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1987 Index Contents UNDERGROUND NEWS ISSN 0306-8617 1987 INDEX CONTENTS MAIN INDEX 2-10 LIBRARY EVENINGS 10 ISSUE NUMBERS, PAGES, DATES & NEWSFLASHES 10 LIST OF SOCIETY MEETINGS 10 LIST OF SOCIETY VISITS & TOURS 10 CREDITED ARTICLES 11 UNDERGROUND NEWS IS PUBLISHED & PRINTED BY THE LONDON UNDERGROUND RAILWAY SOCIETY CORRESPONDENCE SHOULD BE ADDRESSED TO THE EDITOR WHOSE ADDRESS APPEARS INSIDE. MEMBERS ARE ASKED TO ENCLOSE A STAMPED ADDRESSED ENVELOPE IF A REPLY IS REQUIRED. OPINIONS EXPRESSED ARE THOSE OF CONTRIBUTORS AND NOT NECESSARILY ENDORSED BY TXli.R^ © THE CONTENTS ARE COPYRIGHT. BOOKS AND OTHER REVIEWS AND NOTICES (Continued) Light Rail '8? 202 ACCIDENTS London Connections/NS-E map 13O COLLISIONS LRT Annual Report for 1986/8? 166 Kensal Green l6.10.86 12 ,32,^40,52,93 London Transport Postcards I9? Moorgate 1975, and terminal London's Underground Suburbs 25 precautions 28 MAGAZINES Richmond 18.9.8? British Railway Journal 202 Upminster depot 12.1.8? 209 Building and Design, 6.2.8? 8k Walton-on-the-Naze (ER) 12.8.8? 99 Buses Extra No.'4? 1^42 Wembley Park 1936 185 L.A.M. -London Underworld 159 DERAILMENTS 5^ MODERN RAILWAYS Harrow North Junction ?.9.8l 26 January I98? 26 Jubilee Line train at Neasden 20.?.86 93 July 1987 158 FIRES AND SMOULDERINGS August 198? 175 East Putney 8.6.8? Modern Tramway, June 198? Ikl London Bridge area, fire brigade MOTIVE POWER MONTHLY exercise October 1986 11 ACTON WORKS November 1986 11 Devolution of overhaul work to depots 90 Railways South East, Winter I987/88 201 and construction of new workshop Railway World, February I98? 52 New Workshop (talk) 204 Northern Wastes kk,8k ADVERTISEMENTS Old Oak Engineman 2k Ladies underwear, reappearance 22? Old Ordnance Survey Maps 83 London Underground, joint with 75 TELEVISION REVIEWS Guinness World of Records (TV) A Sheltered Life 66 Small advertisements in Design Classics - The London Underground News 55,65,88,1^46, 161 Underground Map 159 Aldenham depot converted to Mastermind l8.1,8? 53 aircraft factory 229 Night Mail II 53 Alderney Railway Society 151,1?2 Roving attempt by music students 66 AUTOMATIC TRAIN OPERATION The South Bank Show - Art and the District Line I963 2? Underground 10^4,171 Woodford-Hainault 196^1 2? The New Girlfriend 104 Avon Metro, proposed 12 Their Trade is Treachery 5k AYLARD,J.F. 206,226 The Northern Line - A Short History 157 The Underground Conspiracy 203 Track Layout Diagrams of the B Southern Railway 175 VIDEO REVIEW BADMAN,V. 161 One Man - 2,000 Jobs 85 BAILLIE,A. 128 Wembley Park-Stanmore 83 BAKERLOO LINE Workhorses of the Underground 158 Christmas Day services I936-8O 82 BORLEY,H.V. 22,65,105, 145,160 Proposed extension to Nunhead Bramley ammunition depot closure 100 and Dartford 198 BRIDGES Stanmore service when opened 1939 k Demolition of South Acton branch TRAIN SERVICE HISTORY underline bridges 65 1933-1956 2 Footbridge replacement, Pinner- 1957-19?2 58 Northwood Hills 113 19?5-1986 80 Holden Road, West Finchley, hit by BALFOUR,G. 65 crane on lorry 231 Beck, Harry, and the Underground BRIGHT, Dr.K., Knighted 72 diagram 159 BRITISH RAIL & PREDECESSORS Belfast, HMS, re-equipped with Automatic Warning System 131 London Underground transformers 190 Aylesbury Station Open Day 198? 