagon Co.; Robert Faulds, Glasgow; Harrison & Camm, Rotherham; Hurst, Nelson, Motherwell; Oldbury Railway Carriage & Wagon Co., Staffs; Pickering, Wishaw; Charles Roberts, Horbury, Yorks; James Tod, Leith; Mann, Lauden & Co., Irvine.
13. Hurst, Nelson, Motherwell; R.Y. Pickering, Wishaw; Motherwell Wagon & Rolling Stock Co. Ltd.; Chorley Railway Wagon Co., Lancs; Ince Wagon & Ironwork Co.; Thomas Moy Ltd., Peterborough; Lancashire & Yorkshire Waggon Co. Ltd

Brian Arman. The H.L. Hopwood Collection 1902-1926. Part 13: The Midland Railway and Matthew Kirtley's legacy. 29-37.

Beyer Peacock 4-4-0T No. 206A at Lancaster on 12 August 1902

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Kirtley 0-4-4T as rebuilt by Johnson No. 786 (caption incorrect) on Kentish Town shed on 16 April 1904 30
880 Class 0-6-0T No.885A on freight train at Stratford on 6 September 1902 31
156 Class 2-4-0 No. 150A at St Albans on 19 July 1902 32
800 Class 2-4-0 No. 810 at St Pancras station on 21 May 1902 33
2-4-0 No. 151A approaching Cricklewood station on 17.10 for Nottingham on 6 June 1903 See also letter from Keith Fenwick. 34
Timetable extract appears to indicate that 17.10 terminated at Luton! 35
0-6-0 No. 2345 at Derby in 1908 36
0-6-0 No. 344 on Kentish Town shed on 16 April 1904 37

Brian Arman and Neil Parkhouse. Droitwich Road Station 1924. 38-9.
From H.L. Hopwood Collection taken on 2 September 1924: station on Birmingham & Gloucester Railway opened on 24 June 1840; closed to passenger traffic on 1 October 1855, but remained open for freight until 1 October 1952. Remarkably main building still extant as private residence. See letter from Huw Edawrds in Issue 35 p. 16 for more precise location for picture on page 39. . See also photographs by D.J. Norton in Issue 35 p. 53.

'Down Postal'. 40.
Mixed gauge track at Cowley Bridge. Peter Tatlow 
Former railway Civil Engineer comments on suggestion that the fourth rail of the mixed gauge track across the L&SWR line to Crediton might be to lessen the load on the suspect timber Cowley Bridge finds little merit with him. Firstly, whichever of the pair of rails a narrow gauge train might take, it will impose eccentric loading on the bridge cross-section and hence with greater load to one side or the other. Secondly, a broad gauge train, due to its greater size, may well produce as much, if not more load, on each side even if symmetrically placed. Instead, suggests more plausible explanation lies behind the cameraman in the form of the nearby Exeter St David's station, where the narrow gauge trains in each direction will need to be placed close to the relevant platform. A clear example can be found on p. 10 of the same issue, showing mixed gauge in Penzance station. How far the four rails continue beyond Cowley Bridge may depend on the platform arrangements further down this single line.
(A single mixed gauge line was in use to Crediton at this period. Whilst Peter's explanation is undoubtedly correct as to the arrangement of rails running to Exeter St. David's station, what it does not explain and what I was struggling with when compiling the caption, is why there were four rails across the bridge. Surely, a point on the Exeter side of the bridge, with 3 rails running across it, would have made more sense? Ed.)

Attimore Road Halt. Kevin P. Jones 
The late Mrs Eileen Davey (née Hall), who worked for an organization which is now known as the Tun Abdul Razak Research Centre, told writer about alighting from trains at Attimore Road level crossing in what by this time had become Welwyn Garden City. This was probably during, or immediately after the Second World War and she thought that the practice was unofficial but common place at that time. The original halt probably dates from the early experiments with a Daimler railcar on the Hertford branch in 1905. Incidentally, it is a pity that John Alsop lacked a view of Hertingfordbury station, as this was one of the settings for the television series Cat Weasle!

Broad Gauge Fish Plant. John Lewis. 
Re GWR Broad Gauge conversion (RA33, p16) Roger Langley states 'what is meant by the term' Fish Plant' is unclear'. According to the 1900 GWR Telegraph Code Book, 'Fish Plant' was to be interpreted as 'Siphons, Tadpoles and Tadpoles A'. 'Tadpoles were open fish trucks, 'Tadpoles A' were open fish trucks with brakes, whilst 'Siphons' at this date were 'Milk or poultry vans' but some were used for fish. In 1900, if you wanted to refer to simply Siphons and Tadpoles you telegraphed 'fishy' and there was a mysterious (to me) code 'Fig', which was to be interpreted as 'Load fish plant West' (From the National Archives, Kew, file RAIL 259/477).

King Arthur at Trentham Gardens. David Morton.
Many thanks for publishing my letter on the Manning Wardle King Arthur at Trentham in RA33. There is in fact another photograph of the engine in existence. It appears in The Industrial Locomotive (journal of the Industrial Locomotive Society) in No. 119 of 2006, in an article by Bob Miller on William Rigby, the first owner of the locomotive. The photograph is said to show the engine at Low Laithes colliery and is credited to the collection of J.K. Williams. One Manning Wardle engine looks very much like any other but there is one distinguishing feature of both locomotives that persuades me that they are the same engine. The cast nameplate on the saddle tank had a distinctive raised surround and reversed corner cut-outs.

King Arthur at Trentham Gardens. Russell Wear.
The engine was Manning Wardle WN 636/1876: 0-6-0ST with 12 x 17ins inside cylinders, which at time was owned by Holme & King, who had contract for construction of the Trentham Gardens Branch for the NSR. The contract was awarded per a minute of 23rd June 1908 at a cost of £7,391.1s. 6d.

Stover Canal correction. A.J. Mullay  
Network Rail insists that they own the Stover Canal! It is leased to Teignbridge DC until 24 February 2040.

Mystery goods office. Robin Simmonds 
Hoping that readers of RA could identify the location of this old postcard (reproduced). The sign proclaims the building to be Great Western Railway Goods & Shipping Offices, which presumably puts it somewhere near a shipping port. The card was posted to Ilfracombe from Aberavon on 23 August 1905, the writer having been to Baglan 'last Sunday evening'. There appears to be a goods shed behind the office block and the only other clue discernable is an Elders PO wagon on the left. All this would suggest the view is of Port Talbot goods offices but writer does not have a clear view of this building to confirm this supposition or not.

Crystal Palace High Level Station. Roger Monk 
Photograph (reproduced) taken at Crystal Palace High Level station, showing the goods yard. Unfortunately, the locomotive number is unclear, only that it appears to end with 4. and would date it before the 1931 SR re-numbering, when many engines acquired 4 digit numbers to replace the former letter suffix system. The photograph was taken by E.G.P. Masterman and is now in my collection.
This unusual viewpoint of the terminus station has been sent to us following publication of our book The Crystal Palace High Level Railway. It shows an unidentified ex-SE&CR Wainwright 'C' Class 0-6-0 shunting the yard sometime in the late 1920s and includes four different PO wagons. WJ. Snelling was the local merchant here at this time and his wagons were lettered 'J. Snelling, Crystal Palace Sta.' This may be one of the four 12-ton mineral wagons built by T. Burnett Ltd, Doncaster, in July 1924, numbered 34-37 and registered by the Southern Railway. The 'P O P' wagon belonged to Peake, Oliver & Peake Ltd, a large firm of London based contractors, factors and colliery agents. ext to it, Cleeves, Ault & Fowell wagons were simply lettered 'C A F', with 'LONDON· in smaller letters on the side doors. Finally, the tantalising one, next to the Snelling wagon - 'South'?

G.A. Sekon. The history of the London, Chatham & Dover Railway, Part 3. 41-66.

Constantine: J. Fowler & Co. 0-6-0 delivered 1866 42
Linking line at Margate: see also 58 lower 43
Martley 0-6-0 No. 133 formerly Huz (Sharp Stewart 1873) 44u
Weight diagram for above 44l
Margate West station 45
A class 0-4-4T No. 106 (Neilson 1875) with condensing apparatus 46
Paddle steamer Engeland (Zeeland Steamship Co.) 47
PS Bessemer (two views: interior cross section and steaming calmly: both engravings) 49
SS Calais-Douvres (two views: both engravings of twin hulled ship) 50
M Class 4-4-0 No. 158 51
Gradient profile: Maidstone East to Ashford 52
Gravesend West Street Pier terminus 53
B1 class 0-6-0 No. 156 (Neilson 1877) 54u
Gradient profile: Buckland to Deal 54l
Kings Ferry Bridge 55u
Blackfriars Bridge 55l
St Paul's (later Blackfriars) station with E Class No. 547, R1 class No. 707 and A1 class No. 628 56
Gradient profile: Fawkham Junction to Gravesend Pier 57
R class 0-4-4T No. 208 58u
Other end of loop shown beginning on p. 43 facing towards Maegate Sands 58l
James Staats Forbes: portrait 59
Drawing: bogie brake third supplied to LCDR from Brown, Marshall in 1898 60u
Drawing: bogie first/second lavatory composite built Longhedge  in 1898 60l
Gradient profile: Shortans & Nunhead Railway 63
Dover Admiralty Pier with SS Brighton and various passenger brake vans 64

John Alsop. Wish you were here? Railway postcards of the Dingwall & Skye Railway and the Far North. 67-80; rear cover.

Kyle of Lochalsh station with passenger train awaiting departure behind 4-4-0 in 1903 67
Skye bogie 4-4-0 awaiting departure from Kyle of Lochalsh 68u
Plockton station 68l
Strome Ferry (Stromeferry) showing turntable remains of engine shed and station with overall roof. See also letter from Jeffrey Wells (RA35, p.16) 69
Achnasheen station 70u
Lochluichart station in about 1900 (station relocated in 1954 due to hydro-electricity works 70l
Garve station 71
Dingwall station (PC posted October 1909) with motor cars registrations: JS 2; LN 746 and ST 17 in forecourt: see RA 35 p. 16 letter from Bill Briggs 72
Drummond 0-6-0 No. 23? entering Muir of Ord with passenger train c1910 73u
0-6-0T No. 24 at Munlochy on Fortrose branch passenger train 73m
Fortrose terminus with passenger train and possibly Small Ben No, 4 73l
Invergordon station (with Highland Railway device) 74u
Tain station 74m
Edderton station and distillery 74l
Bonar Bridge station (now Ardgay) with passenger train 75u
Lairg station 75l
The Mound station with train hauled by 0-6-0T No. 56 Dornoch 76u
Embo station (light timber construction) and extant station master's bungalow 76m
Dornoch terminus with Cathedral behind : first pseenger train on 2 June 1902 hauled by 0-6-0T No. 56 Dornoch 76l
Dornoch Hotel: Highland Railway publicity PC 77u
Dunrobin station now Dunrobin Castle (open summer season only) 77m
Double headed up train (Small Ben No. 6 Ben Amin leading) at Brora station 77l
Forsinard station (now Flow Country Visitor Centre) 78u
Alnabreac station 78m
Thurso station with enamel signs and train 78l
Watten station with Small Ben No. 7 Ben Attow 79u
Snow plough at work 79um
Wick with snow plough at head of 12.20 arrival on 23 February 1907 79lm
Wick station with departure of Wick Terriers on 6 August 1914 behind Jones Goods? 79l
Thrumster station (building still extant) 80u
Lybster station (main building now golf clubhouse) 80m
Lybster station 80l
Fortrose station (two colour PC) rcu
Strathpeffer station (coloured PC) rcl

Number 35 (June 2012)

Jeffrey Wells. Helmshore and Haslingden: a Lancashire railway tale. 2-15; 55; rear cover upper.
East Lancashire Railway opened between Stubbins Junction and Accrington on 17 August 1848. The line was characterised by steep gradients. The text is mainly concerned with the station strucures.

Haslingden panorama including station, cotton mills and goods yard, c1902 2
Helmshore station platforms, level crossing and signalbox c1910 3
Map: Alderbottom Viaduct to Hud Hey Bridge 4
Helmshore station platforms, level crossing and signalbox c1910 5u
Helmshore station platforms, level crossing and signalbox down direction: see also Issue 30 p. 76 5l
Helmshore station platforms with 2-4-2T arriving 6u
Helmshore station area map: Ordnance Survey 1900 edition 6m
Helmshore station with up train arriving c1905 6l
Haslingden or North Hag Tunnel entrance in 1952 7u
Haslingden or North Hag Tunnel entrance after closure 7l
Haslingden station with Haslingden Fresh Air Fund excursion passengers, c1908 8u
Haslingden station with tradesmen's trip c1912 8l
Haslingden station and tunnel map: Ordnance Survey 1900 edition 9u
Haslingden station approach road: L&YR block plan 1895 9l
Haslingden station on 23 April 1954 10u
Haslingden station approach road 10l
Haslingden station with wagons in goods yard, 1960s? 11u
Haslingden station semi-derilict on 5 July 1964 11l
Haslingden station with track still in situ 12u
Hud Hey Road bridge 12l
Ordnance Survey 1895 edition Gas Works 13
Grane Quarry Co. offices 14u
Grane Quarry Co. track and points 14l
Haslingden station: excursion train c1905 15
Helmshore station platforms, level crossing and signalbox (coloured postcard) rcu

'Down Postal'.16
Sekon's LC&DR. Len Wood
See RA 33 p. 30. He had read of the excellence of Longhedge Works and of the capabilities of both Messrs Martley and Kirtley as Locomotive Superintendents. With a severe cash flow and the need to rebuild and repair, Longhedge were not able to produce their first locomotive until 1869. Martley intended to call the engine Premier — no numbers were carried at this period — but remarked to the chairman that it was a complete enigma to him that ir was ever complered. On the chairman's suggestion, the name Enigma was thus bestowed. His was some milestone for the LC&DR and perhaps gave thought of better times to come. At this period, photography was still fairly primitive with equipment heavy and cumbersome. However when Enigma was wheeled out for the first time, was this special event captured on film?

Timetable troubles. Keith Fenwick 
The caption to the photograph on p34,RA34 gives the train as the 17.10 to Nottingham. However, the accompanying timetable shows this as a local train to Luton. There is a double line further down the column. The train arriving at Nottingham started at Leicester at 19.40. So was the train in the picture just a Luton local?

The Strome Ferry Riot. Jeffrey Wells 
John Alsop's excellent photostudy on 'The Dingwall & Skye Railway' in RA34 throws up an intriguing nugget of railway history, namely the Strome Ferry riot of 1883 (p69). The following may be of interest to readers, the details of which are drawn from contemporary press reports.
Two steamers, Lochiel and Talisman, arrived at Strome Ferry pier from Stornoway on the Isle of Lewis, at 01.00 on the morning of Sunday, 3 June 1883. According to The Aberdeen Journal of 5 June:

'There had been a good carch of herrings during Friday night and Saturday morning by the Lewis boars, and a large quantity of the produce, parrly kippered and parrly fresh, was destined for the London marker, which it could only reach by yesrerday [Monday] morning if sent straight on per rail.'

As there was no Sunday service on the Dingwall & Skye Railway. a special train had been arranged and was standing at the Strome Ferry quayside awaiting the arrival of the two steamers, whose cargoes comprised 6.700 boxes of highly perishable commodities. Before the vessels could be unloaded and the goods transferred to railway wagons, a horde of West Highland crofters, cottars and fishermen attacked the railway officials. This was the first of a series of attacks that took place over the next 23 hours. The rioting mob took over the pier and the railway plant. The men were armed with bludgeons and sticks, which were freely used during each assault. The railway officials were expelled from the pier. taking refuge in the train or in railway buildings. The cause of these 'extraordinary disturbances' was the rioters' belief in the sanctity of the Fourth Commandment - no work to be done on the Lord's Day, this being the tenet of Sabbatarianism, which was particularly strong in Scotland. 'Not a box of fish would they [the mob] allow 10 leave the steamers for the railway waggons': It was reported that the railway wagons had been pushed away from the sides of the steamers!
The situation was telegraphed to railway headquarters at Inverness, whereupon a special train left Dingwall conveying six constables, one of whom was the Chief Constable. The rioters, some 100 to 150 men, putatively active members of the Sabbath Observance Army, held back the constables and succeeded in injuring the Chief. A telegraph was sent to Inverness, describing the dire situation and requesting a retreat to Dingwall. This was granted and the police scuttled back to their base.
Encouraged by their success, the rioters held a series of devotional services, conducted by a Free Church elder of the area. As midnight approached, the mob marched up to the railway offices and triumphantly called out 'twelve o'clock, twelve o'clock' ,and then wandered off to their homes. After midnight, all was reported quiet at Strome Ferry. The deteriorating fish was loaded and conveyed to Inverness, from where it was forwarded to London, to be sold at a much lower value due to the long delay. It was finally reported that the police were inve tigating the incident and were bent upon apprehending the ringleaders. This account is better than one in Backtrack, 2012, 26, 326..

Early motor cars in Scotland. Bill Briggs
Cars standing outside Dingwall station: car on extreme left, registration JS2 (Ross & Crornarty), is without doubt a Napier. Car on extreme right. registraton STI7 (Inverness):, John Warburton, former member of the Veteran Car Club Dating Committee, considers was an Arrol-Johnston and having compared this with photographs of the Arrol-Johnston that won the 1905 car TT in the Isle of Man, would agree with this identification.
For anyone who would like to know more about these two cars, the original registraton registers for Inverness are held by The Highland Regional Archives, Kinmylies Building, Leachkin Road, Inverness IV3 6NN, and the card index for Ross & Cromarty registrations is held by the Kithead Trust who can be contacted at: webmaster@kitheadtrust.org.uk
It is impossible to identify the middle vehicle, registration LN746. This is a London registration and no records for London at this period survive. See also letter from Richard Ardern in RA38 p. 70 on location of the Highland Regional Archives.

Droitwich Road clarification  Huw Edwards.
Caption to photograph on p39 was looking north towards towards Stoke Works. Abbots Wood Junction is located south of Droitwitch Road.being the junction of the Midland main line with the GWR spur from Worcester. The post shown in the photograph is milepost 60½ from zero at Derby North Junction, via Burton on Trent and Camp Hill.

Stevens lorry identified. E. Beauchamp
See RA34, p7, for photograph possibly taken at Carberry Colliery with a Stevens lorry. W.A. Stevens was involved originally with Tillings in the design of drives for lorries and buses circa 1908. The final and improved development type of vehicle by him, however, was in partnership with Dennis Bros of Guildford. The lorry depicted was a 1914-18 War Department 3-4 ton chassis made by Dennis and was termed a 'Subvention lorry'. The engine, axles and frame were predominately of Dermis manufacture but Stevens converted the final drive into an electric drive: i.e. Petrol Electric. With the generator on board  it waspossible to use it for powering temporary lighting outfits or arc welding.. To ensure that the engine would not overheat whilst unde static running for long periods, a larger radiator and pump was fitted. The above information (much reduced) can be found in the April 1963 edition of Vintage Commercial magazine. See also photograph, diagram and plan.

Peter Tatlow. Great Western Railway steam breakdown cranes. 17-26.

Plate 1 Cowans Sheldon (1901) 15-ton crane No. 8 on 6 March 1966 (R.H.G. Simpson) 17
Plate 2 Cowans Sheldon  20-ton crane No. 5 with bogie toolvan No. 130 in February 1907 18
Plate 3 Stothert & Platt 36-ton crane No.1 and Ransomes & Rapier 36-ton crane No. 2 with The Great Bear lifted 19
Plate 4 Ransomes & Rapier 36-ton crane No. 2 at Swindon on 22 March 1964 (M.S. Welch) 20
Plate 5 Wilson 12-ton crane No. 12 on 17 June 1909 21
Plate 6 Taff Vale Railway Chaplin 20-ton crane of 1884/5 (Engineer engraving) 22
Plate 7 Taff Vale Railway Cowans Sheldon 36-ton crane No.10 and Ransomes & Rapier 36-ton crane No. 3 at Glyncorrwg Colliery rerailing 650hp diesel locomotive No. 9529 23
Plate 8 Rhymney Railway Cowans Sheldon 35-ton crane as GWR No. 9 at Worcester on 29 June 1953 (Brian Penney) 24u
Plate 9 Barry Railway Cowans Sheldon 25-ton at Radyr on 12 September 1970 24l
Plate 10 Ransomes & Rapier 45-ton crane 25
Plate 11 Ransomes & Rapier 45-ton crane No. 17 at Oxley shed on 24 May 1964 (M.S. Welch) 26

