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TTRRAA CCKKSS Inter City Railway Society – December 2019 Inter City Railway Society founded 1973 www.intercityrailwaysociety.org Volume 47 No.11 Issue 559 December 2019 The content of the magazine is the copyright of the Society No part of this magazine may be reproduced without prior permission of the copyright holder President: Simon Mutten - [email protected] (01603 715701) Coppercoin, 12 Blofield Corner Rd, Blofield, Norwich, Norfolk NR13 4RT Treasurer: Peter Britcliffe - [email protected] (01429 234180) 9 Voltigeur Drive, Hart, Hartlepool TS27 3BS Membership Sec: Colin Pottle - [email protected] (01933 272262) 166 Midland Road, Wellingborough, Northants NN8 1NG Mob (07840 401045) Secretary: Christine Field - [email protected] contact details as below for Trevor Chairman: filled by senior officials as required for meetings Magazine: Editor: Trevor Roots - [email protected] (01466 760724) Mill of Botary, Cairnie, Huntly, Aberdeenshire AB54 4UD Mob (07765 337700) Sightings: James Holloway - [email protected] (0121 744 2351) 246 Longmore Road, Shirley, Solihull B90 3ES Photo Database: Colin Pottle Books: Publications Manager: Trevor Roots - [email protected] Publications Team: Trevor Roots / Eddie Rathmill Website / IT: Website Manager: Trevor Roots - [email protected] contact details as above Social Media: Gareth Patterson Yahoo Administrator: Steve Revill Sales Manager: Christine Field contact details as above for Trevor Visits Co-ordinator: Trevor Roots / Christine Field / Tony Whitehead Contents: Off the Beaten Track ........................................ 36 Officials Contact List ................................................ 2 Photo Spot: Society Notice Board / Events .............................. 3-6 Depots / Yards ........................................ 56-57 ICRS Sales ........................................................... 64 NR Test Trains ............................................ 24 Regular Current News / Sightings: OTP ............................................................ 60 Eastleigh Works Report ................................. 7-10 Rail Tours .............................................. 37-38 Franchise / Network News ........................... 11-15 Works .......................................................... 47 Freight Matters ................................................. 60 RHTT Gallery .............................................. 28-35 Infrastructure News .......................................... 40 Standard Preservation: Light Rail & Metro News ................................... 58 Galas...................................................... 41-47 Out & About Sightings ................................. 48-51 News ...................................................... 52-53 Stock Changes ................................................. 59 Photo Spot: Carriage ................................... 21 Liveries ................................................... 62-63 Photo Spot: Diesel ....................................... 21 New Stock ................................................... 61 Photo Spot: In Works ................................... 55 Technology News............................................. 10 Photo Spot: Museums ................................. 16 Traffic & Traction News ............................... 17-20 Photo Spot: Steam: 1 ................................... 10 Other Feature Articles: Photo Spot: Steam: 2 ................................... 51 Accidents 1 ........................................................ 6 Stock Moves ............................................... 22-24 Accidents 2 ................................................. 39-40 Vandalism / Graffiti ........................................... 57 Days Out ..................................................... 26-27 Warley Model Show Report ......................... 25-26 Front Cover Photo: With our first visit planned for 2020 to Whatley Quarry I thought this was appropriate. Looking west from the road bridge at the loading facility with GM Bo-BoDE 120 [37903] shunting a rake of nd JNA box wagons (11.39) 22 November 2019. £2.50 where sold separately Printed & distributed by Henry Ling Ltd, Dorset Press, Dorchester DT1 1HD 2 SOCIETY NOTICE BOARD MERRY CHRISTMAS & A HAPPY NEW YEAR The Committee of ICRS would like to thank you for your continued support and send best wishes to you and your family for the coming Festive Season Editor’s Comments: By the time you read this in print we will be in another era politically with whatever that brings, hopefully not too disruptive to the railways as the weather was yet again during November. Hopefully no-one was seriously affected by flooding. Another big event is the introduction of the revised December timetable with a myriad of changes, be they new franchises or numerous stock movements. The last few weeks has seen a big increase in new stock introduced with existing stock cascaded, stored or sent for scrap. Almost too much to keep on top of and it will certainly make editing the new 2020 books fun !! With the RHTT season drawing to a close Members have excelled themselves this year covering most of the traction used and diagrams so it is only right I try to include as many as possible so apologies for the number of photos and I still had to leave a few out. IMPORTANT INFORMATION – PLEASE READ BELOW Firstly please remember to give us your support and attend the AGM on the 14th March 2020 at the Railway Institute, York. It is a chance to talk to officials, other members and buy the new books (no P&P) plus some spotting on York station. Register your interest to Christine (Secretary). Secondly Tony has pulled out the stops and 2020 is going to be our busiest year for visits for many years. Initially though with limited numbers some are already full but more dates will be arranged so be patient, we have got a toe in the door of several facilities so let’s see how it goes. Thirdly all this effort together with the production of TRACKS means we are making a few ‘radical’ changes for 2020 as already proposed in previous issues. As you will no doubt agree you get a quality product in the form of TRACKS for your membership which takes a lot of effort to produce and has at last settled down with the most pages in one year (784), the result of 5 x 80 page issues. I plan to keep that up but to enable this level we need to raise the Membership rate to £20. This is still good value compared to many other Societies / Clubs considering the benefits you receive in the form of the magazine and access to visits as mentioned above. Many members have said for years that they would happily pay more, yet we are still keeping the rise to a modest amount. This rate increase will allow me perhaps even top the existing output with more 80 page issues so reaching a record 800 pages per annum without printing outstripping membership income. To help with administration and the workload on a handful of hardworking officials this new rate will now apply to just one main type of Membership as we are abolishing eMembership. All members have the option to take TRACKS in print form or as a pdf or both, which increasingly many are doing. The simplification of Membership will stop the many members who renew at the wrong rate causing much additional work and allow all forms, ads and the website to be simpler. This new rate will kick in on the 1st January 2020 so those who pay by standing order will need to make amendments before the end of January. Colin will contact you separately. Additional Family Member rates will remain the same. As mentioned above there are more visits being organised to railway facilities during 2020, see EVENTS below for details. Some of these are limited numbers so we hope to arrange multiple visits depending on interest and once we know how it works. Just a reminder for the next Carnforth visit at the end of January 2020 that we still have places, so please book your place. As with all visits we need to keep numbers up or we will lose the opportunity. If you buy our books the next radical proposal involves you so please also read below. Publications: As you will know I have been adding more info in over recent years and reformatting to accommodate these and the ever increasing new stock. The following proposal is to try and allow for yet more info to be put into books, cut down on duplication and the time I have to spend on compiling which has become almost too much. The current Combine cannot be made any larger, 3 as I have exhausted all options, without then going into next postal bracket so adding £1.28 and it becoming unwieldy and susceptible to damage. The proposal is therefore to literally produce a proper Combine including all current stock, traction and hauled plus the extra preserved sections. This will be achieved from what is currently in the existing Combine, together with new info, plus the Wagon book and then splitting them then into two roughly equally sized Vols. That way I can add the promised remaining industrial steam locos and remove the duplication of track machines. The new books will be 180-200 pages depending on how it works out and therefore allows for further expansion if desired. Details of contents are as follows: Vol 1 - Locos, Units, Preserved Units, Trams / Underground Vol 2 - Carriages (Mainline, Preserved, Dept, Internal User), Wagons & TMs. Prices will be £10 (Member)