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The COLONEL Number 119 Summer 2015 888X - 0268 N S S I The COLONEL Number 119 Summer 2015 THE QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF THE COLONEL STEPHENS SOCIETY for enthusiasts of the standard and narrow gauge light railways of Colonel Holman F. Stephens 2 THE COLONEL 119 THE COLONEL’S STORES Subscriptions The Colonel is distributed to members of the Colonel Stephens Society only. Membership of the Society costs £10 annually in the UK. Joint membership for two people, one Colonel, same address, is £12. Overseas membership is £15. Applications to our Membership Secretary (address on p.31). An up to date Index of The Colonel is available on our website (see below). Discussion Group Enrol for the Colonel Stephens e-Discussion Group by opening a Yahoo account with a user name and password. After logging on to the Yahoo Groups.com link (not .co.uk), log on with same details if asked, search for “ColonelHFStephens” and follow the prompts to register. The following items are available from our Sales Officer, Kerry Baylis, 10 Cedar Court, Farrand Road, Hedon, East Riding of Yorkshire, HU12 8XL 01482 897645 Email: [email protected] Back numbers of The Colonel from 2 to the latest issue are all in stock. Price to members for up to 20 issues is £1.60 per issue, including UK postage. Orders above 20 at cost after contacting the Sales Officer. Excess postage for overseas orders will be charged at cost. Issue 1 was a single sheet. It can be supplied on request free of charge with any other order, or separately on receipt of an A5-size stamped addressed envelope. DVDs containing 39 rare Shropshire & Montgomeryshire Railway photo- graphs, mostly of locomotives, from the WD Detachment photograph album, pro- vided by Mike Christensen, author of The SMLR under Military Control. Book and DVD were reviewed in Colonel 104. This superb DVD is available at the bar- gain price of £3 including p&p. Drawings 48 drawings of a variety of locomotives, rolling stock and infrastructure of the railways of Colonel Stephens are now available. Drawn by the Society’s chairman, these famous scale drawings may be ordered by post. They are printed on A3 paper. They cost just 80p each for 1-5 drawings. They will be dispatched rolled in a cardboard tube. Post & packing cost £3.20 for up to 20 drawings. Over that please contact the Sales Officer. A list of the drawings appears on our website (together with images) and in Colonel 104 p11. Car Stickers Proclaim your membership of the Society by displaying one of our elegant car stickers, £2.10p each including p&p. Visit our website to see a colour image of the sticker. Badges Chic Colonel Stephens Society badges are just £4.80 including postage. Visit our website to see a colour image of the badge. The Colonel’s Guide, over 80 pages of sources of books, magazine articles, mod- els, videos and films of the Colonel’s railways, available at £3.30, including p&p. Biography of Colonel Stephens Colonel Stephens - a Celebration: we have a limited supply of this excellent booklet at £4.15 each, including UK p&p. Cheques In all cases please make out cheques to “The Colonel Stephens Society”. Website: Visit our constantly updated website www.colonelstephenssociety.co.uk Printed by Stephen Austin & Sons Limited, Caxton Hill, Hertford SG13 8LU 3 THE COLONEL 119 Editorial Well I think we all had a very enjoyable members of the committee have had seri- AGM weekend thanks to Mark Bladwell ous health issues in the past 12 months. and his helpers. We had an AGM that Ross has resigned as Publicity Officer finished on time, and two well organised because of ill health but so far we haven’t and fascinating trips to two lines of which found a replacement. The other commit- most of us knew little. tee members with health problems have As the Society reaches its 30th anniver- volunteered to carry on at least for anoth- sary the number of members has dropped er year. Also we need somebody to or- slightly but we still have a membership in ganise next year’s AGM and so far no the high 300s. The 38 or so members volunteers have appeared. Unless we get attending the AGM were on average quite some new blood in the committee and elderly. I would guess the average age as society organisation the future of the So- over 70. ciety as we know it looks very uncertain However many of the committee have within a few years. been members for nearly 30 years too and I