Edward Talbot. Lord Monkswell's Notebooks Part 1: Introduction. 27-34.
Lord Monkswell (Robert Alfred Hardcastle Collier) was born on 13 December 1875, was educated at Eton and Cambridge, worked in the Foreign Office in Paris, Washington and Peking, before inheriting his title; served in the Royal Field Artillery during WW1 and died on 14 January 1964. He was a pillar of the Railway Club and seems to have spent most of his life as a full-time railway enthusiast.  He kept notebooks; five of which emerged at a Sheffield Railwayana Auction about seven years ago and were acquired by Roger Bell; these have been transcribed by Michael Bentley and Edward Talbot. Further input has been made by Roger Hennessy and George Carpenter. The five notebooks cover 1895 (including France); 1898; 1905/6 (China and France); 1926 and 1933. Presumably there were, or still are, further notebooks. As the sections reproduced show Monkswell inserted pictures and cuttings from published material into the notebooks using adhesives and adhesive tape. Eight pages are reproduced. He was highly regarded for his observations on locomotive performance. He published many articles and several books . Concluded in Issue 41 
pp. 32-4: A dinner was hosted by Lord Monkswell in honour of Cecil J. Allen on 6 April 1955. A copy of the menu, signed by Cecil J. Allen, is reproduced. The guests at the dinner held at St. Ermin's, Westminster were: see also letter from Robert Humm
E.W. Arkle, Commercial Superintendent, North Eastern Region in 1951.
H.F Anderson, Railway Clerks Association
Dr I.C. Allen, Railway Magazine correspondent and railway historian.
A Anderson, Alan Anderson wrote the first series of Famous Trains, the Brockhampton booklets: Flying Scotsman; Cornish Riviera; Devon Belle; etc.
G.J. Aston, Gerry Aston was an enthusiast, with a special interest in locomotive performance as well as a highly capable railwayman. He was Line Traffic Manager Derby before the operating divisions of Derby, Manchester and Crewe were amalgamated at Crewe in July 1968. Then he came to Crewe and 'fluttered around the offices' until he retired soon afterwards.
B. Atkinson, Motive Power Engineer, British Railways, Eastern Region.
A.S. Amos.
W.R. Alderton, +
Lt-Colonel P.M. Brooke-Hitching, Railway Magazine correspondent.
M. Bonavia, Management Systems Assistant, British Railways; Principal Works and Development Officer, 1951; later on first Channel Tunnel project.
Geoffrey S. Bridge.
D.C. Bull, Railway Magazine correspondent, locomotive performance.
G.B. Barton.
D.A. Brown.
F.G. Brewer, F.W. Brewer was a railway historian.
D.S.M. Barrie, Public Relations Officer, later Divisional Manager, British Railways, and authority on locomotive performance.
D.H. Burton.
H. Birchall.
H.L. Butler.
H. Bromley.
B.W.C. Cooke, Editor Railway Gazette and Railway Magazine.
K. Cantlie, Overseas Advisory Engineer, Locomotive Manufacturers Association.
Reverend T. Colman.
Sir James Colyer-Fergusson, Bt., Passenger Officer, Southern Region, British Railways.
George W. Carpenter, consulting engineer; friend and collaborator with Andre Chapelon.
J.W. Chillman.
S. Greer, Stanley Greer.
G.P.J. de Clermont.
F.J. Cockman, BR employee, mentioned by E.S. Cox.
G.S. Cattel, prominent in the General Electric Company and keen collector of railwayana. Had a set of GWR 4-cylinder valve gear, for instance, and a kind of trolley with whistles from many companies which could all be blown. Also had many nameplates, including a replica of the LNWR nameplates FARADAY, which he had made for him.
E.V. Clark.
R.H. Clark, compiled the Historical Survey of GWR Stations, published in the 1980s by OPC.
H.C. Creamer.
J.R. Day.
Paul Drew, editor of railway publications.
G.A. Draper.
G.F Davies.
H.M. Dannatt, Mechanical Engineer, . North British Locomotive Company.
A.C. Dence.
Colin D. Dence.
E.M. Dence.
C.K. Dunkley.
A.W.T. Daniel, Railway historian and author.
C. Hamilton Ellis, Railway historian, author and artist; produced a series of 24 carriage prints used by British Railways.
S. Ellingworth, perhaps Sam Ellingworth.
P.S. Evetts,
Laurie Earl, retired engine driver, Camden shed.
Brooke Farrar.
Robert C. Ferguson.
G.J. Flower.
P. le Neve Foster.
W. Fowler.
E.I. Froshaug.
R.H. Gosling.
Reverend J.W. Grant.
Ralph Goodwin.
Norman Greenwood.
T. Greenwood.
Harold J. Griffith, Railway Magazine correspondent, locomotive performance.
Dr C.H. Giles.
C.M. Hannoyer.
Richard Hardy, shedmaster at Woodford Halse, Stratford and Stewarts Lane, and author of Steam in the Blood.
A.H. Holden.
Prof. P.A.S. Hadley.
Edward W. Hamilton.
R.J. Humphries.
J.T. Holder.
H.A.H. Hart.
Guthrie Hunter.
A.R Hawes.
G. Hitchcox.
Andrew J. Hayden.
John E. James.
C.E. Turner Jones.
T.L. Jehu.
J.M. Kennington.
P.J. Kelly.
R.D. Kennedy.
H.T. Kirby.
C.E. Lee, railway historian, Assistant Editor Railway Gazette and Railway Magazine.
Desmond R. Lysaght.
E. Little.
Robert A. Lewis.
Lord Monkswell.
Henry Maxwell, railway historian.
Lr-Colonel Gordon Maxwell.
K.I. McFarlane.
G.N. Martin, Railway Magazine correspondent locomotive performance.
Martin (Junr).
Noel Matthews.
K.S. Martin.
D. Mills.
M. Inglis Mason.
Major !.K. MacNaughton.
O.S. Nock, Chief Engineer, Signal and Colliery Division, Westinghouse Brake and Signal Company Ltd, railway historian and writer. locomotive performance.
K.A.C.R. Nunn, railway historian.
B.I. Nathan, Railway Magazine correspondent, locomotive performance. Editor of the Stephenson Locomotive Society Journal.
W.R. Oaten, editorial assistant Railway Gazette.
P. Olver, H.M. Railway lnspector.
C.H.E. Owen.
Thomas O'Brian.
Lt-Colonel Sir Michael Peto, Bt., possibly a connection to Peto railway contractors.
W.G. Polack.
P.I. Paton.
R.M. Palmer.
J.W.C. Pitts.
W.A. Parker.
V.B. Richardson.
F.H.L. Robinson.
F.S. Sibley.
WE. Selby, Senior engineer, Crown Agents for the Colonies.
A,P. le M. Sinkinson, Railway Magazine correspondent, locomotive performance
Arthur M. Stacey. ,
J.E.L. Skelton, Railway Magazine correspondent, locomotive performance.
G.M. Sanders, Consulting engineer, formerly locomotive officer in Railway Operating Companies, Engineers.
David Swan.
C.H. Savage.
Cyril Smith.
Leonard Taylor.
Gordon Tidey, Railway photographer.
F.S. Todd.
J.G.A. Thorpe.
George Tibbett.
John H. Turner.
R.M. Tyrrell.
Lt.-Colonel J.F. Thorburn
G.E. Underwood.
Philip Unwin, perhaps a partner in Alien & Unwin, publishers.
HA Vallance, Railway historian.
Dr Ransome Wallis, Railway photographer and historian.
Messrs. B. G. Wilson.
Guy Warrack.
R.A.H. Weight, Railway Magazine correspondent, locomotive performance and historian.
G.M. Warren.
Peter Wood.
C.F. Wells.
H.A.A. While.
Major C.S.M. Walker.
Oliver Warner, possibly of Warner Publishing
A.N. Wolstenholme, illustrator whose work appeared in many Ian Allan publications in the 1940s and 1950s, notably Trains Annual and ABC booklets.
p. 34: Photograph of Petite Circulaire train at Pris Gare du Nord hauled by Vauclain? four-cylinder compound 4-6-0.

Brian Arman. The H.L. Hopwood Collection 1901-1926. Part 14: The Great Eastern Railway in 1901-5. 35-44.
Cites C. Langley Aldrich's Locomotives of the Great Eastern Railway. 1862-1972. Considers the many locomotive superintendents who served the railway but concentrates on the tragic figure of Massey Bromley, who was killed in the Penistone accident of 1881: see also letter from Jeffrey Wells in 36 p. 51.

Neilson Coffee Pot 0-4-0ST No. 229 with dumb buffers on quayside* 35
Johnson Class 1 2-4-0 No. 34 Lowestoft shed on 9 July 1901 36
Adams Class 61 0-4-4T No. 67 with train for Snaresbrook at Bethnall Green 37
Rebuilt Bromley E10 class 0-4-4T No. 101 with condensing gear at Liverpool Street on 18 September 1901 38
Worsdell E16 class 2-4-2T No. 664 at Stratford on 6 September 1902 39
Worsdell 4-4-0 No. 0705 ascending Brentwood Bank c1902 40
Claud Hamilton 4-4-0 No. 1840 at Cambridge on 12 August 1905 41
2-4-2T No. 1082 at Brentwood with an up train from Cambridge (Southend?) on 27 June 1902: see latter from Bill Aves in 36 p. 51 42
Beccles station 43
2-4-0 No. 34 at Liverpool Street station on 9 July 1901 44

Barry Taylor. A Northamptonshire locomotive mystery: early days on the Northampton & Banbury Junction Railway. 45-52.
See also Issue 29 page 25. The Northampton & Banbury Junction Railway received Royal Assent on 22 July 1863. Encouraged by potential iron ore traffic to South Wales it changed its name to the Midland Counties & South Wales Railway, but the section from Blisworth to Towcester had opened on 30 April 1866 and this was followed by the collapse of Overend & Gurney. Thus there were no funds available for the locomotives ordered from Neilson & Co. which were standard 0-4-2 and 0-4-2Ts. Five had been built: one was sent overseas and four were acquired by the Caledonian Railway: not the Solway Junction Railway. The railway had to seek replacement motive power and this possibly included The Owl, an ex-Liverpool & Manchester Railway 0-4-2 sold in 1855 and a Sharp Roberts 2-2-2 acquired via Isaac Watt Boulton (see Chronicles of Boulton's Siding). The latter was ex-LNWR No. 1125, sold from Longsight on 28 February 1866, but purchased by the East & West Junction Railway. The contractor. C.N. Foster, owned a Hunslet 0-6-0ST Vulcan and this was siezed by the Sheriff who mistakenly thought it was owned by the bankrupt railway. A further Act was obtained in July 1870 and this enabled the line to be completed from Bradden to Cockley Brake. John Aird & Son was the contractor and this section opened on 1 June 1872. Thereafter the railway reverted to its older title. Auctions held by W.J. Peirce in Northampton relate to six-wheel four-coupled locomotives: these were held on 17 November 1866, 22 December 1866 and 22 October 1870. The locomotives were being sold on behalf of Walter Amos Michael and Vincent James Barton. The former was a director of the railway; the latter a London iron merchant. When the LNWR agreed to work the line from 1 March 1875 the locomotives formerly used were auctioned off:
Locomotive tank engine No. 1: six-wheels, four-coupled, 15in cylinders
Locomotive tank engine No. 2: six-wheels, four-coupled, 15½in cylinders
Locomotive tank engine No. 3: six-wheel,s four-coupled, 16in cylinders
Locomotive engine No. 4: six-wheels, all-coupled, 17in cylinders, also tender
Locomotive engine No. 5: six-wheels, all-coupled, 18in cylinders, also tender
The illustrations attempt to match these

Map 45
0-4-2T No. 1 (Neilson official): presumably No. 1 MC&SWR 46u
0-4-2T No. 2 as Caledonian Railway No. 541A with modifications1 46l
Towcester station 47u
2-2-2ST: Sharp 2-2-2 modified with saddle tank by Isaac Watt Boulton 47l
Longridge 0-6-0 ex-LNWR Cotton at Boulton's siding: supplied to John Aird & Son at Blisworth 48
Ex-South Staffordshire Railway 0-6-0 Ajax (Vulcan Foundry 1855): N&BJR No. 4 from May 1872 49
Ex-South Staffordshire Railway 2-4-0T (Sharp Stewart 1851) Sylph:: N&BJR No. 3 50
N&BJR No. 2: former NLR 2-4-0ST No. 27: similar locomotive ex-LNWR 2-2-2 Etna with saddle tank at Pinnex Colliery, Burslem   51
N&BJR No. 1: former NLR Stothert & Slaughter 2-4-0WT: similar locomotive Furness Railway No. 108 (ex-Whitehaven, Cleator & Egremont Railway No. 12 Marron 52

1 Modifications included crude cab, Westinghouse brake and stovepipe chimney

Follow up 1. Droitwich Road Station. 53.
Photographed by D.J. Norton. See also Issue 34 p. 38 for photographs by Hopwood.

Brian Arman. Broad gauge follow-up:  'Standard Goods' 0-6-0 Europa. 54-5.
At Ivybridge in 1892 with preparatory work for conversion to standard gauge. 4-4-0ST No. 2130 Lance working bunker-first with a Plymouth to Exeter stopping train, leading coach was a Cornish Railway six-wheel coach. See Issue 32 page 47

Harry Jack. W.H. Dodds of Banbury: an early railway photographer. 56-8.
William Harvey Dodds was born in Nottingham in about 1830; he had a business in Wolverhampton in 1862 where he photographed a boiler explosion at Millfield Ironworks, Bilston; in 1868 he had a business in Banbury; in 1879 he was declared bankrupt; but must have recovered as he was subsequently in business in Sheffield. The photographs are of London & North Western Railway (LNWR) locomotives and the first and third were probably taken at Banbury and consist solely of the locomotive: Jack postulates that the turntable may have been too short to turn the engine with its tender

2-2-2 No. 1873: built Crewe in Juky 1845 as Grand Junction Railway No. 19 Princess; rebuilt in September 1855 and March 1869; scrapped 10 July 1879 56
Advertisement on back of photographs for business in Banbury 57
2-2-2 No. 1839: built Crewe in May 1849 as No. 115 Meteor; placed on duplicate list as No. 1839 in September 1872; scrapped 24 January 1879 58u
2-4-0 No. 176, formerly Courier, rebuilt February 1870; renumbered 1839 in February 1880 and withdrawn in July 1882 58l

Harry Jack. Fly shunted 1: More early locomotives. 59-60.
Bury type locomotives: cites A. Rosling Bennett's Chronicles of Boulton Siding

0-4-0 photographed at Boulton's Siding in 1866: had been bought at Faversham and was sold in July 1867 to Jamieson & McCormick of Wigan 59u&m
0-4-0 supplied by Bury, Cutis & Kennedy to Croydon, Dover & Brighton Joint Committee: LBSCR No. 96 59l
2-2-0 probably at Kirkham, Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway: not Burnley Mabchester Road 60u
2-2-2WT North London Railway No. 15A at Hammersmith: ex-London & Birmingham Railway No. 25 supplied Peter Rothwell 60l

Fly shunted 2; Newcastle Central c1865. 61.
0-6-0? in platform with short train

Opening of the Lynton & Barnstaple Railway 1898. 62-3.
Photograph probably taken on opening day, 11 May 1898, in Pilton Yard. Shows both Exe and Yeo:  1ft 11½in gauge 2-6-2T with assembled staff including Frank Chanter, Engineer & Manager.

Mike Christensen. The Eaton Railway in the 1940s. 64-8.
Photographs taken by Graham Vincent in September 1942, when he was a senior boy at Shrewsbury School, and in 1947 just before the remaining material was sold to Captain Howey, proprietor of the Romney Hythe & Dymchurch Railway which shared the same gauge as the Duke of Westminster's railway at Eaton Hall, near Balderton. Cites Howard Clayton's The Duffield Bank and Eaton Railways. Oakwood Press, 1968 [was this a Locomotion Paper?] and Mark Smithers. Sir Arthur bHeywood and the fifteen inch gauge railway. Plateway. 1995 and a website Perrygrove where a replica locomotive runs. See also letter from Bill Aves in Issue 36 p. 51..

Schematic map of Eaton Railway 64
Triangular junction near Belgrave Lodge on 31 March 1947 64 inset
Locomotive shed at Belgrave on 4 September 1942 65
Locomotive shed at Belgrave on 31 March 1947 with brake van and open wagons 66u
Locomotive shed at Belgrave on 31 March 1947 with brake van and open wagons 66l
Exchange siding at Balderton on 4 September 1942: pieces of Katie being cut up 67u
Exchange siding at Balderton on 4 September 1942: pieces of Katie being cut up 67l
Exchange siding at Balderton on 4 September 1942: boiler from Ursula 68u
Radiating gear on Heywood six-coupled engine No. 2 diagram 68l

John Alsop. Wish you were here? Railway postcards of Lincolnshire. Part 1. 69-80.

M&GNR 4-4-0 at Sutton Bridge pre-1909 69
Cross Keys Bridge c1905 70
Holbeach station and signalbox with A class 4-4-0 on eastbound train 71
Twenty station when flooded with 0-6-0T shunting carriages 1910 72u
GNR 0-4-4T No. 515 at Stamford engine shed pre-1912 72m
Tallington station c1910 72l
Thurlby station with F2 class 0-4-2 No. 27, c1906 73u
Spalding station with M&GNJR 0-6-0 and several trains, c1906 73l
Heckington station, c1910 74u
Sleaford station with D2 No. 1304? on passenger train 74l
Wainfleet station with Sharp? locomotive and early rolling stock, c1886 75u
Spilsby station with dumb buffer John Simpson, Burley and dumb buffer Rother Vale wagons, 1906 75l
Burgh station 76u
Legbourne Road station with E2 2-4-0 No. 214 arriving on all stations to Boston train, c1906 76l
New Bollingbroke station shortly before its opening in 1913 77u
Noth Thoresby station and signalbox with shunting in progress 77l
Waddington station, c1908 78u
Navenby station 78l
Sedgebrook station 79
Wragby station c1930 80u
Mablethorpe: 7¼ gauge railway with Pacific locomotive Lorna Doone crossing girder bridge 80l
Stamford Town station 1906 (coloured postcard) rcl

Number 36 (June 2012)

Stanley C. Jenklns and Neil Parkhouse. The Gloucester to Ledbury Branch. 2-38.
The Herefordshire & Gloucestershire Canal had opened in 1798 as far as Ledbury, but did not reach Hereford until 1845. There were many proposals to convert the canal into a railway. Eventually the GWR opted to build a railway beteen Gloucester and Ledbury and the contract for construction went to Appleby & Lawson with William Clarke as engineer who designed the stations. The line was inspected by Colonel Francis H. Rich in July 1885 and opened on 27 July. Until the opening of the line from Cheltenham through Honeybourne and Stratford opened in 1906 the route provided the Great Western with an improved route to the Midlands, In 1947 the collapse of the Strangford Viaduct due to severe floods led to the closure of the railway between Hereford and Gloucester via Ross on Wye and the route via Newent enjoyed six months of extra traffic which was worked with difficulty as the junction at Ledbury faced in the wrong direction. Latterly motive powrer included the 32XX (90XX) class of 4-4-0 and 2251 0-6-0 types

Dymock station with GWR diesel railcar in carmine & cream livery (Roger Carpenter) 2
Hereford & Gloucester Canal at Boyce Court c1947 3
Newent Railway plan showing Hereford & Gloucester Canal near Barbers Bridge 4-5
Hereford & Gloucester Canal ticket for consignment of coal on 3 January 1859 4
Barbers Bridge in March 1965 with railway still in situ and canal bed visible 6
Broad Street Newent c1907: all traffic horse-drawn 7
Newent station c1913 looking towards Gloucester 8
Dymock station c1908 looking towards Gloucester: note flower gardens 9
H. Lancaster & Co. traction engine (Garratt BJ 1894) hauling log on trolley in Newent c1914. See also letter from Bill Briggs in Issue 37 p. 70. 10u
Newent: daffodils for London hospitals on 8 April 1925: horse drawn wagon to station 10l
Dymock station with Gloucester to Ledbury service passenger train arriving hauled by 4-4-0: Brougham & pair in forecourt 11u
John Williams (Gloucester coal merchant) sent to station master Newent on 20 June 1936: wagons Nos. 74 & 51 en route 11l
Newent Church Street c1920 with bus AD 665 (registration number) owned Davis & Sons, Gloucester 12u
Timetable from 26 September 1937: Bristol Omnibus Services: Gloucester to Ledbury via Newent 12l
GWR diesel railcar W19W at Newent on 11 July 1959 (W. Potter) 13
Gloucester station on 9 July 1919 looking towards Cheltenham 14
Gloucester station: approach from west with Standard Goods No. 789 on a freight c1910 15
Gloucester: Horton Road engine shed in late 1940s: 57XX No. 8731 identifiable, but many other locomotives 16
Over Junction c1930: further views of Over Junction Great Western Railway Journal Nos. 45 and 46 17u
Over Junction: Ordnance Survey map 1902 25 inches to mile (reduced) 17l
Barbers Bridge station view towards Ledbury on 9 July 1919 18u
Barbers Bridge station building looking north on 18 April 1959 (Colin Green) 18l
Barbers Bridge station looking south (Joe Moss) 19u
Barber's Bridge station: Ordnance Survey map 1903 25 inches to mile (reduced) 19m
Barbers Bridge  goods yard (Joe Moss) 19l
Malwick Halt on 10 July 1959 (R.M. Casserley) 20u
Malwick Halt from road with Casserley car on 10 July 1959 (H.C. Casserley) 20l
Newent station looking towards Ledbury 9 July 1919 21u
Newent station with train approaching c1908 21l
Newent station: Ordnance Survey map 1903 25 inches to mile (reduced) 22
Newent: Furnace Cross railway bridge c1919 22i
Newent station goods yard spring 1959 (Joe Moss) 23u
Newent station on 31 August 1960 with Wickham trolley (H.B. Priestley) 23l
Newent station  goods yard and signal box spring 1959 (Joe Moss) 24u
Newent station forecourt with Morris Minor Estate spring 1959 (Joe Moss) 24l
Newent station with W19W on 18 April 1959 (Colin Green) 25u
Four Oaks Halt looking towards Gloucester 19 July 1959 (P.J. Garland) 25l
Dymock c1912 with double track leading to Ledbury (reduced to single during WW1) 26
Dymock station staff c1910 with permanent way men (majority of staff also in photograph below) 27u
Dymock station staff c1908 without permanent way men, but with ganger or signalman? 27l
Dymock station and St. Mary's church c1908 28u
Dymock station Ordnance Survey 25 inch may reduced 10% 28m
Dymock village from station bridge c1925 28l
Dymock goods yard spring 1959 (Joe Moss) 29u
Dymock signal box on 19 July 1959 (P.J. Garland) 29l
W19W dparting Dymock on 18 April 1959 (Colin Green) 30u
Greenway Halt on 19 July 1959 (P.J. Garland) 30l
Ledbury Town Halt in 1949 31u
Ledbury Town Halt with W19W on 27 June 1959 (Roger Carpenter) 31l
Ledbury station from hill above tunnel c1908 with down train composed of six-wheel stock 32u
Ledbury station from hill above tunnel in May 1956 with track layout virually unchanged but with fewer wagons 32l
Junction at Ledbury with No. 1401 and single auto trailer climbing off branch in May 1956 33
Ledbury station looking towards tunnel with No. 1401 and single auto trailer  backing into up bay siding in May 1956 34
Ledbury station with W19W waiting departure for Gloucester on 18 April 1959 35
Ledbury station with W19W waiting alongside goods shed on 11 July 1959 36
Ledbury station with 10.35 Hereford to Paddington hauled by No. 6916 Misterton Hall arriving on 12 April 1959 (H.B. Priestley) 37
Ledbury; 5205 class 2-8-0T No. 5243 at coaling stage (banker through tunnel) on 11 July 1959 (Bill Potter)* 38

*confirms that the banker worked bunker first through the tunnel see R.S. Markes letter in Great Western Rly J.

