MIDLAND & GREAT NORTHERN CIRCLE COMBINED INDEX OF BULLETINS AUGUST 1959 (Issue 1) TO MARCH 2021 (Issue 720) Abbreviations: ASLEF Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers M&GSW Midland, Glasgow & South Western Railway and Firemen M&NB Midland and North British Joint Railway ASRS Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants MR Midland Railway BoT Board of Trade Mr M Mr William Marriott B&L Bourn & Lynn Joint Railway MRN Model Railway News BR British Rail[ways] M&GN Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway BTC British Transport Commission N&S Norwich & Spalding Railway B’s Circle Bulletins N&SJt Norfolk & Suffolk Joint Railway CAB Coaching Arrangement Book NCC Norfolk County Council CLC Cheshire Lines Committee NNR North Norfolk Railway [preserved] Cttee Committee NRM National Railway Museum, York E&MR Eastern & Midlands Railway NUR National Union of Railwaymen EDP Eastern Daily Press. O.S. Ordnance Survey GCR Great Central Railway PW&SB Peterborough, Wisbech & Sutton Bridge Rly GER Great Eastern Railway RAF Royal Air Force GNoSR Great North of Scotland Railway Rly Railway GNR Great Northern Railway RCA Railway Clerks’ Association GNWR Glasgow & North Western Railway RCH Railway Clearing House GY&S Great Yarmouth & Stalham Light Railway RDC Rural District Council H&WNR Hunstanton & West Norfolk Railway S&B Spalding & Bourn[e] Railway Jct Junction S&DJR Somerset & Dorset Joint Railway L&FR Lynn & Fakenham Railway SM Station Master L&HR Lynn & Hunstanton Railway SVR Severn Valley Railway L&SB Lynn & Sutton Bridge Railway TMO Traffic Manager’s Office, King’s Lynn L&YR Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway TUCC Transport Users’ Consultative Committee LMR London Midland Region [BR] UDC Urban District Council LMS London, Midland and Scottish Railway WTT Working Timetable LNER London & North Eastern Railway WW1 World War One [1914 – 1918] LNWR London North Western Railway WW2 World War Two [1939 – 1945] LT&SR London, Tilbury & Southend Railway Y&NN Yarmouth & North Norfolk Railway M&E Midland & Eastern Railway Y’mth Yarmouth All references relate to M&GN subjects unless otherwise indicated. Comments in [ ] brackets are added by the compiler for clarity (he hopes). Dates, eg 28-02-1959, are in Day – Month – Year order. ‘[M]’ means a very short reference to the subject in the M&GN Minutes. From B361, Minutes of the M&GN Committee meetings were included in most issues. These have been indexed under their subject headings and also separately where they were expanded upon. Where the [M] precedes the Bulletin references, all the references are for Minute entries (eg: Progress 1900 [M] 466/4 468/4 470/5 472/5). Financial and Clerical matters (which are generally in every set of Minutes), and some other minor matters are only included if of particular interest. For Minutes from B502, some of the entries are paragraphs much longer than just a sentence and are not recorded with the [M] as they give more than just basic information. Minutes dating from before 1893 are also shown as [M]. Photographs and photocopies of original documents did not appear in the Bulletin until B183. Any earlier references to them are descriptions or transcriptions only. For details of these, please see the separate Index of Photographs, Drawings and Plans. (S) means issued as a supplement to the Bulletin listed. B294 was August/September 1985, there was no separate