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THE TIMETABLE n il i : 1,URS M^' SILVER JUBILEE WEEKEND Friday 1^ November Talk and Slide Presentation, 'THE : 196I- 1986', by Mr.B.R.Hardy. I9.OO for 19ol5 in the Conference Room, Baden-Powell House, Members, families and friends welcome. ; !| Satmdav 19 November Overseas Reunion Meeting, 14.00 to 18.30 in the General Pur- iili poses Room, Rotherhithe Civic Centre, Albion Street, London, \V» SEI6. Nearest station - Rotherhithe, Metropolitan (East London) Line. If there is sufficient interest, it is hoped to have an informal dinner in a nearby restaurant after the meeting. It il is proposed to show slides and cine film taken on previous overseas visits to France, The Netherlands, Belgium, West ' Germany, The DDR and Tunisia. Previous participants in over- \\\ seas visits are invited to bring with them a selection of iis slides for viewing. ! I Sunday I6 November Study tour of Station Modernisation on the London Underground^ original stations and other points of interest. Participants hi mast provide themselves with suitable ticketing to cover Zones i ' |i 1 & 2. The cheapest way to do this is to use a one-day Zones 1, 2 & 3ab off-peak travelcard, if not already holding a suit- Mj able travelcard or pass. Participants are asked to meet in the Ml lower floor of McDonalds restatirant, 35 The Strand, adjacent to Charing Cross LU and BR stations. Suitable breaks for re- i freshments etc. will be made during the cotirse of the tour. It f i is expected that the study tour will occupy the bulk of the ;! day-light hours. Meeting time 09.30. lii OTHER ITEMS | ij Friday ? December Talk, "OPO - ', by Mr.J.Ellis, Traffic Manager, (District & Piccadilly), London Underground Ltd. 19,00 for 19,15 in the Conference Room, Baden-Powell House. See also page 165 of this issue. p

UNCIRUHO'X.U (V b -JBL't LD * h-nlN J i \x>> u\ -r.j", ,1,,,,, j,v . ' ^ . , ;'H THE 19?8 TUBE STOCK RETURNS staff and the travelling public-with 'tender, loving care' they could last for some time to After an absence of almost ten months, the 1938 come. Certainly, their 50th birthday (on 30 Tube Stock returned to passenger service on the June 1988) should be no problem I London Underground on Monday morning 35 Septem• ber 1986. What was supposed to be their final Destination plates for the train on 15 Septem• run took place on Wednesday 20 November 1985 on ber were loaned to LU from the Society's collec• the (see UN 289, page 2 and UN 290, tion, two complete sets being provided. Despite 15/16), this, a temporary HIGH BARNBT plate (black-on- pages but revival became necessary to 10291. provide stock for additional services and to white) was used on north end DM Members are assured that all the plates have been retur• form a float of trains for OPO (tube) conversion 1 of the 1972 Hkll and 1983 stocks. To this end, ned in good order fourteen trains of 1972 Mkll stock are making By late September, the second train of 1938 their way from the Northern to the Bakerloo. stock became available at Ruislip, having been with the same number of 1959 stock trains from repainted in Underground red with cream window the Bakerloo back to the Northern. These trans• uprights. Looking resplendent in original con• fers are expected to be completed in October dition, complete with gold transfers for the 1986. fleetname and car numbers, units 10229 and lll84 were transferred to on Mon- A total of five trains are being returned to cifly 22 September, to take part in brake tests, service, first being overhauled at Huiallp as a different type of block has been fitted to depot, and will work peak-hour services on the this train. At the end of the month, the train . The first of these, the 'Star• could be found on the South Ealing test tracks, light Express* (units 10291+1J012) made its 15 17I. between Acton Town and Northfields. The over• debut on Monday September, working train hauled tt-ains are having Positive Train Iden• Departure from Morden was just two minutes late 07.49 tification (PTX) equipment fitted. Inside, at and the train ran as follows: rotting window sills are being replaced where necessary, as is the maple wood flooring. Sched Actual Time 07.49 -2 Morden (plat.3) 07.47 DOCKLANDS UPDATE Tooting Broadway 07.55 07.57 -2 08 08,16 Kennington (City) .12i -3i On Wednesday 10 September 1986, the Docklands .59 Camden Town 08.36 08 -3 Light Railway held a Press preview of their new Finchley Central 08.50+ 08.54 -3| 09-O1I 09.05 -3i rolling stock. The eleven trains now being de• High Barnet (plat.l) livered are electrically-powered six-axle artic• High Barnet (plat-l) 09.Ill 09.Ill - ulated units of welded steel construction. Two- Camden Town 09.37 09.38 -1 axle motored bogies are located at each end of Kennington (City) 09.58 09.59 -1 the car with a central, non-motored, two-axle Tooting Broadway 30.13 10.15 -2 bogle under the articulation joint. 10.20 10.23 -3 Morden The design is based on a development of a stan• dard light rail vehicle as widely used in At the start of the journey there was only a few Europe, North America and elsewhere. It features enthusiasts who were to witness the ra- entry in• four sets of inward-gliding double doors on each to service, and only three completed the round side, seats for 84 passengers, floorspace for trip. At High Barnet, however, a reception party two wheelchairs and standing space for 13O. To was waiting - London Underground 'top brass' and aid passenger vision, large tinted side windows representatives from both ITV and BBC televis• and single-piece full width windscreens are ion, as well as station and train staff. This fitted, together with double-faced destination event was given good coverage by both TV compan• blinds that can also be read from within the ies in their local news programmes. ITV's Thames Vehicle. The seats comprise separate red or blue News included an interview with Society Chairman cushions. Grab handrails are fitted on trans- Fred Ivey and both charmels featured an inter• vei"se seats and the specification includes a view with LU Genaral Manager, Alastair Heslop. generous number of vertical and horizontal hand• The reaction of passengers was also favourable. rails. The two wheelchair spaces are placed near Operating in the peak period, many were taken by the centre cf the vehicles adjacent to the surprise, for it is nearly 8^ years (since l4 1978) 1938 middle two of the four door apertures, and seats April since stock has operated on with 'less able to stand than you' notices are the Northern Lino (excluding the (then) "Fare• 1978). positioned next to the wheelchair spaces. Train well Tour' in June Some viewed the train doors will be opened by passengers operating as 'better than the new*, others as 'rather illuatinating push-buttons. Notices inside the nice', while some dared to suggest, 'was it trains proudly proclaim, 'High Performance new?'J Certainly, there has never been a tube Vehicle, please hold tight'. train with so comfortable seats, clthcugh head• O8 ing northbound towards the City just after .OO The trains will be driven automatically and will it was packed to capacity - just like any other 1 1938 not have driving caba. However, driving controls train One hopes that the five trains of at the ends of each car will be provided to stock will be looked after by crews, maintenance allow manual operation in the depot area, or in

