UNDERGROUND NEWS
ISSN 0306-8617
INDEX 1998
Issues 433-444
PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY THE LONDON UNDERGROUND RAILWAY SOCIETY 678 679 INDEX TO 1998 ISSDKS OF DHDERGIOOIID NEWS ditto : An update 74 Christmas is coining (press release 22.10.98) 643 Notes: • following a page reference indicates a photograph. Communications: LU's new communications network (press release 31.7.98) 450 Newsflashes, 'from the papers', letters and other Contract for £7M Materials 4 Purchasing Project (press release 1.5.98) 308 transient material has largely been excluded. Counties or postcodes in postal addresses 31,214 - A - Cravens Heritage Trains: The Cheshan Shuttle - Saturday 3/10/98 637 Cravens Heritage Trains - East London Line Renaissance Railtour, 19.4.98 291,417 ACCIDENTS AND INCIDKNTS Crime - British Transport Police crime figures 541 "At the end of the year" - diverse situations dealt with 75 - Operation Jackdaw leaflet in German 639 Fire at Heathrow Terminal 1, 12.12.97 {NFA7) 111 - tube crime continues long-term downward trend (press release 2.8,98) 490 Power surge, 2.1.98 263 Croxley Green depot, served by buses in 1927 87 TiLR Island Gardens compressed air accident (Papers 26.2./I9.3.98) 271,273 Croydon Tramlink raises over £10,000 for charity (press release 4.8.98) 453 do. (Papers 9.4.98) 357 CUSTOMER INFORMATION SERVICE Acton Works: An Open day at Acton Works and Acton Town station, 30.9.98 569 Freephone travel information at Piccadilly stations (press release 28.7.98) 449 ADVERTISIKG London language lines for Asian travellers 580,586,587,643 All-over-advertisement C stock train (Yellow pages) 157* LT French language information telephone line launch (press release 29.4.98) 307 do. 1973 Tube stock train (United Airways) 158*.654* LT invites you to meet PAT (Public Access Terminal) (press release 16.10.98) 589 do. DLR 8.92: London Knights ice hockey team (NF212) 673 Leaflets - see Publicity Matters 22,295 See the gap at South Kensington (press release 27.7.98) 449,596* Role of Customer Services in LT (Baden-Powell House meeting report) 205 Underground advertising - standards 2^0 - n - Anerican Airlines sponsored nural: WSC line trpvolf>tor at Bark i97* DEPOTS Amersham Heritage Day, "Sarah Siddons" in passenger service (NF118) 491 Croxley Green depot, served by buses in 1927 87 ASIAN TRAVELLER.'!: London language lines (press releases) 580,SSf^,587,643, Morden depot on 23.1.98 with re-aligned tracks 138*,194 - B - Neasden: 1996 Tube Stock 219* HAKERLOO LinE Neasden: 1983 Tube Stock for scrap 498* Bakerloo Line under river tunnel protection [1914-34] 573,593* New Cross, interior 31.3.98 22^* Bakerloo Line tunnel strengthening [1996-97] (BPF meeting report) 623 Stratford Market: 1996 Tube Stock 219* Rolling stock for Watford-Elephant S Castle trains [1920] 80 Stratford Market: JLE diesel locomotive 10 & wagons, 10.2.98 284* Bank Holiday - Late Summer Bank Holiday travel (press release 12.3.98) 518 Northumberland Park: 1967 Tube Stock, 4.2.98 221* Bechtel: LT welcomes Bechtel on board to complete JLE (press release 25.9.98) 585 New depots for old 458 Berlin: Under (and over) Berlin streets (prev ref UN398/9 1995) 510 Design - New design policy for London Transport (press release 17.4.98) 306 Bizarre items - the human side of the Underground 40? Destination displays, 1996 tube stock (Nri28) 281 POORS & BOOK REVIEWS - see Reviews Bridges - Legally specified heights of overbridges 32' Detrainment systems - 1973 and 1996 tube stock 433* Diesel locomotive 10, JLE at Stratford Market depot, 10.2.98 284* British Transport Police crine figures 541 Diesel Class 20 loco at Steam on the Met 385*,409*,432* Broad Street: LER/LNWR/North London Electrics 551,553,614 WJS STTBSTITUTION SERVTCES Diesel, DL83 "Viking" 86 Bus services in place of Underground services 33 Disabled: "Accessible metropolitan railway systems" (BPH meeting report) 108 RT 2150 outside Ealing Broadway (District) station 434* Disabled passengers - (letter 25.8.98) 600 See also "Engineering works". Disability: LT scoops National Disability Award (press release 6.5.98) 309 - C - DISTRICT RAILWAY/LINE Camden - LT helps Camden go green (press release 2.7.98) 415 "District Line" moved to top of cab: 'D'-stock at Barons Court (•NF215) 653,673 C»r Cards of in30 vintaf>e (Met. Sly): LT Mnsei'm request help (letter) 658 District Railway numerology 393 Car Line Diagrams: a round-up 640 The District and a melancholy state occasion, (Gladstone's funeral) 248 Carnival, Netting Hill (publicity) 51fl Great South Kensington Subway Mystery 444,656 City & South London Railway - the last years of C&SLR loco no 36 326,456 West Brompton - proposed new station on West London line (NF173) 490,595* Centenary: An open day down the Drain (WSC Line) 515 DOCKLANDS LIGHT RAILWAY CENTRAL LINE All-over advert on B.92 unit 74: London Knights ice hockey team (NF212) 673 Avoid the Central Line at Oxford Circus (press