140 BetJeman,J, visited every Underground Bedford electrification, extra trains 143 station 5^4 Bicester South-Oxford reopening 73 BEVIN,R. 65, 1'4'4, 160 Catering changes 12 BLAKE,J. 162 Charing Cross, next train indicator 12 BOOKS AND OTHER REVIEWS AND NOTICES CHILTERN LINE Berlin Transport 2k "Foreign" DMUs 151,164 Central London, map and visitors' Haddenham & Thame Parkway guide 198?/88. 211 station opened 209,231 Complete British Railways Map & Locomotive and coaches observed 189 Gazeteer 98.1^1 Stoke Mandeville station reopened Docklands Customer Information 203 on Sundays 152 Docklands Light Railway Official Transfer of line to Western Region 209 Handbook 25 Computerised public address system 143 Doctor Who and the Web of Fear 55 Dover Hovercraft trains from Victoria 106 Early Underground Tile Patterns 66 Fares increases 11.1.8? 12 End of the Line (Victorian and FENCHURCH STREET STATION Thirties Societies 19'4 Office development nearly completed 185 Geoffrey the Tube Train and the Provision for Jubilee Line extension 226 Fat Comedian 198 Fine for ticketless passengers, Greenwood & Batley locomotives 1^42 £10 proposed 106 History of the Southern Railway 19? Gauging train, demonstration to LUL 55,96 Johnston, Edward 197 Great Northern Electrics, reduction Journey Planner (Underground of midday service to Moorgate and diagram) ^ 203,226 withdrawal of Saturday service 133,144 2 BRITISH RAIL & PREDECESSORS (Continued) CHANNEL TUNNEL ISLE OF WIGHT Agreement on payments by BR/SNCF 131 Article in Modern Railways 158 Dr.Tony Ridley, Chairman of Eurotunnel 227 Article in Modern Tramway Ikl English breakfasts on trains 228 Developments 127, 150,197 Excavating machines 131,227 Trains in NS-E livery 76,95 Rolling stock tendering 143 Leaves on the track, tree removals 12 Royal Assent and Treaty 185 LNER LOCOMOTIVES Select Committee recommendations 12 Earmarked for Underground use Shaft at Calais 185 in WWII 87 Traffic forecasts raised 144,184 Fitted with tripcocks for LT lines 87 Charing Cross & Waterloo Railway, Neasden temporary platform 22 1882 proposal 63 NETWORK SOUTH-EAST CHILD,G.J. 194,226 Increased traffic 9k CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR Planned improvements I987-1997 53,105 Christmas Day services on North London Line overhead Bakerloo Line 1936-I980 82 electrification 185 New year's Eve I986 free travel 72 ROYSTON-CAMBRIDGE ELECTRIFICATION Circle Line, Barbican diversion I965 28 Agreed 105 CLARKE,W.R. Started 130 Address to Society, Docklands Light Signalling system Euston-Watford line 52 Railway, Part II 13 SNOW HILL TUNNEL SCHEME CLEAVER,R.F. 23 General 73,96,106,144 Cleopatra's Needle on the Embankment 232 New trains 227 Coach Station, Victoria, to LRT 209 Scheme for low level St.Pauls COLD WEATHER PRECAUTIONS station 54,144,185 Current Rail heating I963 27 SOUTH EAST NETWORK Stations open all night, Madrid and Disruption from under-investment 12 Paris 73 Improvement plans 185 CONNOR,P.R. 88 128,208 Networker stock 131 CRESWELL,P.R. 172 Retention of compartment carriages 131 CRIME Special funds for special obligations 12 Assault and robbery on Victoria Line 143 Stansted Airport link 11 Criminal statistics BR,SR and LUL, Vending machine development 1982 and 1986 131 WATFORD-EUSTON LINE Fatal stabbing at Embankment 4,10.86 12 Class 313 six-car trains 100 Mugging at Green Park 105 