August Issue. B695 in February 2019 was a unique 34 page edition commemorating the 60 th anniversary of the closure of the M&GN. Subject headings are in bold type to make it easier to see where the next subject begins, especially for larger listings, eg Cromer etc. If you cannot find the article for which you are looking under the heading you expect it to be under, please try looking for other major words, eg Accident at Hindolveston will be under ‘Accidents’ and ‘Hindolveston’. Most major articles are cross-referenced within the index but some will undoubtedly have slipped through the net. Users of the electronic version can press ‘Ctrl + F’, type in the subject they are looking for and click ‘Find Next’. Joe Greaves, the compiler, warmly welcomes corrections and amendments. Please e-mail them to: [email protected] Page 1 Copyright M&GN Circle 2021 A17 Bypass [M&GN Trackbed] 185/7 249/10 258/2 Death on level crossing near, 1914 264/4 [Richard Arthur Emmerson] 642/8 M&GN remains left after construction 264/14 Trains through Crossing Gates “A Clear Road for Holiday Folk” [M&GN 1903 [M] 502/6 Booklet 1906] 270/6 1909 583/5 A Day at Thirsk Races 541/13 Comment re interlocking 591/16 A Day to Remember [Ray Bullock’s trip in 1989] 345/12 Children falling from trains, 1903 511/7 ‘A Fireman Looks Back’ [Ray Bullock] 399/6 Newspaper reports, in detail 619/4 'A' Frame Bridges – see also Bridge 534/2 Chimneyless D2 408/12 541/15 596/4 597/4 Clenchwarton A Late Journey Across Norfolk [Yarmouth - Lynn] 288/8 23 rd August 1876 [loco & wagons damaged] 632/13 A Permanent Way Inspector’s Copybook Counter Drain – see Permanent Way 10 th March 1873 [passenger fell in carriage] 613/13 A Relief Clerk on the M&GN – see Staff – Clerical Settlement of claim 614/17 A Teenager’s Guide to Travelling on the M&GN Minor correction 615/3 On The Leicester in the 1950s 719/14 Cow killed near Spalding, 1869 602/10 A – Z of Joint Signalboxes [major articles] Cromer Beach Carriage Cleaner 1948, detailed – see under individual names from B661 onwards newspaper report 490/14 Abandoned Lines , 1893 [East of Lynn] 50/2 Dogsthorpe, 2 nd May 1912 [suicide] 615/5 Abbs, Mr E W, M&GN Clerk, obituary from BR(ER) Driver Carr 1914 479/11 486/13 magazine, December 1960 597/6 East Rudham Abel, Mr W.J., Cromer SM, retirement, Jan. 1944 638/7 1904 [to passenger] 527/5 ABC – See Timetables 1907 Porter broke arm falling from truck 561/5 Accident 1908 Minor injury to Charlotte Crowe 573/5 Arrangements Yarmouth – Lowestoft, 1903 508/14 Eye 1883 435/12 Procedures following Takeover, 1936, 547/11 Eye Green Record [‘Never killed a passenger’] 192/6 [near], 1909 [suicide] 587/6 Reports, late 1890s, newspaper [all are 19 th October 1928 [fatal, to W. Carr] 605/4 itemised separately too] 607/4 Fakenham Accidents – see also Derailments & Runaway Locos 1897 Mares killed on line near 607/4 At Level Crossings 577/11 586/14 592/14 1903 Cattle Train 234/4 513/5 523/15 541/6 Bluestone, 1906 539/6 EDP report 513/16 BoT report received by Joint Cttee, 1905 537/5 Minute notes about payments made as a Circular relating to, from BoT, 1906 547/5 result of the accident, 1906 543/6 549/4 Reply ‘to be determined by Parent 1907 Bolting horse injured John Leete 559/6 Companies’, 1906 548/4 1908 Suicide of Edward Schwecke 570/6 Bourne 1913, 15 th August, fatal, on line nearby 630/6 1867 [fatal, at Eau Bridge] 593/16 Field’s Farm, Sutton Bridge, 1947 8th April 1872 [fatal] 610/8 – see Sutton Bridge, below 8th July 1872 [fatal, boy on crossing] 610/8 Fleet 30 th March 1873 1869 Train & hay stack on fire 602/10 Lincoln Road Crossing gates run through 613/13 1950s Crossing gates run through Loco into carriages] 613/13 [three incidents] 627/4 5th April 1875, Peterborough Road gates run Four Cross Roads, near Bourne through 619/15 Crossing gates damaged, 1872 611/15 23 rd April 1873, Peterborough Road temporary Driver fined, 1873 612/16 gates run through 619/15 Gayton Road 1905 [fatal, Hand Gate Crossing] 535/7 Two wagons derailed on way to South Lynn, 1910 ‘Ansterby’ [sic] Crossing run through 589/5 September 29 th 1920. Considerable damage to Fen Bridge Permanent Way 717/7 September 1872 [Horse & Foal killed] 611/15 Gaywood Crossing 1948 449/4 Claim declined, 1873 612/16 Gedney Peterborough Rd. Crossing, 1872 [Child killed] 611/15 1867, fatal [M] 593/15 Briningham Fatality late 1930s 488/2 1895, Gatehouse 16, fatal [Mary Anne Bailey] 624/12 Comment re - date 493/11 Comment 631/7 To Platelayers [falling rail], 1952 503/3 1904 [William Long] 527/5 528/5 Great Ormesby Crossing [No.45] gates run Buntings Well Crossing [No.59] through, Jan 1903[M] 503/5 503/8 8th May 1875 [gates struck] 632/13 Guestwick 1908 285/2 285/7 389/9 571/8 573/1 Caister 573/5 9th April 1903 [suicide] 507/8 Hardwick Road 1906 409/9 462/12 547/6 1915 Mr Warnes [run over, fatal] 649/7 1913, 9 th August, on Yarmouth line, fatal 630/5 1965 389/14 1938 462/12 Hemsby 1908 [cut thumb] 497/14 Catfield Station 539/6 539/13 546/11 Hillington, 1909 577/6 577/12 586/14 Page 2 Copyright M&GN Circle 2021 Photos 310/2 1903 fatality [Fireman John Everitt] 513/4 Hindolveston 1908 Fatality [Shunter H Smith], detailed 1891 [not 1892 – see 372/5] 371/5 670/4 newspaper report 490/13 Derailment 1937 40/2 104/3 107/1 253/7 Compensation to his Widow 563/5 275/12 285/7 477/7 702/16 1912 Hogs-gate [near Moulton & Whaplode], 1898 448/4[M] 12 th January [shunter John Cubitt Holbeach lost part of finger] 612/7 1871[collision with truck] 607/15 609/15 Railway Inspector’s Report 622/8 1873[Crossing gates run through, two Comments 630/16 incidents] 613/13 20 th March [Fitter’s Apprentice Ralph 24 th January 1876 [train off line at facing Gravelling, fatal] 613/6 points] 632/13 Comment 622/12 Comments & map 640/6 10 th December [Robert Sadler, suicide] 623/7 1913[with Tablet Catcher], 58/2 292/10 346/7 1915 8 th October, James Simpson & Frederick 355/11 623/7[M] 627/7 Redvers Brown, apprentices, loco tyre Correction to 627/7 628/3 fell on them 655/7 Holt 1926 26 th April, David Long, crushed by loco, 1907 556/4 Ministry of Transport Report 661/10 1923 Ballast pit 75/6 1937 253/7 275/12 Honing Schoolboy [falling off train] 413/12 1903 389/9 Minor, recorded in M&GN Minutes 522/6 523/5 1926 [near] Fireman hit by bridge 76/5 668/8 527/5 529/7 541/7 543/6 546/8 & Failed Trains – see also Honing 444/11 555/5 558/6 559/5 561/5 563/4 Fatal 567/4 570/6 573/5 579/4 583/7 1905 [E S Brown, Lad Porter] 537/6 Moulton 1920 409/13 409/14 1867 [fatal] [M] 593/15 Horses killed 1900 233/5 12 th November 1874 [George Green injured] 617/17 Horse Shoe Lane [near Wisbech] 26 th March 1897 [Robert Thorpe, fatal] 607/4 1914 [Driver Robert Carr] 486/13 479/11 645/7 23 rd September 1912, child killed in goods yard 619/7 1918, 8 th March, Edna Bates [aged 8], knocked Mundesley Line, 1906 [to L C Porter] 551/14 down & foot crushed by loco No.