release 2London Underground: Baden-Powell House neeting report 106 London Underground's investment programme 98/99 (press release 11,6.98) 405 Eastenders (TV 'soap') - identification of trains seen and heard 81 Seeboard Powerlink awarded Tube power contract (press release 14.8.98) 520 do. - Underground on TV and in films 191 TranSys awarded 17-year revenue collection contract 524,542 do. - NF 158 381 Tube PPP (Public Private Partnership) Summit (press release 16.7.98) 448 do - "Walford East station" (NF172) 490 Fire (King's Cross 1987): remaining unidentified body (ES Magazine) 661 EAST LONDON LIME Flying Club, London Transport: Piper-Cherokee "G-LTFC" at Shorehan Airport 434* East London Line closed for 37 months - Update no 11 (John Thomason) 76 Fordingbridge: stored 1995 Tube Stock ear bodies 559* East London Line closed until 25 March 1998 - Update 12 125 French language: LT telephone information line launch (press release 29.4.98) 307 East London Line to re-open on 25 March 1988 - Update 13 184 Frequent train services (44,40,35 etc trains per hour) 532,613 East London Line (partially) re-opened on 25 March 1998 - Update 14 224 - G - East London Line (mostly) running again - Update 15 289 Gardens - Glory of the Garden goes Underground (press release 12.8.98) 519 East London Line - Shoreditch opens at last! Update 16 571 do. - LU's top gardens are blooming marvellous (press release 27.8.98) 529 East London Line - Full reopening of (press release 17.9.98) 584 Ghost trains and footsteps at Whitechapel (Papers 23.7.98) 615 East London Line extensions: Baden-Powell House meeting report. Sept 1997 52 Gladstone - funeral: "The District and a melancholy state occasion" 248 East London Line, signalling & track plans April 1998 228 GREATER LONDON AUTHORITY East London Line Renaissance Railtour, 19.4.98 291,417 GLA White Paper: London Transport's response (press release 25.3.98) 257 Exercise Herman (live emergency exercise) 294 Greenaway - personal message from Bob Greenaway (illness) 103 Leaflets on re-opening 298,639 - H - More East London Line Notes and train services 230 HAMMERSMITH & CITY LINE Photographs - the 'new' East London Line (platforms, depot & tunnel) 251*-254* •C Stock train (Panda) at Farringdon 28.1.98 221* Engineering works at week-ends 185,246,332,416,455,530,577,640 HEATHROW EXPRESS Ensineering works. Central, Piccadilly, District 4 Northern lines (leaflets) 638 Flights of Fancy: Heathrow Express takes off in the media 439 Environmental performance report 1998 (press release 7.8.98) 454 Underground to Heathrow - the other way (Fast Train) 324 Epping-Ongar Branch: sold to Epping-Ongar Railway Ltd (Rail 15.7.98) 534 Photographs of "Fast Train" platforms etc 351*-354* do. (press release 2.9.98) 580 Herbert Walker's North-West London Railway (Prigmore Lecture 1996) 553 • ESCALATORS "Herman" (live emergency exercise. East London Line) 294 Escalator shaft, refurbished at Tooting Broadway 135* Homelink, taxis from Cockfosters and Totteridge & Whetstone 299 Escalator summary, 31 December 1997 102 do , scheme extended to Highgate (press release 4.8.98) 452 Harrods - Escalators and its 'tube' 81 do , scheme extended to High Barnet 639 Lifts 4 Escalators update (June) 427 Horses, Metropolitan Railway 82,336 Leaflet about escalators at Highgate. April 1998 443 - I - Leaflets - Waterloo, Oxford Circus, Hyde Park Corner 4 Baker St 638 Internet - Visiting London? (LT web-site - see press release 1.6.98) 330 London Underground's lifts 4 escalators 161 ISLE OF WIGHT Unrefurbished escalators at South Wimbledon 136* Island line: fleet reduced to 6x2 units (Papers 11.3.98) 272 A self-moving staircase (Dilwyn Chambers) 79 Redevelopment of Isle of Wight railway structure (papers - RAIL) 478 Escape - detrainnent systems (1973 and 1996 tube stock) 433* - J - Euston-Watford: LER/LNWR/ North London Electrics 551,553,614 Johnston's Underground Font - LT Museum's 3.5" floppy disc 468 Exercise Herman (live emergency exercise. East London Line) 2^4 JUBILEE LINE - F - Extended Jubilee line on track (press release 6.8.98) 453 FARES Jubilee trains don't fit track (Evening Standard 28.7.98) 537 1999 Fares review (press release 27.10.98) 643 LT welcomes Bechtel on board to complete the JLE (press release 25.9.98) 585 London Transport grant students lower fares (press release 17.9.98) 583 - L - LUL tests hand-held Penalty Fare device (press release 7.5.98) 30" Leaflets: see also Publicity Hatters Operation Big Del targets District Line fare evaders (press release 10.7.98) 446 Leaf fall leaflet (Met) 638 Operation Mainline targets fare evaders, (press release 2.3.98) 250 "Simply Showbiz", "Simply Nightlife" 639 Operation Rocket - zero tolerance of fare evaders (press release 3.11,98) 649 LEHISHAM EXTENSION DLR Photocard offers new deal on fares for job-seekers (press release 19.5.98) 309 Tunnel drives completed months ahead of schedule (press release 29.4.98) 331 Photocard: Child rate (leaflet) 639 Lewisham extension of the DLR (Baden-Powell House meeting) 4 track layouts 370 Revision, 4.1.98 - leaflets 296 Visit by London University transport study group, 9.7.98 433 Underground and bus fare booklet, September 1998 (Youth Ticket change) 639 Library: closing down and disposal of LURS library 622 Fast Train (Heathrow Express): Underground to Heathrow - the other way 324 LIFTS Film: "Sliding Doors" filmed on Underground (press release 24.4.98) 307 Lift su-iraacy, 31 December 1997 103 Fire at Heathrow Terminal 1, 12.12.97 (NF47) 111 Lifts & Escalators update (June) 427 FINANCE Lond'in Underground's lifts 4 escalators 161,336 £1 billion improvement programme (press release 11.6.98) 402 Lightin,'; - Report of Baden-Powell House meeting 12.4.96 368 Future of London Underground - the next step (press release 18.a.98) 528 Linp Dia,'»rams (Car Line Diagrams): a round-up 640 LT awards contract for £7M Materials 4 Purchasing Project 1,5.98 308 LIVEPIES London Transport's Annual Business Plan (press release 21.5.98) 328 FmLONDON TRANSPORT MUSEUM Out of service at end-1997, LUL-owned stock 101 Car Cards of 1930 vintage (Met Rly): LT Museum request help (letter) 658 Out of Service Summary end-August 1998 547 Johnston's Underground Font - LT Museum's 3.5" floppy disc 468 - P - Exhibition: Hard day's night - London Transport after dark 650 Panda-'C Stock train on Hatonersmith S City Line at Farringdon 28.1.98 221* LT Museum goes from strength to strength (press release 4.11.98) 649 Paris Metro Sprague tours 346 LT Museum proposed new complex at Ealing Common 65* Paris - What's happening in Paris 237 The London Transport Museum - Total Access Project 69 Science "Exploration Station" takes off at LT Museum (press release 14.9.98) 582 Passenger numbers - record week on the tube, (press release 3.11.98) 649 Transfer of Q35 car 08063 to the LT Museum (+ other Q-stock) 68,150 Penalty Fares - LU test hand-held device (press release 7.5.98) 309 Lost Property Office, Society visit 489 Performance - Environmental performance report 1998 (press release 7.8.98) 454 PICCADILLY LINE - M - Freephone travel information at Piccadilly stations (press release 28.7.98) 449 MAPS Inter Car Barriers on some 1973 Tube Stock units 320*,653* Car Line Diagrams: a round-up 640 Piccadilly Line - 1938 Tube Stock on the, Brian Hardy 11 Maps in London Yellow Pages 604 Photographs for and in Underground News 550 Faddington H&C - not shown as "interchange" 457 POLICE Pocket tube map and large print tube map, October 1997 22 BT Police building at Wembley Park 283* Tube map, October 1997 (second version) 442 BT Police crime figures 541 Tube map, available from 15.7.98 516 Operation Jackdaw leaflet in German 639 Tube map gets the golden touch (press release 13,7.98) 447 Postal addresses - Counties or postcodes 31,214 METROPOLITAN RAILWAY/LINE Post Office Railway: ghost trains and footsteps at Whitechapel (Papers 23.7.98) 615 The Bluebell Railway's Metropolitan coaches 1898-1996 (BPH meeting report) 203 Power surge, 2.1.98 263 Car Cards of 1930 vintage (Met Rly): LT Museum request help (letter) 658 PRESERVATION "Chesham Branch Album" (review) 590 Metropolitan Centenarian ("Metropolitan No 1" ex-L44) 470,551 Crossover on the Stanraore branch 393 Preservation Fund (LURS) 150 Ex-Metropolitan Railway coach at North Woolwich 30 Q35: Transfer of 08063 to LT Museum (S other preserved Q-stock) 68,150 G Class ears on the Metropolitan - and coach liveries 36 PRESS RELEASES (LT, LUL S DLR) Metropolitan Centenarian ("Metropolitan No 1" ex-L44) 470,551 1999 Fares review, 27.10.98 643 Metropolitan 'Dreadnought' brake no 247 262 323,295 reasons to buy a Tube ticket, 20.4.98 306 Metropolitan electric locomotive at Paddington 32,87,129,192 £1 billion improvement programme, 11.6.98 402 The Met & GC Joint Line: an observer's notes - 1946-1968, Albin J Reed 195 Acton Town at the heart of Acton, 21.9.98 584 Metropolitan Line booklet (timetable September 1998) 637 Avoid the Central Line at Oxford Circus, 29.5.98 330 Misrouteing of BR main line trains (at Harrow etc) 340,457 Bright new look for North Acton station, 21.9.98 585 Railway horses 82,336 British block buster 'Sliding Doors' filmed on Underground, 24.4.98 307 Rolling Stock numerology - The Metropolitan 120 Christmas is coming, 22.10,98 643 "Sarah Siddons" in passenger service for Amersham Heritage Day (NF188) 491 £10 Steam on the Met '98 - report by Fred Ivey 388,551 Croydon Tramlink raises over ,000 for charity, 4,8,98 453 Wendover by-pass, Albin J Reed 22 Environmental performance report 1998, 7.8.98 454 684 685 PRESS RELEASES (continued) PRESS RELEASES (continued) Epping and Ongar Branch sold, 2.9.98 580 Tube map gets the golden touch, 13.7.98 447 Extended Jubilee line on track, 6.8.98 , 453 Tube PPP [Public Private Partnership] Summit, 16.7.98 448 Full reopening of the East London Line, 17.9.98 584 Tube staff to be seen in new uniform, 