UNDERGROUND NEWS ISSN 0306-8617 INDEX 1997 Issues 421-432 PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY THE LONDON UNDERGROUND RAILWAY SOCIETY INDEX TO 1997 ISSUES OF UNDERGROUND NEWS Page entries marked * are photographs. Accidents, collisions, engineer's train, East London Line, 6.8.97, 331 with wall, Northumberiand Park depot, 22.2.97, 110 1995 stock in coupling. South Ealing, 17.2.97, 110,160 Accidents, derailments, Amersham, 27 battery loco, Finchley Central, 3.7.97, 272 King's Cross St.Pancras, 17.2.97, 110 Morden depot, 26.5.97, 235 Piccadilly Circus, 4, 75*, 76* tunnel deaning train, Bakerloo Line, 4.3.97, 160 Unimog derailed twice, 6.5.97, 233 Walthamstow Central, 27.8.97, 334 Waterioo W & C, 17.10.97, 417 Acddents, fire, cable at Watertoo Railtrack, 13.3.97, 161 on train, Bethnal Green, 225 on train. King's Cross SLPancras, 22.8.97, 333 power surge, Metropolitan Line, 20.3.97, 162 Willesden Junction, 24.10.96, 23 Acddents, miscellaneous, displaced rail, H & C, 22.8.97, 333 ducks hit, Chesham branch, 14.6.97, 271 exploding light fitting. Green Park, 23.9.97, 337 falling roof panel. Hammersmith, 19.9.97, 337 Kew railway bridge hit by tug, 5.9.97, 336 landslide, Metropolitan Line. 19.8.97, 332 Acddents, personal, boy dragged and killed, Holbom, 21.10.97, 417 children skateboarding, Hounslow Central, 7.9.97, 336 compensation for track wori<er, 92 death, Oxford Circus, 5.12.96, 29 drunk falling down escalator, Kentish Town, 28.2.97, 111 electric shock. Monument, 27.6.97, 272 fall between cars, Baker Street, 31.7.97, 319 fall between train and platfomi, Eastcote, 31.12.96, 92 fall, Eari's Court, 24.9.97, 337 fall, Greenwich DLR site, 266 fall on escalator, Southgate, 11.11.98, 26 fall on to track, Famngdon, 3.9.97, 336 fall on train, Covent Garden, 29.8.97, 334 family falling on escalator. Bond Street, 161 man leaping from bridge, Dagenham, 15.8.97, 331 man leaping from bridge, Han-ow-on-the-Hill, 19.7.9 7, 274 man leaping from roof, Acton Town, 6.2.97, 109 man leaping from train, Baridng, 8.7.57, 273 man stnjck by falling LUL roundel. West Hampstead, 13.2.97, 109 man under train. Cannon Street, 3.10.97 woman hit by train, Oxford Circus. 19.11.96, 52 woman trapped in escalator handrail. Green Park, 31.3.97, 163 428 Acdes & Pollock advertisements, 222 Bethnal Green, Acton Town, fire on train, 225 accident, 109 platfomi tiles, 363, 376 staff footbridge, 199 Bishopsgate Goods Yard, 314, 321 Adtrantz, A stock refurbishment, 118*, 137, 163, 390* Blackwall, 211* Aldenham Bus Overtiaul Worits, 322 Blackwall Tunnel, tiling in pedestrian subway, 286* Aldgate East, platfonn tiles, 185, 363, 376 Blake Hall, 242 Aldwych, Bond Street, fall on escalator, 161 history, 324 Book Reviews and Notices, scheme to place car on platfomi, 404 'A Guide to Cravens Heritage Trains', 183 TV filming, 157 'A Spy's London', 221 Alperton, 'Chesham Shuttle', 55 no crossover, 59 apology, 88 pocket timetable, 164 •Circles under the Clyde', 135 Amersham, 'East London Line', 13 derailment, 27 'Electrical and Mechanical Engineering for the Jubilee Une Extension', 14 reversals, 101 'London Underground in Colour', 299 signal failure, 271 'Penrose Annual', 154 Angel, 'The District Line and Associated Routes', 183 car on platfonn, 249*, 263 'The Twopenny Tube', 13 sculpture, 7, 375 'Worid Metro Systems', 2nd Edn., 267 Archway, dmg smoking, 336 Boot cleaning at Morden, 77* Athens