Photographs opposite: Top -The first articulated unit for the Docklands Light Railway poses in the depot open-air stab• ling sidings soon after delivery. Built by Linke Hoffman Dusch of West Germany, they are being delivered to Poplar by road, the first unit arriving on 7 August 1986- It was 'craned' onto the tracks the following day. Photo - Docklands Light Railway. Lower -The red, blue and white livery is not unlike BR's Network South-East colours, but is applied differently t Unit 01 is seen arriving at Poplar station on Wednesday 10 September I986, on the occasion of the Press preview of the new trains. Since the upper photo was taken, destin• ation blinds have been fitted and these are 'repeated' to display the same information facing inwards for passenger benefit. Photo -Brian Hardy.

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To Island Gardens the event of a partial system failure. Under Body Structure: normal conditions, these emergency controls will be locked out of sight - of wandering hands J A Welded steel construction with polyurethane member of staff -whose role will be called a painted finish, Train Captain-will be on board at all times to Foxir doorways each side per car, each of 1,300mm control the doors and station departures, check clear opening, fitted with double inward-gliding tickets and assist passengers. Controls for the doors, electro-pneumatically operated passenger Train Captain (for door operation) are provided control of door opening. at each double doorway, the relevant position being activated by the insertion of a special Seats - combination of transverse pairs and long• key. itudinal bench seats. Glass-reinforced plastics frames with moquette-covered cushions and A high standard of glare-free Internal illumin• squabs. ation is provided by two continuously-louvred strip lighting systems placed towards the outer Bogles; edges of the flat ceiling. Flooring is of non- slip rubber matting and the rule Is 'No Smoking' Welded steel H-frame construction, with rolling throughout. rubber ring primary and alrbag secondary suspen• sion. Roller bearing slewing rings. The blue, t*i and white livery was chosen by the DIJR Joint Board in I985 and the simple but Two motors per articulated unit, one motor in effective geographical fleetname 'DOCKLANDS' was each of the outer bogies, frame-mounted longit• also decided by the Joint Board, but in early- udinally driving both axles via right angle 1986. Although the operating company la a wholly gearboxes and flexible drives. owned London Regional Transport subsidiary, the Single disc brake per axle, the actuators on the joint clients control the building of the rail• motored bogles Incorporating spring-applied way and the livery and name decisions reflect parking brakes. Resilient wheels of 7^0 dia new, their joint interests, and not simple those of 660 dia minimum. LRT. Traction Control; Cars will operate with colour-coded destinations to aid passenger route recognitions white lett• Supply 75OV d.c. from an under-running (bottom ering on green for the City-Isle of Dogs destin• contact) thii-d rail. The two motors are fed in parallel from a two-phase chopper giving an ations and white on red for Stratford-Isle of 528 Dogs. Station and vehicle maps will use the overall frequency of Hz. Each half of the local rout e colours as well. chopper uses a single Gate Turn-off Thyristor (GTO). As well as the station public address and 'Next Train' indicators announcing the approach of a The motor fields are series fed in motoring, but train, a pair of daytime headlights will always separately excited in rheostatic braking. Regen• erative braking is not provided. Maximum accel• be switched on to act as Important safety warn• 700 ing with these quiet-running vehicles. erating current - amps/vehicle. At the end of September 1986, two units had been Auxiliaries; delivered-01 on 7.8.&6 and 03 on 8.9.86. Unit 24-volt battery charged by an ac-dc converter 02 was delayed by undergoing strain gauge tests operating at 600 Hz. lO Kva capacity. Hydrovane at the manufactxirers in ¥est Germany. (rotary vane) compressor of type TB11/C14. Scharfenberg automatic coupling provided. DLR Vehicles - Statistics (see also diagram over) Each two-body articulated car, which is capable CURRENT RAIL ARRANGEMENT of operating singly or as multiple-unit trains, has the following dimensions: Track cross section Length - 28m Width - 2.65m - 3.40m Height and! size Weight - 39 tonnes (tare) Bogie centres - 10.00m Conductor rail Bogie wheelbase - 2.IO111 and support Minimum track curve radius - 40m Maximum design speed - 80Km/h Passenger accoimnodation - Bk seated, 130 stan• ding, space for two Running rails wheelchairs.

Photographs opposite: Top-The previous pictures of the Docklands Light Railway in Underground News were featured in issue No.296 (August 1986), pages 103/4, and showed the railway as it was on 1 May 1986. Just over four months later, on 10 September 1986, work has progressed rapidly and this view from the end of Poplar station, looking west to North Quay Junction, shows trackwork and conductor rails in posit• ion, and the framework for the platform shelter at adjacent West India Quay station erected (far left of photo). Already, some sections of line have been 'livened up'. Photo - Brian Hardy. Lower - An aerial view of the Isle of Dogs, looking north-west. The Docklands Light Railway bridges can be seen crossing the West India Docks in the centre of the picttire. In the left hand corner of the photo are the former Milwall Docks with the railway running to the east (right) of them. This picture shows clearly the sharp curves that can be achieved with Light Rail. The North Quay'tri• angular junction can be seen, with the other 'legs' of the railway to the City (left) and Stratford (right). Photo - Docklands Light Railway.

