Underground News Index 1995
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UNDERGROUND NEWS ISSN 0306-8617 INDEX 1995 Issues 397-408 PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY THE LONDON UNDERGROUND RAILWAY SOCIETY 459 458 INDEX TO 1995 ISSUES OF UNDERGROUND NEWS B Baker Street station, 23,182,368 Notes; (i) Page entries witli * are pliotographs (ii) Page entries for an individual station may include developments in tfie vicinity BAKERLOO LINE of the station. Dot Matrix indicators display rude messages, 434 Incident-handling organisation north of Queen's Park, 290 Bank station, 146,326,327,366,446 Barbican station, 380 Accident reports, cut price. 437 Barcelona Metro, 226 ACCIDENTS - COLLISIONS Barking station, 89 Moorgate, 28.2.75, 25,145,146 Barons Court station, 281* ACCIDENTS - DERAILMENTS Bayswater station, 335 British Museum, 16.10.94, 29,225 BERLIN Canary Wharf, DLR. 21,10.95, 447 Hammersmith, H.&C, 30.11.94, 14,30 Impressions of underground railways, 63,257,416,438 New Cross depot, 11,12.94, 31 U-Bahn rolling stock order, 142 Poplar, DLR, 10.8.95, 377 Bishopsgate station (East London extension), 74,141 Whitechapel. District, 29.5.95, 253,270,435,438 Blackhorse Road station, 144,176 ACCIDENTS - FIRES BOOK REVIEWS & NOTICES King's Cross, compensation payment, 12 Celebration of Steam: The Chilterns, 431 King's Cross, final LUL report, 333 Marylebone, BR, 27 9.95. 447 Cricket Grounds - Then and Now. 15 Reduction in 1994, 71 Designed for London, 430 Smoulderino on track. North Ealing 29.5.95, 303 Great Western Halts - Volume 1, 15 Waterloo (BR) escalator, 9.12.94, 333 Greenwich Foot Tunnel leaflet, .368 ACCIDENTS - FORMATION FAILURES Ministry of Morale, 440 Colindale/Burnt Oak, 1.1.94, 115 Hillingdon (west), 17.1.95, 159 Mr,Beck's Underground Map, 91 ACCIDENTS - MISCELLANEOUS Pinner to Paradise, 175 ChemicaHeak, Northoll, 15.5.95, 251 Poems on the Underground, 4th edition. 74 ACCIDENTS - PERSONAL Railway Track Diagrams - England South & London Underground, 137,228 Brompton Road station, body at foot of ventilation shaft, 78,251 Science Fiction by the rivals of H.G.Wells, 440 Ealing Common fatality, September 1994, 152 Speak for Yourself - Mass-Observation 1937-49, 163 Ealing Common, woman under train, 13.4.95 , 220 Persons on track. Barbican, 25.5.95. 270 The Directory of British Signal Boxes (on disc only), 136 Platform accidents with trains. 71,141,220,221.222.246,252,258,333,341 The London United Tramways, Vol, 1 , 217 Queen's Park, glazier cut knee, 30.3.95, 233 Tube Hopper, 141 Southgate station fatality, 7.9.95, 432 Underground Architecture, 429 Victoria (Victoria Line), smashed keyboard. 333 Victoria Line/Central Line, 431 West Hampstead. raiiman killed, 23.6.94. 30 ACCIDENTS - RUNAWAY TRAINS Willesden at War, Vols, 1 & 2, 323 King's Cross, Piccadilly, 2.12.93, 13,88 Working timetable appendix, Met.District RIy. 1930, 6 ACTON WORKS Working timetable appendix, Und. Group tubes, 1928, 6 Brick roundel surrounding plaque. 351' Books - how to preserve their condition, 239 LT Chairman's visit. 247 Books about the Underground, report of meeting, 235,299 . Possible sale. 294 Wandering goat. 160 Bosnia aid collections, 447 Addison Road station. 86 BRIDGES Aldgate station. 