12.10.98 588 Future of London Underground - the next step, 18.8.98 528 Tube strike, 12.6.98 413 GLA White Paper - London Transport's response, 25.3.98 257 Tube strike own-goal as London goes to work, 15.6.98 413 Glory of the Garden goes Underground 519 Twin tunnel drives completed months ahead of schedule (DLR), 29.4.98 331 Heather gets work experience on London tube 447 Victorian obelisk - embankment work on Central line, 17.6.98 414 Home safely with Home-Link, 4.8.98 452 Visiting London? Visit http://www.londontransport.co.uk 1.6.98 330 Late Summer Bank Holiday travel with London Transport, 12.8.98 518 Waterloo & City Line celebrates a century of service, 3,8,98 451,597 London language line helps Asian travellers, 4.9.98 580 Power: Seeboard Powerlink awarded Tube power contract (press rel 14.8.98) 520 London language line comes to town, 2.10.98 586 Prestige ticketing (press release 14.8.98); The Times 524,542 London language line visits Redbridge, 30.10.98 643 Public-Private Partnership - press release 18.8.98 528 London language line visits Waltham Forest, 8.10.98) 587 do. - New Civil Engineer 9.7.98 533 London Transport's Annual Business Plan, 21.5,98 328 PUBLICITY MATTERS London Transport Annual Report 97/98 Summary & Highlights, 11.6.98 403 Appraisal of LU publicity matter (Trevor Baker) 22,295,442,517,637 London Transport Chairman (Peter Ford's resignation), 21.4.98 306 Pump - "Friends of the Pump" Museum at Walthamstow (NF175) 490 London Transport grant students lower fares, 17.9.98 533 - Q - London Transport helps Camden go green, 2.7.98 415 Q35: Transfer of 08063 to LT Museum (S other preserved Q-stock) 68,150 London Transport Museum goes from strength to strength, 4.11.98 649 - R - London Transport remembers old comrades, 30.10.98 648 Railtour - The Chesham Shuttle (Cravens Heritage Trains) - Saturday 3/10/98 637 London Transport scoops National Disability Award 6.5.98 309 Railtour - East London Line Renaissance Railtour, 19.4.98 291,417 London Transport to host UITP Congress in 2001, 3.11,98 648 Railway Training Centre: Model railways at the Railway Training Centre 636,676* LT appoints legal advisers for future PPP deal, 22.7.98 448 Refurbishment: 'A' Stock refurbishment nears completion 27 LT awards contract for £7M Materials & Purchasing Project, 1.5.98 308 Remembrance: London Transport remembers old comrades (press release 30.10.98) 648 LT installs Freephone travel information Revenue collection - see tickets * facility at Piccadilly line stations, 28.7.98 449 REVIEWS - Books, Magazines, Videos etc LT invites you to meet PAT (Public Access Terminal), 16.10.98 589 ABC London Underground, John Glover 141 LT tells RMT to stop striking and start talking, 7.7.98 446 Chesham Branch Album, Clive Foxell 590 LT Travel Information launches French language telephone line, 29.4.98 307 The Clever Tube Hopper (pub. Clever Map Co.) 96 LT welcomes Bechtel on board to complete the JLE, 25.9.98 585 Extended Jubilee line on track - LT video (press release 6.8.98) 453 London Underground's gardens are blooming marvellous, 27.8.98 529 Finsbury Park to Alexandra Palace (Middleton Press), by J E Connor 30 London Underground's investment programme 98/99, 11.6.98 405 Isle of Wight electric dawn (video) 196 London Underground proposes to upgrade Camden Town station 583 Johnston's Underground Font - LT Museum's 3.5" floppy disc 468 London Underground wins industry award for effective communication 1.4.98 257 London Bus and Underground Timetables (London Historical Research Group) 264 LUL tests hand-held Penalty Fare device, 7.5.98 309 London in 1997: the fare & ticket systems of public transport in London 348 Mornington Crescent 'Open all hours', 8.9.98 581 Lost Lines around London (video) 139 New Chief Executive for London Transport (Denis Tunnicliffe), 29.5,98 329 Metropolitan Centenarian, Austin Harland - "Metropolitan No 1" ex-L44 470,551 New design policy for London Transport, 17,4.98 306 The Met S GC Joint Line: an observers notes - 1946-1968, Albin J Reed 195 New desktop IT systems are the business,28.7.98 449 "Model Rail", August 1998: "Ryde St John's" layout 469 New ramped footbridge for Woodford, 30.6.98 415 Mysteries of the London Underground 126 New guides for travellers to & from Heathrow, 8.4.98 258 Stean on the Widened Lines (Middleton Press): comment by Desmond Croome 82 Operation Big Del targets District Line fare evaders, 10.7.98 446 Roadworks - propping up the roadway at Bank (New Civil Engineer 23.7.98) 535 Operation Mainline targets fare evaders, 2.3.98 250 ROLLING STOCK Operation Rocket set for zero tolerance of fare evaders, 3.11.98 649 Surface stock:- Photocard offers new deal on fares for job-seekers, 19.5.98 309 'A' Stock refurbishment nears completion 27 PPP (Public Private Partnership): The future of LU, 18.8.98 528 'A' Stock refurbished train (DM5111) - external changes 64* Roadspace reduction - a positive policy for cities, 11.3.98 255 