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NEW WORKING TIMETABLE an earlier sei'vice is provided by retiming the 06 06 2 286) .40 from Aylesbury to .37 and extending it -No. Section (No. from Amersham to Marylebone. This applies on To coincide with the introduction of One-Person- Mondays to Fridays only, and gives an earlier Operation on the Metropolitan 'main line', new service through Harrow-on-the-Hill at 07.25 in• WTT No.286 replaced No.285 from 29.9.86. The stead of 07.46. In consequence of this, there Is working of the Metropolitan Line service is gen• one less journey to London towards the end of erally unaltered, but the opportunity has been the morning peak. Other changes Include a number taken to reinstate some C stock passenger trips of scheduled six-car workings; 08.19, l4.10, between Baker Street and Wembley Park in the 17.40 and 18.00 northbound, and 08.24 south• early morning and late night period, and to in• bound . corporate changes made to the BR service between Marylebone and Aylesbury. The reintroduction of LETTERS TO THE EDITOR C stock trains in service north of Baker Street eliminates some lengthy intervals between Sir, trains, especially in the early morning. For The London Underground - A Diagrammatic History instance, the gap between 05.07 and 05.30 has been redticed by an 05.16 C stock working. The C With reference to the review of the third edit• stock workings north of Baker Street can be ion of the above mentioned publication appearing summarised thus; in the September issue of Underground News (page 122), correspondence with Mr.Rose has cast more Ex-Wemblev Park light on some of the subjects discussed prev• 05.16 MF & SO iously: 05.34 MF (1) The representation of station tiles on the 05.57 SO cover was intended to be cream and blue, not 06.55 Sun yellow and blue. The laminating process has 07.07 Sun made it appear yellow. From Baker Street (2) In the definitions, 'underground' with a small 'u' means a subsurface railway, where• 00,17 MF & SO (ex-Inner Rail Circle) as 'Underground' appears to mean a company 00.31 MF (ex-Liverpool Street) which eventually became part of London 00.45 MF & SO Transport (or to mean London Transport or 23.54 Sun (ex-Whitechapel) LRT itself). The 'plain' opening dates refer 00.08 Sun (ex-Inner Rail Circle) to the commencement of an underground public service on a line constructed for this pur• Changes to the northbound DMU service ex-Maryle- pose, whereas the dates in inverted commas bone are 08.I9 (instead of O8.IO), I6.OO (16.10) refer to a service run by an Underground and 16.28 (16,40). In the southbound direction, company commencing over an existing line.

Photographs opposite: As reported elsewhere in this issue, 1958 Tube Stock made a welcome return to public service on the Northern Line on Monday 15 September 1986. In the working of train 171, it is seen (top) at Highgate, sporting the temporary HIGH BARNET destination plate, at High Barnet Itself (centre) and Finchley Central (lower) on the southbound return trip - to the amazement of many passengers » The centre and lower photographs show the destination plates loaned by this Society in use. Photos: R.J.Greenaway (top) and Brian Hardy (centre and lower). .

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(3) The inverted commas for the opening of stone' at the north end of the station and Ealing Broadway, Central Line, are erron• 'Harrow' at the south, as though the station is eous . trying to convince itself that it really Is Harrow and Wealdstone. Why it was not renamed d) The original Farringdon Street station was •Wealdstone' many years ago I can never under• roughly on the site of the later Great Nor• stand. thern goods depot. The main Metropolitan service was diverted to the new Farringdon The class 313 trains used on the Watford-Euston Street station from 23 December 1865 con• service carry the line diagram for that line on currently with the extension to Moorgate one side of the car interior, and for the Great Street, but the old station continued to be Northern suburban service on the other - making used by the 6WR (and probably the 6NR too) for greater flexibility of allocation from their until 28 February 1866, after which the Hornsey depot. Widened Lines were extended to Aldersgate Street. Therefore, '22.12.1865' is correct Whilst researching in early-1930's Traffic Cir• for the last day of the Metropolitan ser• culars (or Traffic Notices, to be precise), your vice to the first Farringdon Street (assum• Editor was amazed to find an entry regarding ing that there were not any Metropolitan arrangements for events at Hendon Aerodrome, short workings) but the 'closed' should have affecting Collndale station on what is now the inverted commas to denote that it continued Northern Line. Bearing in mind that crowds used to be used by other operators. the narrow island platform, trains booked to re• verse at Collndale were Instructed to take pass• Yours sincerely, engers into the siding and detrain them in the D. F.Croome. southbound platform t A photograph of such an Perivale, Middlesex. event, showing the crowds at Colindale, can be 15 September 1986. found on page 62 of UndergrounD No.l4.