Edward Talbot. Lord Monkswell's Notebooks Part 2: Book 1 1895-1897. 39-50.
The text consists of transcripts of logs of locomotive performance from observations made from the train or in some cases on the footplate. The logs are relatively skeletal, but show departure times, arrival times, both from the start and finish and some major passing stations to the nearest ½ minute and ¼ mile; the motive power and the number of vehicles and approximate weight of the train:
24/25 July 1895: Euston to Perth: Big Jumbo Eamont Euston to Crewe; Big Jumbo Crewe to Carlisle; Dunalastair C; another of same type Stirling to Perth: load 5 eight-wheeled bogie coaches: average speeds on each leg better than 50 mile/h (54.9 mile/h Crewe to Carlisle)
August 1895: Paddington to Exeter St. Davids: Paddington to Bristol: No. 3028 Wellington; similar locomotive Bristol to Exeter: to Bristol about 190 tons
27 November 1895: Hamburg American Special: Plymouth Harbour to Paddington: Duke No. 3256 Excalibur to Exeter; 4-2-2 No. 3039 Dreadnought to Bristol; 4-2-2 No. 3015 Kennet to Paddington: load 121 tons: 57.5 mile/h Exeter to Bristol and 57.66 mile/h Bristol to Paddington [based on newpaper reports]

Improved Precedent (Big Jumbo) 2-4-0 No. 271 Minotaur at Manchester London Road 39
Dean 7ft 8in single 4-2-2 No. 3051 Stormy Petrrel at Paddington c1900 (Robert Brookman) 40
Webb three-cylinder compound Greater Britain class 2-2-2-2 No. 526 Scottish Chief leaving Willesden  for Euston (Robert Brookman) 41
Webb three-cylinder compound Greater Britain class 2-2-2-2 No. 525 Princess May at Crewe in late 1890s (Robert Brookman) 42
Badminton class 4-4-0 No. 3294 Blenheim leaving Teignmouth with up express in 1903 (Robert Brookman) 43
Improved Precedent (Big Jumbo) 2-4-0 No. 1683 Sisyphus at Shrewsbury (Robert Brookman) 44
Dean 7ft 8in single 4-2-2 No. 3057 Walter Robinson on sea wall at Dawlish with up express c1903 (Robert Brookman) 45
Armstrong class 4-4-0 No. 14 Charles Saunders at Westbourne Park c1900 (Robert Brookman) 46u
Duke class 4-4-0s Nos. 3277 Earl of Devon and 3255 Cornubia leaving Newton Abbot with down Cornishman c1900 (Robert Brookman) 46l
Armstrong class 4-4-0 No. 7 Armstrong at Oxford in 1900 (Robert Brookman) 47
Dunalastair 4-4-0 No. 732 at Carlisle 48
3031 or Achilles class 4-2-2 No. 3079 Thunderbolt at Taunton c1900 (Robert Brookman) 50

'Down Postal'. 51.
Tbe 1884 Penistone Accident. Jeffrey Wells
Massey Bromley was one of twenty-four fatalities in the Penistone accident of 16 July 1884: the worst accident on the Manchester, Sheffield & Lincolnshire Railway.  Bromley travelled on the train which departed Manchester at 12.30, and was timed to reach London at 17.20. The train comprised the following formation: Sacré 4-4-0 No. 434, horse box, brake van, three carriages, brake van, three more carriages and, finally, another brake van. It was fitted with a continuous brake and was in the charge of driver Samuel Cawood and stoker, John Horne, both Retford men who survived the accident.
According to one report 'As [the train] passed the signal box the right-hand axle-bar of the engine suddenly snapped, and all the carriages leaving the rails, were hurtled over the embankment near to the bridge [carrying the railway over Thurlestone Road], where they were overturned and completely wrecked'. The engine and a single horse box remained upright, although derailed, and travelled some 400 yards tearing up track and sleepers. The accident occurred about 13.30. Massey Bromley was named as killed in the accident, published in a list by the North Eastern Daily Gazette, one day after. He was described as 'engineer, of Victoria Street, Westminster, for many years locomotive superintendent of the Great Eastern Railway'. His body was readily identified by the MS&LR's general manager, R.G. Underdown. The tragedy was compounded by the death of three young children, whose mother escaped with serious injuries. The accident drew crowds of spectators and local police kept order and participated m the removal of the deceased and the despatch of injured passengers. Major Marindin conducted the Board of Trade inquiry into the cause of the accident. and reports of it filled national newspapers during the following weeks, feeding the public with verbatim details of the tragedy. The Lord Mayor of Manchester reeived a telegram of sympathy from Queen Victoria, sent via the Board of Trade. The locomotive, No. 434, had been completed at Gorton Works in December 1877. At the time of the accident it had run 50,776 miles. The crank axle had been mnufactured by Taylor Bros of Leeds and was fitted to No. 434 in May 1883.

Eaton Hall memories. Bill Aves. 
The Admiralty took over Eaton Hall in late 1942 after the Royal Naval College at Dartmouth had been bombed. Writer joined Eaton Hall in September 1943 as a 13 year old cadet; and returned to Dartmouth in September 1946 and then the War Office took over. Preoccupied by our studies, along with sporting and activities on the River Dee, he was barely aware of the light railway but occasionally saw the Simplex tractor and a train of wagons and the brake van, bringing coal from the exchange sidings at Balderton to the college. The map on page 64 shows that the line crossed the main Chester to Wrexham road (A483) near Belgrave Lodge; there were probably no gates at the crossing. He achieved his first footplate trip on a 2251 Class Collett 0-6-0 shunting the GWR yard at Balderton.
Re the latest Hopwood Collection installment: The GER 2-4-2T on an Up train at Brentwood (p42) was no doubt on a working from Southend (Victoria); it would have been a very curious route from Cambridge!

The C.J. Allen Dinner. Robert Humm 
Interesting to see the list of names at the C.J. dinner in the latest RA: additional facts and identities:
Dr I.C. Allen - More notably a distinguished railway photographer with several books to his credit. School friend of Hamilton Ellis.
F.J. Cockman - Author of Railways of Hertfordshire (8896), The railway age in Bedfordshire (8896) and other books.
B.W.C. Cooke - Was also joint organiser of the dinner with Henry Maxwell.
H.C. Creamer - Harold Creamer, RCTS Treasurer.
J.R. Day - Presumably John R Day, author of books about London Transport and overseas railways.
G.J. Flower – Gordon Flower, sometime editorial assistant, Railway Magazine.
W. Fowler – Possibly W.J. Fowler, publisher and owner of Railway World.
E.J. Froshaug – Ran the Norwegian State Railways travel bureau in London.
J.T. Holder – Terry Holder, formerly general manager of the RH&DR, subsequently sales manager at lan Allan.
John E. James – Sir John James, general manager of the Cargo Fleet Iron Co. and later chairman of the Lancashire Steel Corporation. Supporter of CJ's efforts to introduce manganese in the manufacture of rails.
Desmond Lysaght – Probably of John Lysaght the steelmakers. CJ might have had dealings with him in his material buying days with the L&NER.
Lord Monkswell – Robert Alfred Collier, author of The Railways Of Great Britain, French Railways and other books.
I.K. MacNaughton – Of the Royal Engineers at the time, later Chief Inspecting Officer of Railways at the Ministry of Transport.
K.A.C.R. Nunn – More notably a railway photographer.
W.A. Parker – Business manager at the Railway Magazine, personal friend of CJ. They had a common interest in church architecture.
P.I. Paton – Expert on the LT&SR, secretary of the South East Essex Railway Society, prolific railway photographer and noted eccentric.
R.M. Palmer – Stalwart of the East Anglia Railway Museum, one of the few attendees who is still alive (he is now 88).
J.E.L. Skelton – Personal friend and correspondent of CJ.
Cyril Smith – Vice President RCTS.
John H. Turner – John Howard Turner, Civil Engineer BR(SR), later author of the three volume history The London Brighton & South Coast Railway, lecturer on railways, book collector and advisor to the NRM.
Philip Unwin – Partner in George, Allen & Unwin (I think he was Sir Stanley Unwin's nephew), railway aficionado and responsible for A&U's railway output.
H.A. Valiance – Also deputy editor of the Railway Magazine.
Maj. C.S.M. Walker – Trustee of one of the Welsh narrow gauge railways (either Tallylyn or Festiniog) and railway book collector.
Oliver Warner – Distinguished naval historian. Perhaps he wandered in by mistake or was a closet gricer. Warner Publishing is a fairly recent outgrowth of the Warner printing business in Bourne.
B.G. Wilson – Brian Geoffrey Wilson, railway writer, co-author with John R. Day (qv ante) of Unusual Railways and subsequently editor of Railway World 1960-62.
After writing the above I thought I would look into the Petos. Your author was quite right; Lt-Col. Peto was the grandson of Sir Samuel Morton Peto, the great railway contractor. His full title was Lt-Col. Sir James Michael Peto, 2nd baronet. Born 1894, died 1971. His connection to CJ is unclear.
Now here is something strange. Sir Michael's younger brother (who succeeded him as 3rd Bt) was Christopher Henry Maxwell Peto. He was a brigadier in WW2, was MP for Barnstaple 1945-50 and for North Devon 1950-55. He died 1980.
You will note that Henry Maxwell attended the dinner, and indeed the whole beano was his idea. For one moment I thought 'Henry Maxwell' was a gricing pseudonym for Christopher Peto but the facts don't fit. The internet doesn't help much as there are lots of Henry Maxwells. I have only a few facts. He made a number of contributions to the Railway Magazine, edited The Railway Magazine Miscellany, 1897-1919 (1958: Ottley 136 published Allen & Unwin) and wrote a strange little book of poetry called A Railway Rubaiyyat  (1968: Ottley 12702). In the 1950s he was political adviser to ICI. He was also a Pullman enthusiast and was responsible for buying Topaz for the National Collection. He lived at Needham Market in Suffolk. I cannot help thinking that nevertheless there must be some connection with the Petos.

Chesham Goods Yard. John Hill
Photograph of Metropolitan Railway Beyer, Peacock 'A' Class  No. 46 retained after electrification shunting in Chesham Goods Yard. Found in old family album. Edwin East in the Trilby type hat on the right of the group of three, was a distant relation of writer's wife, Gwenyth, who was an East. Centre is Mr Finch, the stationmaster. A pencil note on the reverse states that this was 'A train load of Army Huts at Chesham Goods Yard, built by Jesse Mead Ltd'. Edwin was managing director of this firm. They were woodware manufacturers also but of quantity run things, such as beer barrel spills and bungs, tentpegs and poles, flagpoles, spoons and brush handles, the latter for another Chesham firm of brush wakers, Webb's, where Gwenyth's 'grampy' worked putting the bristles in. There was a flag factory also. Plastics killed off the woodware business. The third member of the trip, on the left with flat cap and moustache, was Mead's foreman Mr E. Bayles. Note the brass '6' on the chimney is upside down.

Brian Arman. Robert Sinclair: a forgotten engineer. 52-6.
Robert Sinclair was born 1 July 1817 in London; educated Charterhouse School, and sent to Scott, Sinclair & Co. of Greenock to serve apprenticeship under his uncle Robert Sinclair. Brian Arman notes that he was a good boss and treated his men in a kindly manner aand was respected for his straight dealings. Text notes the innovative nature of much of Sinclair's work and the livery of No. 284 selected to haul the royal honeymoon couple from London to Wolferton on 10 March 1863: see also letter from Jeff Wells noting contemporary accounts of the post-wedding journey to Wolferton by the Prince and Princess of Wales and from Kevin Jones with illustration from Locomotive Mag., 1905

Caledonian Eailway Connor 7ft 2in 2-2-2 No. 310A at Carlisle on 12 October 1894 52
Great Eastern Railway 0-4-2 No. 1620 in 1872 (originally East Anglian Railway Lion supplied by Sharp in 1848) 53
Long boiler 2-4-0 rebuilt by Sinclair (originally supplied Jones & Potts?) 54
2-2-2 No. 298 (Kitson locomotive rebuilt by Bromley) 55
2-4-0 (unidentified): Sinclair mixed traffic design 56u
4-4-0 rebuilt from Sinclair 2-4-0 by Adams No. 412 (originally supplied Schneider & Co.) 56l

Jack Meatcher. Return to Wantage: the Matthews tram — some tenuous links. 57-62.
See also Issue 26 page 2 et seq and James Matthews who designed the tramway locomotive: No. 6 on the Wantage Tramway.

Wantage Tramway No. 6 on 10 May 1930 (H.C. Casserley) 57
selective enlargement of above 58
GB Patent 1429/1879 (10 April 1879) 59
selective enlargement of lower part 60
Computer enhancement of image in Number 26 p. 12 61
Wantage Tramway No. 6 perhaps on arrival on railway 62
WTC No. 7? crossing Grove Road, Wantage (coloured postcard) rc

Fly Shunted: Mystery... 63 upper
Bunkers Hill cutting: on Blenheim branch in Oxfordshire leading to quarry/cement works (Wikipedia)?

...and valedictory. 63 lower
No. 5914 Ripon Hall hauling freight train approaching Lydney West signal box and road and railway (Lydney Harbour branch) on 6 November 1958.

John Alsop. Wish you were here? Railway postcards of Lincolnshire. Part 2: Great Central, Joint and minor lines. 64-80; rear cover lower

Market Rasen station (GCR) pre-1910 interior 64u
Scawby & Hibaldstow station with Waleswood wagon 64l
Brigg station 65
Barnetby station c1910 with eastbound passenger train hauled by Class 8B Atlantic No. 263 and 0-6-0 on freight 66u
Brocklesby station 66l
New Holland Pier with Town station and Class 12A 2-4-0 No. 360 on passenger train c1905 67u
Barton-on-Humber station 67l
Pyewipe Road station Grimsby with steam railcar (railmotor) and trailer c1910 68u
Grimsby Docks (caption states Dock) station 68l
Cleethorpes station with Belpaire boilered 0-6-0 and several trains 69
Cleethorpes station with large crowd and Lancashire Derbyshire & East Coast Railway 0-6-2T on excursion 69i
Scunthorpe & Frodingham new station and signal box 1928 70
Scunthorpe Dawes Lane station (North Lindsey Light Railway) with Manning Wardle 0-6-0ST Cawood WN 1360/1897: see alo letter from David Morton (37-70) 71u
Winteringham station (North Lindsey Light Railway) c1907 71l
Winterton & Thealby station with 6C Class 0-6-0 on passenger train c1906 72u
Whitton station circa opening 1 December 1910 72l
GCR 4-4-0 with train of clerestory stock crossing swing bridge over River Trent at Burringham 73u
Keadby Scherzer rolling lift bridge when new (fixed since 1956) 73l
Stainforth & Keadby Canal and locomotive shed and yard at Keadby 74
Crowle station and level crossing 75u
Godnow Bridge station (prior to closure in February 1917) 75l
Isle of Axholme Joint Railway: Joseph Chamberlain's train at Belton station 1906 76u
Isle of Axholme Joint Railway: Epworth station: opening day train 2 January 1905 76m
Isle of Axholme Joint Railway: Epworth station just prior to opening 76l
Haxey station 77u
Gainsborough Lea Road 77l
Lea station 78u
Saxilby station with class 6B 4-4-0 No. 427 at front of local train 78m
Nocton & Dunston station 78l
Digby station 79u
Donington Road station with large GER 0-6-0 on northbound train 79m
Bourne station 79l
Boston bridge over River Witham with GNR 2-2-2 hauling train: St Botolphs tower (Boston Stump visible) 80u
Edenham station remains c1908 (Edenham & Little Bytham Railway): see also letter from Brian Sullivan in Issue 37 page 70 80l
Grimsby Town station (coloured postcard) rc

Number 37 (December 2012)

Editorial.  1
Normally a precis of the editorial is not given, but this concerned a  very important discovery of finding an early photograph that much of it is reproduced herein.

With the wealth of information now available in this digital age, coupled with the large number of organisations that are now making the material they hold more readily accessible, research has never been easier in terms of knowing where to look. The hard hours of poring over documents and wading through ancient files still has to be put in, however, but new information is being unearthed, past errors corrected and previously unseen photographs are coming to light. There are many different places to look for the latter of course, not just in old archives but also at collectors fairs and also on the intemet. Whilst buying images from a certain popular internet auction site might seem one of the easiest avenues of research, in point of fact it is not that simple. For a start, there are literally millions of items listed worldwide and whilst you can refine your search down quite quickly using the various categories, there can still be hundreds of lots to wade through at least and you can still be at the mercy of the wording used to describe a particular item by the person listing it. To search railway photographs, for instance, means scrolling through thousands of modern postcard size prints for the odd original 19th century sepia photograph. You can add GWR or similar to your search but if the lister isn't aware of such fineries – and many aren't – you can miss something good. What this is all leading up to is the stroke of luck involved with the discovery by your editor of the picture which features on page 3 of this issue, which is almost certainly the most important early photograph we have published to date – quite a statement as we have featured a few to say the least. Neil takes up the story:

'I search a particular style of photograph, the small carte-de-visite type but even this involves looking through hundreds every day worldwide, the vast majority of which are portraits. About six months ago, however, I noticed one described as 'The Royal Baths, Weymouth'. Although at the time only a very small image was shown on the listings page (a redesign has now seen much larger images presented for the benefit of the prospective bidder), some instinct made me click on it and what came up nearly took my breath away. Quite why the lister seriously thought the interior of Swindon Works looked like a swimming baths I'm not sure but he'd assumed the photographer's address was actually a description of the image! I quickly placed a bid, so he couldn't change the description if some clever clogs told him what it actually was, and then waited patiently the ten days for it to finish. A second last minute covering bid was placed but the CDV was secured 'for a song' .' To cut a long story short, it took Brian Arman's breath away as well and formed the basis for our lead article in this issue. Suffice to say here that, previously, we only had Bourne's engraving on which to base our knowledge of the interior of the works in broad gauge days. Neil Parkhouse & Ian Pope

Brian Arman. Swindon Works 'B' shed: a history in words and pictures. 2-17.
Includes a general history of Swindon Works from creation at a temporary location in Hay Lane near Wootton Bassett since obliterated by the Motorway and the transfer of these buildings to Swindon in 1843, through their expansion to a huge works employing 16,000, to the current Museum (with future trains serving the town being built with the assistance of foreign technology in a works located in the North of England). The accompanying text notes the effect of the Works upon rural North Wiltshire: the author's own family origins were as blacksmiths from Woottoon Bassett. The name means armourer, but members of the family left to work in Swindon Works. See also in Issue 38 p. 70 for letter by Jeffrey Wells on Joseph Armstrong's funeral and Armstrong page. Another letter from Bill Briggs includes a facsimile reproduction of a quotation from Nasmyth Gaskell & Co. for the supply of machinery. Unfortunately, both this letter and the article spell Nasmyth as Naysmith [sic]: the facsimile employs the correct spelling as does the ODNB..

Inside Swindon Works (c1864-74): note horizontal boilered donkey engine on traverser and double rise roof. See also letter from Bill Briggs in Issue 38. 2
Reverse of carte-de-visite showing photographer: W.H. Fox of Weymouth (see above) 3
Newport Street, Swindon post card with caption "ancient cottages" c1895 4
Bourne lithograph with Firefly class on manually powered traverser 5
plan of 1846 works 6i
map/plan of works in BR Western Region days 6-7
Swindon Works looking west in 1885 photographed R.H. Bleasdale with mixed gauge and 1813 side tanks; 1076 class 0-6-0STs and Armstrong standard goods 8
Inside B shed: 1907 photograph by William Hooper; donkey engine for traverser fitted with vertical boiler: lcomotives mainly 2-4-0 including No. 3202 10
Inside B shed: 1907 photograph by William Hooper; 1874 extension: many tenders visible 11u
R shop: machine shop 11l
B shed c1925 with Dean goods, Bulldogs and pannier tank  engines. 12
1846 engine shed prior to demolition on 28 October 1929 13
Exterior view of B shed and extension in February 1930 with No. 1299 ex South Devon Railway 2-4-0 crane tank ex-South Devon Railway 14u
Works during reconstruction on 12 September 1930 14l
Bulldog No. 3330 Orion and 57XX No. 6707 receiving intermediate repair in 1935 15u
M&SWJR 2-4-0 No. 1334 towards end of heavy repair on 14 May 1938 15m
Tender converted for use in weed killing train 15l
Pantograph Test Coach: Laboratory Coach No. 6 Prometheus in September 1976 see also inside rear cover 17u
Class 108 DMU in white with blue stripe livery in September 1975: see also Backtrack, 2012, 26, 593. 17l
DMU in black? livery outside 19 Shop on traverser in October 1976 (colour) ircu
Pantograph Test Coach: Laboratory Coach No. 6 Prometheus in October1976 (colour) ircl

Allan C. Baker and Mike G. Fell. The railway through Uttoxeter. 18-54.
The North Staffordshire Railway opened to Uttoxeter on 7 August 1848 on what was in effect a branch to Stoke-upon-Trent off its Churnet Valley line from Macclesfield to a junction with the Midland Railway to provide access to Derby. Most of the Churnet Valley line was closed from 1960, but there are still trains between Stoke and Derby. See also letter from Paul Brown in Issue 38 p. 70; and letter from authors in Issue 43 page 48 on John Birkin, station master at Uttoxeter. See also letter from Jim Woodward in RA46 pp. 68-9 on motive power depot and its staff and on signals and signal boxes..
Illustrations:

Uttoxeter station with train off Churnet Valley line hauled by Class A 2-4-2T  No. 40, c1905 18
Uttoxeter station with Churnet Valley line as orientated above, but with upper quadrant signals in 1951 19
Field Marshall Sir John Lintorn Arabin Simmons: See also letter from Bill Briggs (38 p, 70) who atrtributes cartoon to SPY rather than APE 20u
Plan (outline) of junctions 20l
Aerial view looking west with Bamford's agricultural machinery and milk factories 21
Uttoxeter Dove Bank station wth A class 2-4-0T No. 6: c1880 22u
Site of Uttoxeter Dove Bank station  on 3 June 1933 (J.R. Hollick) 22l
Uttoxeter main line platforms c1900 with nameboard change for Stafford and Buxton 23
Portrait Major Francis Arthur Marindin 24u
Map: Uttoxeter station and junctions 24-5
LNER J5 0-6-0 at Uttoxeter station with Stafford to Derby passenger train on 2 April 1932 25
Uttoxeter engine shed with standard 3F 0-6-0T in late 1950s 26
NSR G Class 4-4-0 as LMS No. 5410 on Uttoxeter shed on 11 July 1928 27u
Uttoxeter engine shed: Class 4 2-6-4Ts (Stanier & Fowler) inside; 2P 4-4-0 and 4F 0-6-0 outside 27l
Fowler Class 4 2-6-4T No. 2369 with train for Churnet Valley line: Tommy Swann & Fred Hough on footplate 28u
Plan: Uttoxeter motive power depot September 1952 28l
Station master Thomas Mellor with wife Emma on Uttoxeter station (from Picturesque Staffordshire NSR) 29
Station master Thomas Mellor with staff c1905 30u
Station master Thomas Brown (photographed in a Leek studio) 30l
Derby to Crewe express hauled by 2-4-0 No. 39 departing Uttoxeter: shunting horse and horse box 32u
Great Northern Railway Stafford to Nottingham timetable: April 1884 32l
Uttoxeter goods yard with Bamfords works and St Mary's church behind c1910: Ruabon Coal & Coke Co. wagons 34u
Eckersley Bros Coal Factors Uttoxeter 12-ton coal wagon built Midland Railway Carriage & Wagon Co., 1924 34l
LMS 3F 0-6-0 No. 3225 on main line freight c1932 35u
Prince of Wales 4-6-0 No. 5670 Albion on milk train in up Churnet Valley platform in December 1930 35l
L class 0-6-2T No. 2257 shunting milk traffic tanks at Uttoxeter in 1935 36
Pinfold Crossing signal box on 30 March 1968 37u
Pinfold Crossing signal box NSR signalling diagram 37l
Hockley Crossing signal box NSR signalling diagram 38u
Hockley Crossing signal box on 30 March 1968 38um
Uttoxeter West Junction signal box NSR signalling diagram 38lm
Uttoxeter West Junction signal box c1960 38l
Uttoxeter East Junction signal box c1960 39u
Uttoxeter East Junction signal box NSR signalling diagram 39m
Uttoxeter East Junction signal box looking east on 3 June 1967 39l
Uttoxeter North Junction signal box NSR signalling diagram 40u
Uttoxeter North Junction signal box looking north in April 1959 40l
Diagram of trains involved in accident on 27 July 1892 41u
Telescoped vehicles involved in accident at Uttoxeter on 11 October 1890 41m
NSR C class 2-4-0 No. 14 after accident at Uttoxeter on 11 October 1890 41l
4P Compound No. 1117 on Crewe to Nottingham train at Uttoxeter on 2 April 1932 43
Handbill Through Express Service Cromer, Yarmouth, etc to Manchester/Liverpool from 3 June 1927 44
Stanier 2-6-4T No. 2665 with Up train in Churnet Valley line platform on 22 May 1949 45
Fowler 2-6-4T with Up train in Churnet Valley line platform in 1950s 46u
Notice dicontinuance of Macclesfield to Uttoxeter service via Leek from 7 November 1960 46l
Fowler 2-6-4T No. 42315 awaiting departure for Churnet Valley line on 27 February 1949 47u
West end of Uttoxeter station seen from road bridge on 17 August 1955 with milk tank wagons and class 5 4-6-0 and Stanier 2-6-4T 47l
15.44 ex-Macclesfield hauled by Fowler 2-6-4T No. 42381 on 9 April 1960 48u
Train for Leek hauled by Fowler 2-6-4T No. 42378 on 5 August 1961 48l
Two Birmingham Carriage & Wagon Co. two-car DMUs forming 18.07 Derby to Crewe service on 19 August 1961 at Pinfold Crossing 49
Cravens 3-car DMU near Uttoxeter East Junction with Crewe to Derby service on 30 March 1968: See also letter from Jim Woodward in RA46 pp. 68-9 50u
BRC&W 3-car DMU at Uttoxeter on 12 August 1978 on 15.20 ex-Crewe 50l
Hockley Crossing with lifting barriers on 4 April 1980 51u
Pinfold Crossing looking towards Derby on 4 April 1980: sidings since abolished 51l