'A' Stock - transfer from Neasden to ADtranz Derby for refurbishment 65* Record week on the tube as passenger numbers grow, 3.11.98 649 'A' Stock unrefurbished (DM 5229), Harrow on the Hill 64* Science "Exploration Station" takes off at the LT Museum, 14.9.98 582 'C Stock train, (All-over-advertisement - Yellow pages) 157* Seeboard Powerlink awarded Tube power contract, 14.8.98 520 'C Stock train (Panda)on Hammersmith & City Line at Farringdon 28.1.98 221* See the gap at South Kensington, 27.7.98 449,596* 'D' Stock at Barons Court: "District Line" moved to top of cab (+NF215) 653,673 Set sail on the Thames for the millenium and beyond, 16.3.98 256 'D' Stock - modifications 285*,596* Shell ticket hall, Waterloo - closed for refurbishment, 11.6.98) 402 Tube stock:- Single bidder announcement for LU's new communications network, 31.7.98 450 1959 Tube Stock 1028 & 1043 at Finchley Central 6.6.1987 2* TranSys awarded 17-year revenue collection contract, 14-8.98 524 1967 Tube Stock at Northumberland Park depot 4.2.98 221* TravelWise campaign takes a sensible approach to the car, 6.10.98 586 1972 Mkl Tube Stock 3518, 'blue doors' livery 6.6.97, South Finchley 2* Tube crime continues long-term downward trend, 2.8.98 490 1972 Tube Stock (refurbished) - modifications 286* Tube hosts offer warm welcome, 3.4.98 258 1973 Tube Stock: all-over-advertisement train (United Airways) 158*,654* 686 687 ROLLING STOCK (continued) "Ryde St John's" layout -"Model Rail", August 1998 469 1973 Tube Stock - detrainment system 433* - S - 1973 Tube Stock Inter Car Barriers on some units 320*,653* Safety, Transport (comparing British and Continental) 131 1973 Tube Stock passing at Chlswick Park I* "Sarah Siddona" in passenger service for Amersham Heritage Day (NF188) 491 1973 Tube Stock at North Ealing 384* "Sarah Siddons": Steam on the Met, 16.5.98 432* 1973 Tube Stock passing at Stamford Brook (DM191) 1* SIGNALLING 1973 Tube stock (refurbished) approaching Acton Tovn 1.4.97 222* Aldgate area, computer controlled signalling (NF184) 491 1973 Tube Stock (refurbished) at Acton Town 21,1.98 222* Central Line Signalling Update 25 1973 Tube Stock, unrefurbished and refurbished 407* East London Line, signalling S track plans April 1998 228 "1983 Tube Stock - End of Part 1" (last train in passenger service) 436 Moving Block signalling 532 1983 Tube Stock at Neasden depot and Willesden Green for scrap 498* SIGNS 1992 Tube Stock departing Leyton station, 10.5.97 113* Northmet - signs 84 1995 Tube Stock leaving West Ruislip 283* 1996 Tube Stock - detrainment system 433* Roundels at Sudbury Town 410* 1996 Tube Stock test train at Tooting Broadway I35* "Simply Showbiz", "Simply Nightlife" leaflets 639 1996 Tube Stock at Charing Cross, East Ham, Wembley Park & Upminster 117-8* "Sliding Doors" filmed on London Underground (press release) 24.4.98 307 1996 Tube Stock propelled by JLE diesels. West Ham 53* SOCIETY HATTERS 1996 (JLE) Tube Stock debut 72 Annual General Meeting, 27.3.98 and the 1997 Accounts - Report & Minutes 361 1996 Tube Stock piloted by 1962 Tube Stock, Wembley Park 63* Closing down and disposal of LURS library 622 1996 Tube Stock at Neasden S Stratford Market depots & Upminster 219* Committee Annual Report for 1997 148 1996 Tube Stock destination displays (NF128) 281 Committee member vacancy and for Treasurer 104 Docklands B.92 unit 74: London Knights ice hockey team advert (NF212) 673 LDRS Information phone line 105 Docklands B.92 in petrol-blue livery 560* Modelling - more drawings 637 Service Stock and stock out of service:- Personal message from Bob Greenaway (illness) 103,361 1938 Tube Stock on the Piccadilly Line, Brian Hardy H Photographs for and in Underground News 550 Preservation Fund 150 do, introduction of (Note by Desmond Croome) 82 Society Officers - January & July 1998 47,36-7 1938 Tube Stock Ballast Motor cars, L.50 & L.51, Ruislip depot 283* Society Officers - changes (Editors Underground News/Special Publications) 361 1938 Tube Stock Weed Killing unit, repainted, at Eastcote on 25.3.98 561* Underground News content: balance required to LU's "PR speak" (letter) 656 do. operating between battery locos, heading for Hainault on 27.6.98 561* Underground postcards for sale (from Underground News covers) 365,670 1962 Tube Stock pilot units at Acton Works and Upminster 155* Visit to Lost Property Office 489 1962 Tube stock pilot 1630/31 with 1995 stock, east end Ealing common depot 222* Stanmore branch (Met) - crossover 393 1967 Tube Stock DM 3016 at Pump Museum, Walthamstow (NF175) 490 STATIONS (and photographs near stations) 1995 Tube Stock: car bodies stored at Fordingbridge 559* Acton Town at the heart of Acton (press release 21.9.98) 584 CP Stock DM 54256 at Pump Museum, Walthamstow (NF175) 490 Acton Town: All-over-advertisement 1973 tube stock train (United Airlines) 158* 'G' Class cars on the Metropolitan and coach liveries 36 Acton Town (west of): refurbished 1973 TS