Metro, constmction delays, 267 Bow Church, 117* Bridge numberplates, 98, 184, 246 Bakerioo Line, Bridges, derailment at Piccadilly Circus, 4 assessment, maintenance and repair, 338 extension to Watford Junction 1917, 195 hits, 108 investment 1997/98, 80 Kew, 336 Marylebone ('Great Central') extension 1907, 155 Putney, 346 Queen's Pari< reversing siding, 107 British Airports Authority, 54 reopening after 7 month closure, 252, 313, 385 British Construction Industry Awards 1997, 411 service praised, 317 British Transport Police, tunnel strengthening, 193 action against ticket touts, 320 Watford Junction service, 64 action against trouble makers on Watford DC service, 317 Baker Street, new station at Hammersmith, 86 closed by security alert, 194 Bromley-by-Bow, dosed by neartay fire, 237 fatal fall, 319 Bmnel Society, 126 unusual movements, 165, 224, 420 Budget 1996, Balham, station sign, 148 business response, 53 Bank, effect on LU improvements, 79 passengers trapped in lift, 415 LT response, 4 routing during escalator worit, 276 Buses, praised, 310 subway refurbishment completed, 366 Bartjican, station cats, 235, 306, 318 Camden Town, street congestion, 371 Barking, Canada Water, accident, 273 bus station above, 143 graffiti, 331 constmction report, 400 Barons Court, Canary Wharf, architecture, 228 burst water main, 107 Canning Town, architecture, 140 restoration, 218 Capital Radio, 5 Beck, Harry, plaque at Finchley Central, 311 Capital Transport Campaign, 191,192 Beriin S-Bahn, 254 Cars displayed on platfomis, 249*, 263, 403 Bermondsey, Carter typefaces, 154 architecture, 127 construction report, 399 name questioned, 140 430 Central Line, Cravens Heritage Trains group, 183, 243, 405, 418, 424* BR services on Epping brancli, 98 Crewe Electric Depot, open day, 217, 387* crazy station notices, 19 Crime, assault, destination blinds, 407 death at Northwood, 20.12.96, 55, 411 Ealing Broadway temiinal protection, 198 Eari's Court, man jailed, 320 emergency stop plungers, 109 Hounslow East, 7.10.97, 416 Epping-Ongar, 16, 242, 248*, 308 in 1996, 192 investment 1997/98, 80 Plaistow, 311 modernisation, 20, 149, 374 student jailed, 317 new 'misery line', 226, 308, 309 Crime, criminal damage, new signalling, 5, 132, 190 Cockfosters, 25.12.96, 72 resignalling, leaflet, 369 concrete dropped on train, Oakwood, 27.2.96, 193 service extended for fireworks event, 416 District Une, 2.9.97, 335 station approach control, 199 Crime, fraud, story of, book review, 13 BTP to get tough with ticket touts, 320 thirty years ago, 17, 97 misuse of Police passes, 91 train maintenance, 164 ticket touts imprisoned, 87,198 tripcock reset failures reduced, 163 travelling without ticket, 194 Chalfont & Latimer, 424* Crime, general, statistics, 178 Channel Tunnel Rail Link, Crime, miscellaneous, Royal Assent received, 92 armed suspects on track. Royal Oak, 3.5.97, 232 Stratford station enquiry, 311, 313 drug smoking. Archway, 2.9.97, 336 Charing Cross, Euston & Hampstead Railway, 90th anniversary, 228 man on track, Latimer Road, 26.4.97, 200 Chelsea-Hackney line, 28 men with imitation gun, District Line, 16.2.97, 109 Chesham, 117* robbers on track. Metropolitan Line, 20.2.97,160 signal box, 354* thieves an^sted at Ealing Common, 15.2.97, 109 signals, 221, 265 youths climbing on train, Upney, 24.4.97, 200 Chiltem Railways, youths "surfing', Green Parts, 21.7.97, 274 new bridge near Wendover, 