Sir, REVIEWS Hornby *0' Gauge Metropolitan Electric Locomotive LONDON'S by Alan A.Jackson, The third of Mr.Bancroft'a enquiries (Under• 1986): 4l6 I986, 122 (Newton Abbott: David & Charles, pp ground News, September pages -3) is including 16 pp half-tone: Price £20.00. best answered by referring him first to 'The Hornby Companion Series Vol.5. The Hornby Gauge It is a great pleasure to be able to welcome O System' by Chris and Julie Graebe. This was this book, which in the reviewer's opinion, published by New Cavendish Books in 1985. Brief• ranks as the most important on the London Under• ly though, clockwork and several electric vers• ground since Ralls Through the Clay, to which it ions exist, and so do coaches. Is in effect a companion volume, providing a definitive history of the Metropolitan from its Value of Mr.Bancroft's specimen something over formation to 1933. All aspects of the Metropol• £100 I would guess, but a dealer or avid collec• itan's history are covered with Alan Jackson's tor would have a better idea. Perhaps I could customary thoroughness, with separate appendices draw attention to the existence of the Hornby dealing with goods services and signalling (the Railway Collectors' Association, whose Member• latter by K.R.Benest). ship Secretary is Mr.Bob Field, 2 Ravensmore Road, Sherwood, Nottingham, NG5 2AH. Although perhaps a little expensive, this book is essential for all those interested in the Yours sincerely, history of the Underground. Is it too much to E. D.Chambers. hope that the slightly abrupt end of the story Edgware, Middlesex. in 1933 means that the author is now going to 20 September 1986. turn his attention to the and the post-1933 surface lines ? POINTS OF INTEREST Highly recoiranended. AJR Mr.A.J.Robertson writes - A plan in THE RAILWAY MAGAZINE for November 1935 DOCTOR WHO, A CELEBRATION. TWO DECADES THROUGH (page 382) of the then newly completed Bank to TIME AND SPACE, by Peter Haining. Published by Monument subway shows that it appears to have W.H.Allen, London, 1983. Price: £12.25. been the Intention at the time to provide a sec• Belatedly it is worth recording (nobody seems to ond escalator leading from the concourse under have done so when they happened) that the Doc• the District Line platforms at Monument to the tor's exploits have occasionally Involved the stirface, apparently on the north side of East- London Underground. This apparently comprehen• cheap. sive sturvey mentions (pp 188-189) 'The Web of Mr.D.F.Croome writes - Fear', where an encroaching alien Intelligence filled Underground tunnels with a suffocating Whenever I visit Harrow & Wealdstone station, I cobweb. This was during the period when the am amused by the signs to the two exits: 'Weald- Doctor's physical appearance resembled that of

Photographs opposite: Two British Rail lines that operate tube rolling stock have recently come in for attention. Top -On the Waterloo & City Line, a complete five-car train was In Network Sotith-East livery by 1 September 1986, being photographed at Waterloo the following day. Photo - R.ij .Greenaway. Lower - On the Isle of Wight the appearance of the ex-LT Pre-1938 Tube Stock driving motor cars are being altered considerably with the modifications being made to the driving cab ends. A three-car formation is seen at Ryde Pier Head on 5 February 1986. To date, five DMs (SI, S2, S5, s6andS10) have been so modified, with S9 very nearly complete. Three-car operation of trains on the loW was first tried in the winter of 1985/86 and is expected to resume this winter. Photo - Brian Hardy,

159 Patrick Trough ton. The adventixre was also pub• an Insurance Ticket. On the blink of yoxxr eyelid lished (page 252) in book form (author Terrance an Insurance Ticket would have been dated and Dicks). Also reproduced in the book under review six (old) pence or one shilling added to your (page 13) is the front cover of 'TV Action & total, before you could reply. Such was the Countdown', issue for 13 January 1973, where the typical sale of these tickets and Ticket Clerks Doctor (this time resembling Jon Pertwoe), aided in some cases would reckon to earn sufficient by Nick and Jed, are coping with Zeron invaders, coaimission from the sales to pay for a really who have managed to vandalise a tube train. superb annual holiday. Such was your Reviewer's experience, although no fortunes were made I KDC Here we have an interesting and thorough study RAILWAY TICKETS, TIMETABLES AND HANDBILLS, by of the Company's formation and operations fi-om Maurice Bray. Published by Moorland Publishing- l848. Illustrated are examples of the very many Co.Ltd., 8 Station Street, Ashbourne, Derby• different Insurance Tickets issued over the shire,. DE6 IDF, 1986. 254 X156 mm, hardback, years and advertisements showing the very many price: £10,95, 224 pages With approximately 70 different accidents covered and the payments black-and-white illustrations, plus 350 ticket which could be claimed. The Author quotes the illustrations and eight pages of colour plates oddest claims made during the year l875, when showing 80 taotn tickets. 5,024 accidents caused claims to be made. At long last, an illustrated study of the much The Metropolitan Railway was certainly a Com• neglected aspect of railway history has been pany involved with the issue of these tickets. produced and certainly full marks to the Author. This book is certainly a mast for those interes• Very many railway histories are 'bogged' down ted in railway history. with very many dates which tend to confuse the DGD reader. Mr.Bray has managed to include all the historical essentials but in a very easily read DOCKLANDS LIGHT RAILWAY - A JOURNEY THROUGH HIS• style, making this book very enjoyable. TORY. A series of three folding leaflets, each Starting at the stage coach era, it explains the approx 10x21 cm, opening out unfolded to origin of 'Booking Offices' and 'Booking Clerks' 30 X 21 cm. Published by the Docklands Light when pastieiigers names and journey details were Railway, Availability and prices below. actually recorded in hooks and entered on way• bills. The numbers of passengers who very quick• The Docklands'TTight Railway have produced three ly swamped the railways during the days of the differently coloxired folding leaflets which des• 'railway mania' forced the Companies concerned cribe the three 'legs' of the initial railway: to drastically revise their ticketing arrariige- No.l (pink) covers Tower Gateway to West India Quay, No.2 (pale green) from West India Quay to ments. This produced the card ticket with the 3 Companies producing a different coloiued ticket Island Gardens and No. (pale blue) from West for almost any ex^entuality and I imagine that a India Quay to Stratford, Railway Servant the least bit coloiw-blind stood The layout of each leaflet is identical when no chance I Very many thousands of pounds were opened out. The back of each describes the gen• wasted printing tickets which, with any fore• eral history of the area of the relevant section sight, could never have been issued, and the of line, while the centre section of each is money could have been spent in better ways. identical, giving details of the proposed train service intervals, periods of operation and a Who was Thomas Cook ? Was he the pioneer of map of the system. The right-hand section forms railway excursion traffic, did he organise the the title page when folded. The other side, when first excursion train, or was he just pipped to opened out, has a detailed route diagram with the post ? All is revealed in this fascinating eight (No.3) or ten (Nos. 1 & 2) specific points chapter. of interest along the route, with excellent Similarly, how did Bradshaw seriously upset the drawings to illustrate. railway companies ? This and very much more is These are highly recommended. They are available dealt with very thoroughly including the origins from the Docklands Light Railway, P.O.Box 154, of the Railway Clearing House. Prestons Road, Poplar, London, El4 9QA. Prices The illustrations show some rare and unusual (which include postage and packing) are: 35p for tickets spanning a period of more than 16O years one, 55p for two and 75 for the set of three. including several LT and London area examples. BRH Your reviewer tends to agree with the Publish• er's comment that this is a readable and fascin• SOCIETY SECTION ating study of a much neglected branch of rail• way history. A Message to Members from the printer of Under• DGD " ' " ground News;