train and 1962 pilot 1.4.97 222* •H' District Line mixed stock at Kensington Olympia, late 40s 113,116* Acton Town: refurbished 1973 Tube Stock 21.1.98 222* LIB (yellow livery) at Ruislip depot 13.8,98 628* Acton Town; Open day at Acton Works and Acton Town station, 30.9.98 569 Q35: Transfer of 08063 to LT Museum (& other preserved Q-stock) 68,150 Aldgate area, computer controlled signalling (Nri84) 491 R47 Stock DM 21147 at Pump Museum, Walthamstow (NF175) 490 RW824 (Rail Wagon) - aide planks painted blue 627* Aldgate East 31,3.98 - empty stock transfer 254* Amersham: Steam on the Met 385*,386* Central Line Rail Treatment Car (ex-HDM 9459) at Ruislip depot 627* Bank: American Airlines sponsored mural - W&C line tievolator 497* LUl-owned stock out of service at end-1997 101 Out of Service Summary end-August 1998 547 Bank-Monument station progress 181,319* Pre-1938 stock at Leyton station, 27,8.62 113,116* Bank, leaflets about roof and road works 299 "Sarah Siddons", Steam on the Met, 16.5.98 432* Bank - propping up the roadway (New Civil Engineer 23.7.98) 535 Track Recording unit in original livery, 7.7.87 628* Barking, UTS gates 25 Diesels etc Barons Court: 'D'-stock: "District Line" moved to top of cab (+NF215) 653,673 Diesel locomotive JLE 10, at Stratford Market depot, 10.2.98 284* Barons Court: restoration of facade 495* JLE diesels propelling 1996 Tube Stock, West Ham 63* Camden Town: London Underground proposes to upgrade Camden Town station 583 "Viking" (DL83 diesel) 86 "Camden Town": An Underground model in 00 gauge 633,675* Emergency Response Unit lorry 2492M: new livery (NF213) 673 Chalfont & Latimer, Chiltern Railways Class 165 unit 496* Unimogs: L84; TMM774 (leaf clearing) 562* Chesham Shuttle (Cravens Heritage Trains) - Saturday 3/10/98 637 Engineers Trains as at 28 February 1998 216 Chorleywood: Steam on the Met 386*,408* DLR miscellaneous vehicles 392 Clapham North: platforms 137* Rolling Stock numerology - District Railway 393 Colindale ticket Office 129 Rolling Stock numerology - The Metropolitan 120 Ealing Broadway (District - disused): upper facade 434* ROLLING STOCK - CHANGES & MOVEMENTS East Acton: perspex canopies installed December 1997 321* Farringdon: 'C Stock train (Panda) on Hammersmith S City Line 28.1.98 221* "Rolling stock changes and movements", including corrections to earlier lists, appeared in each successive issue, two months in arrears. Farringdon: Thameslink Class 319 unit 496* Finsbury Park: Hump-back profile of platforms 202,335 689 688 STATIONS (and photographs near stations) (continued) STATIONS (and photographs near stations) (continued) Whitechapel: platform panelling 1998 253* Gallions Reach DLR: B.92 unit in petrol-blue livery 560* Willesden Green: 1983 Tube Stock looking smart before scrapping 498* Cants Hill, or Gantshill 31,311 Woodford: new ramped footbridge (press release 30.6.98) 415 Greenford: Central (West end) progress report (reconstruction) 570 Woodford: wasteful use of resources - suggested track layout 259,459,606 Harrow on the Hill: 'A' Stock train unrefurbished (DM5229) 64* STEAM Harrow on the Hill: misrouteing of BR main line trains 340,457 Bl 4-6-0 No.1264, 16th, 24th & 25th May 98 385*,409*.431* Heathrow: bus, train & tube services (leaflet) 639 Pannier tank 9466, 23rd S 24th May 98 386*.409* Heathrow: New guides for travellers (press release) 8.4.98 258 Prairie Tank 4144, 7th & 23rd May 98 408*,431* Heathrow: Underground to Heathrow - the other way (Fast Train) 324 Stanier 'Mogul' 2968, 24th i 25th May 98 386*,408* Heathrow Express (Fast Train): photographs of platforms etc 351*-354* Steam on the Met 1998 - advance details of operations 242 Heathrow: Heathrow Express takes off in the media 439 do. report by Fred Ivey 388,551 Highgate: leaflet about escalators, April 1998 443 do. photos of locomotives S trains. Covers and centre pages issue 440 (August) Hillingdon - new building 383* Steam on the Widened Lines (Middleton Press): comment by Desmond Croome 82 Island Gardens - compressed air accident (Papers 26.2.98) 271,273 Strikes on the tube 413,446,447 King's Cross fire, 1987: remaining unidentified body (ES Magazine) 661 Students: London Transport grant students lower fares (press release 17.9.98) 583 Leyton, 1962 & 1997 113,115* - T - Kensington Olympia, late 1940s and 1997 113,116* Taxis: 'Homelink' from North Northern & Piccadilly stations 299,452,639 London Bridge, new diverted southbound platform 137* Television: Underground on TV and in films 191 "Mill Ridge" - a London Underground model railway in 00 gauge 292,629*,630*,632 Thames: Set sail on the Thames for the milleniura and beyond 256 Monument: Bank-Monument station progress 181,319* Thaneslink Class 319 unit at Farringdon 496* Morden from above tunnel mouths, 23.1.98 • track diagrams 138*,140 TICKETS & TICKETING Mornington Crescent reopens 288,301*-304* Colindale ticket Office 129 Mornington Crescent 'Open all hours' (press release 