247 New signs on Metropolitan overbridges, 190,353* Aldwych station, 18.145,177 Road overbridge north-west of Farringdon, 234.250,363 Alexandra Palace branch, siding to Fortis Green. 331 Rotherhithe station renewal, 393,432,433.434 An Alphabet of T.O.T.. 240* British Association speakers' panel. 452 Angel station. 328 Arcnives, London Underground, at Bristol, 374 British Rail, ghost services, 331 Arnos Grove station 354,425 BRITISH TRANSPORT POLICE Arsenal station, 148,300 Annual report 327 Athens Metro. 326,329 Car park ctamp down, 7 Auction of relics, including 1962 stock. 5.12.95, 424,436,440 Public liaison meeting at Tooting Bdy, 6.7.95, 361 460 461 B (continued) C (continued) BRITISH TRANSPORT POLICE (continued) Commemorative plaques, 247,290,344,351'.436 Report of increase in violent crime, 10 Commercial advertising, 29,77,111,145,251,325 Brixton station, 248,294,332 Computer equipment supplied to LRT, alleged sub-standard, 431 Brompton Road station, 78,251 Confederation of British Industry (London), 250 Budapest Metro. 93.183.432 CONTROL CENTRES Bus services. Epping-Ongar, 97.416 Neasden, 146,247,290 C Network, 55 Broadway, 294 Covent Garden station. 437 CB.i.. London Region. 250 CRIME Cable car proposals, 253 Abduction from Leytonstone station, 330 Camden Town station, 245 Assaults, 10,182,221,329 Canary Wfiarf, compensation to BZW staff. 219 Attempted murder near Turnpike Lane station, 253 Car line diagrams, 229 Bank closed, armed police chasing suspects, 344 Ceefax travel information. 20 Begging, 332 CENTRAL LINE & CENTRAL LONDON RAILWAY Bicycle thieves caught on train at Croxley, 433 A.T.P. commissioned. Ealing/Northolt-North Acton. 444 Blocking ticket machine change shutes, 291 A.T.P. commissioned. West Ruislip-Northolt. 380 BT Police annual report, 327 Ealing Broadway line opened 1920. various traffic notices. 400.401 Busker's dog bit passenger, 302 Effect of M. 11 extension. 326 Busking, 173,249.324 Epping-Ongar.closure and offer for sale. 1*.16.17.36*.324.330.364 Diversion to Germany of BR cheque , 11.180 Epping-Ongar, bus service, 97.416 Fare evasion, income from revenue inspectors, 221 Footpath crossing near Ongar. 35" Fraud, Queensway ticket clerk, 364 Ljst of Acts of Parliament, lines to & beyond Ongar. 52.185,254,255,369 Fraud, Maida Vale ticket clerk, 246 Loop west of Leytonstone converted to through line. 303 Northern Line guard disarms passenger, 345 New signalling. Stratford-Leytonstone area. 268 Passenger shot at Stockwell, 329 Ongar line memories, 407 Planned further blitz on fare dodgers. 77 Ongar Railway Preservation Society, 75.284.324 Removal of bolts on Chesham branch track. 78 Replacement bus service. Loughton-Epping, 282* Resale of Underground tickets outside stations. 181,436 Steam train from Ongar at Epping, 1957. 456' Robberies, increase, 147 Track damage by 1992 stock. 96 Shooting incident at North Acton, 3.4.95. 233 Travelling cash box. 1920, 402 Smoking, 10 Chalk Farm station, 89 Statistics, and further preventive measures, 179 Chancery Lane station, 145.151,223 Train damaged by youths. Jubilee Line, 10,8,95. 377 CHANNEL TUNNEL Crossharbour & London Arena station. 382 Extra freight route parallel to West London Railway. 435 CROSSRAIL Link line (effect on Underground). 12.76.147.223 Draft Order under Transport & Works Act, 76,334 Link line (Stratford station). 