Class 501 trailers, again New security initiatives (I987) 18 repainted for filming 211 Report and action 54 Croxley Green, buffer stop over-run 76 Robberies reduced on parts of the Croxley Green shed, demolition 112, 133,142 Underground 209 Croxley Green branch, varied CROOME,D.F. 52 ,54,226 rolling stock 76,112,163 Crystal Palace Loop (Hammersmith Derailed engineers train, & City Line) 173,225 Watford Junction 21.12.86 76 Reduced Sunday service 132 Signs and indicators 163 Wiggenhall Road bridge demolished 150 See also ACCIDENTS, COLLISIONS DEEP SHELTERS, GENERAL DESCRIPTION l60 Watford-St.Albans, electrification DELAYS TO SERVICES approved 209 8. 1 .87 - Metropolitan train stalled Wimbledon line, station refurbishment 99 near Lords 76 West London Line, pressure for 12. 6 .87 Cable fire at Bank 144 improved services 106 15. 6 .87 - Signal failure at Baker BRITISH RAIL ENGINEERING LTD. Street (Met.) 151 Workshop closures 105 16. 7 .87 - Burst water main, Euston 155 BROWN,P.A. 159,160,171,194 8. 7 .87 Signal failures. Brunei, Marc Isambard, biography 122 - Piccadilly Line 164 BUCK,J. 160 15. 8..87 ) Signal failures. Metropolitan 193 Bulldog Drummond films 104,171 20. 8 .87 ) Buskers, Chinese singing nun 100 22. 8 .87 - Thunderstorms in Essex 212 28. 8 .87 - Crane on lorry hit Holden Road bridge 231 C 16. 10.87 Hurricane-force winds 231 DEPOTS - CAR LINE DIAGRAMS Ealing Common and Ruislip, Legionn• Bakerloo Line car diagram in wrong aires' disease in staff showers 105 direction 190 Highgate, current state 44 Jubilee Line car diagrams in wrong Stonebridge Park, extra sidings direction 150 proposed 11 CENTRAL LINE AND CENTRAL LONDON RAILWAY Detrainment exercise, Aldwych branch, Automatic Train Operation 27 24.2.87 79 BR, final operation over, 1970 28 Development scheme, Osterley Park 105 Freight service withdrawals 28 DISABLED PASSENGERS Light Railway study for outer ends 56 Provisions in LRT Annual Business Plan 19 Station names, fictitious in film Talk by J.Wagstaff to Society 176 "Bulldog Jack" 104 Talking Underground station guide 190 Travel conditions in Ilford before Ticket Inspectors' identity cards the Central Line l84 with raised lettering 185 CHAMBERS,E.D. 54,l40,193 Trial announcements on trains 232 3 DISTRICT LINE & METROPOLITAN DISTRICT RAILWAY E One person operation, report oT talk 70 Seven-car trains, 1971 28 EAST LONDON LINE & EAST LONDON RAILWAY South Acton branch history 23,65 Engineering works posters in Urdu and Upminster line stations, transfer Bengali 30 to LT 28 Light Rail study 56 Withdrawal of Hounslow service and Line Manager and options under study 133 some non-stopping 28 New public address systems 30 DOCKLANDS LIGHT RAILWAY Petrol leak Shoreditch-Whitechapel 189 Address to Society by Mr.W.R.Clarke 13 Photographs A & D stocks 120 BANK EXTENSION Traffic levels and I9OI Yiddish poster 65 Approved, but awaiting finance 73 Eating and drinking on trains 209 Description ik ELLIS,J.T. 70 Notes on 131,l44 ENGINEERING WORK Progress 228 Baker Street (Met.) track and signals l49 Removal of remains from British Rail from Liverpool Street 75 St.Michael's burial ground l84 East Putney-Putney Bridge 20.9-87 211 Third reading in House of Lords 5^ Northwood Hills-Pinner 24 To go ahead I85 Preston Road track renewal 10.
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