Edward Talbot. Lord Monkswell's Notebooks Part 3: Book 1 Lord Monkswell's Notebooks Pt 3: Book 1, 1897. 55-69
Begins with an examination of the friction and wear of slide valves. Then specific journeys:
14 April 1897: footplate journey from Loch Awe to Luib on Caledonian Railway 4-4-0 No. 80 (noted severity of route in terms of gradients and curvature, scenery, ride, firing and lubricant – vegetable oil – used in sight-feed lubricator; later on same day travelled on footplate of No. 119 Loch Insh from Grantown to Dunphail where he noted the stiffness of the regulator, the driver keeping water level in the boiler low when travelling downhill (to keep weight off the bogie), and the less smooth running (possibly due to the outside cylinders): on 20 April travelled again on footplate of No. 119 Loch Insh between Grantown and Kingussie in about 22 minutes.
21 April 1897: journey from Edinburgh to Euston behind CR 4-4-0 No. 730 to Carlisle; behind 2-4-0 Woodlark and 1531 to Tebay, thence behind No. Hampden [sic: see photograph and caption on page 57] as far as Preston then assisted by another 2-4-0 to Preston; and from Crewe to Euston behind No. 1304 Jeannie Deans: at Euston the driver commented on the removal of the tail rods which he considered was detrimental to the appearance.
4 June 1897: Paddington to Swindon behind 4-2-2 Wigmore Castle
8 June 1897: Swindon to Paddington behind 4-2-2 Corsair
12 June 1897: St Pancras to Wellingborough behind 4-2-2 when speed of 75 mile/h achieved
12 June 1897: Kettering to St Pancras behind 4-4-0 No. 1745 (with pilot to Luton)
19 June 1897: King's Cross to Grantham 4-2-2 No. 3
19 June 1897: Grantham to King's Cross behind 4-2-2 No. 60 when speed down hill towards Peterborough reached nearly 80 mil/h, but "after this the run was ruined by about 10 slacks and one long stop"
26 June 1897: Southampton Docks to Vauxhall behind Adams 4-4-0 No. 589 at average of 40 mile/h with heavy train
[June 1897] Note that Iron Duke restarted its train on Camden Bank at Incline box with load = 20½
14/15 July 1897: Euston (depart 23.52) to Glasgow: vermillion Greater Britain to Crewe (average speed 51¾ mile/h); two locomotives Crewe to Carlisle: CR Dunalastair 4-4-0 No. 735 with Monkswell on the footplate

Highland Railway Loch class 4-4-0 No. 127 Loch Garry 56
Webb Large Jumbo No. 1532 Hampden with double chimney 57
Webb Teutonic 2-2-2-0 No. 1303 Pacific on turntable at south end of Shrewsbury station on 14 November 1893 58
Webb Teutonic 2-2-2-0 No. 1304 Jeannie Deans with cut back front end with down Corridor on Bushey troughs 59u
Webb Teutonic 2-2-2-0 No. 1302 Oceanic on Coleham shed, Shrewsbury, in early 1900s (P.W. Pilcher) 59l
Webb Teutonic 2-2-2-0 No. 1301 Teutonic outside works at Upperby, Carlisle 60u
Webb Teutonic 2-2-2-0 No. 1307 Coptic on arrival at Euston with up express (Robert Brookman) 60l
MR Johnson 4-4-0 No. 155 at St. Pancras c1900 (Robert Brookman) 61
Webb four-cylinder simple 4-4-0 No. 1501 Iron Duke 62
Webb four-cylinder compound 4-4-0 with double chimney No. 1502 Black Prince in workshop condition at Manchester London Road in 1897 63
Webb 2-2-2-2 No. 2053 Great Britain in red livery as depicted in Cotterell and Wilkinson London and North-Western locomotives published Holland Company, Birmingham 64
Improved Precedent 2-4-0 No. 401 Zeno 65
Improved Precedent 2-4-0 No. 2184 Reynard at Euston on down express c1900 (Robert Brookman) 66
GWR 4-2-2 No. 3030 Westward Ho leaving Parson's Tunnel on down local 67
MR 4-2-2 No. 1870 at St Pancras station c1900: see letter from Michael Hardy (Issue 38 p. 70) who objects to caption 69

'Down Postal'. 70

More on Cawood. David Morton
This Manning Wardle locomotive had an interesting history and at one time it did work for Logan & Hemingway, as stated in John Alsop's caption to his postcard view. However, this was after the building of the North Lindsey Light Railway and Logan & Hemingway were not the contractors for the NLLR. Cawood (Manning Wardle WN 1360) was despatched from the maker's on 31 March 1897, ordered by the Yorkshire Railway Wagon Co. Ltd for working the Cawood, Wistow & Selby Light Railway, hence the name given to the engine. The CW&SLR was officially opened in February 1898, and Cawood and a pair of carriages were hired by the Yorkshire Wagon Co. Ltd to the railway company for a rental payment of £203 5s 0d per annum for a period of seven years. In the event, the NER, who provided the remainder of the rolling stock, took ove rthe CW&SLR in January 1900, and the locomotive and carriages were sold to the Yorkshire District Light Railway Syndicate in July 190 I. The latter organisation was responsible for the construction of the Goole & Marshland and Isle of Axholme Light railways between 1898 and 1905, employing a collection of seven Manning Wardle engines. Five such were offered for sale in October 1904 and the Leeds Contract Co, obtained three of these, all six-coupled saddle tanks, Cawood, Epworth (WN 1488/1900) and Bletcher (WN 318/1870).
The Leeds Contact Co. promoted, financed and constructed the lines of the North Lindsey Light Railway, commencing with the section from Scunthorpe to Winteringham (opened in July 1907) and ending with the extension from Winteringham to Whitton, the latter opened in December 1910. The trio of Manning Wardle 0-6-0STs was being offered for sale in August 1907 but all three remained with the Leeds Contract Co. for the building of the Whitton portion of the NLLR and were again put up for sale in November 1910. One of the three, either Cawood or Epworth was still for sale in February 1913 but in the end all three were bought by Logan & Hemingway. Logan & Hemingway numbered Cawood as plain No. 6 and used it on at least two of their contracts -on the Frodingham deviation and Keadby swing bridge(1911-14),and at the huge Gretna munitions factory built for the Ministry of Munitions during the First World War. The engine was probably requisitioned by the MoM in about 1916 and remained at Gretna until after the war, when it was sold in about 1919 to Frodingham Ironstone Mines Ltd, thus returning to the scene of its earlier labours. A short interlude on hire to Caffin & Co. Ltd followed in 1926-28, while Caffins were carrying out excavation work for the building of an enlarged Scunthorpe station for the L&NER but after this the Manning Wardle disappeared, probably broken up early in the 1930s and fed into the Scunthorpe steel furnaces.
A link worth noting between many of the Yorkshire and Lincolnshire light railways lay in the figure and personality of Sebastian William Meyer. He was variously general manager, director, secretary, promoter or principal of the Goole & Marshland, Isle of Axholme, Deame Valley, North Lindsey, Brackenhill, CW&SL and North Sunderland railways. Meyer was secretary, and then managing director, of the East & West Yorkshire Union Railways and the principal partner in both the Yorkshire District Light Railway Syndicate and the Leeds Contract Co.; and where Sebastian Meyer went, his younger brother Philip usually followed. Sebastian Meyer certainly earned the soubriquet 'Light Railway King of the North', so aptly given him in the title of the book written by A.L. Bamett, wherein the details of his extraordinary career can be found. This was published by the R&CHS in 1992. Meyer clearly also had a distinct liking for Manning Wardle locomotives.

Stroudley on the E&LBR  Brian Sullivan
The final photograph of John Alsop's Railway Postcards of Lincolnshire Part 2 shows a rarity, the Edenham & Little Bytham Railway. Writer came across this line whilst researching the M&GNJR and there is an interesting point, given in John Rhodes The Midland & Great Northern Joint Railway, that refers to this line. When the line opened in December 1857, William Stroudley was a fitter with the GNR at Peterborough. Lord Willoughby, who built the line, wrote to the directors of the GNR asking for a man to take charge of his railway. Stroudley applied, was accepted and became platelayer, driver and General Manager of the line! No doubt an excellent grounding for his future career with the LB&SCR. See letter from David Murton in Issue 38

Royal Train to Wolverton 1863. Jeff Wells 
Special train conveying the Prince of Wales and Princess Alexandra to Wolverton, Norfolk, after their wedding on 10 March 1863. The following account extracted from Daily News, 30 March 1863.
Their Royal Highnesses left Windsor Castle shortly before noon on 27th March, and left the Metropolis by way of the Great Eastem Railway's station at Bishopgate. The special train, consisting of the royal saloen and some first and second class carriages, departed a few minutes after I pm and arrived at Lynn a few minutes after 4pm:
'Mr Sinclair, the company's engineer, had charge of the engine; Mr Lowe, the chairman of the Great Eastern Railway, Mr Owen, the secretary, Mr Robinson, the superintendent and other officials were in attendance'.
The special made its first stop at Bishop Stortford and, after a few minutes, proceeded to Cambridge, at which 'a most beautiful display was made; the corporation and the heads of the college were in attendance, and a large company was assembled on the platform', At Ely, a similar celebration of the royal nuptial occurred on a smaller scale. At Lynn. there was also an 'animated scene a/flags and streamers waved in all directions', the station and its approaches thronged with thousands of people. Much cheering, the playing of music and the firing of cannon accompanied the train's departure for the neighbouring station of Wolverton, 'some seven or eight miles from Lynn'.
The royal couple arrived at Wolverton at 4.15pm, to find the station and surroundings decorated with flags and evergreens, and with triumphal arches spanning roads. From Wolverton, the newly-weds travelled by road to Sandringham Hall, a distance of three miles. The Great Eastern Railway had fittingly played its part in the nuptial event that had created a national holiday throughout the United Kingdom.
Postscript: Bishopgate station opened on 2 July 1846, renamed from Shoreditch. which was opened by the Eastern Counties Railway on 1 July 1840. Liverpool Street station opened on 2 February 1874. Wolverton station changed its name to Wolferton 15 July 1863.

Sinclair 2-2-2 No. 88. Kevin P. Jones 
I chanced upon the photograph, below, in the Locomotive Magazine for 15th October 1905. p.172, along with the following description: 'Photograph supplied by G. Macallan (inventor of the enlarging variable blast·pipe) showing staff of Cambridge station on the GER in 1870, witli typical rolling stock of the period. The locomotive shown was one of six ordered from Schneider & Cie. of Creusot, five of which were delivered in 1866, while one, No. 87, was sent to the Paris Exhibition and was not delivered until 1868, being afterwards used for several years for working Royal trains. Schneiders' tender for the supply of these engines was £2,498 each, considerably lower than any of the British firms competing. The specification was, however, of a rigid character, Krupp steel being used for the engine axles, tyres, piston and valve spindle rods. As shown in the illustration the original Sinclair chimney had been replaced by Mr Johnson's pattern. and the continuous footboard and handrail had been removed from the tender. It will be seen that the engine and carriage were fitted with G. Spencer's original india rubber ousiliar: springs, an arrangement that is even now applied and is found to lead to easy running anddiminished cost of repairs to road and rolling stock. They were designed in 1865 by Mr W.H. Maw, now of Engineering, who at that time was chief draughtsman under the instructions of Mr Robert Sinclair, the locomotive and way and works engineer of the Great Eastern. Railway. Illustration shows 2-2·2 No. 88. The reference to the rubber springs isespecially interesting and one which KPJ should return to before it is too late.

The Garrett engine at Newent. Bill Briggs 
Photograph of H. Lancaster & Co's Garrett engine (RA36, p.l0) at Newent. The engine was not a traction engine but a steam tractor (being under the five ton weight limit), No. 32029, new on 15 March 1914 and a superheated compound. The superheater was fitted in the flat topped smokebox extension and was a feature of doubtful advantage. Superheating was beneficial where the engine worked under constant loads but this was not the case with road engines. At an unknown date, Lancaster sold the engine to Thomas Walker & Sons Ltd, engineers of Tewkesbury, who were famous as manufacturers of fairground rides. They also did engine repairs and some trading in engines, as in this case, for in 1921, the superheater was removed from No. 32029 and the engine then sold to H. Charlton of Shelsley Walsh, Worcestershire, Circa 1927, the engine was sold to Robert W. Roberts of Abergele, Denbighshire and. by 1929, was with David Davies of Llangerniew, Denbighshire, who last licensed it in 1943. The ownership details above are all from the records of the late Alan Duke, now held by The Road Locomotive Society.

John Alsop. Wish you were here? Railway postcards of Bernard W. Groom. 71-80
Bernard Wren Groom was born June 1891 qnd operated from his father's (Philip H. Groom) stationer's shop in 22 Trumpington Street Cambridge. A liat of photographs known is included, including one of M&GNR 4-4-0 at Cromer Beach station which is in too poor condition to print. On page 73 there is a listing of the postcards and a correction by the author in Issue 38 p. 70.

D56 4-4-0 leaving Cambridge with up express: view taken from Hills Road bridge 71
Y65 2-4-2T between Barnwell and Fordham on Mildenhall branch 72u
T19 4-4-0 at5 Coldham Lane Junction with horserace special for Newmarket 72l
S69 (1500) bclass 4-6-0 No. 1504 on turntable at Cambridge 74u
D1 class (1321) No. 50 on 14.45 King's Cross to Bradford express passing Holloway and Caledonian Road 74l
A3 class 4-2-2 No. 221 leaving Hadley Wood tunnel 75u
C1 class 4-4-2 No. 253 departs Cambridge with up express: LNWR engine shed behind. 75l
A5 class 4-2-2 No. 264 near turntable at GNR engine shed in Cambridge. 76u
Large Atlantic No, 263 passing Holloway and Caledonian Road with down express. 76m
K1 Long Tom 0-8-0 No. 417 leaving Wood Green tunnel on up freight (slow line). 76l
GNR 4-4-0 No. 1398 at GNR engine shed in Cambridge. 77u
Large Atlantic No. 1400 at south end of Cambridge station. 77l
Large Atlantic No. 1440 on up stopping service awaiting departure at Cambridge. 78u
Large Atlantic No. 1451 on up express on curve beyond Shepreth Branch Junction. 78l
N1 0-6-2T No. 1553 departing Enfield for Moorgate c1910 79u
Bill Bailey (1400 class) on cattle train on viaduct at Old Colwyn 79m
Renown class 4-4-0 entering Aber with passenger train 79l
Adams 4-4-0 No. 477 on passenger train on Swanage branch c1912 80u
MR 4-4-0 No. 537 and 4-2-2 leaving Bedford with down express leaving Bedford 80m
NSR 2-4-0 No. 54 on down train from Derby to Llandudno on viaduct at Old Colwyn 80l

Number 38 (March 2013)

Peter Treloar. British Atlantic locomotives. 2-18

LNER C1 class No. 1459 on Harrogate Pullman 1924: see letter from Charles Long in Issue 39 p. 52 as was a special working 2
Preserved C2 class No. 990 Henry Oakley at King's Cross on Plant Centenarian in 1953 3
GNR 990 class No. 950 on three coach Sheffield express passing Hadley Wood pre-1914 4u
Ivatt experimental 4-cylinder 4-4-2 with Walschaerts valve gear No. 271 4l
No. 271 rebuilt with two inside cylinders as LNER No. 3271 5u
Ivatt No. 1449 leaving Euston in 1909 5m
C1 No. 3276 with another C1 leaving King's Cross 5l
Gresley rebuild with four cylinders No. 3279 on express at Woolmer Green? 6u
Booster-fitted No. 4419 on express near Hitchin? 6l
Ivatt 4-cylinder compound No. 292 (Workshop grey) 7u
Vulcan Foundry 4-cylinder compound No. 1300 (Vulcan Foundry publicity card) 7m
Ivatt 4-cylinder compound No. 1421 7l
Worsdell V class No. 532 8u
Worsdell V class as LNER C6 class No. 705 with Ross pop safety valves 8l
Walter M. Smith 3-cylinder comound with Walschaerts valve gear and Belpaire boiler No. 731 9u
Raven Z class as modified with ACFI feed water heater as LNER C7 class No. 2206 9m
Raven Atlantic modified with Stumpf Uniflow cylinders as LNER No. 2212 at York 9l
Rebuilt Z class: C9 4-4-4-4 No, 2171 fitted with bogie booster 10u
Rebuilt Z class: C7/2 with Lentz rotary cam valve gear No. 732 10l
NBR No. 510 The Lord Provost in Edinburgh Waverley 11u
NBR as LNER No. 9901 St. Jounston assisted by 4-4-0 11l
GCR No. 362: see letter from Charles Long in Issue 39 p. 52 re Jersey Lillies: Lillie Langtry was a serious actress 12
GCR No. 1090 as rebuilt with three cylinders 13u
GCR three-cylinder compound as LNER Class C5 No. 5365 Sir William Pollitt 13l
LBSCR Marsh Atlantic No. 39 La France under high voltage catenary 14u
H2 Atlantic No. 424 14l
L&YR Highflyer No. 711 in original condition 15u
L&YR Highflyer as LMS No. 10320 with outside bearings on trailing axle 15l
GWR de Glehn 4-cylinder compound No. 102 La France with up four coach Birmingham express 16
GWR de Glehn 4-cylinder compound No. 102 La France with Swindon boiler 17u
GWR 4-4-2 No. 171 Albion 17m
GWR 4-4-2 No. 181 Ivanhoe in photographic grey livery 17l
GWR de Glehn 4-cylinder compound No. 104 Alliance at Birmingham Snow Hill 18u
GWR de Glehn 4-cylinder compound No. 104 Alliance at Kensall Green with short express 18m
GWR 4-cylinder 4-4-2 No. 40 North Star 18l

Nick Deacon. 'The Blocks' at Barleith: life in a Scottish railway community. 19-37; including an Appendix: Sheila Abercrombie's memories (pp. 33-7)
Most locomotive enthusiasts will associate the depot south of Kilmarnock as "Hurlford" which had been built by the Glasgow & South Western Railway to replace one on a highly congested site near Kilmarnock railway station. The new motive power depot was built alongside the Darvel branch line beyond the juction with the main line southwards. To increase staff efficiency the Company built model housing beyond the depot and near Barlieth Farm. In many respects the dwellings were comparable with that provided by the military for wives and families: up to eleven could be accommodated within two rooms and have to share a lavatory with another family. Communal wash house facilities and allotments were provided and this led to community spirit. See also letter from D. Pratt in I40 p. 38 for translation of local terms used by Sheila Abercrombie
Illustrations:
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D block looking south east in 1908 19
Hurlford 1910: Ordnance Survey 25in plane showing the Blocks and Hulford mineral sidings 20-1
Children posed in front of A black in early 1950s 21
Plan of residence (two room dwellinng) 22u
Caldwell sisters hanging out the washing with C black behind 22l
A block 23u
Mrs Abercrombie in garden plots c1950 23l
Barleith Halt and Hulford mineral sidings 24u
Corkerhill village blocks 24l
Andrew Barclay diesel shunter No. 11177 shunting in Hulford mineral sidings 25
Former CR 0-6-0 No. 57672 on Hulford shed on 19 August 1960 26
Former CR  812 class 0-6-0 No. 57601 on Hulford shed (No. 77016 behind) on 18 August 1962 27
Composite map of Hurlford in 1937 and Mayfield in 1910 28-9
Four 2P 4-4-0 No. 40571 at front stored beneath Barleith Farm on 26 August 1961 30
Kilmarnock Herald Sentimental Journey to the 'Blocks': recording their demolition 31

There is also a collection of snaps on page 35 which show: Sheila Abercrombie, Robert Abercrombie, Murray Gibson, Beth Rankin and Isa Bryson.

Brian Arman. The H.L. Hopwood Collection 1902-1926. Part 15: The Brecon & Merthyr and Neath & Brecon Railways. 38-46
Both lines had limited financial resources and both were steeply graded: the BMR's Seven Mile Bank was notorious and was the scene of a terrible runaway on 2 December 1878 when four enginemen were killed (the train was being braked by three locomotives and a guards van): this incident is not illustrated.  Services over the Neath & Brecon Railway were worked between Swansea and Hereford by the Midland Railway: the agreement ended at the end of 1930 when the trains from Brecon were diverted to Neath. Both Welsh railways painted their locomotives in a deep red livery. See also Issue 39 pp. 79 et seq.

Brecon & Merthyr Railway 0-6-0ST No. 31 with 4 coach close-coupled set of four-wheeel coaches at Newport High Street on 31 July 1905

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Brecon & Merthyr Railway 0-6-0ST No. 31 at Newport High Street on 31 July 1905: captiion incorrect according to Mick Nicholson not GWR signals

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Brecon & Merthyr Railway 0-6-0ST No. 18 at Newport High Street on 24 July 1905

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Brecon & Merthyr Railway 2-4-0T No. 25 at Newport High Street on 2 August 1905

41u

Great Western Railway 517 Class 0-4-2T No. 845 at Newport High Street on 2 August 1905

41l

Duke class 4-4-0 No. 3280 Falmouth at Newport High Street on 2 August 1905

42u

Badminton class 4-4-0 No. 3296 Cambria at Newport High Street on 2 August 1905

42l

Atbara class 4-4-0 No. 3402 Halifax on up London express at Newport High Street on 2 August 1905

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Brecon & Merthyr Railway 0-6-0ST No. 24 at Bassaleg on 28 July 1905

44u

Brecon & Merthyr Railway 0-6-0ST No. 28 piloting a Class 9 2-4-0T at Bassaleg on 28 July 1905. Looks like Brecon according to Peter Swift (letter (39) p. 52.

