Underground News Index 2001
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UNDERGROUND NEWS ISSN 0306-8617 INDEX 2001 Issues 469 - 480 PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY THE LONDON UNDERGROUND RAILWAY SOCIETY INDEX TO 2001 ISSUES OF UNDERGROUND NEWS Alstom. safety award for depots, 469 Angel, closed by defecfive escalators, 234, 236. 454, 457. 515 Page entries marked * are photographs original island platform, 335 visit to non-public areas, 509 Acacia Road, original name for St John's Wood, 484 Announcements, on-train, Access to the Undergmund, new edition published, 104 anomalies, 537 Accidents, collisions, Chesham branch, train and tree, 12.12.00, 90 inaccurate regarding Jubilee Line interchange, 123 Accidents, derailments, 'new" voice, 176 Ealing Common Depot, 30.12.00, 94 Anthrax, simulation exercises in 1950s/1960s, 582 Ealing Common Depot, 08.07.01, 413 Archival material, 151 Ealing Common Depot, 06.08.01, 454 Archives, Ealing Common Depot, 16.08.01, 455 document management flowchart, 401 Hammersmith Depot, 18.09.01, 515 storage and conservation, 397-401 Morden Depot, 19.09.01, 515 Amos Grove, Piccadilly Circus, Bakerioo crossover, 32 new staff footbridge, 313, 440 Ruislip Depot, 14.01.01, 139 SPAD, 141 Stratford Martlet Depot, 11.12.00, 89-90 Arsenal, Triangle sidings, 31.05.01, 330 original 'Gillespie Road' tiling revealed, 351* Upminster Depot, 15.12.00 renaming necessary?, 428 Accidents, fire, trackside, large number of, 253 Art-Tube 01. 565 Accidents, miscellaneous, ASLEF union, driver commended for rescue of dog, 530 claim that drivers have invalid safety licences, 164 Fatriop, 'bridge strike', lorry stuck under bridge, 17.05.01, 329 further strikes called off, 208 Northern Line train 'rolling back", LU report, 75-80 meeting with LUL at ACAS, 208 wartime, in stations used as air raid shelters, 578 strike threat for 29.03.01, 260 Accidents, personal, strike threat over pay, 531, 581. 582 Acton Town, man jumping on to tracks from road bridge, 25.01.01, 141 strike threat over PPP, 120, 163, 165, 166, 207, 210, 259 Bumt Oak, person wandering on tracks, 07.05.01, 326 strike, 04/05.02.01, services operated, 227, 244 Liverpool Street, tourists 'huried to bottom' of escalator, 116 strike, 04/05.02.01, ticket refunds, leaflet, 244 London Bridge, woman falling on escalator, 117 Associated Equipment Company Ltd.. 222 persons under trains, 28, 31, 90, 91, 138, 140, 143, 229, 230, 231, 234, 235, 238, 280, Athens. Metro expansion plans for 2004 Olympics, 118 281, 282, 328, 330, 331, 358, 359, 415, 416, 417, 418, 454, 455, 516, 517 persons under frains, large number of, 253 Baker Street, Southgate, drunken man in danger on platform, 25.03.01, 238 bus replacement service during wori^ on points, 406,408* Stratford/Mile End, passenger falling between cars, 09.05.01, 327, 340 'litter poinf established, 151 Tumham Green, attempted suicide on Piccadilly tracks, 25.03.01, 238 problems at junction. 236-238. 405, 406 Tumham Green, woman on track stmck by train, 22.12.00, 92 unusual routing, 109 Victoria Line, passengers on stalled train needing medical attention, 02.07.01, 413 water seepage, 93, 94 Willesden Green, drunken man knocked out on alighting, 25.03.01, 238 Bakerioo Line, Acton Works, 505* Camberwell extension proposal, 119 Advertising, inter-car bamers, 5 Accles & Pollock, 51, 155, 158. 265 reversing an^ngements at Stonebridge Parte, 320, 331 DLR stock. 285, 440 shortage of train operators, 27, 29, 30, 32. 137, 230, 326 Miss Selfridge poster banned. 260 Watford stock, 367-370, 431 moving image, on tube tunnel walls, 120, 337 Balham, nameboard, 132 National Portrait Gallery poster banned. 582 Bank, TDI Advertising renamed, 440 Central Line refurbishment. 218* Atdemey, preserved 1938 and 1959/62 stock, 206, 215*, 278, 409*, 410*, 411, 444*, 503* CLR station, construction, 82-83 Aldgate East, SPAD, 89 evacuation exercise, 226,234 Aldwych, used as venue for drama production, 532 pedestrian subway, 82-83. 86 All Saints, 592* Bank-Monument subway. 86 Alperton, 354* Bartdngside, 293* guard rails on platfom canopy edges, 213, 591* Barons Court, 473*, 474* Bates. Sir Malcolm. 118 Beggars, warnings on train indicators, 312, 348 Bus services, Bermondsey, campaign for re-zoning as Zones 1/2 border station, 119 leaflet, 147 Bethnal Green, FVamj/m for Ar/exhibition, 471 plans, 529 Blake Hall. 96* Busking, Bond Street, illegal, call for heavy fines, 117 flooding, 280 licensed, 340 'litter poinf established, 151 Byers, Stephen, new Transport Secretary, to meet Kiley, 434 Book Reviews and Notices, A Logo for London, 107 Cadbury, contract awarded for vending machines, 373 Glasgov/ Subway Album, 107 Camden Town, Johnston's Underground Type, 302 design of new staton to be reviewed, 297, 319 Lost Unes-London, 197 escalator wori(, 264 Metros in Spain, 525 planning application for new station, 101, 162 Mind the Gap 571 planning consent refused by Livingstone. 