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THE NORTH LONDON RAILWAY SOURCE BOOK compiled by Peter Bloomfield with additional help from many people as shown Peter Bloomfield West Sussex April 2017 PREFACE My earliest memories of the North London were in the nineteen-thirties when I would be taken by my parents from Highbury station to my paternal grandparents at Hampstead Heath or to my maternal grandparents at Stonebridge Park. In 1938 we moved to the south coast I more or less forgot about it for thirty years when I spent three years in Stanmore. My interest was then re-aroused in London’s railways generally and the North London in particular. From 1968 I began to collect snippets of information and when railway records were transferred to Kew I began to delve into them, albeit on a pretty irregular basis. All this information was stored away (I hesitate to say filed). I retired in January 1992, began to emerge into the 20th century by buying a computer and started collating the information on spreadsheets and databases (I finally arrived at Christmas 1997 when my wife and I got a CD player and microwave oven). I have no intention of writing a book so all the information is factual concerning the North London Railway, either directly or indirectly, and that is the only criterion I have for inclusion in the source book. It began to grow like Topsy and with unstinting help and encouragement from David Hanson, for which I am very grateful, this is the outcome, although it still has a long way to go. Any help, corrections, additional information, new sections would be greatly appreciated from any member or non-member if it comes to that. I hope you find it useful. Peter Bloomfield July 1998 I am more than happy to receive comments, amendments, additions, etc, by e-mail: [email protected] CONTENTS Accidents Reports before 1948 Bibliography Books Magazine articles and items Miscellaneous items (e.g. reports) NLR Historical Society Journal (Issues Nos 1 – 57) NLR Historical Society Journal (Issues Nos 51 – 67) Includes overlap Professional Railway Journals Information for the entries in the bibliography has been obtained from: Atkins, C P, & Edgington, T J, North London Railway, A Pictorial Record, National Railway Museum, 1979; Ottley, George, A Bibliography of British Railway History, HMSO, 1983 (2nd Edition) and Supplement (7951-12956), HMSO, 1988; Robbins, M, The North London Railway, Oakwood Press, 6th Edition with addenda, 1967; items in the libraries of members of the NLR Historical Society. Crime (see also Legal Matters) Murder of Thomas Briggs Drawings NRM – Bow Tracings Rolling stock Structures Electrification Dates Evolution Legal Matters (see also Crime) Cases Locomotives Old Pre-Bow Disposal Local Archives Parliamentary Archives Hackney Archives London Metropolitan Archives Corporation of London Record Office: City of London Miscellaneous Ownership and Management Periods From EWIDBJR, via NLR, LNWR, LMS, BR, TOCs to London Overground) Parliament See also Local Archives Acts General Notes HJR - Own Acts HJR - Acts of Other Railways (in preparation) NLR - Own Acts NLR - Acts of Other Railways (in preparation) NSWJR - Own Acts NSWJR - Acts of Other Railways (in preparation) Photographs Hackney Archives HMRS NRM Photomatic Adrian Vaughan Rolling Stock Statistics Signalling Diagrams HMRS Stations HJR stations NLR stations NSWJR stations The National Archives Herapath HJR RAIL 291 NLR 1 RAIL 529 NLR 1 RAIL 529-37 (Reports to Board) NLR 1 RAIL 529-95 (Agreements etc) NLR 1 RAIL 529-110 (General Orders) NLR 2 Misc NLR 3 Ministry of Transport (MT) NLR 4 Non RAIL, MT NSWJR RAIL 521 Traffic Running Powers Troop Trains NORTH LONDON RAILWAY SOURCE BOOK Accidents - Reports ACCIDENT REPORTS BEFORE 1948 Many will be familiar with the practice of holding an enquiry following a railway accident, albeit the fall in the number of accidents to passenger trains now renders such events an item of national news. This was not always the case and in early days accidents were so frequent that they could happen on successive days at the same location. The enquiries were carried out by one of the Railway Inspecting Officers of the Board of Trade. The reports, which were rather shorter than they are today, were indexed under the railway owning the track and collated in reports delivered every few months to Parliament. The reports are included within the Parliamentary Papers for each year. Those who do not have easy access to a library with a set of Parliamentary Papers will find copies of the under-mentioned reports (except for the accident at Camden Town on 14 July 1885) on open access in the National Railway Museum Library, York. The list includes all reports of accidents on NLR, HJR and NSWJR and of accidents which had a bearing upon the working of traffic over the NLR and NSWJR. Dependant upon who the Inspecting Officer was the accident reports will be found to include details of locomotives and