44l

GWR 645 Class (1501 Class) 0-6-0ST No. 1512 on passenger train at Bassaleg (GWR) on 28 July 1905

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Neath & Brecon Railway 0-6-0ST No. 1 alongside Neath shed on 25 April 1910

46u

Neath & Brecon Railway 2-4-0T No. 6

46l

Note dates given as 2 August may have been 31 July

Edward Talbot. Lord Monkswell's Notebooks Part 4: 1898. 47-54
These are extremely difficult to precis: much more so than by later recorders, because the diary entries in many cases are very brief and the danger of system noise is considerable. Thus his lordship seems to swan about the country, sometimes makes recordings from trains (quite frequently on railways which have long ceased to exist such as the Caledonian route from Perth to Aberdeen) and sometimes from locomotives. Trains were relatively light, but contained more axles. Single-driver locomotives were relatively common, notably on the GWR and GNR. Sometimes he includes journeys which involved several locomotives as in the case of the 10.00 from King's Cross to Edinburgh.
Great Western Railway
26 January 1898: Paddington to Swindon: 8 eight-wheelers: 4-2-2 No, 3022 Rougemount: 52.75 mile/h
28 January 1898: Swindon to Paddington 8 eight-wheelers plus one six-wheel:  4-2-2 No. 3053 Sir Francis Drake: 51.25 mile/h
Caledonian Railway
17 January 1898: Carstairs to Carlisle: 9 eight-wheelers plus one six-wheel van (including 3 sleeping cars): No, 113:  51.3 mile/h
Great Western Railway
7 May 1898: Paddington to Exeter St. Davids : load/s not given, but 4-2-2 No, 3007 Dragon to Bristol; No. 3010 Fire King to Exeter with pilot up Wellington Bank: average of 67.7 over 16 miles on Exeter side of Whiteball summit
London & South Western Railway
7 May 1898: Exeter St Davids to Okehampton with 6 eight-wheeled coaches: Adams 6ft 7in 4-4-0 No, 560 38.5 mile/h
No. 381 Okehampton to Launceston which attained 55 mile/h in places and crew exchanged tablets at 25 mile/h
Adams 7ft 4-4-0 No. 679 9 eight-wheelers plus one six-wheel: Salisbury to Vauxhall 47.75 mile/h 31 April 1898
16 May 1898
Okehampton to Exeter

Neil Parkhouse. The IRA attack on the viaducts at Ballyvoile. 55-66.
Majority of photographs taken by Edmund Keohan, a Dungarvan photographer. The Ballyvoile or Ballyvoyle railway viaduct is/was on the Fishguard & Rosslare Railway & Harbour Company's route from Rosslare to Fermoy via Waterford. Includes a short description of the development of railways between Rosslare and Waterford, funded in part by the Great Western Railway: most of the lines are now closed or mothballed. During the Irish Civil War the railway viaduct at Ballyvoile (sometimes spelt Ballyvoyle) was blown up by the Irish Republican Army on 5 August 1922. A road bridge crossing the same ravine was also damaged at the same time. Quick remedial action saved the road bridge, but the stone railway viaduct gradually collapsed. Further guerilla action led to a ballast train being sent down onto the missing viaduct on 20-1 January 1923: this led to the destruction of the locomative and some of the train. See also letter from Michael McMahon in I40 p. 38. where there is detailed criticism relating to (1) the geo-political nature of Ireland at that time; (2) distances to mainland Britain; (2) the names and amalgamations of railways in the Irish Free State; (3) the detailed geography of railways in South East Ireland and the 101 class of 0-6-0 , one of which was a casualty of the incident on 20/1 Jaanuary 1923. Illustrations:

Ballyvoile bridges c1910 55
Fishguard & Rosslare Railways and Harbour Company dividend payment (facsim) 56
Ballyvoile railway bridge looking south on 13 August 1922 57
Ballyvoile road bridge 11 August 1922 58u
Ballyvoile railway bridge on 1 September 1922 (most had collapsed) 58l
Ballyvoile railway bridge on 31 January 1923 following hi-jack of ballast train and release down hill onto gap 59
Wreck of ballast train with 101 Class 0-6-0 No. 189 lying below viaduct abutment on 31 January 1923 60
Start of works for replacement railway viaduct on 4 November 1923 61u
Completed piers of replacement railway viaduct (early 1924) 61l
Completed piers of replacement railway viaduct (early 1924) but after works crane removed from site 62u
Nearly complete railway viaduct with final girder supported by completed girders on 28 May 1924 62l
Looking west across site with girders being prepared for installation on piers on 16 March 1924 63
Road bridge at Ballyvoile with bracing struts in place 64u
Road bridge at Ballyvoile at break showing construction and inspection? 64m
Road bridge at Ballyvoile with timber centring in place and repair works in progress in July 1923 64l
Mallow to Rosslare train hauled K1 Maunsell 2-6-0 crossing replacement Ballyvoile viaduct 65u
Class 101 and short passenger train crossing replacement Ballyvoile viaduct on 24 June 1924 65l
CIE weedkilling train crossing replacement Ballyvoile viaduct in 1986 66u
Ballyvoile viaduct in 2012 66l

Accident at Slough Station 16th June 1900. 67-9.
The 13.15 Paddington to Falmouth express hauled by 4-2-2 No. 3015 Kennet ran into the rear of the crowde 13.05 Paddington to Windsor train at Slough. This caused five deaths and thirty serious injuries. There were several contributory minor factors, but the main cause was that Driver Henry Woodman failed to observe signals at danger at Dolphin Junction and the distant signal at Slough East. He had been on duty for over eight hours and would normally have expected a clear road, but the preceding train had started late due to extra carriages being added to accommodate race traffic to Windsor. It was the fireman who instigated braking. The driver was sent to Reading Assises for manslaughter but was acquitted. The accidant was lessened by the driver of the Windsor train releasing the brakes and by the shots of the signalman to warn people on the platform to stand clear. The accident led to the Automatic Train Control being developed by the GWR. The two photographs show the damage to the rear vehicles of the Windsor train. Mick Nicholson (letter Issue 39 p. 52) objects to statement made on page 69 concerning instructions given to driver from signalman.

'Down Postal'. 70.

Highland Railway Archives. Richard Ardern 
Re the letter from Bill Briggs in RA35, it is many years since the Highland Archives were located in Kinmylies. They are now in a new state of the art purpose built building, the address and contact details for which are: Highland Archive & Registration Centre, Bught Road, Inverness, IV3 5SS. TEL: 01463256444; EMAIL: archives@highlifehighland.com; WEB: http://www.highlandarchives.org.uklharc.asp

Swindon Gas Works update. Justin Edwards
As an addendum to article on the GWR Gas Works at Swindon in RA23, the last vestige of the plant, No. 5 gas holder, was in an advanced stage of demolition on 9th September 2012. The holder itself had been reduced to piles of scrap, though the pit it sat in was intact on this date.

Swindon 'B' Shed . Bill Briggs 
Traverser at Swindon Works: writer would like to know the make of what was describe as 'the donkey engine', as it greatly resembles an early portable engine In the text, Brian Arman refers to the supply of planing and drilling machines by Naysmith  [sic] & Co.: appended facsimile from Nasmyth, Gaskell to Gooch of a quotation for machinery. The original was found some years ago by a friend who noticed it in waste paper on its way to destruction. Finally, is not the cartoon of Field Marshall Sir John Lintorn Arabin Simmons on p20 by SPY and not APE? Spy was the pen name of Sir Leslie Matthew Ward (1851-1922) who succeeded Ape in 1873. ,

Joseph Armstrong. Jeffrey Wells
Details of Joseph Armstrong's funeral throw further light on him. Berrow's Worcester Journal, of 16 June 1877, on the occasion of his funeral, from which the following is an abridged version. To begin with, a list of Armstrong's involvement in academic and civic affairs: Member of the Institution of Civil Engineers; Member of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers; President of the GWR Enginemen & Firemen's Society; Chairman of the Swindon Local Board and the Swindon Commisioners; President of the Mechanic's Institute; Director of the Swindon Water Works Company; Principal Promoter of the Swindon Cottage Hospital. 'Few men ever rose from a comparatively humble position to one more important than that held by Mr Annstrong, few ever laboured so hard and unceasingly in the interests of employers and employed than he did, and few have died more universally and deservedly respected' .
Joseph Arrnstrong was born 21 September 1816, at Newburn, Northumberland. He died on 5 June 1877. The funeral took place on Saturday, 9 June 1877. On that day, shortly after one o'clock, a broad gauge special train of nine carriages arrived at Swindon, bringing company directors and a large number of employees, from Paddington. From Swindon station, a long procession proceeded to Newburn House where the velvet-draped coffin lay in the large entrance hall. It was bedecked with flowers. On leaving Newburn House, the hearse took the one mile route to St. Mark's Church. A number of GWR directors, headed by Sir Daniel Gooch, six hundred other railway officials, plus representatives from other railway companies, formed part of the cortege. In the churchyard, a large body of people stood waiting for the arrival of the hearse. Fonning a guard of honour were 170 members of the 11th Wiltshire Rifle Volunteers. On that solemn day, Swindon Works closed. Tradesmen and shopkeepers closed their premises between one and three o'clock in the afternoon. The actual demise of the man is encapsulated in the final words of the newspaper's account: 'We may add that only recently, at the earnest request of numerous friends and the directors of the company, Mr Armstrong consented to take three months' leave of absence, with a view to the restoration of his health, the breaking down of which had become apparent to many. On the advice of his medical men, he went to Dr Smedley's hydropathic establishment at Matlock Bath, but no sooner arrived there than new and alarming symptoms set in, all lending in the direction of a softening of the brain'.

The Editor's nadir. Michael Hardy 
The writer of the caption to photograph of beautiful Midland Single on p69 RA37 used the negative word 'nadir' to describe the standard of design of machines such as this in error and was looking instead for 'apex' or something similar.

Regarding William Stroudley. David Morton 
The role played by William Stroudley in the affairs of the Edenham & Little Bytham Rly. more accurately the Edenham Branch Rly, has been overstated down the years, probably beginning with the Institution of Civil Engineers in the obituary notice following Stoudley's death in 1889. This was followed by Michael Reynolds in The Railway Magazine in 1900, where Stroudley was credited with being variously 'platelayer, engine driver and General Manager' of the railway. This version of events has often been repeated, most recently by Brian Sullivan in 'Down Postal' (RAJ7).
The book by R.E. Pearson & J.G. Ruddock (Lord Willoughby's Railway, Willoughby Memorial Trust, 1986) reveals a more limited role for Stroudley at Edenham. He was hired in May 1857 at a salary of 35s per week to drive and look after the two locomotives on the railway – the converted road engine Ophir and the first of the Hawthorn 0-4-0Ts, Havilah. The line was virtually complete by then and general goods traffic had been carried since the summer of 1856. Stroudley lodged in Peterborough for the first twelve weeks of his engagement, while Havilah was being repaired at the GNR shed, the engine having suffered a derailment in April which had incapacitated the railway's other driver, Sandall. Stroudley moved to Edenham in August, sharing a cottage with John Williams, who was building wagons for the railway. Management of the Edenham Branch Rly was exercised by George Scott, Lord Willoughby's bailiff, who reported to the Agent for the estate, Lewis Kennedy. who was away in London. Much of the detail in Pearson & Ruddock's book is taken from Scott's correspondence with Kennedy. In June 1858, Scott was awarded the sum of £80 for his work in managing the railway over the two previous years and thereafter he was paid £20 per half year for continuing with these duties, which were in addition to his responsibilities as estate bailiff.
It required a number of visits by the Board of Trade inspector, Col. Yolland, between June 1856 and July 1857 before the Edenham Branch Rly could be opened for passenges on 8 December 1857, although there had already been some unofficial passenger traffic Williarn Stroudley handed in his notice in February 1858. He left Edenham on the 3 March 1858 with the intention of assisting his brother at Helpston paper mill but soon returned to the GNR, and later enjoyed a very successful career on the Highland Rly and the LB&SCR. His departure from Edenham may have been hastened by the fact that George Scott and William Stroudley do not seem to have exactly hit it off. Scott wrote to Kennedy about Stroudley's replacement that 'he hoped the new man would be more suitable'.

Memories of Uttoxeter. Paul Brown 
Writer's memories of Uttoxeter are of making a regular Sunday afternoon journey from there to Derby in the 1970s. The train at that time was always a Swindon DMU. On reflection it seems strange that a Swindon product should provide the service between the two heartlands of the former LM&SR company. Perhaps the units had been reused from recently closed lines in Shropshire. Do you have any photos of these units on this line? The DMU was invariably late which provided time for a look round the station buildings, which were complete at the time. If the weather was bad there would be a good coal fire burning in a green enamelled cast iron stove in the waiting room, where there was also a long bench seat with the arms of the North Stafford Railway carved into the backrest. This was not the most comfortable seat in the waiting room. The company perhaps did not want customers to fall asleep whilst waiting for their train.
I also remember looking round closed stations in Shropshire with my friends. we discovered the account book for the goods traffic of a station, though I do not remember exactly where. This one large ledger contained details of all the goods transactions from when the station opened in late Victorian times to the 1960s when it closed. Unfonunately, the watchman who was minding the station would not let us take this book, so I suppose it probably ended up on the scrap man's bonfire.

Groom Correction. John Alsop 
There is an error in the Groom table RA£7, p73. Under BWG068, the class designation should be 'D1' '1321' Series.

John Alsop. Wish you were here? Railway postcards of Renfrewshire. 71-80; rear cover

Mount Florida station: Mick Nicholson comments on splitting distant alongside starting signals in 39 p. 52 71
Giffnock station 72u
Clarkston station with Caledonian Railway Durham-Churchill charabanc for Eaglesham c1906 72l
Caledonian Railway 670 Class 0-4-2 No. 279 heading west (caption incorrect) from Patterton c1904 73u
Neilston station (Lanaarkshire & Ayrshire Railway) prior to opening c1903 73l
CR 4-4-0 No. 734 with train of six-wheel bogie compartment stock at Langbank c1907 74u
Port Glasgow station with train arriving from Glasgow 74m
Port Glasgow station after rebuilding with CR 721 Class 4-4-0 No. 727 arriving from Greenock 74l
Upper Greenock station with Berryards sugar refinery behind 75u
Inverkip station with Jumbo 0-6-0 No. 578 on passenger train for Wemwyss Bay 75m
Wemwyss Bay passengers arriving off train: see also  Rly Arch (24) 19-45 75l
Greenock West after flooding on 5 August 1912 see note 1 76u
Disembarking from Duchess of Fife at Gourock (Caledonian Steamer card) 76m
Gourock: Caledonian Railway Scotland postcard for St. Louis Exposition 76l
Greenock Princes Pier station interior c1900 77u
Kilbarchan new station with 4-4-0 hauled train arriving 1905 when loop line was new (now a road) 77m
Lochwinnoch station with freight passing behind Class 22 0-6-0 No. 37 (pre opening Loop when became Lochside) 77l
Milliken Park for Kilbarchan pre-1905 (when loop opened) 78u
Johnstone station: still recognisable in spite of huge park & ride car park 78m
Elderslie station in early LMS days? 78l
Staff at South Renfrew station 79u
Corkerhill station with GSWR model housing behind 1910: at that time station outwith public domain 79m
Corkerhill shed with Class 75 2-4-0 ex-No. 75 as Stationary Boiler 79l
Nitshill station with memorial stone and garden for Sergeant John Meikle VC MM of Seaforth Highlanders: memorial re-ercted Station Road, Dingwall 80
Bishopton station decorated with garlands and flags (coloured postcard) rcu
Gourock station in 1905 (coloured postcard) rcl

Note 1: Scottish Transport: the Annual Magazine of the Scottish Tramway & Transport Society No. 62 (2010) pp. 4-12: partial services were restored within two days. It may be noted that 1912 was notable for its floods: Norfolk suffered devastation one week later

Issue Number 39 (June 2013)

Mike Arlett. Signalling at Midford S&D. 2-30.
Somerset & Dorset Joint Railway enjoyed many unusual characteristics including steep gradients and a long single bore tunnel with a lack of adequate ventilation. Colour picture indicated.

Midford station c1905 2
2-8-0 No. 80 with indicator shelter at Bath Junction in 1914 4
Work on widening Midford Viaduct in 1891-2 5
Signalling diagram at Midford as newly installed in 1892 6
Manual tablet exchange c1900: Tyer tablet machine visible: Whitaker incorrectly spelt 7u
Steven's pattern ground signal 7l
1892 signal box in September 1922 8u
Looking south from Station Hill in September 1922 8l
Gradient profile 9u
S&D Signal Instruction No. 330, 30 March 1933: changes to signals & points scheduled for 2 and 9 April 9l
Destruction of Midford signal box following runaway train on 29 July 1936 from Bath Weekly Chronicle & Herald. 10u/l
Class 5 No. 4830 on Manchester London Road to Bournemouth West on 20 August 1947 climbing towards Wellow (NL) 11
2P 4-4-0 No. 40698 and 4F 0-6-0 No. 43878 on 12.25 Bournemouth to Birmingham climbing towards tunnel (IP) 12
2P 4-4-0 No. 40563 and WC No. 34041 Wilton on southbound relief to Pines Express leaving tunnel on 24 April 1954 (IP) 13u
Telephone cabinet on approach to tunnel 13l
Signalman Percy Savage and Station Master Bob Ryan inside signal box 14ul
Signalman Harry Wiltshire inside signal box 14ur
Point and plunger mechanism 14l
Lever frame and block shelf instruments and Tilley lamp in 1950s 15
Southern Region signalling diagram 1948 16
Down advanced starting signal Autumn 1960 (NL) 16i
2P 4-4-0 No. 40652 and 73XXX on 07.40 Bradford to Bournemouth in 1959 (NL) 17
Tablet apparatus diagram 18l
Signalman Bob Payne setting token apparatus in 1923 18r
Signalman Charlie Eyre making hand exchange with fireman of 4F No. 44272 19u
Signalman Charlie Eyre setting token apparatus in 1960s 19l
No. 73012 joining Midland line at Bath Junction with 09.05 from Tamplecombe on 25 September 1963 (NL) 20u
No. 40697 and 34040 Crewkerne on up Pines Express on 8 July 1961 picking up tablet at Midford (NL) 20m
No. 75073 on down stopping train at Wellow on 29 August 1964 20l
View from footplate on 16.15 Templecombe to Bath approaching Midford on 13 July 1962 (PS) 21u
08.31 Templecombe to Bath departing Midford on 17 August 1962 (PS) 21l
Class 2 2-6-2T 41241 leaving Midford on 18.05 Bath to Binegar on 21 June 1955 (IP) 22u
40697 and 73047 on 09.03 Bristol Temple Meads to Bournemouth West on 12 August 1961 (IP) 22l
2-8-0 No. 53809 and 73049 on 09.08 Birmingham to Bournemouth on 1 September 1962 (BA)      23u
Class 4 4-6-0 No. 75073 on Bath to Templecombe stopping train picking up tablet from Harry Wiltshire (BA 23l
4F 0-6-0 No. 44558 on 08.15 Bath to Templecombe on 18 August 1961 (PS) 24u
Class 4 4-6-0 No. 75073 on 15.20 Bath to Templecombe (HB) 24l
Nos. 75023 and 73052 on down Pines Express on 28 April 1962 (HB) 25
Nos. 75072 and 73047 on 10.05 Bournemouth West to Bradford on 28 July 1962 (HB) 26
Signals Nos. 2 and 5 arms visible above Long Arch Bridge (IP) 27u
Nos. 40568 and 44826 on northbound Bournemouth to Huncote express on 25 July 1953 (IP) 27l
Midford A ground frame 28u
2-8-0 No. 53808 working tender first with coal from Writhlington Colliery in snow on 26 January 1963 (NL) 28m
Nos. 75072 and 73XXX on down Pines Express passing Ground Frame B (NL) 28l
No. 75073 on 09.53 Bath cto Bournemouth service passing Midford on 30 August 1961 (HB) 29u
Class 4 2-6-4T No. 80059 on stopping train on 3 April 1965 29l
2P and 73XXX on up Pines Express in March 1955 with Limpley Stoke to Camerton branch in foreground (HB) 30

Footnote 1: Normal Lockett photograph
Footnote 2: Ivo Peters photograph
Footnote 3: Paul Strong photograph
Footnote 4: B.J. Ashworth photograph
Footnote 5: Hugh Ballantyne photograph
Footnote z: also front cover

Jeffrey Wells. Aspects of the Leeds & Thirsk Railway 1845-1852. 31-40.
Based mainly on contemporary accounts in The Leeds Mercury and dominated by some of the major civil engineering structures which characterised the railway incorporated on 21 July 1845. Thomas Grainger, the engineer of the line, died as the result of a railway accident at Stockton in 1852. Same Author considers Leeds & Thirsk Railway branch to Knaresborough in Backtrack, 2013, 27, 336.

Map described as plan of railways between the Humber and Berwick* 32
Leeds & Thirsk Railway Company £50 share certificate 33
Wharfedale (Wharfdale) Viaduct under construction in 1847 34
Bramhope Tunnel north portal c1910 37
Wharfe Viaduct (Arthington Viaduct) 38
Opening excursion: Leeds Wellington Street depart 11 a.m. 9 July 1849, return 2.30 p.m. 39
Memorial (based on Bramhope Tunnel portal) in All Saints Church Yard at Otley 40

*York, Newcastle & Berwick; York & North Midland and Leeds Northern

Brian Arman. The H.L. Hopwood Collection 1902-1926. Part 16: Percy Main. 41-51.

708 class 0-6-0 No. 757 on 4 July 1902 41
Blythe & Tyne Railway long boiler 0-6-0 No. 1311 on dump on 2 September 1909 42
Marquis of Londonderry's Railway 0-4-4T No. 1712 and 0-6-0 No. 655 43
93 class 0-6-0 No. 646 in 1908? 44
Fletcher 2-4-0 rebuilt W. Worsdell No. 40 on scrap road in 1908 45u
Fletcher 2-4-0 No. 11 on scrap road in 1908 45l
Fletcher 143 class No. 143 46u
Class 398 0-6-0 No. 987 on 1 August 1914: sold in 1918 to Cramlingham Coal Co. and became their No. 16 46l
Class 398 0-6-0 No. 991 on 1 August 1914: latrer loaned to Highland Railway 47u
Backworth Colliery 0-6-0ST No. 12 on 23 August 1913: ex-NER No. 1713 (sold August 1893) 47m
Backworth Colliery outside-cylinder 0-6-0ST No. 4 hauling chaldron wagons on 20 June 1920: Hawthorn Leslie WN 2671/1906 47l
Backworth Colliery 0-6-0 No. 8 (later No. 4) on 20 June 1920: ex-NER 984 Class No. 963/1797: WN 1132/1875 48u
Cramlington Coal Co. 0-6-0 No. 4 with chaldron wagons on 4 July 1902: Robert Stephenson WN 963/1855 48m
Cramlington Coal Co. 0-6-0 No. 5 in May 1911: Robert Stephenson WN 999/1855 long boiler type 48l
Cramlington Coal Co. 0-6-0 No. 6: Robert Stephenson WN 1000/1855 49
Cramlington Coal Co. 0-6-0 No. 11: ex Blythe & Tyne Railway long boiler No. 19 built John Coulthard & Son (NER No. 1319) 50u
Seaton Delaval Coal Co. No. 4: R. & W. Hawthorn WN 533/1846: NER No. 49 replaced in 1883 50l
Seaton Delaval Coal Co. No. 5: former NER No. 658 sold in 1903: Robert Stephenson October 1867 51u
Seaton Delaval Coal Co. No. 10: ex Marquis of Londonderry Railway No. 20 built at Seaham in 1891 51m
Seaton Delaval Coal Co. No. 11: ex GNR Patrick Stirling 0-6-0 No. 716 (Dubs WN 1618/1882) sold 1919 via J.F. Wakes & Co.. See also Bill Aves Issue 40 p. 38. 51l

Down Postal. 52

Brecon. Peter Swift
Location on page 44 lower loooks like Brecon

British Atlantic locomotives (and Pullman trains). Charles Long
Train shown on page 2 of Issue 38 was a special Pullman run on Saturday 30 June 1923 to preview the Harrogate Pullman. It consisted of four first class cars and two seconds. The Mayor and Corporation of Harrogate were eager to promote the town as a health resort and the invited passengers stayed at the Majestic Hotel to be entertained to diner and returned on the Pullman special on the following day. Also page 12: Jersey Lillies: Lillie Langtry was a serious actress..

