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 2<l.5.98) 330 Guide to the DLR Lewisham extension 509 Central Line-when will it he reliable, public meeting it LoMghton 1.4.98 234,606 Island Gardens compressed air accident (Papers 26.2.98 S 1?.3.98) 271,27? Central (West end) progress report (station reconstruction) 570 do. (Papers 9.4.98) 357 Eppinii-Onfiar Branch: sold to Epping-Ongar Railway Ltd C^ail 15.7.58) 534 Lewisham extension of the DLH (Badan-Powell Hou?e meeting) i trac': layouts 370 New ramped footbridge at Woodford (press release 30.6.98) 41"; London City Airport extension (papers 25.6.98) 480 Signalling update 25 Miscellaneous vehicles 392 Train descrihors 2C,0,344 News and developments (June 98) 392 Victorian obelisk - embank:ient uork at Theyden Bois (;iress release 17.f..98) 414 Petrol-blue livery (B.92) 560* Wasteful use of resources: suggested troeV layout at Hoodfor'^ 259,45!!,S06 Tunnel drives completed months ahead of schedule (press release ?9.4.98) 331 Chiltern Railways Class 165 unit at Chalfont S Latiner .'.96* Visit to Lewisham extension by London University study group 9.7.98 438 Christmas & New Year-Underground: (S summary of stations open, 1089-17) 4 Drain: An open day down the Drain (WSC Line) 515 680 6B1 - « - FINANCE (continued) Earth Structures, London 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.