THE RAILWAY PASSENGERS ASSURANCE COMPANY with It is regretted that two of the summer issues were well below standard. This was entirely due Particular Reference to its Insurance Tickets, to printing taking place during some very hot by Michael Stewart. Published by the Transport days (rare, but true), when printing ink turned Ticket Society and available from S.A.Skeaving- to 'water' and the stencils were sliding to any• ton, 6 Breckbank, Forest Town, Mansfield, where but the correct place on the printing Notts., NGI9 OPZ. Size a4, paper covers, price drum, £2.35 including postage etc. 56 pages and over 100 illuatrati-OBS. Every effort is being made to ensure that you This publication la written by the present Pres• receive your copy of Underground News at the earliest possible time, but our recent 'late ident of the Transport Ticket Society end forms running' is due to a complete change in work the Society's Occasional Paper No.13. location and different shift hours. Much 'behind Had you been a railway passenger buying tickets the scenes' activity takes place each month with at Paddington station during the 1950's and all members of the production team to get delays 1960*8, you would almost certainly have been to a minimum, and like British Rail, we are asked by the Ticket Clerk if you wished to buy 'getting there' 1

160 Subscriptions for 198?; able to clear quickly enough between trains, The Coniniittee is pleased to announce that Sub• the old entrance has been used on these occas• scription rates for I987 will again be unchanged ions for outgoing passengers. The lifts having and will remain at the following rates: been removed in 1932, xhe modern-day exit has been via the spiral stairs {). Down Street stat• Full Members £8.00 ion, in the quiet Mayfair backwater, continues Associate Members tk.50 to be Instantly recognisable. Although disused Postal Supplement for as a station and much of the wartime features Overseas Members 'down below' removed, regular staff access to the track-level Interlocking Machine Room is September Baden-Powell House Meeting still maintained. The stu-roundings to York Road The September 1986 Baden-Powell House meeting station (closed in 1932) in York Way have been was a slide presentation compiled and presented demolished but the top station building is still by six Society Committee members. Intact, as is that at South Kentish Town on the CCE&HR. This latter station was closed '..in Registrar Alan Blake opened the meeting with a the forenoon on 5 June 1924 due to a power selection of current pictiures entitled DISUSED shortage and never reopened.' Such practices STATIONS & STATION ENTRANCES, beginning with the would never be allowed to take place today • The Metropolitan outposts on the Brill and Verney CCE&KR building in Melton Street, Euston, re• Junction branches, taken on the occasion of the mains, being utilised as part of the Underground special bus ti'ips organised by London Buses in substation. This entrance, along w^ith the C SLR the sujnroer of 1985 and 1986. At Wotton we saw building in Eversholt Street, was closed in l<-}tk the house that once served as a booking office from which time access to the station was via for both the Metropolitan and Great Central the LNWR main line station. Railway, the latter passing ever the Met. Stay• ing with the Metropolitan the emergency exits to Alan completed his selection of slides by show• the three disused stations between Finchley Road ing two 'oddities'. The first was the entrance, and Baker Street were featured. At Marlborough or what remained of it, to the tram underground Road it was assumed that the exit was through station at Holborn, now a grille in the pavement the original station building, now a Chinese covers the stairway that still exists beneath. The final topic was the entrances to the old restaurant, while at Lords (previously St.Johns Tower Subway, opened on 2 August I87O. It was a Wood and originally St.Johns Wood Road) this was passenger-carrying tube railway for four months, at the back of the Cumberland Hotel. following which it became a pedestrian subway The tour continued, looking at the disused en• until closed in l894, after the opening of Tov/er trance to Bishops Bridge Road at Paddington, Bridge. The northern 'entrance' was seen to be Kings Cross (Met.) on which the present Kings in near original condition, while that on tiie Cross Midland station of BR has been built, and south side appeared to be of more modern con• Ostcrley & Spring Grove on the District, which struction. It has since been used by the London had given way in 1934 to the new Osterley stat• Hydraulic Power Company until recently, for ion a little distance further west and sited on carrying their high-pressure main. the Great West Road. It was interesting to note that the surface buildings and platforms at the John Thomason then presented some recent slides old Osterley station still survived, although with unusual and diverse interest, starting with the stairway connection between them had long a Southern Railway ownership plate adjacent to Turnham Green station. A blue plate commemmor- since been severed. On the Central London, the ating Edward Johnston (1872-1944) who was famous frontage of Wood Lane was observed, followed by for his typeface on Underground signs and pub• the terracotta style finish to British .Museum licity, was seen attached teahouse in Chiswick. station in Holborn, closed in 1933 but still It was seen that he lived there from I905 to disceriiable as a tube station building. Turning 1912 and was recognised as a Master Calligrapher. to the City & South London Railway, the remains Interesting items at High Street Kensington of City Road station, in the form of an access/ station included a Left-Luggage hatch (a service ventilation shaft, closed in 1922, were seen. long since abandoned on the Underground) and Alan recalled that the actual station buildings architectural lighting in the booking hall, as remained until fairly recently, having been de• well as MR/MDR monograms on the brickwork. Other molished with the construction of nearby flats. interesting signs included the 'Harburg' bulls- Access to the long-closed ( 19OO) King William eye presented to LT by the Hamburg -system in Street station was seen to be via the modern November 1983 at Victoria station, and another building of Regis House. plaque presented to LT in I963 at Baker Street Other disused station entrances at stations by the Lisbon Metro. There is also a plaque at which are still open via other entrances inclu• the premises of the London Transport Rowing Club ded the C&SIJR stairwell entrance to Kings Cross at Hammersmith, by the River Thames 1 John con• (closed in 196?), London Bridge -which was tinued with the more unusual pictures, making closed in 196? when escalators replaced the use, for example, of reflection in OPO mirrors. lifts, and similarly at Highbury in 1968. At Finally, a restaurant in Belgium featured the Art Nouveau sytie of the Paris Metro at its Strand, the old station entrance is now in use front and, not surprisingly, was named 'Metro- as a take-away food bar, but in the entrance politain', and the LT bullseye sign at Witten- area only. bergplatz station on the Berlin Underground was Disused station entrances of the Yerkes Ttibes also seen. featured mostly on the . At Brompton Road a new frontage to the disused Jim Wright's selection took us around Edgware station has recently been built, but the dis• Road station, including a behind-the-scenes look tinctive blood-red tiling remains behind. At from roof level. We were able to see and apprec• Hyde Park Corner, the old station entrance still iate the station layout and location of Griffith remains. It was once a J.Lyoxis restaurant, but House, built on the site of the old Edgware Road later became a 'Pizza on the Park' eating estab• engine sheds of the Metropolitan Railway, Engin• lishment. It is now vacated and disused entire• eers, test trains and enthusiasts specials have ly. (Editor's note: In connection with certain all visited Edgware Road at some time and we recent events in Hyde Park, which has generated were shown a selection of these. C77 stock motor heavy traffic which the escalators have not been car 5719. rebuilt with a C69 black roof dome,