Signalling matters. Mick Nicholson.
Comments on several items in Issue 38. His main thrust is on the Caledonian splitting distants as dolls at Mount Florida station (page 71) and shows the nearest in such installations known to him: these were on the Hull & Barnsley Railway at Howden East, Howden West and Beverley Road. On page 39 caption states signals were GWR type — they were McKenzie & Holland products supplied to Brecon & Merthyr Railway. Also objects to statement relating to instructions between signalman and driver (page 69) prior to Slough accident.

Edward Talbot. Lord Monkswell's Notebooks Part 5: Book 2: 1898-1899. 53-60.
Journeys:
6 December 1898: LSWR: Tavistock to Exeter 4-4-0 No. 665; Exeter to Salisbury 4-4-0 No. 563; Salisbury to Vauxhall 4-4-0 No.680
7 December 1898: South Eastern Railway: footplate 11.07 Cannon Street to Folkestone behind No. 117 which failed at Paddock Wood and was replaced by 4-4-0 No. 440. Return same day from Dover Town by LCDR.
9 December 1898: GER 7 ft single No. 14: Chelmsford to Liverpool Street
9/10 December 1898: WCML: Euston to Glasgow: three-cylinder compound 2-2-2-2 plus pilot presumably to Crewe; Carlisle to Glasgow 4-4-0 No. 735
10 December 1898: CR Breadalbane 4-4-0 No. 766: Paisley to Greenock Central
!0 January 1899: G&SWR: Glasgow to Carlisle footplate journey on Manson 4-4-0 No. 110 driven by Thomas Fisher with pilot 4-4-0 No. 8 of same class. Load of about 220 tons, but this was changed at both Kilmarnock and at Dumfries
17 January 1899: Sheffield to King's Cross: Sheffield to Grantham: GCR 4-4-0 No. 696 with load of about 110 tons. Grantham to King's Cross 4-2-2 No. 1007 (diarist complained about slow descent from Stoke Summit
20 January 1899: round trip on footplate  with Driver Thomas Coleman on oil-burning 4-2-2 No. 712. Returned from Norwich at 15.55. Noted how increase in oil supply led to rapid increase in boiler pressure. Also noted the smooth running.
Early 1899: GWR
7ft single Oxford to Paddington
No. 626 (four-coupled tank engine): Paddington to Slough
Two 7ft singles Paddington to Oxford
28 March 1899: LBSCR: footplate run on Billinton 4-4-0 with Driver Alfred Westlake on 10.05 Victoria to Brighton. Noted power reverser in operation: power supplied off air brake
20 May 1899: GWR:: 4-2-2 No. 3056 Timour and Bulldog 4-4-0 Paddington to Oxford
10 June 1899: 4-4-0 No. 2197 and 4-2-2 No. 77: St. Pancras to Bedford
12 June 1899: 4-2-2 No. 149 Market Harborough to St. Pancras. See also lett6er from Peter Tatlow in I 40 p. 38 on bull-head rail
Illustrations:
Improved Precedent 2-4-0 No. 477 Caractacus leaving Carlisle on up express post-1903 p. 54
Pages from 1896 Note Book with photograph of G&SWR 4-4-0s at Carlisle pasted in p. 57
GWR 4-4-2T passing Hayes on down fast service in 1910 (Robert Brookman) p. 59
Midland Railway 4-4-0 No. 2201 c1900 (Robert Brookman) p. 60

John Alsop. Wish you were here? Railway postcards of Suffolk. 61-77.
Except where noted otherwise all views were of Great Eastern Railway property or activities

Lakenheath station with T19 on Ely to Norwich stopping train 61
Mildenhall station 62
Higham station 63u
Ingham station with tender first passenger train arriving from Thetford 63l
Angel Hotel, Bury St Edmunds, with GER buses in July 1908 64u
Cockfield station 64m
Two GER carriage bodies being converted into a dwelling 64l
Clare station with long train approachin 65u
Glemsford station with Y14? on pick-up freight 65l
Hadleigh station 66u
Felixstowe Town station with D56 4-4-0 No. 1791 on express train 66l
Orwell Park station with tank engine on local train in 1908 67u
Derby Road station, Ipswich 67m
Westerfield station with remains of boiler from 0-6-0 No. 522 following boiler explosion on 25 September 1900 67l
Ipswich station with four locomotives and four passenger trains c1909 68
Ipswich Docks with rowing four and paddle steamers PS Orwell and PS Stour 69u
Ipswich Docks with GER Booking Office and GER PS Essex 69l
Mason's Cement Works at Claydon with Y14? 0-6-0 on freight c1920 see also letter from Bill Aves in I40 p, 38: 70u
Stowmarket Crdite Works with GER gunpowder van No. 21971, c1910 70m
Elmswell station 70l
Mid-Suffolk Light Railway Brockford station with permanent way gang trolkley c1908 71u
Mid-Suffolk Light Railway Stradbroke station with crowd on platform c1908 71l
Mellis station with junction for Eye branch 72u
Bungay station see also letter from Bill Aves in I40 p, 38: locomotive on freight was a Y14 class: 72l
Hopton station with T19 4-4-0 73u
Lowestoft GER Pier and pavillion 73m
Oulton Broad swing bridge with T19 4-4-0 crossing 73l
Southwold Railway: Wenhaston station with Sharp Stewart 2-4-0T on train, probably pre-WW1 74u
Southwold Railway: Blythburgh station with No. 3 Blyth on long train 74l
Saxmundham station, level crossing and signal box and tank engine on branch passenger train? 75
Leiston station with 0-6-0 and GER open wagons see also letter from Bill Aves in I40 p, 38: 76u
Aldeburgh station frontage c1910 76l
Y14 0-6-0 No. 953 crossding timber bridge on Snape branch: see also letter from Bill Aves in I40 p, 38: not No. 953 77u
Marlesford (Framlingham branch) 77l
Saxmundham station looking north on 1 February 1975 (colour) rcu
Cockfield station on 8 April 1961 rcl

A 'Down Postal' Special: George Norris and LB&SCR No. 191 Gordon-Lennox. Richard Norris. 78
See also further extended note on No. 191

Brian Arman. Follow Up: Brecon and Colbren Junction. 79-80; inside rear cover
Letter explaining reason for error in article in Number 38 beginning page 38 and especially to caption to photograph on page 44 lower (writer used original caption on reversse of print which gave location as Bassaleg Junction whereas should have been Brecon Free Street. It is not clear who took photograph immediately below

Brecon & Merthyr Railway 0-6-0ST No. 25 and 2-4-0T No. 9 at Brecon on 3 August 1914 79
Colbren Junction c1908 with MR 0-4-4T and GWR 1854 Class 0-6-0ST 80
Brecon station with 2251 Class 0-6-0 No.2247 on 30 September 1962 (colour) ircu
Colbren Junction on 13 October 1962 with 57XX Nos. 9796 and 3706 on last day of passenger services (colour: Paul Strong) ircl

Issue Number 40 (September 2013)

Allan C. Baker and Mike G. Fell. The railway through Colwich. 2-37.
Station, since closed, was on London & North Western Railway Trent Valley route and is the location for a flat junction with the North Staffordshire Railway towards Stoke and immediately before Stafford. The quality of the buildings at the wayside stations was very high pertly due to the local aristocrats, notably Lord Shugborough, and the architect John Livock, whose masterpiece was Tamworth which was demolished in 1962. Livock was born in Hampstead on 30 July 1814 and was the son of a coal merchant. He died in London on 15 March 1883. Proposals to close the line between Colwich and Stone are mentioned as are the several accidents which occurred at or near this location. Two coal trains collided in  Shugborough Tunnel on 1 January 1857 and the accident was investigated by Lt Colonel George Wynne. On 16 January 1861 an accident near Weston was caused by a broken tyre on one of the carriages which led to a derailment. Captain Heny Tyler investigated. He was highly critical of the permanent way. See also Mathams and Barrett. Trent Valley Railway. Backtrack, 2014, 28, 4.

Map: NSR and LNWR lines north of Colwich in 1913 2
Colwich station c1910 3
Underbridge near Great Haywood: 38 miles 38 chains from Macclesfield and transecting Lichfield Shugborough Estate c1900 4u
Underbridge near Great Haywood: 37 miles 26 chains from Macclesfield and transecting Lichfield Shugborough Estate c1900 4l
Underbridge between Great Haywood and Hixon near Little Ingestre crossing A51 road: 36 miles 18 chains from Macclesfield c1900 5
Shugborough Tunnel northern portal: LNWR postcard 1904 6u
LNWR bridge across entrance to Shugborough Estate (LNWR official postcard) John Livock architect 6l
NSR railway and other railways, including GNR, and canals in Stone/Colwich area 7
Rebuilt Scot No. 46137 The Prince of Wales's Volunteers (South Lancashire) on 10.00 Manchester to Euston coming off NSR line at Colwich on 5 September 1959 (Edward Talbot) 8u
Colwich signal diagram 8l
Class 5 4-6-0 No. 44842 on train of mineral empties passing Colwich on 5 September 1959 (Edward Talbot) 9
Rebuilt Scot No. 46158 The Loyal Regiment on down The Comet approaching Colwich on 5 September 1959 (Edward Talbot) 10
Down Royal Scot hauled by Nos. 45686 St. Vincent and 46100 Royal Scot approaching Colwich on 5 September 1959 (Edward Talbot) 11u
Remains of Colwich engine shed (NSR) in early 1930s (W.A. Camwell) 11l
Interior Colwich signal box early 1960s — LNWR tumbler frame (J.B. Bucknall) 12
Great Haywood station 1900s 13
Hixon station with Henry Bratt station master 14
Hixon station after closure in 1950s 15u
Weston & Ingestre station 1900s 15l
Weston & Ingestre signal box pre-grouping 16ul
Weston & Ingestre signal box in 1950s 16ur
Weston & Ingestre station looking south 16l
Occupation underbridge north of Weston & Ingestre at 33 miles 74 chains 17u
Sandon station 17l
Sandon stationporte-cochere 18u
Ashton-by-Stone station with John William Mosley, station master and wife 18l
Ashton-by-Stone station in late 1920s 19u
Ashton-by-Stone station in 1952 post-closure 19m
Ashton-by-Stone station on 15 May 1960 19l
Church Street level crossing, Stone c1900 20u
Colwich station frontage c1905 20l
NSR 2-4-0 No. 19 at Colwich 21u
Former NSR 4-cylinder 0-6-0 as LMS No. 2367 at Colwich in January 1924 21l
Milford & Brocton station with Josiah Mayhew station master 22
Experiment 4-6-0 No. 2367 Babylon involved in American Boat train accident at Colwich on 28 October 1911 25
Side view of American Boat train accident at Colwich on 28 October 1911 26u
Junction at Colwich 26l
Down local train hauled by former NSR M Class 0-4-4T No. 1436 (NSR No. 15) at Colwich in August 1935 27
Colwich station in 1951 28
Colwich station exterior in 1952 29
LMS 2P 4-4-0 No. 40583 on down local at Colwich in 1950s 30
2-6-4T No. 42627 on Stephenson Locomotive Society railtour passing through Colwich Junction (viewed from train) on 25 May 1957 31u
XXX 31l
Colwich on 24 August 1959 32u
Colwich on 19 May 1960 during demolition 32l
Down Londpon to Manchester express hauled by D228 English Electric diesel electric locomotive approaching Aston-by-Stone on 1 August 1962 33u
Church Street level crossing at Stone in 1967 33l
Accident (collision) at Colwich Junction on 19 September 1986 (plan) 34
Meaford Crossing signal box on 12 October 2001 35
Pendolino passing remains of Sandon station on 23 January 2007 36
Milford & Brocton station with overbridge (coloured postcard) rear cover upper

See also letter and illustrations from Huw Edwards in Issue 41 page 66+

Down Postal [correspondence]. 38

Barleith memories. D. Pratt
When Mrs Abercrombie refers to 'kiting' in the article concerning Barleith (RA38), this is the Scottish term for 'quoiting' and was played in many mining communities. Concerning the 'set in beds' in the same article, I had a colleague who wa raised in both Barleith and Corkerhill who, as a youngster, fell out of bed one night but simply crawled into the clothes basket under the bed which was hidden by a curtain. He continued his nap and in the morning the alarm was raised when he was not in bed. Search parties of neighbours checked all the outbuildings and toilets, and things did not calm down till he crawled out looking for his breakfast.

Percy Main & Suffolk. Bill Aves.
Re Brian Arman's Hopwood/Percy Main photographs the GNR Stirling 0-6-0 shown at the foot of p.51, there is a later view of Hartley Main Colliery No. 20 on p65 of Main Line to Industry by Frank Jones, with a domed boiler, shorter chimney and an outside-framed tender cab, together with the comment that the locomotive concerned may well have been ex-GNR No. 320 rather than No. 742 — or parts of both! However, Part 5 of the RCTS Locomotives of the LNER makes it clear, on p 17, that of three engines sold by the Great Northern to Wake's in 1919-20 (GNR Nos. 320, 742 & 795) HMC No. 20 could be identified with some certainty as having been (mainly?!) No. 742.
Re the GER 0-6-0 seen at Snape on p77 (RA39) is certainly a Class Y14 (L&NER J15') but it was certainly not No. 953, which was an N31 – one of Holden's later and not very successful class, with a 6½in higher pitched boiler and the valve chests below the cylinders. I am sure that the engines seen at Claydon (p70), Bungay station (KPJ) Homersfield station (was in Norfolk (p72) and Leiston (p76) in the same article are all Y14s.

Ballyvoile additions & corrections. Michael McMahon.
The section of line from Fermoy to Lismore was commonly known as 'The Dukes line', as it was financed by the Duke of Devonshire.The exact date of amalgamation of the Waterford, Limerick & Western Railway with the Great Southern & Western Railway was l st January 1901. The third side to the railway triangle near Rosslare, Killinick to Felthouse, opened on 1 August 1906 but closed in 1912 and was lifted by 1916. The station at Waterford South, taken over by an iron foundry 'who retained the rail connection until September 1976', Johnson's Atlas & Gazetteer states 'served Waterford Iron Founders until 1974, closed 05-09-76'.
Paragraph on creation of the Great Southern Railway in Postscript is a little jumbled. Putting it briefly, the government wanted a voluntary amalgamation by July 1923 but that did not happen and a parliamentary bill was sponsored in 1924 to merge the Great Southern & Western, Midland & Great Western and the Dublin & South Eastern railways into the GSR. The Cork, Brandon & South Coast thought it might merge with the G&SWR but did not and the D&SER wanted none of it, wanting to go with the GNR! Differences were resolved with the D&SER's substantial English control monies and the GSR was formed on 1 January 1925, over that year operating all lines wholly within the Irish Free State. as it was then known.
Therev then follows detailed accounts of incidents as recorded in the Munster Express which included that which led to the demolition of 101 Class No. 189: see extract

Monkswell on rail. Peter Tatlow
Term bull-head rail: until superseded by flat-bottom rail in the mid-1950s. familiar bull-head section had itself been preceded by a double-headed section . dating from the late 19th century. The idea of this was that once the head had worn down, it could be turned over and the opposite head used as well unlil. down likewise, before changing the rail altogether. Unfortunately, during the first stage, as the passing of each wheel flange pressed against the key, the und of the steel rail fretted within the cast-iron chair resulting in a corrugated surface so once turned over the ride would be very rough indeed, as experienced by driver of  No. 440. As a consequence, a revised section was developed whereby; all the extra material to allow for wear was concentrated in the top leading to rhe term bull-head.

Further on LB&SCR No. 191s outings. Richard Norris
Correspondence with Mike Cruttenden, chairman of the Brigbron Circle about outings to Eastbourne and from his research in local press: it seems that No. 191 did not go there in 1896, as speculated, or 1897. 1895 perhaps?

Signalling at Midford S&D — some corrections and a postscript. Mike Arlett.
Disregard asterisk at end of first paragraph. Caption the upper picture on p7, the name Whitaker is misspelt. The founh sentence in the caption for the photograph on p 11 should read: 'Nearer to hand stands the wooden post carrying the Up Outer Home and Shunt By (ringed arm) signals Caption on p 12, the final sentence should read: 'This replacement post (erected 25 July 1948) was 81yds farther south than the earlier version and carried the white diamond symbol indicating that the fireman did not need go to the signal box in order to carry out the requirements of 'Rule 55' Caption on p 15, as to the lack of 'a repeater' for signal,' might have been clearer had I stated 'a lamp repeater', as an arm repeae this signal aJready existed. The first sentence of the caption to the photograph p. 18 should read: 'Mdford signalman Bob Payne poses on the balcony mid·, up the signal box steps in 1923, with the tablet apparatus to the fore.'
In 1953, when the Western Regioo BR (which had gained commercial control of the northern half of Ihe route in 1950) became aware of a sudden spate of 'misses' at Midford with Whitaker apparatus and the resultant 'lost time' to the train services considered replacing the Electric Train Tablet (ETT) instruments on the Bath Junction-Midford section with the ex-GWR Electric Key Token (EKT) equipment, as they had undertaken already on S&D branch from Evercreech Junction to Highbridge (where, in any case, exchanges had aJways been made by hand). However, the WR proposal for Bath Junction-Midford single line section was withdrawn when the Southern Region representatives pointed out that 'their' part of the S&D main line — being everything south of Cole — also included several single line block sections operated using the ETT method of control. As such, the WR proposal would have resulted in two patterns of automatic exchanger on the same route — not a recommended solution! Neither was another suggestion by the WR, to abolish the exchangers altogether, which would have increased running times needing to reduce speed for each hand exchange) on a route already working to full capacity on summer Saturdays in the early 1950s.

Edward Talbot. Lord Monkswell's Notebooks Part 6: Book 2. 1898-1900. 39-46
Locomotive performance as observed from the footplate includes journeys on 23 June 1899 from Victoria to Eastbourne on the 09.50 on B2 class 4-4-0 Bessemer which ran at an average speed of 45 mile/h from East Croydon to Lewes, but was found to have a hot big end bearing on arrival there. The return journey was marked by excessive slipping. On 23 June 1899 he travelled on 6ft 6in 2-2-2 No. 249 Albany from Victoria to Portsmouth and back when an average of 48 mile/h was achieved between Havant and Horsham and 44 mile/h between Horsham and Sutton (via Holmwood).. On 24 June 1899 he rode on Gladstone class 0-4-2 Jacomb-Hood from Victoria to Newhaven and back on the Boat Trains.
18/19 February 1900: West Coast: 2-4-0 No. 2184 Reynard and four-cylinder compound 4-4-0 No. 1915 Implacable from Euston on train with sleeping cars. From Carlisle CR 4-4-0 No. 770: train divided at Strawfank and train arrived at Eglinton Street, Glasgow. Average speeds were 54½ Euston to Crewe; 52 mile/h Crewe to Carlisle; 51¾ Carlisle to Beattock and 44¾ thence to Strawfank and 49 to Glasgow.
19 February 1900: CR: 4-4-0 No. 901 Paisley to Greenock: 51½ mile/h average;
10 March 1900: CR: 4-4-0: Greenock to Paisley: 48¾ average
19/20 March: CR four-cylinder compound 4-6-0 No. 1241 and Breadalbane 4-4-0 No. 772 with train of 190 tons from Glasgow: average speeds 40 mile/h to Carstairs; 53¼ to Carlisle; 51½ to Crewe; and 49¾ to Willesden. See also letter from Jim MacIntosh in Issue 41 page 66
11 April 1900: GWR: mixed traffic engine with 5ft 8in coupled wheels attained 65 mile/h down Wootton Bassett bank with one mile at 68.4 mile/h.
7 May 1900; GER 2-4-0 with light train ran from Chelmsford to Bethnal Green at an average of 44½ mile/h
2 June 1900: MR 2-4-0 and 4-4-0 No. 2190 from Kentish Town to Milepost 48 times
5 June 1900: MR 4-4-0 No. 2585: Market Harborough to St. Pancras when speeds in excess of 70 mile/h were achieved

Caledonian Railway 66 Class 4-4-0 No. 64 at Carlisle Kingmoor c1900 40
Double-headed express passing Willesden Junction c1905 41
Gourock station and pier c1900 with Caledonian Railway 66 Class 4-4-0 No. 72 42
Caledonian Railway 900 (Dunalastair III Class 4-4-0 No. 901 at Dundee West engine shed 43
Great Eastern Railway T26 class 2-4-0 No. 470 at Stratford in May 1914 44
Midland Railway 4-2-2 No. 121 46
LBSCR 4-4-0 No. 213 Bessemer: F. Moore colour plate from Locomotive Magazine 1900: see also letter from Bill Armstrong in Issue 43 p. 48 concerning class of locopmotive rear cover lower

1 October 1900: GER 2-4-0 on Chelmsford to Liverpool Street train ran 2 miles down Brentwood Bank at an average of 70
13 October 1900: MR 4-2-2 ran from St Pancras to Kettering at 53¾ mile/h
Includes an account of the locomotives exhibited at the Paris Exhibition which included the Creusot 4-4-6 high pressure locomotive where the driver was located in front of the chimney and the firemen remained in the normal position (Monkwell was highly critical of this separation).

Roger Langley. The Lostwithiel & Fowey Railway: the last broad gauge railway or the tail that (eventually) wagged the dog. 47-58.

Treffry Estates plan 48
Broad gauge 4-4-0T Hawk 50
Railways at Carne Point: Ordnance Survey map 1880 (25 inch scale) 51
Lostwithiel recently narrowed gauge line to Fowey, c1894 52
Milltown Pill bridge with inspection trolley probably 1894 53
Indenture between L&FR and CMR 20 September 1879 54
Carne Point with broad gauge track including points, 1894 55
Excavating cutting at Carne Point 1894 56
Excavating cutting at Carne Point 1894 57u
Excavating cutting at Carne Point 1894 57l
Railways at Carne Point: Ordnance Survey map 2nd edition 1907 (25 inch scale) 58

Neil Parkhouse. Summer breezes: camp(ing) coach miscellany. 59-61.

GWR Camp Coach No. 9986 at Upwey in 1936 59u
GWR streamlined railcar arriving Upwey Junction in 1936 59ll
lady campers washing outide GWR Camp Coach No. 9986 at Upwey 59lr
LNER camp coach at Kildale 60u
LNER camp coach at Kildale with campers probably in 1934 60m
Kildale station with children and luggage 60l
Kildale station signal box 61u
D class 4-4-4T on Sandsend viaduct 61uml
LNER camoing coach No. CC45 at Sandsend probably in 1937 or 1838 61umr
Southern Railway camping coach 61lm
Southern Railway camping coaches including No. 10 61l

John Alsop, Wish you were here special: postcards of ... horse-drawn railway road vehicles. 62-80.

