UNDERGROUND NEWS ISSN 0306-8617 INDEX 2004 Issues 505-516 PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY THE LONDON UNDERGROUND RAILWAY SOCIETY INDEX TO 2004 ISSUES OF UNDERGROUND NEWS Page entries marited * are photographs Accidents, collisions, Hainault Depot, rolling stock and crane, 18.05.04, 309 Accidents, derailments, Camden Town, 19.10.03,10 Golders Green Depot, 29.12.03, 81 Golders Green Depot. 07.01.04,126 Hammersmith, 17.10.03,4-10 Hammersmith, 25.06.04, 357 Hammersmith Depot, 14.05.04, 308 Hammersmith Depot, 18.06.04, 356 Morden, 30.12.03,81 Morden Depot, 17.05.04,308 Morden Depot, 23.10.04,575 White City, 11.05.04, 293, 300, 363, 376, 548 White City Depot, 25.09.04, 522 Accidents, personal, Ealing Broadway, fatality on tracks, 05.02.04,162 Ladbroke Grove, person electrocuted crossing track, 16.11.03, 16 Northern Line, Moorgate/Bank, person struck by train, 27.05.04, 310 persons undertrains, 14,15, 81.129,130,167, 198,199, 201,307, 309, 353, 356, 396, 400, 402, 452-456. 518, 523, 572, 574 Accidents, presentation of statistics, 173, 224 Acton Town. 57* roundel, 155* Advertising, advert banned, 482 anti-advertising protest in Paris, 234 entire stations used in Toronto, 91 LU/T/L service claim complaint, 337 piatfomi-length advertisement at Watertoo, 291, 336 use of adapted Underground diagram, 474* use of LU roundel on Paris MMro, 194* Air conditioning, proposed by Morris, 100 Air quality, threat to passengers disputed, 548, 550 Air travel, government expansion plans, 103 Wdemey, 1959 tube stock, 155* Aldgate East, possible refurbishment, 52 Underground staff self portraits on display, 535, 551 Wdwych, 394*, 443 interchange with Temple, 394*, 410, 443* lettering on facade, 249 lift shafts, 442,463 Archway, naming history, 37, 92,172,222,225,283, 413 Amos Grove, new staff footbridge, 296* Arsenal, ticket hati repairs, 286 Arsenal FC, effects of move to new stadium, 234 Artworks for All exhibition, 23 ASLEF union, internal disputes, 181, 290, 377,477,479, 482, 547 pay dispute with LUL 182 strike threat, 477 Associated Commercial Vehicles (ACV), 431 Associated Equipment Company (AEC), 382-383,385,433,486 Bow Road, August BanI; HoJiday services, 456 modernisation woric, 274,323, 372, 375,415,466, 544,581 Athens, power failure, 481 reversing facilities, 407,408, 412 Australia, report into rail crash, 100 Brading, 588 Aylesbury-Quainton Road service, 337, 495 Brake-block dust, 221 Brick Lane Festival, leaflet, 534 Bakertoo Line, Brilisti Transport Police, affected by problems on Network Rail, 13, 77, 79. 125, 127, 163,165,199,201,268. annual budget. 477 271,355, 398, 451,457 annual report, 462 'new look' rolling stock, 85 increased policing of Underground networti, 24, 98 nine-day engineering blockade, 583 mobile police custody unit, 283, 291 Baker Street, Operation Hawkeye, leaflet, 137 escalator maintenance completed, 117 Brixton, platforms closed by signalling problem, 13-15 closure for asbestos removal, 61, 93,136, 181 Bancroft, Peter, obituary, 263 flooding, 18,19 Banff, Canada, use of UNDERGROUND style sign, 194* Brixton, new escalator in use as fixed stairway, 255 Bank, exereiseto simulate chemical attack, 103 Brunei, Isambard Kingdom, Bank/Monument, closure/reopening of escalator link. 136,256 blue plaque unveiled, 390, 392,415 Bariung, 556* original bridge discovered, 236 platfonn numbering, 53 Brunei, Marc Isambard, 49,415 signal cabin refurt)ishment, 495 Brunei Engine House, Rotherhithe, 51, 390,415 train indicators, 220, 409 Buckhurst Hill, passengers fighting, 134 Barons Court, fallen tree, 166 Buckinghamshire Railway Centre, 29*, 189, 337, 351,441, 495 Battle of Britain monument. 233 Building Research Establishment, simulated climatic conditions in tube cars, 225 Bays water, Bull & Bush unopened station, removal of platfonns in 1935,204 flooding, 396 Burnt Oak, station sign, 495 refurt)ishment, 416, 465, 466, 544, 582 Buses, Bazalgette, Sir Joseph, 233, 301, 313 articulated, 101,234,238 Beat the Heat' leaflet, 404 area/local bus guides, 23 Beck, Hany, commemorative plaques, 58* hydrogen fuel-cell powered, 183 Berlin, Investment, 579 S-Bahn/U-Bahn/Tram networtc track maps (review), 147 operating companies' pnilrts, 237 U-Bahn timetable changes, 210-212 passenger numbers increasing, 232 Bethnal Green, flooding, 18 rail replacement, 14,17,30*, 40, 47-49,93,146,147,179,180,226, 227, 285.286, Bethnal Green area, environmental Improvements, 482 323, 324, 373, 374, 403, 416, 417, 467, 536, 544, 545, 574 Birmingham, study into underground trams, 551 Routemaster, 549 Birth aboard Bakerloo Line train In 1924, 86 threat by Norris, 101 BIshopsgate Goods Station, First World War tragedy, 312 travel beyond GLAarea, leaflet, 137 Blake Hall, 35 Vauxhall Cross interchange, 495, 549 Bombardier, reprieve for Dertjy plant, 