161 was featured at platform and footbridge level. the LT/BR reception siding. The slides continued Other subjects included the special Central Line on the City Widened Lines, with a train of two service between Epplng and North Weald for the •Quad-Art' sets at Farringdon. Drayton Park on Air Display and the last day of 1936 stock on the first day of the QN electric service was the Bakerloo Line on 20 November 1985. then featured, together with a rare view of the • Slides belonging to Del Lomas were shown by John temporary 'Old Street' destination blinds. It will be recalled that when the line reopened Thomason. Those comprised a fine selection of 515 wartime posters in the now disused King William with class stock, it then had passenger Street station, Including 'Careless talk costs pull-apart-to-open door handles. lives', the prohibition of smoking, plus the Attention then turned to the BR vehicles that usual flag day and silver paper appeals. A ser• have operated on the Underground system in re• ies of pictures taken in 1972 featured Morden cent years, beginning with a Mkll coach between depot, when 1938 Tube Stock reigned supreme J battery locomotives over parts of the District Line. Being vex-y 'tight' to gauge at certain Chairman and Treasurer, Fred Ivey, presented places, it precluded tours on the District Line, slides on the theme 'LT on BR' and started off but paved the way for them to be arranged on the in the 1960*3 with the ex~Chesham Ashbury coa• outer sections of the Metropolitan Line, which ches sold to the Bluebell Railway, which were started in 1982 using 'Sarah Siddons' as the seen alongside a green 2-HAL EMI) at Hoi-stead motive power. Track recording in open sections Keynes. Stock transfers to and from the Northern has included (l) DMU 'Lab 5' and (2) a High- City Line were then featured in October 1964, at Speed Track Recording coach between Hastings the time the 1923-29 cars were replaced by four- Line power cars, on one occasion carrying passen• car trains of 1931-34 stock. Motive power was gers on the Chesham branch, Divergirig soraewhat, provided by D82XX diosels, one formation being Bob concluded his ju-esentation by showing a seen passing through Crouch End. District Line pair of slides of six Aachen trams in red livery Q stock at Wimbledon was then seen, showing the that were acquired and parked in LT's Lots Road differences in profile between the clerestory power station car park, in November 1975. These roofed cars of 1923-35 and the flared-skirt Q38 were for the Snaefell Mountain Railway on the type. Still with the Southern, but crossing the Isle of Man, for which the bogies and motors Solent to the Isle of Wight, Pre-1938 stock was were required to modernise their system. The seen in service. The most LT-like car was SIO, bodies were later scrapped. the spare motor, which retained Its set tnunber brackets to display relevant unit numbers. The The Chairman of the meeting, Desmond Croome, latest work being done on DM cars, rebuilding then thanked all those Ccaunittee members who front ends, was Illustrated, as were the compar• participated for presenting a varied and inter• isons between modified and non-modified front esting selection of pictures, endorsed by those ends. Back on the mainland, 'Sarah Siddons' present. hauling the SR's green 4-SUB EMU was seen pass• ing East Croydon, as was the return of the BRH • ''' Underground's Weed Killing ballast motor cars from Horsham, at Wimbledon. FROM THE PAPERS On LMR metals, 1938 stock was featured alongside a class 501 EMU (now withdrawn) and a class 313 The London Standard: EMU (not then in service) at Harrow 8c Weald• 5.9.86 1983. - A bomb planted on a Paris underground stone in the spring of Other LT on BR sub• train failed to explode last night. The incident jects covered the scrapping of 1938, CO/CP and R 1938 occurred on R.E.R. line A at Gare de Lyon stat• stock, including a classic shot of a stock ion at 18.40, when smoke from a sports bag under formation hauled by a class 45 diesel running a seat drew passengers attention. alongside a I962 stock train at Northolt. Many of the 1983 stock deliveries have been covered The Leader; by our Chairman on film, some near to the 12.9.86 - Two 18-year-olds, one an 'art student', stock's birthplace at Birmingham. On a cold have been sentenced to two months in a detention snow-covered day, one such train was seen pass• centre by Harrow Court, having been caught ing through Widney Manor. paint-spraying a train in Stanmore Bob Greenaway continued on a similar, but oppos• sidings in the early ho«irs of 14.7.86. Inspir• ite, theme - BR on LT, starting with a train of ation is said to have come from (where else ?) LT & S corridor stock hauled by a pair of Dis• graffiti on New York subway trains, which was trict Railway electric locomotives at the then the subject of a TV programme 'Style Wars' shown recently rebuilt Hammersmith station in the on TV in 1985. 1930* 2-6 s. On the Metropolitan, a BR -2T loco• Daily Telegraph; motive operating with the Chesham 'Ashbm-y' coaches in push-pull mode in 196I was seen, and 28.8.86 - British Rail has arranged another Net• an LNER train at Aylesbury with Metropolitan work South-East day for 13 September, with the Dreadnought coaches in the background - In 1939 - tickets costing £4 adult (ccmpaa-ed with £3 last and in colour ! Still with the Metropolitan, time) and £1 child, giving unlimited travel on various 1960'8 views of BR trains were seen, in• BR lines in the South-East and on the Under• cluding a green class 40 locomotive, ntimbered ground . D304 and working 'light engine' near Ricfcmans- worth, and DMUs in the old green livery with 1.9.86 -Henry Moore, the great sculptor, died straw lining. Through Marylebone-Nottingham yesterday, aged 88. Between 1923 and 1926 he trains were hauled by a variety of motive power, visited France and Italy, and on his return he including 'Royal Scot' 46l06 'Gordon High!aTider' received his first commission, for the facade which had recently been displaced from the LNW of St.James's Park Underground station (i.e. the main line, and a Bl 4-6-0. We have often seen 55 Broadway.building). He was a war artist be• slides of recent scrap trains at Ruislip, indeed tween i9'*0 and 1942 and his sketches included some were featured earlier in the meeting, but shelterers in the tubes, -1970' in the early s, some trains of Q stock were 2.9.66 - Evidence of sales, iettings and develop• hauled away by the now extinct D8xx 'Warship' ment schemes shows that the EC4 postal district class and one such formation was illustrated on will be the area of the City with the greatest