433 Model Rail, May 2001, 302 platform refurbishment, 199 Northmet - A History of the North Metropolitan Electric Power Supply Company, 40 rebuilding plans, leaflet, 147 Paris RER Handbook, 248, 310 Canada Water. Pressure Underground, 43 award for integrated transport, 295* Railways and Transport of Hammersmith and West London, 249 second anniversary, 470 Subterranean City: Beneath the Streets of London, 571 Canary Wharf, The History and Development of Railway Signalling in the British Isles - Broad Survey, 50% increase in traffic. 102 40 fencing, 349 The Met & GC Joint Une - An Obsen/er's Notes - 1948-1968, 301 litter recycling initiative, 151 The Moving Metropolis - A History of London's Transport since 1800, 378 marriage blessed in station, 248, 259, 337 The Tramway Trail, 479 Car line diagrams. Tramways and Light Railways of Switzerland and Austria, 196 District Line, 61 Tunnel Vision (fiction), 572 still showing Jubilee interchange at Charing Cross, 123 Tunnel Visions: Journeys of an Underground Philosopher, 571 Central Line, Undergmund Movement, 41 ATP chronology, 275-277 Underground to Everywhere, 572 confusion over door opening arrangements, 109, 114, 203 Underground Train File 1933-1959, 313, 425 driving techniques following ATO conversion, 405 What's in a Name?, 479 inter-car barriers, 5 Borough, closed by power problems, 516 post-war extensions, 86-97 Boston Manor, 270* Sandite duties, 588 guard rails on platform canopy edges, 390 signalling, 184-190, 275, 427 Brill, joumey to Baker Street in 2000 compared with 1899, 242 stalled train, 04.09.00, investigation, 247, 272-274 British Electric Traction Co. Ltd., 221 station location codes, 187 British Transport Police, station dwell time saving scheme, 522, 581 annual report, 528 train indicators, 176, 333, 424 fare dodging files destroyed, 340 wrong-side door opening at Holbom alleged, 109, 203 new station at Tottenham Court Road, 518 Central London Railway, patrols in east London, 527 car depot, 84 Brixton, centenary, 81-87, 212 access problems, 108 construction and eariy description, 82-85 closed by street disturisance, 416 doors from rolling stock. 481, 567 high-speed crossover. 51 eariy locomotives, 84 Bromley-by-Bow, Victorian bridge restoration, 521. 524. 557 eariy schemes, 81 Brown, Ian, appointed Transport for London Managing Director Rail Services, 371 escalators, 86 Baice, J. Graeme, obituary, 356, 508 lack of centenary celebrations, 81 Bumt Oak, original coaches, rebuilding, 86 closed by swarming wasps, 417 original stations, 83 original sign uncovered, 441 Richmond extension plans, 86 Buses, right-hand running, origin of, 85 articulated, in service, 583 signalling, 85 replacement, passengers taken to vwong station, 454 stock used on Bakerioo, 367 598 599 Central London Railway Co., 223 Crime, fraud, Chalfont & Latimer, black maritet in Travelcards, 434 attempted fare evasion following UTS gate installation, 501 fraud, prosecutions for fare evasion, 162 signal failures, 30, 31 Crime, increase in sex offences, 528 Ctiannel Tunnel Rail Link, Crime, miscellaneous, Bechtel involvement, 336 Boston Manor, police search for armed person, 12.06.01, 359 North Downs tunnel completed, 580 Central Line, search for escaped prisoner, 25.09.01, 516 Phase 2 constRiction, 207, 338, 435 East Finchley, banned man an^sted, 433 Charing Cross, Secure Stations award, 101 eight posing as safety inspectors, 434 Charing Cross (SECR), roof collapse in 1905, 300 Elm Park, airguns fired at trains, 31.05.01, 433 Charing Cross, Euston & Hampstead Railway, building under SECR forecourt, 300 Hendon Central, passenger altercation, 31.01.01,143 Chelsea-Hackney line, see Hackney-South West link Gloucester Road, football hooligans fighting, 10.02.01 Chlltem Railways, Jubilee Line, police helicopter search, 23.07.01, 416 class 168 stock, 294* Northem Une, hooliganism, 01.04.01, 278 new bridge plates, 306 Operation Privet against drug addicts, 438 West Ruislip 'Metro' service proposal, 136, 304 Shadwell DLR, man killed after being chased on to tracks, 07.07.01, 260 Chiltem Railways Passenger Newsletter, 242 Crime, pickpocketing offences reduced, 565, 583 Christmas and New Year services, Crime, reduced, on the Underground, 466 booklet, 146 Crime, robbery, mobile phones targeted, 162 DLR, 75 Crime, statistics, 2000/2001, 467 Christmas services 1999, 68-70 Crime, terrorism, bomb near Ealing Broadway, 03.08.01, 453 Circle Line, Crime, trespass, Operation Rhino 2001, 421 extra train in service during District Line wori<, 135 Crime, vandalism. tripcock testing, lack of on C stock during engineering wori(, 329-331 Canning Town (JL), track obstructed, 28.09.01, 517 City & South London Railway, stations with island platforms, 335 District Line, 30 City