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Underground News Index 1996 UNDERGROUND NEWS ISSN 0306-8617 INDEX 1996 Issues 409-20 PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY THE LONDON UNDERGROUND RAILWAY SOCIETY 554 555 INDEX TO 1996 ISSUES OF UNDERGROUND NEWS A (continued) Aldwych station, 13 Notes (i) Page entries with * are photographs Alperton station, 390 (ii) Page entries for an individual station may include developments in the general vicinity of the station. Amersham station, 400 Arnos Grove station, 100,429 A Arsenal station, 375 Attlee, Mr.C, Metropolitan passenger, 253 ACCIDENTS - COLLISIONS Auction of relics including 1962 stock 5.12.95, 88,90,103,125 Baker Street, bufferstops, 9.6.96, 340 Charing Cross, District, 8.5.38, 330 B Lorry with Debden canopy, 6.2.96, 196 Baker Street station, 68,78,132,294 tyloorgate, 28.2.75, 66,67,330 BAKERLOO LINE Road vehicles with South Ruislip bridge, 467,469 Closure south of Piccadilly Circus, 45,125,126,129,483,497,535 Royal Oak. Thames Trains, November 1995, 84,103,106 Dot Matrix indicators display rude messages, 21 Toronto Underground, 9.8.1995, 121,256 Features when extended to Elephant in 1906, 467 Train with tool storage bin, near Hampstead, 375 Baku, metro train fire disaster, 19,20,66 Train, with engineers' trolley, nr.Belsize Park, 537 Balham station, 106,370 Watford, North London Railways, 8.8.96, 452,468 Bank station, 19,32,93,100,222,231,370 ACCIDENTS - DERAILMENTS Barbican station, 26,500 Finchley Central, 1.6.96, 339 Barcelona metro, 189,535 Golders Green, 16.7.96, 405 Barking station, 185,282,534' Hainault depot, 11.5.96, 271 Barons Court station, 108 Match wagon, Ruislip connection. 27.4.96, 270 Bayswater station, 26,45,137,147,195,203",233,338 Neasden depoL 12.6.96, 340 Begging, 453 RailTrack, empty touring train north of Euston, 14.12.95, 105,145 BERLIN Train entering Morden depot, 18.10.96. 548 A trip to (holiday), 384 Waterioo depot, Waterioo & City, 21.5.96, 339 Modified doors on older S-Bahn cars, 375 ACCIDENTS - FIRES Reconstruction of S-Bahn infrastructure, & new r/stock, 21 Euston. main line. 12.3.96. , 232 S-Bahn and U-Bahn, report of meeting, 407 Harlesden substation, 10.7.96, 404 Start of work on new north-south underground railway, 93 High Street Kensington, 5.7.94, 28 Bilbao Metro, 175 King's Cross compensation payment, 130 BOOK REVIEWS & NOTICES South Kensington, cable fire, 29.4.96, 254,270,297 A Bibliography of British Railway History, 2nd edition, 22 Tunnel near Rnsbury Park, Victoria Line. 17.5.96, 338 Automatic Vending Machines, 12 ACCIDENTS - MISCELLANEOUS Beriin S-Bahn. 383 Broken coupler. Circle Line, 14.1.96., 146 Beriin U-Bahn, 382 Dumper truck, Ruislip depot, 21.3.96, 233 Berlin's Railways, 543 Quebec City cable car, 536 Bon Voyagel, Edwardian Travel Posters, 382,465 ACCIDENTS - OVER-RUNS By Underground to the Zoo , 15 Paddington. Thames Trains, 31.12.95, 131,146 Heath Robinson - Artist & Comic Genius, 136 ACCIDENTS - PERSONAL Historic Railway Disasters, 330 Escalator fail, Oxford Circus, 13.9.96, 506 London Transport Records at the Public Record Office (1), 455 Fall on fixed stairs at St. Paul's, 89 London's Handwriting, 528 Man caught in train doors, Stockwell, Northern, 1/96, 127,128 London's Underground, 8th edition, 220 Man killed on track, Hillingdon, 12/95, 125 Loughton's first railway station, 455 Man on track. Chancery Lane. 4.9.96, 470 Mail by Rail, 93,168 Man on track. Ravenscourt Park, 22.6.96, 340 Planning London's Transport, 4 Mouse-observer on track, Leicester Square, 9.2.96, 147 Poems not on the Underground, 297.374 Newspaper-retriever on track, Kennington, 16.2.96, 162 Underneath the Underground, 500 Passenger between District cars, Victoria, 25.6.96, 401 Passenger between District cars, Barking. 15.8.96, 468 Books about the Underground. 22 People on tracks. 16.10.95, 15 BRIDGES Platform fall at Acton Town. 527 Bridge numbers allocated to Putney Bridge-Wimbledon branch. 116 Ruislip Manor, closing doors separated mother from child. 326 Cross-Thames, at Hungerford, 376 Safety precautions on Piccadilly train, 247.251,372 Crossings of A.406 (widening schemes), 86.103 St,Paul's, passenger sliding beside escalator, 27.8.96, 469 Delay in installing Railtrack bridge at Finsbury Park, 129 Youth riding bicycle down steps. Preston Road, 5.5.96 , 271 Metropolitan Line bridge numbers and name plates, 116,225 Acton Town station. 