162 office development within the next three years. of the rest of the station was destroyed. Newspapers moving away from Fleet Street are leaving sites available for redevelopment. The opposition to the Paddington coach station Realisation of the limited capacity of the Dock• proposal is gathering momentum. lands Light Railway, as now- planned. Is causing resistance to taking offices in Docklands, THE TIMETABLE 3.9.86 - A subsidiary of the Trafalgar House (Continued) group has acquired a l4.4 acre site in Docklands for over £1 million an acre. The site, for mixed ^aiWday, ,6, D,^c^.iBber residential, leisure and commercial uses, over• LURS members are invited to this meeting of the looks Millwall Dock, on the Isle of Dogs. Railway and Canal Historical Society (London Group) at which Mr.Alan A.Jackson will speak on 6,9.86 - On Thursday night a two-kilo plastic 'The Metropolitan as a Railway for the Middle bomb was discovered on a Paris R.E.R, train Class'. 14.30 at Neasden Library, 27? Neasden travelling to St.Germain en Laye, The train was Lane, London, NWIO (second floor meeting room). stopped after a passenger had seen the detonator of the bomb smouldering. Had it not been defused Wednesday 10 December the explosion, at the height of the rush hour, Library Evening,18.OO. The Society's Library would almost certainly have been disastrous, open for inspection at 62 Beauval Road, Dulwich, London, SE22 8UQ. A Bank-Waterloo train on the Waterloo & City Line was under seige for more than three hours yesterday as police searched for an armed raider ROLLING STOCK ALTERATIONS after an attack on a seciu'ity guard. An armed September. 1986 man boarded a train at Bank, but power was cut off when the train was between stations and 1938 Tube Stock; passengers escorted away. After 3| hours, a man was brought out on a stretcher, believed to be Re-entered service. Northern Line - suffering from self-inflicted wounds. Stolen 10291-012371-11291+10012-012256-12027-11012 15th money was recovered by police. Overhauled at Ruislip, repainted from Bus Red to 9.9.86 - Unemployment in France now numbers 2.5- Underground Red, and transferred to Ealirtg Common mllllon, or 10.5?^ of the work force, and the for Brake Tests - Employment Minister has advised those who cannot find conventional employment to develop their iO?,21~0l2l6O-11221 + 10l84-O12272- 12123-11184 22nd own small private-enterprise jobs, jobs tradit• 1^39 Tube Stock; ionally done fay students, foreigners and school leavers. The idea h«a been taken up with enthus• Overhauled at Golders Green depot - " iasm, and one can hardly enter a Paris Metro 1224-2224-9225-1225+1190-2190-1191 4th car without being entertained by a musician, singer, magician or comedian. The other day, a Overhauled at Stonebridge Park depot - well-dressed, middle-aged lady, with a tape re• 1172-2172-9173-1173 corder strapped to her waist, was observed setting up an entire Punch and Judy show at the Prom Stonebridge Park to Golders Green, trans• end of a Metro car. ferred Bakerloo to Northern - The two companies responsible for the mas.«iive 1312-2312-9313-1313+1262-2262-1263 12th Broadgate development are to recoi\'-e outline 1967 Tube Stock; planning permission for a further 1.5 million sq.ft. of offices and 50,000 sq.ft. of retail From Northumberland Park to Acton Works for space. This will be achieved by constructing a collision repair - raft over the existing railway tracks on the 30l4+30l6-40l6-4ll6-31l6 24th eastern and northern sides of Liverpool Street station. The £800 million development will take 1972 Tube Stock; 18 months to complete, From Golders Green to Acton Works for conversion 10.9.86 - London Regional Transport has narrow^ed to ATO stock (to work with 1967 stock) - down the search for a site for a new £kO million 3220-4220-4320-3320 25th coach terminal to two possible places - on the From Golders Green to Neasden, transferred Nor• old Paddington Goods Station yard or straddling thern to Bakerloo - the south end of Vauxhall Bridgefoot in Lambeth. The chairman of the planning committee of West• 3241-4241-4341-3341+3441-4541-5541 15th minster City council has described the Padding• Overhauled at Golders Green depot and returned to ton proposal as 'utterly unacceptable'. Neasden (Jubilee Line stock) - 16.9.86 - The offices developed by London Trans• port, above , have been 3259- 4259-4359-3359+5459-4559-5559 26th leased to the American group, Goldman Sachs, From Neasden to Golders Green for overhaul (Jub• Two Tokyo railwayrten say that they have spent ilee Line stock) - the past few months cleaning lavatories as a 3260- 4260-4360-3360+3460-4560-3560 26th punishment for growing moustaches. They are taking the management 01 the State Railways to 1973 Tube Stock; court and demanding their old jobs back. The Overhauled at Cockfosters depot - main objection appears to be that men with facial hair stand out from their colleagues. 375-575-175 4th 24.9,86 -Restoration of the 130 ft. high twin From Nortbfields to Acton Works for OPO conver• towers of yesterday be• sion - came the first London project completed by the 874-674-875 22nd Railway Heritage Trust. The towers originally held water tanks for hydraulic lifts which rai• sed goods from street to platform, and they were damaged by bombs in the 1939-'*5 war, when most Units Converted at Northfielda -