8.9.98) 581 The Great South Kensington Subway Mystery 444 North Acton: bright new look for N. Acton station (press release 21.9.98) 585 do. List of ticket nippers, 1909 656 North Ealing: platforms S footbridge + 1973 TS 384* London in 1997: the fare & ticket systems of public transport in London 348 Northolt: rebuilding almost complete (contrasting views) 651&2* Operation Big Del targets District Line fare evaders (press release 10.7.98) 446 Northolt: replacement of platform canopy 9.1.98 156* Operation Mainline targets fare evaders, (press release 2.3.98) 250 Northolt: Central (West end) progress report (reconstruction) 571 Operation Rocket - zero tolerance of fare evaders (press release 3.11.98) 649 Oakwood: re-instatement of outside roundel 495* Prestige ticketing (TranSys), press release 18.8.98; The Times 524,542 Oxford Circus: Avoid the Central Line at Oxford Circus, 29.5.98) 330 Shell ticket hall: Waterloo - closed, refurbishment (press release 11.6.98) 402 Paddington: all-over-advertisement C stock train (Yellow pages) 157* The UTS Underground roll-stock ticket 34 Paddington: refurbishment of LUL concourse (Modern Railways) 535 TranSys awarded 17-year revenue collection (press release 14,8.98) 524 Paddington H&C - not shown as "interchange" 457 do. (The Times 15.8.98) 542 Rayners Lane: all-over-advertisement 1973 TS train (United Airlines) 158* UTS gates: Barking & Marylebone (Chiltern Railways) 25 Ruislip Gardens: Central (West end) progress report (reconstruction) 571,594* TIMETABLES Shadwell: platforms & enamel panelling, 1998 251*,252* Frequent train services (44,40,35 etc trains per hour) 532,613 Shorediteh: East London Line - Shoreditch opens at last! 571 Metropolitan Line booklet (timetable September 1998) 637 Shoreditch: Full reopening of the East London Line (press release 17.9.98) 584 New Underground Timetables: WTTs in force from Sunday 27.9.98 564 South Kensington: The Great South Kensington Subway Mystery 444,656 TRACK South Kensington: See the gap at S Kensington (press release 27.7.98) 449,596* Crossover on the Stanmore branch (Met) 393 South Ruislip: platform reconstruction 322* East London Line, signalling & track plans April 1998 228 South Ruislip: Central (West end) progress report (reconstruction) 571 Jubilee trains don't fit (Evening Standard 27.7.98) 538 South Wimbledon: refurbished exterior and unrefurbished escalators 136* Lewishara extension of the DLR - track layouts 373 Sudbury Hill: platform reconstruction, April-June 1998 321* Morden depot on 23.1.98 with re-aligned tracks 138*194 Sudbury Town: features restored to original condition 407*,410* Waterloo S City line: Track S signal diagram 61 Swiss Cottage: station tiling 32 Woodford: wasteful use of resources - suggested track layout 259,459,606 Theydon Bois: embankment work - Victorian obelisk (press release) 17.6.98 414 Traction motor: "The development of the Underground traction motor" 500 Tooting Bee & Broadway: upgrading work completed (NF39) 110 Traction motors - an appendix 509 Tooting Broadway: refurbished interior with 1996 TS test train 135* TRAIN SERVICES Wapping: entrance to refurbished tunnels 251* Christmas & New Year-Underground (& summary of stations open) 1989-97) 4 Wapping: platform panelling 1998 253* East London Line train services 321 Waterloo: Shell ticket hall closed, refurbishment (press release 11.6.98) 402 Frequent train services (44,40,35 etc trains per hour) 532,613 Wembley Park: BT Police building 283* Underground train service update + engineering work (March) 246 Underground train service update (May) 310 Wembley Park: refurbishment 654 West Brompton; proposed new station on West London line (NF173) 490,595* Tramlink raises over £10,000 for charity (press release 4.8.98) 453 Westferry DLR: B.92 unit in petrol-blue livery 560* Transport Safety (comparing British and Continental) 131 West Ruislip: 1996 tube stock 283* TranSys awarded 17-year revenue collection (press release 14.8.98) 524 Travelcard wallets 517 West Ruislip: Central (West end) progress report (reconstruction) 571,594* Whitechapel: ghost trains and footsteps (Papers 23.7.98) 615 690 691 Travolator (BSC line at Bank) American Airlines sponsored mural 497* CREDITED ARTICLES (continued) Tube guides - local tube guides 22,295,298,443,637 438 294 Exercise Herman, live emergency exercise East London Line Trevor Baker Tunnicliffe, Denis: New Chief Executive for London Transport, 29.5.98 329 438 295 Publicity matters Trevor Baker - D - 439 326 The last years of C&SLR loco no 36 Alan A Jackson n-Bahn: Under (and over) Berlin streets (prev ref UN398/9) 510 439 328 Legally specified heights of overbridges Dilwyn Chambers UNIFORMS 440 388 Stean on the Met '98 (correction p 551) Fred Ivey New up-market and modern LUL staff uniform (Papers 24.3.98) 356 440 393 District Railway numerology J Graeme Bruce Tube staff to be seen in new uniform (press release 12.10.98) 588 440 393 Crossover on