238 Bush, George, state visit, 16 Bond Street, escalator refurtJishment, 281 Busking, licensed, 104,192*, 235, 313 Book Reviews and Notices, BerfinerS-Bahn, 421 Caledonian Road, By Bus and Train in the Czech Republic, 422 closed by lift defects, 79, 134 History of the Metropolitan Railway, Volume 1,178 lettering on facade, 249 History of the Metropolitsm Railway Volume 2,421 nameboard, 542 Island Une, the Isle of Wghfs Award Winning Railway, 178 Camden Town, London's Disused Stations: Volume 4-The South Eastern Railway, 41 derailment, see Northern Line London Transport Maps and Guides, 476 original sign revealed, 158* Metro Maps of the World, 96 redevelopment plans, Metropolitan Une, 43, 94 alternative, 153 Metropolitan Murder, 417 criticised, 378 Signs: Lettering in the Environment, 469 disruption predicted, 477 Spread of London's Underground. 325 rejected, 103 Tute Trains on the Isle of Wight. 94, 389 Canary Wharf, 277-280* U-Bahnen in Skandinavien - Afefros in Scandinavia, 374 closed for safety exercise, 256 Wcfona Une: an Illustrated History, 475 east end opening, 264, 280*, 291 Bounds Green, plaque commemorating wartime air-raid victims, 191* plan for monorail to City, 182 Canning Town, signage, 250 Circle Line, continued Cannon Street, 500* -party', 452 Central Line, see also Epping-Ongarline reduction in train failures, 406 access to stations for mobility-impaired persons, 273,440 revised service pattern during track replacement, 554,556* ATO commissioning, 495 weekend dosures for track replacement, 231,239 ATO speed restrictions, 284 wheel damage following skidding, 98 Ctiancery Lane derailment, Clapham South, dosed by escalator defects, 130 consequences/lessons learned, 272 Clarke, Charies W., station designs, 250 costtoMetranet,281 Colliers Wood, dosed by escalator defects, 353 history and investigation (meeting report), 332-334 Commission for Integrated Transport, 103 replacement bus services (meeting report), 47-49 Conditions of Carriage, booklet, 465 disniption caused by bridge strike, 270 Congestton charging, 98,181,182,183,233,547,549 disruption caused by cokj weather, 28/29.01.04,131-133 Connel, Naomi, new LUL Director of Finance, 188 double foaming arch for train cleaning at Hainault, 406 Continuing Your Journey leaflets, 362 effects of lineside fire at South Woodford, 574 Cooke, Brian, new Chair of LTUC, 588 electrification, LPTB doubts beyond Loughton, 381 Copenhagen, articulated rolling stock on S-Bane. 175,224,411 handling of disiuptnn, 223 Covent Garden, interference in operation by Metropolitan Police, 117 lettering on fa9ade, 249 newspaper delivery service, 76 nameboard, 542 North Weald-Ongar diesel service, 577 passenger directions in lifts, 216 'no talking' sign, 116 Crime, assault, overhauled 'glass house' train in service, 537 Euston, attempted murder by mental patient, 287 Plessey tunnel factory, 38, 90 Hounslow West, fatal stabbing, 12.08.04,453,454, 547,548 platfdnn edge martungs, 222 Mile End, man convided for pushing stranger under train, 13.09.02,185, 224 possible station at Pask Royal, 472*, 553 Ravenscourt Park, stabbing, 11.08.04,453 present and future - public presentation, 271-274 Redbridge, stabbing victim entering station, 24.02.04,166 rail displaced near Holbom, 354 South Hanow, stabbing, 12.08.04,453 'record number of trains in service' daim, 140 Vaujthall, violent beggar jailed, 08.03,234 reversing of trains at Leyton in 1940s, 36, 407, 408 violent crime increasing, 48 rolling stock, present status, 272 Wembley Pari(, fatal assault, 02.05.04, 307, 375 Sandite train, 589 Crime, BTP Annual report, 462 temporary speed restrictions, 273 Crime, fraud, timetable changes following White City derailment, 388 BTP anti-sodat behavtour orders against ticket touts, 236 train cleaning, 548 BTP warning about ticket touts, 235 train stopped short of track defect, 483 cost of fare evasion, 552 trains wtth three driving cabs, 388 intimidation by ticket touts, leaflet, 534 White City derailment, 293, 300, 363, 376, 388,464,496, 548 penalty fares, possible increases, 546 Central London Railway, ventilation improvements in 1905,25 Crime, miscellaneous, Chancery Lane, aggressive beggar jailed, 290 derailment, see Central Line Camden, half of crimes committed by outsiders, 235 escalator refurt>ishment, 336 car parit security. Operation Hawkeye, leaflet, 137 Charing Cross, used to reverse Jubilee Line trains, 324, 337, 573 District Line, east of Bari^ing, 'Operation Rhino', 54, 55* Chigwell, refurtJishment, 364, 479 increased BTP polldng of networt(, 24 Chiltem Trains, 14, 16,126, 308, 337, 396, 576 Jubilee Line, hooliganism. 22.04.04, 270 Christmas and New Year Travel booklet, 136 Jubilee Line, hooliganism, 08.05.04. 307 Christmas and New Year Underground services 1935-1936, 209 Jubilee Line, stone throwing.