Railway Archive
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Issue 1 (2002)

Birmingham Moor Street 1894-1916. Ray Shill. 3-25.
The development of the Station, and especially the goods station. Further material Issue 3 page 59.

The Railway Photographs of E. Pouteau. Part 1. John Alsop. 26-46.
Biography of Pouteau and account of his postcard retailing operation, with lists. Railways South East The Album page 67 has photograph by "A. Pouteau of London & Blackwall Railway locomotive at North Greenwich. Pouteau's work was described by Kite in British Railways Journal, Number 52 page 110. In addition to the tabulated ilustrations there were reproductions of advertising material. Part 2 Issue 2 page 73.

Ivatt 4-4-2 1442 in exhibition finish with Royal Coat of Arms on rear splasher with Pouteau in photograph	26
Portrait of E. Pouteau	28
GWR Atlantic 104 Alliance at Old Oak Common depot, also with Pouteau in focus	32	u
Fratton mpd with both LSWR and GWR 4-4-0 locomotives in view. Reason for presence of GWR locomotives was probably Spithead Review on 24 June 1911 (following Coronation of King George V): see letter by Bill Aves Issue 2 p. 46		l
Metropolitan 4-4-0Ts being broken up by R. Frazer & Sons at Neasden in about 1905	34	u
Metropolitan B class 4-4-0T 51 at Neasden		l
Metropolitan electric locomotive No. 3 at Wembley Park in about 1907 with roller blind destination indicator: T. Israel (3-80) corrects caption concerning limit of electric working.	35	u
interior of Baker Street Junction signal box		m
Oxford & Aylesbury Tramroad coach No. 1 supplied Bristol Carriage & Wagon Co		l
Metropolitan Railway F class 0-6-2T No. 90 at Northwood on freight: train includes ventilated wagon: see letter from Steve Sykes (2-46) which states vehicle is a fish van. Further letters in Issue 3-80: John Quick states that third vehicle is Diagram 51 5-ton fish van and T. Israel refers to Working Timetable for 1 November 1903 to show train description codes.	36
Bideford, Westward Ho & Appledore Railway at Appledore station with carriage (J.B. Sherlock)	38	u
New Brunswick MPD, CLC, Liverpool with 13 class 4-4-2 No. 968; 96 class 2-4-2T No. 782 and 11A 4-4-0s 268 & 878		l
Mersey Railway 2-6-2T No. 17 at Birkenhead Central	39	u
Ravenglass & Eskdale Railway (3ft gauge): 0-6-0T Devon		l
Becton Gasworks railway (F.E. Mackay)	40	u
Ex-Metropolitan Railway 4-4-0T No. 37 owned West Somerset Mineral Railway at Comberrow station, May 1908		l
Hunslet 0-4-0ST Peep o' Day (20 inch gauge) at Bold Venture Lime & Stone Co., Peak Forest, c1905	41	u
0-4-0ST Ant at Hutch Bank Quarry, Haslingden: probably Naeth Abbey Ironworks via Boulton		m
Balmforth vertical boiler 0-4-0T owned C.W. Hunter & Co., Eure Pits limestone quarry, Dalton-in-Furness		b
Douglas station, Isle of Man Railway with 2-4-0Ts 7 Tynwald and 9 Douglas with train & signal	42
Waterford & Tramore Railway 2-2-2WT	44	u
GS&WR Class C4 4-4-2T No. 32		m
B&NCR G class 2-4-0 No. 8 at Londonderry (Derry) in 1890s		l

Catching the tablet at Moy. by Mike Christensen. 47-52.
The Manson apparatus. Illus.: row of tablet catchers at Inverness (p. 48); ex-HR 4-4-0 Loch Inch assisting class 5 on freight picking up tablet at Carrbridge (p. 49); Moy station with potable tablet exchanging apparatus (pages 50-1); diagram of apparatus (p. 52) 

Locomotives designed by Committee: The North Eastern Railway 'Tennants'. Stephen Barnfield. 53-69.
Mainly concerns the 2-4-0s designed by the Locomotive Committee under the Chairmanship of Henry Tennant, General Manager of the NER following the forced resignation of Alexander McDonnell. Wilson Worsdell also served on the Committee. The Class 8 0-6-0Ts were also designed under the aspices of this Committee. Fails to cite relevant section of RCTS Locomotives of the LNER (Part 4) LNER Class E5 or Part 8B (Class J75).