296 Fifty per cent private sector contribution needed, 79.80 Routeing of North of London Eurostars. 76(see also North London Railways) Further economic assessment. 80,145,148.252.367 Chelsea-Hackney, alternative routeings. 146.147.218,293.324,335.360,365 Restructured administration. 76 Chesham station. 380 Crouch Hill bridge collapse. 10 CHILTERN LINE Customers' Charter, reasons for delays, 29 Damaged footbridge at West Ruislip. 22,1.95, 111.161 Overcrowding. 151 Sudbury area stations, poor AM peak service. 295 Defective trains, instructions, CLR & Hampstead, 1920s, 401 Temporary non-stopping of Chorleywood and Chalfont & Latimer, 93 DELAYS TO SERVICE CHRISTMAS & NEW YEAR 16.10.94, derailment. British Museum. 29 New Year's Eve operations, 1994/5, 110 31.10.94, defective 1992 train, Ealing Broadway, 110 Proposed services 1995/6, 151 8.11.94, points failure, Camden Town. 10,12 Publicity, and errors in Northern Line timetables, 1994/5 . 99,245 11.11.94, goat on line, Turnham Green, 110 Stratford without a 1995 Boxing Day service ?, 435 16,11.94, signal failures. Marble Arch & Holborn, 11, CIRCLE LINE 28.11.94. engineering over-run, Westminster, 13 Holding trains at Edgware Road lor connections. 156 New public open space over cutting near Farringdon. 292 30,11.94, derailment, Hammersmith H,&C.. 14.30 Panhandle service experiments. 370 2.12.94, removal of scaffolding, Central Line, 31 Pattern of service, to change or not 219 5.12.94, engineering over-run, Morden & Tooting Broadway. 72 Pedestnan tunnel linking Park Crescent & Square, 175 9.12.94. Fulham Broadway, man shooting from house, 31,74 Proposals to eliminate through services from other lines. 97 28.12,94, defective 1992 train, Debden-Theydon Bois, 110 Unsuitability as substitute for CrossRail. 248 19. 1,95, Metropolitan Line, numerous delays, 159 Clapham North station. 436 21. 1.95, tree on line, Totteridge-High Barnet, 160 1. 2.95, body found at Queen's Park, 160 462 463 D (continued) D (continued) - — DELAYS TO SERVICE (continued) DOCKLANDS LIGHT RAILWAY (continued) 1. 2.95. signal failures after heavy rain, various lines. 142 Beckton extension, writ from contractors, 141 7. 2.95, gas leak at Pimlico. 143.160 British Gas AGM at Docklands Arena, 291 11. 2.95, Bakerloo Line, various, 160 Bus services D.11 and X.15 withdrawn, 365 27. 2,95, Northern Line, female stripper, 161 Closures for engineering wori^, October & November 1995, 447 1. 3.95. Harrow-Northwood. suspect on track, 189 Developments to November 1994, 150 2/3. 3.95, heavy snowfalls, all lines, 161 Developments to July 1995, 244,249,320 4. 3,95, (following a cold night), Bakerloo, Central, Met, 189 Developments to August 1995, 380 9. 3.95. Victoria, Victoria Line, female stripper, 189 Franchising proposal, 14,384 13, 3.95. Central, Victoria. Waterloo & City, 177 Lewisham extn. incl. proposed Cutty Sark station), 8,14,76/7/8,88,142/3,218/20/23,332/80.432 15. 3.95. failed push-out at Vauxhall . 178,189 New timetable, 9,1.95., 151 17. 3.95. Trees on track. Central, District; hoarding S,Bush, 190 Passenger satisfaction index, 88 23. 3.95, child on Piccadilly Line tracks. 219 Pictures of Poplar from Canary Wharf tower, 203' 26. 3.95, Liverpool Street-Aldgate East, reason not certain, 190 Rolling stock, 8.77,216,244,318*,381 3.