know this problem is facing virtually are now also getting elderly. The chair- every Society and organisation but it man Les Darbyshire wishes to stand down doesn’t mean the problem will go away. next year when he is 80, and three other In the end it is the members who volun- teer that keep the wheels rolling. Hopefully we can get some more mem- CONTENTS bers to help before we have to either reduce the scope of what we do or A Radial at Shepherdswell Page 4 close down the Society as nobody News & Events Page 7 wishes to run it. This does however Society News & AGM Page 11 mean that somebody needs to volun- Broadstone Halt WC&P Page 12 teer to join the committee and be pre- Book Review Page 15 pared to take on one of the jobs. Is Centre Colour Photos Page 16 there anybody out there? (Albyn Aus- Modelling Notes Page 18 tin) Society Visit to ND&CJR Page 19 F r on t c ov er: Society members enjoy their Society Visit to L&BR Page 22 r e s e r v e d c a r r iage on the Lynton and Barn- Dispatches Page 23 staple Railway as the train approaches Woody Bay. The beautifully restored Press Digest Page 26 coach 7 is unique in having a central open L&BR Visit Continued Page 29 T hi r d C l as s c om pa r t m e nt . L e an i ng out of it are from l to r: Treasurer Nigel Bird in Society Officers Page 31 green, trip organiser Mark Bladwell and Chairman Les Darbyshire. The wooden seats in Third Class must have been a bit uncomfortable for the hour and half it took to travel the twenty miles from Lynton to Barnstaple. (photo Bruce Hunt) 4 THE COLONEL 119 A Radial at Shepherdswell ust in case some members are of lining. After just over ten years of not very looking forward to buying one of the intensive use, it was laid aside at Shep- 4mm Adams Radial 4-4-2Ts prom- herdswell in 1934. It was said to be ‘under ised by at least two manufacturers repair’ in October 1935 but, since it was no- Jthis year , it’s probably a good idea to look at where to be seen, was assumed to be at Ash- the history of East Kent Railway No.5. It ford. By 1936 it was back on the East Kent was the only Adams Radial owned by a Ste- and undergoing a complete repaint in lined phens railway. The most complete story of green in the SR style of the time. this locomotive appears in volume 2 of ‘The As Finch and Garrett say, it is curious that East Kent Railway’ by M Lawson Finch and the only location at which No.5 appears to S R Garrett (Oakwood Press, 2003). I have have been photographed is Shepherdswell, relied almost entirely on this book for this with few showing it attached to a train, alt- brief description. If you want to know more hough some show it clearly in steam. Their about this elegant loco, especially on its ser- assumption is that No.5 was mainly employed vice on the EKR, you need to acquire or bor- on shunting duties at Tilmanstone. It was row Finch and Garrett. only used on the coal trains between there and The Adams Radials, so called from their Shepherdswell when the usual steed, the mas- trailing radial axle, were originally the 415 sive Kerr Stuart “Victory Class” 0-6-0T, EKR class built between 1882 and 1885 by various No. 4, was having its boiler washed out or firms for the London & South Western Rail- under repair. In fact the other EKR locos such way’s suburban traffic. No.488, which be- as the various ex SECR O or O1 Class 0-6-0s came EKR No.5, was built in 1885 by or the ex LSWR 330 Class 0-6-0ST seem to Neilson & Co of Glasgow. It was put on the have been preferred to the Adams. The Ad- duplicate list in 1914 and withdrawn from ams couldn’t handle nearly as many wagons service in that year, due to suburban electrifi- as No. 4, or even the alternative locos, so was cation. Saved from the scrap man by the never popular with the crews as it meant extra war, it was overhauled, painted dark green trips to Tilmanstone. and sold to the Ministry of Munitions in 1917 One such trip is recounted in the book. for use at the RN salvage depot at Ridham, No.5 was hauling a train from Tilmanstone to near Sittingbourne. (Others of the class were Shepherdswell with the maximum permitted sent to help out “The Highland Railway”, load of 14 loaded wagons. The normal oper- overwhelmed by the need to service the fleet ating practice was for the train to halt once it in Scapa Flow, though quite how useful they had cleared the Eythorne to Shepherdswell were must be debatable.) The Ridham loco section.
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