98 Crime, new BTP station, 86 platfonns at West Hampstead suggested, 310 Crime, robbery, reversals at Amersham, 101 Bakerioo Line, 191 service changes, 177 Euston, 307 tripcock problems, 229 increase in 1996, disputed, 191 UTS gates at Marylebone, 420 women more vulnerable than men, 317 Chorfeywood, 423* Crime, vandalism, 'Metroland' plan , 313 Chesham branch, 199 parking charges complaint, 324 graffiti on C stock. Barking, 1.8.97, 331 Christmas and New Year 1996/97 services, 40, 73 metal object on tracks, East Ham, 16.3.97, 161 leaflet, 91 ticket machine. Hammersmith H & C, 15.3,97, 161 Circle Line, train, Ongar, 307 criticised, 318 Croome, Desmond, an appreciation, 166 digitised announcements, 385 Crossharijour, 389* 'Cities Intemational 97' conference, 236 CrossRail, 228, 314, 402 City of London travel guide, 153 Croydon Tramlink, Clapham South, bus operator announced, 182 award for refurbishment, 137, 176 Concession Agreement, 8, 91 station sign, 148 Customer Charter claims, 198 Cockfosters, Custom House, new footbridge to, 143 criminal damage, 72 suggested name change, 128 Dagenham, Colindale, new ticket office, 323, 419 incident, 331 Copenhagen Metro, construction, 144 on destination blinds, 367 Covent Garden, fall, 334 Dagenham East, naming, 59 CP car 54256, 265, 352*, 418 Dagenham Heathway, naming, 59 432 Delays to services and station closures, staff training, 322 Bakerioo Line, 23, 25, 72, 107, 160,161. 199, 234, 271, 417 District Railway, Central Line, 29, 132, 321, 330, 331, 333, 417 Bromley extension, 1902 leaflet, 154 Circle Une, 27, 109. 161, 233, 272, 273, 275, 323, 332, 334, 415, 416 1897 ticket, 301.406 District Line, 27,108, 109, 110, 111, 161, 271, 272, 275, 332, 334, 336, 415, 416 Docklands Light Railway, Docklands Light Railway, 190 'bus shelters' erected, 163 Hammersmith & City Line, 27, 72, 228, 271, 273, 323, 333, 334, 416 further extensions planned. 315, 318 Jubilee Line, 107.162,194, 275 lightning damage, 276 Metropolitan Line. 27, 28, 107, 109, 162, 165, 199, 233, 271, 273, 274, 323, 331, 334, 336, privatised, 190 415, 417 record passenger numbers, 318 Network wide, 26 repairs to bomb damage, 140 Northern line, 23, 26, 110, 161, 162, 163, 272, 308, 333, 410 rolling stock, 69, 106, 298, 389* Piccadilly Line. 28, 30, 110,162, 272, 331, 332, 333, 334, 415, 417 service praised, 320 Victoria Line, 332 tenth anniversary, 305, 389* Waterloo & City Une, 24,161, 417 Docklands Light Railway, Lewisham extension, 172*. Depots, construction progress, 122, 188, 364, 411 Croxley Green, road access, 373 delay, 52 Ealing Common, 214* developments along route, 409 Edgware, new stabling roads, 234 finance, 17 Morden, 248* shown on LU map, 385 derailment, 235 tunnel boring, 227 Neasden, 38*. 234, 390* Dollis Hill, bust unveiled, 419 Notthfields, derailment, 417 Down Street, 319 Northumberiand Parit, history. 12,110 Driveriess trains, 58 Ruislip, r, 213* Drunks, problems caused by, 199 tunnel cleaning train moved, 161 Dublin, LRT considered, 314 Stonebridge Paris, tunnel cleaning train moved, 161 Ealing Broadway, Stratford Mariset, 173*, 211* computer failure, 331 building award, 411 Piccadilly trains at, 104, 417 JLE test njnning, 420 tenninal protection, 198 Upminster, security alert, 234 thieves arrested, 109 Victoria Line, history, 12 Eari's Court, 35* Walthamstow outstabling sidings, history, 12 assault, 320 White City, peacock at, 234 fall.