85.297,401,428 Putney Bridge repairs, 102.127.236,254,309,339.379.500,507 ACTON WORKS Replacing D84, near Ravenscourt Park, 313*.314*.321.326 Possible sale. 130 BRITISH TRANSPORT POLICE Test rig for electric motors, 373 Biological/chemical defence squad, 329 Train modification unit. 370,374 Leaflet on changed telephone number, 366 Aldenham Works 170,246,253 Leaflet on Home Beat Officers for District (West), 63 White shirts, 402 556 557 B (continued) -C (continued)- Brixton station, 86,219,369 CRIME - ASSAULTS 505 Buckhurst Hill station, 129 Bottles thrown at track workers, 5.9.96, 101 Burnt Oak station, 65 Boys set dog on stn. assistant, Upminster Bridge, 447 BUSES Girl assaulted on Northern Line (south), 12.6.96, 372 Replacing trains, 70 Knife threat on ticket inspectors, 326 RM's future, 538 Metropolitan Police constable beaten at Moor Park, 300 Stationlink, 361 On South Kensington supen/isor, 373 Busking, 247,249,253,254,373,453 Piccadilly driver snot dead on doorstep, CRIME - CRIMINAL DAMAGE Brixton riot, 13.12.95, 90,145 401 Cable car proposal, Covent Garden-Soutfi Bank, 90,498 Football riots, 26.6.96, 145 Cairo Metro, 172 Man's attack on train. Tooting Bee, 13.12.95, 404 Camden Town station, 82 Plaistow station, 11.7.96, Canning Town station, 93,174,232,270,375 CRIME - FRAUD Car cards - International Wool Secretariat, 225,262,263,394 Altering ticket magnetic strips. 174 Car line diagrams, 100,507 Fare evasion, poster campaign, 122,519,538 CENTRAL LINE Knightsbridge ticket clerk, 18,86,373 Early moming steam services, Ongar-Epping-Liverpool St., 541 Queensway ticket clerk. 18 Epping-Ongar, 1962-stock train pusfied by battery locos. 506,532*,552* Resale of discarded Travelcards, 18,19,319,327,364,375,454,480,548 Epping-Ongar, last day of LT service, 110 CRIME - GENERAL Epping-Ongar, private operator, 125,171,249,296,307,375,376,448 Statistics, 1995, 338 Epping-Ongar, protest meeting at sale to private operator, 307 Statistics, argument, 221 Fault in new signalling rectified, 91 CRIME - GRAFFITI Faults on 'MV escalators, 17.7.96, 405 Defence - technological approach, 248,372 Leaflet 'A tsetter Central Line is taking shape", 63 District trains at Wimbledon, 18.8.96, 468 Passing trains give times for football match, 161 Vandals, Burnt Oak, 12.5.96, 271 Previous GWR ownership from Ealing to White City stn., 24,69 Vandals, Kilbum Park, 18.2.96, 148 Resignalling, Debden-Epping, 406 Vandals, Pimlico, 17.12.95, 145,172 Satisfactory operation depending on complete restgnalling, 137 CRIME - MISCELLANEOUS Severe delays in resignalling, 106 Hoax accident at Euston, 251 Western stations, poor condition of canopies and platforms, 501 Man in tunnel, Golders Green, 15.7.96, 405 Chalk Farm roundhouse for architectural drawings ?, 93 Man on track, Covent Garden, 17.1.96, 147,374 Chancery Lane station, 298 Man on track, Hatton Cross-T4, 339 Channel Tunnel link line, connections & repercussions, 222 Man with gun on Piccadilly train. 340 Chase, Robert, director of LRT, 247 Sit-down protest on track at Euston, 89 Chelsea-Hackney line, alternative routeings, 13,27,46 Youth with imitation gun, Kingsbury, 20.2.96, 149 CHILTERN LINE Youths 'surfing' on District train, 17.10.96, 548 Broken rail north of Amersham, 9.12.95, 105 CRIME - SEX Franchise awarded to M40 Trains Ltd.. 377 Women urged to report sex offences, and do so, 170,173,298 Leaf fall problems, 103 CRIME - TERRORISM Points raised during presentation, 136 South Quay bomb, 9.2.96, 142,143,171,173,197,237,326 Possible future service improvements, 26,27,381 CRIME-THEFT Tenders invited for Chiltern Railways, 130 Armed robbery at East Acton, 172 Chiswick Part< station, 146 Gun threat at Upton Pari^, 339 Chorieywood station, 326 Muggers jailed for 22 years. 528 CHRISTMAS & NEW YEAR Pickpockets, court orders. 171,172 1995/6 services, 27,28,52,146 Pickpockets, women from Bosnia, 85 Boxing Day, Stratford opening, 1995, 27,28,88,136 Robbers on Bakerloo Line sentenced, 251 Christmas Day services, 15,17,121 Sentence on armed robber, 536 Civil Engineers, Institution, structures proposed for listing 449 CRIME - TRESPASS Clapham Common station, 216 55 Broadway, 7.8.96, 449 Clapham North station, 236 Cross-platform interchangeisigns of approaching trains, 134 Clapham South station, 106,236 CrosshartDour & London Arena station, 147 Cold weather, effects on services, 148 CROSSRAIL Commercial Advertising, 126 (see also 'car cards') City of London support. 18 Computer system for selecting priority in funding, 16 Complicates Railtrack privatisation, 85 CONTROL CENTRES Development costs, 380 Incident reporting, tenders invited for new system, 124 Hanover Square redevelopment, 19,103 Network. 55 Broadway, 89,131 Investigation by Railtrack, 91 Police. 55 Broadway, 91 Locomotive & inspection saloon at Chesham, 347* Covent Garden station, 11,90,92,501 Lodging of contracts postponed to March 1996, 16 Mayfair residents suggest alternatives. 83 558 559 C (continued) D (continued) CROSSRAIL (continued) DEPOTS (continued) Montague Committee, 20 White City, history, 207,329 Postponed indefinitely, 250,251 White City, report of LURS visit, 36,110 Reception at Tory conference; re-evaluation due soon, 14 Woodford sidings, history, 210 Small-scale alternatives ?, 138 Wood Lane, shown on maps,
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