Great Eastern Railway covered dray No. 275 c1908 62
Great Eastern Railway covered dray No.126 at Leytonstone station c1909 63
Great Eastern Railway covered dray in Ipswich Cornhill with three electric trams 64u
Great Central Railway two-wheeled covered cart No. 8 64l
Great Central Railway covered van at Lincoln St. Marks c1904 65u
Great Northern Railway covered dray No. 231 in Doncaster 65m
Great Northern Railway dray No. 1129 c1903 65l
Great Western Railway heavy duty dray with three horses at Sparkford to haul bell 66
Inset shows six bells outside St Barnabus church, Queen Camel in 1907 St 66i
Great Western Railway Sheet Department wagon decorated for carnival at Worcester c1910 67u
Great Western Railway Sheet Department wagon decorated for carnival at Worcester by St John Ambulance possibly reflecting WW1 67m
Great Western Railway covered van No. 2092 outside Lyndale 67l
Great Western Railway express parcels van No. 134. 68u
Great Western Railway dray probably in Minehead 68m
Great Western Railway two-wheeler probably in Shifnal. 68l
Great Western Railway dray in 1910 69u
Great Western Railway cab (might have been operated by an agent) 69l
Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway? dray decorated with posters and carter and horse in Sunday best. 70u
Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway Victoria station with several drays and electric parcels carrier. See also letter from Jeffrey Wells in Issue 44 page 66 for information on telpher 70l*
London Brighton & South Coast Railway van No. 320 in Devonshire Place Eastbourne (posted 1926, but earlier) 71u
London Brighton & South Coast Railway covered dray No. 33 outside Lewes station c1906 71l
London & North Western Railway covered dray No. 96 passing Liverpool Street station in 1905 72u
London & North Western Railway van with physically disabled staff at Workington 72ll
London & North Western Railway dray decorated for carnival parade with ladies i9n Mikado costumes 72lr
London & South Western Railway dray No. 4 between two motor lorries in St. Malo c1920 73u
London & South Western Railway dray No. 4 in St. Malo c1920 73l
London & South Western Railway van No. 168 working from Basingstoke 74u
London & South Western Railway coach at Beaminster: coach operated between Bridport and Crewkerne station to connect with Waterloo train 74m
London & South Western Railway covered dray outside Barnes station 74l
Midland Railway dray No. 6299 c1910 75u
Midland Railway dray No.777 with full load near Bank of England 75m
Midland Railway dray with shelter formed from hoops possibly near Wolverhampton 75l
Midland Railway covered dray in Bristol Broad Street c1906 (coloured postcard: colour not reproduced. but vehicle maroon) 76l
Midland Railway dray No. 3203 with load of tramcar for Burton & Ashby Light Railway at Swadlincoate 76ru
Midland Railway drays in advertisement for Chivers' Carpet Soap based in Bath 76rl
Midland Railway express parcels van probably near Matlock Bath 77u
Midland Railway express parcels van alongside landaus outside Morecambe station 77l
North Eastern Railway dray in carnival parade at Bishop Auckland 78u
North Eastern Railway dray in Bondgate Alnwick outside Swan Hotel 78m
LMS covered dray for express parcels outside Cheltenham Lansdown station in 1929 78l
South Eastern & Chatham Railway covered dray from Bricklayers Arms at Bexley station 79u
SE&CR covered dray in Regent Street, London in heavy horse-drawn traffic 79m
Tunbridge Wells station with SE&CR covered dray in background 79l
W. Doy agent to Southwold Railway two-wheel cart at Southwold station 80u
Culham station with horse-drawn cart on loading dock: see letter from John Lewis (42 p. 47) on Hay for Didcot Provender Store 80l

*verso shows official message from Superintendent of the Line, A. Watson
See also letter from Bill Briggs in Issue 41 page 66

Issue Number 41 (December 2013)

Neil Parkhouse. The Barnstaple to Ilfracombe Line in 1931: the Brian Perkes Archive (photographs courtesy Lesklie Walker). 2-28.
Photographs taken in late summer 1931. Neil Parkhouse was born in the mid-1950s in Braunton when his nparents were living in Mortehoe. The Taw Vale Railway & Dock Company was authorised in 1838 and  was a broad gauge line and linked Crediton with Barnstaple. It opened as the North Devon Railway on 1 August 1854. The projected extension to Ilfracombe was dropped in 1847. The Ilfracombe Railway of 1859 failed due to landowner opposition. The Devon & Somerset Railway received the Royal Assent on 4 July 1873 and opened on 20 July 1874. This linked Taunton to Barnstaple and was a GWR project: the powers for the extension to Ilfracombe were transferred to the LSWR and enforced cooperation between the two companies. William R. Galbraith was the engineer. The line was cheaply built with many level crossings and very steep gradients on the final stretch. The Southern Railway upgraded the line. The line closed on 5 October 1970. Much of the former line is now the Tarka Trail.

Barnstaple Junction shed with E1R No. B697; M7 No. E256; A12 0-4-2 No. E644 and X6 4-4-0 No. 665 2
Ilfracombe station staff with William Parkhouse, shunter 3
Map Ordnance Survey 1 inch scale 1946: shows railway between Barnstaple and Ilfracombe 4
E1R No. 608 on Barnstaple Junction shed 5
E1R No. B94 with GWR goods brake van 6
X6 4-4-0 No. 665 on Barnstaple Junction shed 7
0395 class 0-6-0 No. E083 on turntable at Barnstaple Junction shed 8
A12 0-4-2 No. E644 on turntable at Barnstaple Junction shed 9
M7 No. E256 at Barnstaple Junction with 25 ton brake van 10u
T9 4-4-0 No. E710 10l
GWR 2-6-0 No. 4356 in Barnstaple Junction yard 11u
N class 2-6-0 No. A838 in Barnstaple Junction station 11l
E1R No. B95 in Barnstaple Junction station 12
GWR Bulldog class No. 3733 Chaffinch in Barnstaple Junction station 13u
GWR Bulldog class No. 3350 in Barnstaple Junction station 13l
Lynton & Barnstaple narrow gauge 2-6-2T No. 760 Exe at Barnstaple Town station 14
Lynton & Barnstaple narrow gauge 2-6-2T No. 188 Lew at Barnstaple Town station 15u
Lynton & Barnstaple narrow gauge 2-6-2T No. 759 Yeo at Barnstaple Town station 15m
Lynton & Barnstaple narrow gauge 2-6-2T No. 759 Yeo at Barnstaple Town station 15l
M7 No. E36 alongside Taw estuary between Barnstaple and Wrafton with GWR stock including clerestory coach 16u
M7 No. E36 alongside Taw estuary between Barnstaple and Wrafton with GWR through coaches from Paddington 16m
Up Atlantic Coast Express approaching Wrafton level crossing behind N class No. A850? 16l
N class No. A844 approaching Vellator level crossing with a local passenger train for Ilfracombe 17u
Bunker-first M7 No. E256 approaching Vellator level crossing with a freight train 17l
Vellator level crossing and signal cabin 18
N class No. A844 approaching Braunton with down Atlantic Coast Express with M7 waiting to bank to Mortehoe 19u
GWR 2-6-2T No. 5535 19l
N class No. A840 at Braunton in holding siding: three quarrters view from front (notes "cast iron numberplates": see letter from John Hutchins (Issue 42 p.47) 20u
N class No. A840 at Braunton in holding siding: three quarrters view from rear 20l
N class No. A840 at Braunton in holding siding: view from front: smokebox & buffer beam 21ul
N class No. A867 at Braunton in holding siding: view from front: smokebox (door open) & buffer beam 21ur
M7 No. E250 at Braunton in holding siding 21l
E1R on down stopping train for Ilfracombe at Braunton station 22u
N class No. A836 on up Ilfracombe to Exeter Central passenger service at Braunton station 22m
M7 No. E36 on pick up freight for Barnstaple Junction at Braunton 22l
M7 No. E668 on Caen Street level crossing, Braunton with freight from Ilfracombe 23
Braunton signal box interior with signalman, levers & level crossing wheel 24u
Braunton signal box interior with signalman, levers & level crossing wheel 24m
N class No. 1860 at Braunton station on passenger service from Exeter Central to Ilfracombe* 24l
Royal Daylight tank wagon No. 1059 (built Hurst Nelson) at Braunton 25u
LNER fruit van No. 164615 at Braunton: caption suggests sugar beet transport: see letters from Peter Tatlow and from Euan Corrie in Issue 42 p. 47 25um
SR 25 ton brake van No. 56100 at Braunton: caption notes "brakes running hot" and chalk mark indicating last oiled 21 Aug. 1931 25lm
SR 25 ton brake van: number unidentified, but look-out ducket on left, rather than right as above 25l
GWR 2265 class 0-6-0 No. 2268 and N class No. A826 on train of GWR and SR passenger stockm on Caen Street level crossing 26
N class No. A838 on Mortehoe bank with heavy train viewed from carriage window 27u
N class number unidentified on Mortehoe bank with Atlantic Coast Express viewed from carriage window 27m
Ilfracombe station 27l
N class No. A840 arriving Ilfracombe with Atlantic Coast Express 28u
Barnstaple Victoria Road station with 43XX 2-6-0 No. 6358 28l

* Southern Railway renumbrering did not start until May 1931? only phtograph of renumbered locomotive

Bill Aves. Military hospitals on Salisbury Plain, their railways in the First World War and their locomotives. 29-46
Hudswell Clarke 0-6-0T Salisbury worked on Sir John Jackson's Larkhill Military Railway contract. Well before WW1 there were substantial barracks complexes at Bulford and Tidworth and tented troops at Durrington, Larkhill and Fargo. Many of photographs taken by Alfred Vowles of Porlock.

Diagram map of railways concerned 29
Tidworth station 30u
Tidworth station with MSWJR 0-6-0T No. 13 arriving with passenger train 30l
Codford station looking north, 1916 31u
Heytesbury station c1910 31l
No. 2 siding at Warminster station with GWR 0-6-0T & sheeted supplies 32u
Ludgershall station with wide platforms and Prince of Wales Hotel 32l
No. 9 Camp Codford: steeply graded siding, c1915 33u
Ludgershall c1905 33l
GWR 517 class No. 553 at Sutton Veny 34u
No. 7 camp Codford with narrow gauge tramway 34l
Hudswell Clarke 0-6-0T Salisbury at Longmoor in 1926 35u
0-6-0ST Hampshire on Longmoor Military Railway: later worked at Fovant and Larkhill as WD No. 12 35l
4-4-0T ex M&GNR No. 8 (Hudswell Clarke & Rodgers WN 209/1878) worked at Fovant: photographed at East Lothian Colliery c1930 37
Sutton Veny narrow gauge track; standard gauge sidings with wagons; partly built huts 38u
Photoshop manipulation of above reveals one wagon from Mendip Granite Work, GWR Cranmore 38i
RAMC officers lunching alongside bell tent & huts at Sutton Veny 38l
Sutton Veny camp, sidings, wagons from GWR & MR & Newedigate and Bedworth Collieries (coal for stoves) 39u
Sutton Veny camp: 3 GWR wagons and 2 contractor's saddle tank locomotives built by Andrew Barclay 39l
Sutton Veny Red Cross field ambulance 40u
Sutton Veny: interior hospital ward 40m
Sutton Veny: St, John's churchyard with graves of Australian Army Nursing Corps 40l
Codford station expanded for war-time traffic 41u
0-4-0ST shunting at Codford: British soldiers on footplate; Australian troops handling stores 41m
Camp No. 18: siding and huts 41l
Codford hospital 42u
Codford camp No. 6 probably battalion headquarters 42m
New Zealand Military Hospital with Caledonian Railway open wagon 42l
Manning Wardle 0-6-0T WN 1064/1888 originally Oldham for Manchester Ship Canal as Prince Edward: Australian railwaymen in cab 43u
Dinton (LSWR main line) 43l
WD No. 12 Hampshire at Fovant with antique LSWR passenger stock 44u
LSWR 4-4-2T as WD No. 12 Dinton & Fovant Military Railway 44m
Bulford Military Hospital with electricity and garden in early 1920s 44l
Tidworth Camp: ordnance stores and engine shed 45u
Church of England Soldiers Institute Tidworth 45l
King George V and Lord Kitchener on Royal Train (LSWR brake composite) hauled by 0-6-0T Salisbury 46u
U class 2-6-0 shunting at Ludgershall in June 1961 46l

Brian Arman. Broad gauge train services and locomotives on the Metropolitan Railway. 47-56
Many of the illustrations are based on artist's impressions (the actual process used is difficult to discern: therefore, those based on photographs are indicated). See also letter from Michael Coulson on Issue 42 page 47.

Fowler's Ghost with Gladstone, Duke of Sutherland and Fowler at Edgeware Road on 24 May 1862: photograph 47
Long Charley eight-wheel carriage: diagram 48u
GWR 2-4-0 on train at Praed Street Junction 48l
Brown Marshall 8-wheel carriage after accident on 19 December 1866 caused by fall of cross girder at Smithfield Market: photo 49
Baker Street station c1863 50u
Kitson 2-4-0 Mogul: photograph 50l
Cut & cover construction in Praed Street with steam crane c1866: photograph 52
King's Cross station* 53
0-6-0T Miles: Sir Watkin class: photograph 54
0-6-0T Fowler: Rebuilt by South Devon Railway at Newton Abbot with extra saddle tank: photograph 55
0-6-0ST No. 2159 Sanders: photograph 56

* Caption implies that many of the features "survive today": few now survive

Edward Talbot. Lord Monkswell's Notebooks. Part 7: Book 3, 1905-1919; Book 5, 1933-39. 57-65.
Final installment (began in Issue 35 on page 27 and set out general style of the Notebooks). Journeys:
24 June 1906: Paddington to Bristol and return behind GWR de Glehn compound Atlantic No. 104 Alliance: outward on two hour express which left two minutes late and time was not recovered — due it was claimed by the driver that the locomotive had suffered a hot big end on a previous run.
7 July 1906: LSWR: Waterloo to Exeter behind No. 419 to Salisbury and No. 396 onward: a speed of 80 mile/h was attained down Seaton bank
11 July 1906: LSWR: Okehampton to Waterloo behind 4-4-0 Nos.  399 to Exeter, 396 to Salisbury and 417 to Waterloo
16 November 1906: GWR: Paddington to Swindon behind "six-coupled ten-wheeler No. 2006" [KPJ: presumably No. 2906] which gained a little time
19 November 1906: GWR: Worcester to Oxford probably behind a 4-2-2
20 May 1907: West Coast journey: Symington to Euston behind Caledonian Railway No. 777 to Carlisle and thence behind Experiment class locomotives from Carlisle to Crewe and Crewe to Euston with detailed records of the climbs to Beattock and to Shap
28 January 1908: GER: Ipswich to Liverpool Street behind Claud Hamilton 4-4-0 No. 1845 hauling about 200 tons
15 February 1908: GWR: Paddington to Westbury (via slip coach) behind No. 4004 Morning Star (lost time)
19 February 1908: GWR: Westbury to Paddington behind 5ft 8in 4-4-0 to Reading at an average speed of 54¼ mile/h and County tank 4-4-2T to Padington with load increased by four horseboxes at an average speed of 52½ mile/h.
14 March 1908: Euston to Lichfield stopping at Rugby behind Precursor 4-4-0 No. 2579 Ganymede at an average speed of 55 mile/h to Rugby and 50 mile/h thereafter.
16 March 1908: Lichfield to Euston stopping at Rugby behind Precursor 4-4-0 No. 2579 Ganymede at an average speed of 55 mile/h to Rugby and 50 mile/h thereafter with average speeds of 59¼ mile/h to Rugby and 57 mile/h onward to Euston.
21 November 1908: Paddington to Westbury (via slip coach) behind No. 2923 St. George average speed 59.6 mile/h
24 December 1909: Salisbury to Waterloo behind 4-4-0 No. 420 in 95 min 52 sec regaining 3 minutes
4 March 1910: SECR: Dover to Charing Cross boat train arriving 5 minutes early
24 March 1910: Paddington to Exeter behind No. 4009 Shooting Star with heavy (440 tons) train at an average speed of 53½ mile/h.
29 March 1910: Tavistock to Waterloo: Salisbury to Waterloo at an average of 54 mile/h
11 August 1911: Liverpool Street to Norwich in 139 minutes
10 February 1912: Paddington to Westbury (via slip coach) at an average of 60½ mile/h.
12 March 1934: No. 6029 King Stephen: Paddington to Exeter: 80 mile/h achieved at four locations led to letter to Railway Gazette
10/11 November 1936: to Newcastle and return on Silver Jubilee behind No. 2510 Quicksilver.
Ilustrations

GWR de Glehn compound Atlantic No. 102 La France 57
GWR de Glehn compound Atlantic No. 104 Alliance with Swindon conical boiler at Wolverhampton 58
Letter from C.J. Bowen Cooke to G.K. Mills, Secretary GWR concerning performance of No. 102 La France 59
GER 4-4-0 No. 1900 Claud Hamilton in Liverpool Street station 62
GWR No. 4001 Dog Star on seawall at Dawlish with up express 63
GER S46 class 4-4-0 No. 1881 on Liverpool Street turntable, c1908 64

'Down Postal'. 66

Railway horse-drawn road transport. Bill Briggs.
Two photographs showing very heavy rollers being moved from the factory of Thomas Perry & Son (a subsidiary of Midland Rollmakers) in Bilston by a team of eight horses and by a single traction engine (the photographs had been displayed in the works).

Lord Monkswell's Diary – a challenge. Jim MacIntosh

Colwich plan. Huw Edwards.
Colour image inside back cover: notes extent of joint NSR/LNWR ownership of line at Colwich. Also notes errors in text on polticians "in charge" in 1960 and "responsible" for investment decisions.

John Alsop and Neil Parkhouse. Wish you were here? Railway postcards of Monmouthshire. Pt 1: Wye, Usk and Eastern Valleys Lines. 67-80

Monmouth May Hill station during a flood, c1910 67
Monmouth Troy station: mishap to coal wagon adjacent signal box, c1905 68u
Redbrook: bridge across Wye and station 68l
Tintern station 69u
Tintern station (view from above tunnel) 69l
Chepstow: Brunel bridge over River Wye 70u
Chepstow: station with Brunel bridge over River Wye in background 70m
Chepstow station with Dean goods 0-6-0 on freight train 70l
Portskewett station 71u
Severn Tunnel Junction station 71l
Magor station 72u
Caerleon station 72l
Lower Pontnewydd station c1905 73u
Pontypool Road station, c1909 73m
Dingestow station c1910 73l
Nantyderry station: see also letter from Roger A. Smith on strange platform arrangement 74u
Abergavenny station 74l
Abergavenny Brecon Road station 75u
Abergavenny bridge over River Usk 75m
Gavilon station 75l
Varteg station 76u
Abersychan & Talywain station with Coal Tank No. 1005 on passengrt train formed of four-wheel stock 76l
Abersychan Low Level station c1914 77u
Pontypool Clarence Street station 77l
Pontypool Crane Street station c1910 78
Panteg station with 0-6-0ST and works 79u
Upper Pontnewydd station 79l
Cwmbran station 80

Issue Number 42 (March 2014)

Nick Deacon. High endeavors: the story of the Liskeard & Caradon Railway. 2-38
Letter in Issue 44 from Michael Messenger whose published research was cited in article on errors in this text. And response from Deacon in Issue 47. In 1836 James and Peter Clymo and Richard and Thomas Kittow discovered a major copper seam on Caradon Hill. The Liskeard & Looe Union Canal had opened in 1828. A survey was made for a railway between Liskeard & Caradon with Robert Coad as its engineer. This was 6½ miles and included many road crossings. Royal Assent was given for the Bill on 26 June 1843. When construction began it was found that difficulties of the terrain near Polwrath led to the introduction of a rope-worked incline: the Gonamena Incline. This was obviated in 1877 by a deviation via Tokenbury. The line from the mines to Tremabe was opened on 28 November 1844, but the cost of the land owned by the Duchy of Cornwall precluded further extension southwards and the line was not completed until March 1846. Traffic was worked down in the afternoons by gravity with a brakesman on each wagon who had to sound a horn or blow a whistle on the approach to each level crossing. The upward returns were horse-drawn. Lack of funds inhibited connection with the Cornwall Railway. In 1846 Silvanus Jenkin became the engineer (he did not: it was William Robert Galbraith see letter quoted at beginning). Amongst his other duties he was steward to the Robartes family of Lanhydrock Estate. Passengers were being carried in 1850, presumably in horse-drawn wagons: 300 members of Liskeard Methodist Church were conveyed on a Temperance excursion to the Cheeswring on 28 June 1850. The Kilmar Railway opened on 26 August 1858 and reached an altitude of 1150 feet beneath Kilmar Tor.
In March 1862 a Joint Committee was established to run the Liskeard & Caradon Railway and Liskeard & Looe Union Canal. The wagons were mainly obtained from James Murphy of Newport who also provided the first locomotive: a former London & Birmingham Railway Bury type 0-4-0 named Liskeard, which Murphy bought back in 1866. A new 0-6-0ST was bought from Gilkes Wilson & Co. (the author notes a Quaker connection with this firm): this was WN 138/1862 and was named Caradon. Two further locomotives were bought: Cheesewring WN 195 and Kilmar WN 264. All had 4ft coupled wheels and 13 x 24in cylinders. For a time there were ambitions to extend to Launceston, but there was a gradual decline in traffic in the 1880s, especially in the output of copper ore, and granite from elsewhere proved competitive. In 1885 Peckett 0-6-0ST WN 444 was hired, but this was returned in 1886.
In July 1882 a Liskeard & Caradon Railway Act regularised many of the activities which had been taking place, notably the Tokenbury and Phoenix branches, and authorised an extension to Liskeard.
In 1890 the Board of Trade insisted upon the block system and continuous brakes. By 1896 the permanent way was in very poor condition.
In 1907 an Australian company, Cosmopolitan Proprietary Ltd  leased the Phoenix Mine and Cornish Consolidated Tin Mines Ltd took on South Phoenix with the intension of mining tin: three large boilers and other heavy equipment were deliverd to the site on special hired wagons. The new shaft was officially started in July 1909 by HRH The Prince of Wales (see letter from Michael Messenger).
During WW1 the track was lifted for scrap north of Moorswater. There is a suggestion that the GWR relaid the section from Moorswater to St. Cleer in the 1920s, but the line was abandoned via the GWR Act of 1931. See also letter from Maurice Dart in Issue 45 p.80 mainly on status of Moorswater engine shed and Looe Quay in 1945.