the Stanmore branch Dilwyn Chambers United Airways: all-over-advertisement 1973 Tube stock train 158*,654* 441 438 Visit to the DLR Lewiaham extension, 9.7.98 E Relton UTS gates: Barking & Harylebone (Chiltern Railways) 25 441 439 Flights of Fancy? Heathrow Express takes off in iaedi a Kim Rennie - V - 441 442 Publicity matters Trevor Baker VICTORIA LINE 441 444 The Great South Kensington Subway Mystery Eric Felton Northumberland Park depot, 1967 Tube Stock 4.2.98 221* 442 500 The development of the Underground traction motor J Graeme Bruce VIDEOS 442 509 Traction motors - an appendix Bob Greenaway Extended Jubilee line on track: LT video (press release 6.8.98) 453 442 509 A guide to the DLR Lewisham extension G D Towner Isle of Wight electric dawn 196 443 569 An Open day at Acton Works and Acton Town station E Korbert Lost Lines around London 139 443 571 East London Line - Shoreditch opens at last! Update 16 John Thomason Vintage Carriages Trust: Internet http://www/neotek.demon.co.uk/vet (NF202) 625 443 573 Bakerloo Line under river tunnel protection (also p593*)Peter Bancroft VISITS 444 633 "Camden Town": An Underground model in 00 gauge Simon Lambert Society visit to Glasgow, Saturday 26.7.97 (Peter Bancroft) 48 444 637 The Chesham Shuttle - Saturday 3/10/98 Des Jenkins Society visit to Lost Property Office 489 444 637 Publicity matters Trevor Baker - W - Walker: Herbert Walker's NW London Railway (Prigmore Lecture 1996) 553 SOCIETY DIARY - LIST OF MEETINGS AND REVIEWS Wallets: Travelcard wallets and carnet wallets 517 1995 Waltham Forest: London language line visits W Forest (press release 8.10.98) 587 12 Hay The London Electric Railway and the LNWR up to 1938 551,(614) Walthamstow, "Friends of the Pump" Museum - acquisition of tube cars 490 14 July London Underground Earth Structures Brian McGinnity 106' WATERLOO & CITY LINE 1996 American Airlines sponsored mural: travolator at Bank 319,497* 12 January LUL's Network Control Centre John Greenaway 49 Inclined subway at Bank 319* 8 Harch Bluebell Rly's Met coaches 1898-1996 Martin Lock 203 An open day down the Drain 515 12 April Lighting Dave Burton 368 Track & signal diagram 61 10 May Track Replacement Project Ray Pocock Waterloo & City Line celebrates a century of service (press release 3.8.98) 451 (Delay in publishing report 277) do. Comments by John Gillham 597 11 August The Customer Information Service Mike Stallard 51 Watford-Euston: LER/LNWR/ North London Electrics 551,553,614 25 October Herbert Walker's North-West London Railway (Prigmore) 553 West London Line: proposed new station at West Brompton 595* 1997 Wendover by-pass, Albin J Reed 22 8 August Accessible metropolitan railway systems Andrew Braddock 108 Wildlife (on the Northern Line) 517 12 September The East London Line extensions Michael Hurn 52 Wight - see Isle of Wight 10 October Bakerloo Line tunnel strengthening Derek Clark 623 - T - 12 December "Are you being served" - role "Yellow peril hits the road": Yellow Pages all-over-advert C stock train 160 of customer services in LT Barry Le Jeune 205 1998 CREDITED ARTICLES 9 January The Lewisham extension of the DLR Ian Page 370 Issue Page Title Author 13 February Review of 1997 Underground events Fred Ivey 379 13 March The LT Museum of the future Sam Mullins 487 433 11 1938 Tube Stock on the Piccadilly Line Brian Hardy 7 April Disused London Underground Stations Mike Ashworth 433 22 Wendover by-pass Albin J Reed 8 May The Prestige Ticketing Project 433 22 Publicity matters Trevor Baker - Serving the Milleniura Nick Agnew 433 48 Society visit to Glasgow - Saturday 26.7.97 Peter Bancroft 12 June Early Underground Maps David Leboff & Tim Demuth 434 76 East London Line closed for 37 months - Update no 11 John Thomason 10 July By Tube from Waterloo to Bank, 435 120 Rolling Stock numerology - The Metropolitan J Graeme Bruce Ludgate Circus, Aldwych and Whitehall Peter Bancroft 435 125 East London Line closed until 25 March 1998 - Update 12 John Thomason 14 August London Underground's Escalators 1906-1996 Ray Orton 435 126 Mysteries of the London Underground Michael Skaife d'lngerthorpe Underground Advertising 436 184 East London Line to re-open 25 March 1988 - Update 13 John Thomason 11 September - Present and Future Jeremy Male 224 East London Line (partially) re-opened 25.3.98 - 14 John Thomason 437 35 years of Underground Empty 437 234 Central Line - when will it be reliable (report 1.4.98) Ian Strugnell 9 October Stock Movements Fred Ivey 437 248 The District and a melancholy state occasion R E Rodrigues The Great Bore - The closure 438 289 East London Line (mostly) running again - Update 15 John Thoraason 13 November of the East London Line 1995-1998 John Wylie East London Line Renaissance Railtour, 19.4.98 Des Jenkins 438 291 John Parkin tours London Underground "Mill Ridge"- an LU model railway in 00 gauge John Polley 438 292 11 December through 25 years of colour slides John Parkin