rolling stock involved and/or details of damage to the same. The list does not include accidents to NLR trains being worked over the metals of other companies. North London Railway 7 Jun 1878 Dalston Junction 14 Aug 1854 Highbury 21 Aug 1878 Haggerston 14 Jul 1855 Camden Town 12 Nov 1878 Broad Street 6 Dec 1858 Hackney 3 Jan 1879 Shoreditch 1 Jan 1859 Camden Road 11 Oct 1879 Shoreditch - Broad Street 16 Aug 1864 Camden Town 21 Oct 1879 Dalston West Junction 12 Apr 1866 Victoria Park 1 Mar 1880 Dalston East Junction 19 May 1866 Shoreditch 29 Mar 1880 Camden Town 27 Oct 1866 Bow 11 Jul 1880 Dalston Junction 17 Jul 1867 Old Ford 26 Feb 1881 Dalston West Junction 6 Nov 1867 Between Dalston & Hackney 28 Jan 1882 Old Ford - Bow 15 Sep 1870 Dalston Junction 18 Nov 1882 Shoreditch 3 Jan 1871 Poplar 7 Nov 1883 Bow 21 Oct 1871 Shoreditch 10 Jun 1887 Broad Street 8 Nov 1871 Dalston West Junction 26 Jun 1889 Broad Street 9 Nov 1871 Dalston West Junction 13 Oct 1890 Shoreditch 23 Nov 1871 Camden Town 3 Apr 1891 Broad Street 29 Mar 1873 Bow 20 Sep 1898 Broad Street 11 Dec 1873 Haggerston 12 Mar 1900 Devon’s Road 25 Jun 1875 Dalston West - Canonbury 18 Aug 1904 Broad Street 28 Jul 1876 New Inn Yard Junction 1 Apr 1937 Bow Station 13 Jan 1878 Shoreditch NORTH LONDON RAILWAY SOURCE BOOK Accidents - Reports North & South Western Junction Railway 18 Jan 1869 Acton, Richmond Junction 10 Jun 1871 Acton Lane Crossing 18 Aug 1871 Church Path Crossing 18 Sep 1872 Kew Bridge Junction - Kew North Junction 3 Oct 1875 Acton 13 Nov 1877 Acton Junction 13 Sep 1879 Acton 12 Dec 1879 Acton Junction Hampstead Junction Railway 2 Sep 1861 Kentish Town Great Eastern Railway 23 Jun 1871 Bow Junction 12 Dec 1871 Victoria Park 10 Dec 1890 Victoria Park Junction Great Northern Railway 10 Dec 1881 Canonbury Junction London & South Western Railway 2 Nov 1880 Kew Bridge Compiled by Andrew Procter (originally published in NLRHS Newsletter, Issue No 2, November 1997). NORTH LONDON RAILWAY SOURCE BOOK Bibliography - Books Bibliography - Books, Booklets, etc Accidents Connor, J E, Broad Street to Poplar, Connor & Kay Peter, 19th Century British Railway Butler, 1995. Accidents: An Index to the Board of Trade Railway Department Reports, published by the Connor, J E, Broad Street to Primrose Hill, Connor author. & Butler, 1996. Connor, J E, Finsbury Park to Alexandra Palace, Bow Works Middleton Press, 1997 [contains photographs of Crory, W G, East London Industries, 1876 NLR trains]. (pages 208-220, Locomotion includes Bow Works). From Potters Bar to Poplar Dock, joint publication NLR Historical Society and GNR Society, Crime September 2002. Adam, H L, Murder by Persons Unknown, Jackson, Alan A, The Memories and Writings of a Collins, 1931 (includes the Starchfield Case London Railwayman. A Tribute to Harold Vernon January 1914). Borley (1895-1989), Railway & Canal Historical Colquhoun, Kate, Mr Briggs’ Hat, Little, Brown Society, 1993. Book Group, 2011. Lovett, Dennis, London's Own Railway, The North Goodman, Jonathan, Railway Murders, Allison London Line, 1846-2001, Irwell Press, 2001. & Busby, 1984 (includes Thomas Briggs Mitchell, V, & Smith, K, Branch Lines of East murder). London, Middleton Press, . Irving, H B (Ed.), The Trial of Franz Müller, Mitchell, V, & Smith, K, North London Line, Hodge, 1911 (murder of Thomas Briggs on 9 Middleton Press, 1997. July 1864). Mitchell, V, & Smith, K, Willesden Junction to General & History Richmond, Middleton Press, 1966 [also covers 1916 NLR General Appendix, photocopy lines to Hammersmith, Kew Bridge and Old Kew]. available from Peter Kay, Flat 2, Orchard Open Air Route, The, The North London Railway, House, Orchard Gardens, Teignmouth, South joint publication LNWR Society & NLR Historical Devon, TQ14 8DP. Society, 1998. Atkins, C P, & Edgington, T J, North London Robbins, M, The North London Railway (Oakwood Railway, A Pictorial Record, National Railway Library of Railway History No 1), Oakwood Press, Museum, 1979. 1937. Later editions: 2nd impression 1938; 3rd Borley, H V, London Railway Chronology, edition 1948; 4th edition 1953; 5th impression 1959; Railway & Canal Historical Society. 6th edition with addenda 1967, 7th impression 1974, 8th impression 1977, 9th edition with addenda 1983. Borley, H V, Memories and Writings of a London Railway Man, edited by AA Jackson, Wrottesley, John, The Great Northern Railway, Railway & Canal Historical Society, 1993. Batsford, 1979 (Vols 1 & 2 cover politics of GN services and Canonbury Junction). Chisholm, A J, The North London Railway, published by the author, 1902 (NLRHS History Series – NLR Historical Society facsimile edition 1994). 1. Atkinson F G B, Adams, BW, and Clarke, H L, Connor, J E, All Stations to Poplar, Tower History of the North London Railway, Volume 1, Hamlets Arts Project, 1980 [updated 1995 as London’s North Western Electrics, NLR Historical Broad Street to Poplar - see below].
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