163 Converted C77 Stock; Unit End Northfields From Hammersmith to Upminstex- for Overhaul - 157 D 1.9.86 5709-6709 16th iA7 D 2.9.86 212 A 5.9.86 Service Stock; 209 D 6.9.86 Miscellaneous Vehicles - l6l r> 12.9.86 116 A 15.9.86 Prom Acton Works to Lillie Bridge (ex-seat 138 A 16.9-86 store) - 509 R 16.9.86 F584 i2tii 226 A 18.9.B6 L13O+TRC2IJ+L13I Acton to Ealing Conrnon (for 1973 Stock Monthly Swmmary -30.9.86: stores vehicle) 22nd Units A D A/B Trains LIFTS AND ESCALATORS As delivered 77 77 21 87i September 3 986 Not available 1 Lifts; OPO Fullv Converted ih 15- -1 15 Uu-converted 62 62 20 72 No change Total: 77 77 21 87-1 Escalators; New into service, type HD.B, Warwick Avenue 1983 Tube Stock: No.l - 21st (previous type MA). From Neasden to Acton Works for OPO Conversion 3628-4628-3728 23rd NEWSFLASHES A6O/62 Stock: NF 94/86 - New line diagrams have been noted on I967 OPO Conversions - recently overhauled units of stock on the . With the reference number 385/ Acton- In 12025/6M(3162), it is of the type to be found on Unit End Neasden Service the Northern and Piccadilly lines recently - i.e. _ with BR interchange in orange and station names 5216 D ^ . 9 .86 5118 A/D 5. 9 .86 7. 9 .86 in lower case lettering. The end of each new diagram incorporates a central area map of all 5202 D 5. 9 .86 I ' 9 .86 lines on the left hand side. 5230 D 9. 9 .86 5082 A 10. 9 .86 11. 9 .86 NF 95/86 - A Waterloo & City trailer car, S75, 5086 A 15. 9 .86 16. 9 .86 was observed standing outside Swindon Worka on 5204 D 15. 9.86 16. 9 .86 21.9.86 in new Network South-East livery. 5124 A 16. 9 .86 17. 9 .86 5206 D 17. 9 .86 17. 9 .86 NF 96/86 - To improve station stop times at Liv• 5208 D 18. 9 "86 - erpool Street station on the westbound Central 5132 A 18. 9.86 29. 9 .86 Line in the morning peak - the most crucial time 5136 A 19- 9 .86 19. 9 .86 and place - a warning bell sounding when the 5214 D 19. 9 .86 24. 9 .86 train doors are to close is to be introduced as an experiment from early-October 1986. 5120* A/0 19. 9 .86* - Note * to Ealing Common; Ealing Common to Neas- NF 97/86 -Following the flooding of Old Street dan on 22.9-86. station as reported in last month's Underground News (NF 82/86), an up escalator service was From Acton Works to Northfields after OPO con• restored from 11,9.85. However, down escalators version and for Sandite tests - still have to be dried out and repaired. 5076-6030-6076-6077-5077 5rd NF 98/86 - Unit 3605 of 1983 stock, has been allo• From Northfields to Neasden after Sandite cated for test purposes in connection with 19S6 tests - and the future 1990 stock, for a period of about two years, 5076-6036-6076-6077-5077 12th ^TOP PRESS; London Underground have announced This completes the A6O/62 stock OPO programme of that they are to order another l6|- trains of 56 trains (112 units), with five units (5O76, 1983 stock from Metro-Cammell, which will bring 5120, 5200, 5208 and 5220 outstanding to re• the total to 3i| trains. Moro next month; enter service as at 30.9-86,

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