South Caradon Mine in 1880: 6-tonn wagons Nos. 80 & 60; also mine tubs 2
Cheesewring (tor) c1860 3
Moorswater in 1859: Cornwall Railway viaduct; canal basin; L&CR chaldron wagons 4
Map Liskeard & Caradon Railway as in 1846 5u
Moorswater viaduct (timber with stone piers) 5l
Flat bottom rails on stone blocks 6u
St Cleer site of level crossing, remains of station in 1930s 6l
Stone blocks from former trackbed on route via Gonamena in 1947 7
Cheesewring Quarry in 1907 8
Caradon locomotive with Sunday School special c1903 in Liskeard & Looe open wagons 9
Engine house at Houseman's Shaft, Minions c1930 10
Chessewring Hotel in village c1905 11
Signpost with Cheesewring Railway 11l
Trackbed Kilmar Junction Railway in mid-1930s 12u
Tokenbury railway terminus in mid-1930s 12l
Caradon locomotive at Moorswater c1900 13
Chessewring shunting 6-ton wagons loaded with rough stone at Moorswater 14u
Kilmar on passenger train at Looe in late 1890s 14l
Stone-built overbridge between Moorswater and St. Cleer in mid-1930s 15u
Road underbridge carrying Kilmar Junction Railway at Rillaton in 1934 15l
Chessewring outside Moorswater engine shed c1899 16u
Standard gauge baulk road beside canal and East Looe River c1880 16l
East Looe Valley viewed from Trewith Wood c1885 17
Looe station under construction in 1879 18
Looe looking across Looe River to site of station and wagons loaded with ore and granite c1878 19u
Looe bridge, railway at Buffers Quay and stacks of ore awaiting shipment c1879 19l
Looe looking out to sea over industrial port with several ships being loaded in 1880s 20u
Looking down onto quay and warehouses; railwayv still in situ 20l
Causeland station c1900 21u
Sandplace station c1900 21l
Looe station  when new in 1880: tide mill opposite shore 22
Looe station with passenger train in mid-1890s 23
Caradon with passenger train at Moorswater station in 1890s 24
Caradon with passenger train at Moorswater station in 1890s showing carriages in detail 25
Free pass for travel between Looe and Moorswater issued on 16 October 1868 26u
Map showing Trewint extension under construction 26l
Guard Joseph Uren on train at Coombe Junction c1900 27u
Passenger train without continuous brakes at Looe in 1890s 27l
Moorswater yard with barouche, horse drawn cart, carriages in station c1905 28
Hurst Nelson bogie carriages being hauled by Lady Margaret at start of incline up to GWR: GWR outside cylinder 4-4-0 on Liskeard viaduct behind 29
Track between Looemills and High Wood, north of Moorswater as improved by GWR in 1909 31u
Coombe Junction station in 1922 31l
Goods depot at Rillaton in 1934 32
Caradon and freight including GWR wagons and dumb buffer wagons reversing at Crow's Nest South Caradon, c1906 33u
Phoenix United Mine c1907 33l
Phoenix United Mine 80-inch Holman engine being installed 34u
Phoenix United Mine with Renwick Wilton wagon 34l
Cheeswring as GWR No. 1311 at Old Oak Common in 1919 35
Moorswater viaduct in 1930 36u
Moorswater  engine shed shortly after closure in September 1961 36m
Moorswater  engine shed shortly after closure in September 1961 36l
Kilmar Railway milepost 37
South Caradon mines in 1930s 38u
South Caradon mines in 1930s showing stone blocks on Gonamena incline 38l

Jeffrey Wells. All change at Berwick-upon-Tweed. 39-46.
The North British Railway opened in 1846 and connected Edinburgh with Berwick. Its station in Berwick was situated on the former site of Berwick Castle and much of the stone was reused for railway buildings. The station was so-placed to enable progress south over  what was to become the Royal Border Bridge across the Tweed. By  tyhe twentieth century it had become inadequate and the NBR had intended to rebuild it prior to WW1, but this had to be deferred and one of the first actions by the LNER was to replace it with something better, work began in April 1924. Much of this still survives. It is essentially a before and after feature.

Station as seen from Station Approach c1900 39u
Royal Border Bridge c1880 (engraving) 39l
Plan: pre-reconstruction 40
Station in 1900 (from Rly Mag) 40u
Roundhouse and turntable 1909 (from Rly Mag) 40l
Station interior 1909 41u
Station interior 1909 with up Flying Scotsman formed of E CJS 41d
Downside sidings with presumed Edinburgh local waiting for platform space 1909 (from Rly Mag) 42u
K class 4-4-0 No. 889 with staff 42l
Plan: post-reconstruction 43
Station during reconstruction showing new island platform (Rly Gaz.) 43
Platform and main building on it during construction (Rly Gaz.) 44u
Completed island platform with footbridge (Rly Gaz.) 44l
Ai Pacific No. 2563 William Whitelaw with corridor tender on non-stop? Flying Scotsman crossing Royal Border Bridge 45
Footbridge (Rly Gaz.) 46u
W.H. Smith & Son most northerly bookstall (Rly Gaz.) 46m
Station facade in 1927 (Rly Gaz.) 46l

'Down Postal'. 47-8

Hay for Didcot. John Lewis.
Hay  at Culham station for Didcot Provender Store?

L.&N.E.R. van at Braunton. Peter Tatlow.
Cites his own LNER wagons. Volume 4A (Didcot: Wild Swan, 2012) page 34 for diagram 43 of this vehicle, which would not have been carrying sugar beet which was conveyed in open wagons.

L.&N.E.R. van at Braunton. Euan Corrie.

Southern Railway loco. numberplates. John Hutchings.
Caption states that number plates were made of cast iron: they were made from brass.

Metropolitan matters. Michael Coulson.

Military hospital railways — locomotives. Andrew Neale.

Military hospital railways — locomotives. Bill Aves.

Military hospital railways — memories. D.W. Hadley

Fly shunted: a Deeside Railway 0-4-2. Harry Jack. 48
Photograph: original print of Hawthorns of Leith WN 232/1860, Deeside Railway No. 6 with 4ft 6in coupled wheels and 15 x 21in cylinders. Probably painted dark blue with black boiler bands. See letter from Keith Fenwick Issue 43 page 48.

Brian Arman. The H.L. Hopwood Collection 1902-1926. Part 17: The London & South Western Railway. 49-58

Adams X2 class 4-4-0 No. 592 at Waterloo station on 22 June 1901 49
Adams 460 class 4-4-0 No. 466 at Waterloo station on 22 June 1901 50
Drummond E10 class 4-2-2-0 No. 369 with water tubes in the firebox at Nine Elms on 1 July 1905 51
Adams 415 class 4-4-2T No. 417 (caption states on duplicate list, but no zero visible) at Nine Elms on 1 July 1905 52
Beattie 2-4-0WT No. 0298 at Nine Elms Works on 18 September 1909: Maurice Dart (Issue 45 p. 80) corrects caption 53u
Beattie 0-6-0ST No. 332  with part of Metropolitan 4-4-0T No. 320 at Nine Elms Works 53l
Adams 380 class 4-4-0 No. 391 at Nine Elms Works on 1 July 1905 54
Adams X2 class 4-4-0 No. 580 on turntable at Nine Elms on 1 July 1905 55
Drummond K10 (Small Hopper) class 4-4-0 No. 137 on 18 September 1909 56u
Dorchester station on 15 September 1925 56l
Holsworthy station on 11 September 1923 with freight train at platform 57
Bude station with X6 class 4-4-0 No. 657 about to depart on 10.50 on 15 September 1923 58u
Adams 445 class 4-4-0 No. 448 at Exeter Queen Street c1902 [not Hopwood Collection] See letter  from Peter Swift in 43 page 48: Bournemouth  58l

Text not directly related to photographs, but gives a brief history of the London & Southampton Railway and the LSWR: see also Backtrack, 2014, 28, 138.

A.J. Mullay. Mr Beevor's Railways: how BR's Regions were formed. 59-64
A relatively brief examination based mainly on Bonavia and Gourvish plus an examination of official British Transport Commission sources on the division of British Railways into regions: London Midland (vastly larger than the others), Eastern, Western, Southern, Scottish and North Eastern. The Eastern and North Eastern were not remerged until 1968. The Joint Lines and some other railways, notably the Mersey Railway, were absorbed into the obvious regions. Includes discussion on the tidying up at the fringes: Silloth being transferred from the Scottish to the London Midland, for instance. Brief biographical sketch of Miles Beevor, Acting General Manager of the LNER and Chief Executive of the British Transport Commission. The illustrations, other than a couple, have little direct relationship to the article, although the excellent captions make some attempt. See also letter from Peter Tatlow in Issue 43 page 48.

Railway statistics 1946 59
North Eastern Railway Company offices in York 60
Class 4 2-6-4T shunts TPO vehicle at Ayr on 26 May 1965 61
Princess Victoria undergoing trials on the Clyde (vessel sank 31 January 1953)* 62
Duchess No. 46242 City of Glasgow on up Caledonian passing Penrith in late 1950s 63
Circular letter establishing North Eastern Region 64
Miles Beevor with A4 of that ilk 64
Duchess No. 46242 City of Glasgow on up Caledonian near Whitmore in August 1959  (colour) rc

The poignant loss of the Princess Victoria is covered in depth: Mullay argues that muddled management satructure at Stranraer may not have aided rescue: KPJ: my father, Frank Jones, was called by the Press in Manchester (thus the family was aware of the disaster), but he passed the calls on to BTC Headquarters

John Alsop and Neil Parkhouse. Wish you were here? Railway postcards of Monmouthshire. Pt 2: The Western, Sirhowy & Rhymney Valleys. 65-80; rear cover (lower)

Newport: railway and road bridges over River Usk (latter with trams) c1910 65
Newport station down main platform 1920s 66u
Newport station facade with old station building alongside c1930 66m
Newport new tunnel in 1910 with Star class emerging from old tunnel and 0-6-0ST 66l
Marshfield station 67u
Bassaleg accident recovery of Alexandra (Newport & South Wales) Docks & Railway 0-6-0ST No. 28 67l
Risca original station (pre-1910) 68u
Risca four platform station (post-1910) 68m
Risca original junction with 0-6-0ST from Cross Keys 68l
Risca junction with diamond crossings 1912 69
Hall's Road Junction see also Archive 55 p. 26 and references therefrom 70u
Cross Keys station with 0-6-0ST c1908 70l
Crumlin Low Level with viaduct beyond 71u
Crumlin High Level in 1908 71m
Crumlin viaduct with 39XX 2-6-2T with passenger train of clerestory stock crossing 71l
Llanhilleth Junction with collieries c1910 72u
Llanhilleth station post 1901 72l
Aberbeeg station c1905 73u
Abertillery station 73m
Blaina station with GWR 2-6-2T 73l
Beaufort station on 8 March 1947 with Coal Tank buried in deep snow 74u
Beaufort station c1910 74m
Ebbw Vale LNWR station on 5 August 1914 with 3rd Monmouthshire Regiment off to fight 74l
Ebbw Vale GWR station with 0-6-0ST on passenger train 75u
Cwm station c1912 75l
Tredegar station and engine shed: see also Dunn 76u
Blackwood station 76m
Tredegar Junction station in 1910: renamed Pontllanfraith in 1911 76l
Rhymney station (Brecon & Merthyr Railway) in 1921 77u
New Tredegar & Tirphil c1908 77l
Rhymney Railway (in Glamorganshire) and Brecon & Merthyr Railway in Monmouthshire c1907* 78
Britannia Colliery at Pengam (all electric colliery) post-WW2 view 79u
Fleur-de-Lis platform opened in 1926 79l
Machen station (Brecon & Merthyr Railway)  with 0-6-0ST 80u
Church Road (Brecon & Merthyr Railway) 80l
Rhiwderin station and village c1906 rcl

* Much of the Brecon & Merthyr Railway beyond New Tredegar experienced a major landslip in 1930 leading to the total closure of the railway and New Tredegar Colliery

Issue Number 43 (June 2014)

Giles Brown. 4 Pause 4 Pause 4: the journey of the LM&SR Royal Train: Euston-Birmingham & Birmingham-Euston, 13th & 14th July 1938. 2-16.
Article based on pair of Royal Train journeys for a visit to Birmingham planned to be made by the King and Queen, but due to their illness the visit and journey was made by the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester. The full itinerary is reproduced, but the illustrations relate to other Royal Train journeys in the same period. The journey of 13/14 involved a sleep-over at Berkswell lie-by siding (arrival 02.12; departure 10.10)

Map showing key points in journeys 2
Berkswell level crossing, junction and station c1950 4
Berkswell level crossing, junction and station from platform level 6
No. 6130 The West Yorkshire Regiment at Crewe prior to entering works (not in Royal Train condition) 7
Royal Train fomations: side elevations and plans 8-9
Claughton No. 5944 on down Royal Train on Bushey troughs on 15 August 1925 (H. Gordon Tidey) 10
Compounds Nos. 1176 and 1135 climbing Beattock with Euston to Glasgow Royal Train on 10 July 1930 (Ken Nunn) 11
No. 6119 Lancashire Fusilier climbing Shap with Royal Train on 29 September 1934 [launch of RMS Queen Mary was on 26 September: empty stock?] 12
No. 6152 The King's Royal Dragoon Guardsman on Stranraer to Euston Royal Train at Headstone Lane on 29 July 1937 (Ken Nunn) 13u
Nos. 5741 Leinster and 5742 Connaught on Liverpool to Euston Royal Train on 20 March 1937 [return from Grand National] 13l
No. 6221 Queen Elizabeth (blue) on Holyhead to Euston Royal Train at Headstone Lane on 5 May 1938 (Ken Nunn) 14
No. 6226 Duchess of Norfolk (red) on Perth to Euston Royal Train at Headstone Lane on 2 July 1938 (Ken Nunn) 15
No. 6225 Duchess of Gloucester (red) on Euston (departed 20.00) to Ballater Royal Train on 31 July 1939 16

Table lists other Royal Train photographs in that period,

Query corner. 16
Carriage trucks loaded with limbers and floats for crossing railways or canals: location not known, but presumably during WW1

Roger Langley. The broad gauge in Cheltenham 1844-1872. 17-39
The Cheltenham & Great Western Union Railway which links Cheltenham to Swindon was authorised by an Act in 1836, but progress in construction was slow and was influenced by two other railways: the Birmingham & Gloucester Railway and the Bristol & Gloucester Railway. These were taken over by the Midland Railway in 1846. The Great Western had taken over the C&GWUR in 1843. A further complication was that there was a Gloucester to Cheltenham Tramway which pre-dated these railways, but influenced routes within Cheltenham. The long article includes sections from several coloured maps which tend to spread over parts of two pages and an attempt will be made to describe these as well as the illustrations which in some cases fit on a page or part of one, but in some cases are in "boxes" within the "map pages". Includes details of train services through to London Paddington which varied between being fast and extremely slow. Almost all trains between Cheltenham and Gloucester accommodated third class passengers presumably at the behest of the Midland Railway.

Cheltenham High Street looking west c1860 17
Maps from survey of Cheltenham made between 1855 and 1857 18-19
Map from C&GWUR Act showing original terminus planned for location between St. George's Place and St. James Square 19
Cheltenham Promenade looking north c1860 20
Jessop' Gardens Illustrated Cheltenham Guide 1845: entrance, nursery, aviaries and monkey house 21
Enlargements from maps on pp. 18-19 22-23
Royal Train passing Cheltenham on 29 September 1849 en route from Newcastle to Gloucester (Illustrated London News) 23i
Cheltenham & Oxford Railway of May 1842: map showing link to Birmingham to Gloucest Railway 24
Christ Church c1860 25
8F 2-8-0 on coal train near Lansdown station 26i
Enlargements from maps on pp. 18-19 26-7
No. 7023 Penrice Castle approaching Malvern Road station on 8 August 1964 26i
No. 7029 Clun Castle arriving St. James with 17.00 ex-Gloucester on 12 June 1965 (Bill Potter) 27i
GWR notice of opening of St. James's Square on 10 September 1846 29
Site of Malvern Road Junction in May 1979 30u
Panorama St. James station 30l
Enlargements from map on pp. 18-19 showing St. James station and Shackleford's Waggon Works 31
Shackleford's Railway Waggon Works from Measom's Guide 32
Cheltenham engine shed c1849 with Polar Star, Alligator and Javelin 33
4-4-0 leaving St. James station and passing under St. George's Road bridge c1900 34u
Engine shed partially dismantled with Metro tank engines 34l
Malvern Road station c1908 35
Lansdown Junction c1890 36
Aerial view c1930: St James station at top Christ Church at foot 37

Andrew Neale. A wandering Hunslet. 40-1.
Photograph of Hunslet WN 202/1878 as converted to 4ft 8½in gauge in October 1886: Hunslet Order Number 9194. It was originally constructed fir the Irish 5ft 3in gauge and supplied to, together with WN 203/1878 to Charles M. Holland of Liverpool for Derry Central Railway Magherfelt to Macfin section contract. They had 10 x 15in outside cylinders and 2ft 6in coupled wheels and were 0-6-0STs, probably based on similar locomotives built for the metre gauge. 202 was named Magherfelt and 203 was named Pioneer. The photograph shows the standard gauge locomotive Cumbria, but it is not known if the name was bestowed by Walter Scott & Co. which owned it in 1901 and used it on contracts building the Dearne Valley Railway in 1901 and on new railways in County Durham in 1905.

Peter Tatlow.  A.C. Johnstone: railway photographer of London and the Home Counties, 1913-1914. 42-7.
Based on an album of photographs acquired in a second-hand bookshop in Guildford. The photographer was Archibald Clive Johnstone who had originated in Halifax and joined the Baltic Exchange in 1920 when aged 28, working for Lindsay, Blee & Co. He became a director in 1936 and died in March 1975.

County Tank 4-4-2T No. 2244 at Paddington with Sunday Windsor train on 17 August 1913 42
Metropolitan District electric multiple unit at Richmond on Sunday 17 August 1913 43
Johnson 4-4-0 No. 753 departing from St. Pancras on 14.05 for Nottingham on Saturday 23 August 1913 44
North London Railway 4-4-0T No. 70 at Richmond on Saturday 27 September 1913 45
Waterloo station with Drummond 4-4-0 Nos. 703 (T9) on 14.10 for Weymouth and 417 (L12) on 14.20 to Bournemouth on Thursday 16 April 1914 46
S69 class 4-6-0 No. 1520 at Liverpool Street station on Thursday 18 June 1914 47

'Down Postal'. 48

Bessemer correction. Bill Armstrong
Not a D2 as stated in caption, but solitary B3 class (previously B class)

Platform connundrum at Nantyderry. Roger A. Smith
Sub-standard height and length platform. Further notes on inadequate platform at Brownhills. 

Deeside Railway No. 6. Keith Fenwick
Same photograph is included in Hugh Gordon's Great North of Scotland Railway locomotives on page 15

The size of BR Regions. Peter Tatlow
Points out that pyramidical management structure adopted by LMS contrasted with more devolved structure adopted by LNER made latter simpler to divide (hence North Eastern Region) and that if 1923 Grouping had segregated Midland/GSWR then some of the extra railway capacity now needed might have remained: see also Was the LMS too big? Backtrack, 2013, 27, 472.

Not Exeter. Peter Swift
Picture in Issue 42 on page 58 lower was at Bournemouth Central: picture on this page shows Exeter Queen Street.

The railway through Uttoxeter. Allan C. Baker and Mike G. Fell
Biographical details of James Henry Birkin, station master of Uttoxeter, and of his father John Birkin (1829-1894) who was employed as a labourer, then as a pointsman, and then as a gatekeeper on the North Staffordshire Railway. James Henry was born in 1855 at Stone and Baptised at Hanford on 3 January 1858. His initial employment was as a labourer in a brickyard, probably that owned by Smith & Son. He joined the North Staffordshire Railway at Rudyard and was later transferred to the Parcels Office at Hanley. His first station master's post was at Fenton; then at Etruria, Longton and finally Uttoxeter where he had to retire due to heart illness. He died in January 1915. He married Mary Ellen Glass at Etruria on 31 December 1889 and they had a daughter named Daisy. His obituary appeared in the Staffordshire Weekend Sentinel published on 23 January 1915.

Barry Taylor. Fairlie controversial, or a little local difficulty at Blisworth in 1875. 49-57
The Northampton & Banbury Junction Railway and the more grandly named East & West Junction Railway were short of cash and orders were placed for loccomotives for which they could not pay and alternative arrangements had to be made to hire motive power from firms like Boulton (Bennett: Chronicles of Boulton's Sidings) See also letter (Issue 45 p. 80) from Mike Barnsley on Fairlie locomotive

Northampton & Banbury Junction station at Blisworth c1930 49
Panorama of junctions and stations at Blisworth in 1930s 50
East & West Junction Railway Fairlie 0-6-6-0 in snow 52
Somerset & Dorset Railway 2-4-0 No. 3 54
Hercules 0-6-0 originally built by Thwaites & Carbutt and supplied via Boulton 55u
Blisworth station in January 1960 55l
Fairlie 0-4-4T as Swindon, Marlborough & Andover Railway No. 4 56
General arrangement drawing of single boiler Fairlie 0-4-4T 57

Neil Parkhouse. The Tregantle Military Railway. A glimpse of a little known and short lived military railway backwater. 58-60
Forts were built in the Rame Peninsula in Cornwall during the mid-nineteenth century to defend Plymouth from attack by the French navy. One was on the River Lynher and the other on the Tamar. They were known as Palmerston's Follies, but in the late nineteenth century relations with the French declined and a new fort was constructed on Tregantle Down with the assistance of a railway to quays at Wacker. This was not linked to the national system, but by an inclined plane. Manning Wardle four-coupled WN 941/1885 aand six-coupled WN 967/1885 were used by contrctactor Lucas & Laird: the 0-6-0 was numbered 384. The railway ceased to be used in about 1903.

Sappers assembled on temporary bridge over disused Scraesdon incline in 1906 58
Map 59
Cover of  book by Philip Payton Tregantle & Scraesdon: their forts and railway 60

John Alsop. Wish you were here? Railway postcards of Middlesex. Part 1. The lines to the East: GER, GNR, NLR, MR and L&NWR. 61-80.

Potters Bar station platforms (coloured postcard) fc
Enfield Lock station with level crossing on Ordnance Road an M15 2-4-2T 61
Ponders End station with down train arriving 62u
Seven Sisters Junction 62l
Bush Hill Park station 63u
Enfield Town station 63m
Rendlesham Viaduct near completion c1910 63l
Gordon Hill station platforms c1910 64u
Gordon Hill station frontage c1912 64m
Enfield station frontage c1910 64l
Winchmore Hill station frontage 1904 65u
Palmers Green & Southgate 65m
Bowes Park station platform with C2 4-4-2T enetering with Moorgate train 65l
Potters Bar & South Mimms station platform 66u
Hadley Wood station platforms and portal of Hadley Wood North Tunnel 66m
New Southgate & Friern Barnet station platforms 66l
Wood Green & Alexandra Palace station platforms with C2 No. 1529 arriving on northbound train 67u
Wood Green looking south with NLR 4-4-0T and archaic carriages setting off towards City 67l
Harringay station platforms and offices on bridge on 24 June 1905 68u
Stroud Green station platforms with C2 4-4-2T No. 1533 entering on passenger train 68m
Crouch End station platforms 68l
Highgate station with tunnel portals 69u
Highgate station from above 69l
Cranleigh Gardens platforms 70u
Muswell Hill station platforms 70l
Finchley Church End station platforms 71u
Finchley Church End station platforms with C2 No. 1529 71m
Finchley Church End station platforms 71l
Finchley Viaduct (now known as Dollis Brook Viaduct) 72u
Woodside Park station platforms c1904 72l
Edgware station frontage 73u
GNR steam railcar No. 2 73l
Hendon station platforms and offices with MR 2228 class 0-4-4T No. 1383 on up local 74u
Welsh Harp station island platform on 5 July 1900 with Johnson 4-4-0 passing on light passenger train 74l
Stanmore station platform 75
Harrow & Wealdstone station platforms c1903 76u
Harrow & Wealdstone station forecourt with LNWR buses for Bushey and Watford and Harrow Town 76l
Wembley station platforms with Alfred the Great class 4-4-0 passing on light express 77u
Wembley station forecourt c1910 77l
Willesden Junction station entrance c1907 78
Willesden Junction work on new electric line station 1911 79u
Willesden Junction station entrance c1920 79l
Kensal Rise station forecourt c1905 80u
Brondesbury station platforms with NLR 4-4-0T No. 33 entering 80l
LNWR Milnes-Daimler bus No. 8 restration LC-8051 at Watford on Harrow service rc