The North Staffordshire Railway's Stoke Works. Part 1: 1849 to 1927. Basil Jeuda. 71-87.
Includes portraits of early Locomotive Superintendents. See also North Stafforshire Railway Study Group's excellent website. Part 2 Issue 2 page 47.

Wish You Were Here? Railway Postcards of Glamorganshire. Neil Parkhouse

Pouteau postcards in colour. rear cover.
Drummond 4-2-4T inspection saloon 733 (LSWR) and Ivatt Atlantic 1416.

Railway Archive Issue Number 2 (2002)

The Steam Era on the Mersey Railway 1886-1903. T.B.Maund. 2-19.
There is a great deals more to this article than that suggested by the title as electrification is covered, as well as an extensive examination of schemes which eventually led to the construction of the tunnel under the Mersey opened in 1886. Some of these schemes were unusual and included a proposal for a pneumatic railway. Proposals for extensions to convey freight and the possible involvement of the MSLR/GCR are also noted The lifts situated in Birkenhead and at St James in Liverpool were originally powered by hydraulics: the tower of the former still exists. Most of the photographs relate to the steam locomotives, but there is only one of the steam rolling stock. There are some illustrations of the original electric rolling stock and of the underground stations shortly after electrification. There is also a reproduction of a prospectus issued on 1 February 1884 seeking new capital which shows the involvement of two GWR directors. There is also a reproduction of a timetable of 1886 showing the remarkable intensity of the service operated on a steeply-graded underground railway with steam. Some of the steam locomotives passed to the Alexandra Docks Railway and were even incorporated into GWR stock, but only one is shown in this condition, others passed to various colliery lines, and one of these is now preserved. In the 1890s through carriages were sometimes worked to Ruabon, and on to Corwen, to Paddington and to Folkestone for the Continent. One was retained for hauling maintenance trains, but this was replaced by an ex-Metropolitan Railway 4-4-0T, and this was replaced by another (ex-Met No. 7) illustrated, and this by a GER J66 class (7297) purchased from the LNER in 1939 (also illustrated as MER No. 3). See also feature in Issue 5 page 27 et seq and letter in Issue 6 page 77 by Jeff Mullier on 0-6-4Ts sent to Richmond Vale Railway in Australia including the modifications performed by Beyer Peacock prior to export: steam brakes and new cab roofs. Gives dates Australian locomotives withdrawn except for ex-Mersey Railway No. 1 preserved at New South Wales TransportMuseum.

The Midland Railway's Line from Londonderry to Strabane by Stanley C. Jenkins. 20-45.
This is a rather strange contribution as many of the interesting "record" photographs have come from those taken by H.C. Casserley and show the line in use during its period of decline. The other photographs are typical works photographs of the 2-6-4T and 4-6-4T and work's photographs of earlier 4-6-0T and 4-4-4T designs for the CDRJC which worked into Londonderry over the MR/NCC line, and might better have been fitted into a feature on the locomotive stock of the County Donegal Railways.. The line iteself is described in the sort of detail associated with Wild Swan with illustrations of virtually every blade of grass at obscure halts. Nevertheless, this detail does extend to an illustration of the lower deck of the Craigavon Bridge on 19 April 1948 which shows the mixed gauge track with complex switches and crossings and a turntable, and even a tank wagon (narrow gauge) in the background. Reg Davies (3-80) corrects several assertions relating to reason that GNRI was not involved in this line (it had its own); the changeover from NCC to UTA instigated by the Government of Northern Ireland, and crews on CDRJC becoming "NCC" on Derry route. Author responded.strongly (RA 5 p. 58) to this letter and blamed politics both in mainland Britain and at Stormont for failure to incoprpoarte NCC into British Railways.

Londonderry (Derry) Victoria Road station with 2-6-4T 5 Drumboe, 24 June 1937	20	-1
Map	22
Victoria Road with 2-6-4T 8 Foyle with composite coach No. 17, 20 April 1953	23
Strabane: floods in 1909 with 4-6-0T	25
Class 3 4-4-4T No. 11 Hercules at Victoria Road with Foyle Road station (GNR (I) across Foyle	26
Class 2 4-6-0T No. 4 Meenglas	28	u
Class 3 4-4-4T No. 11 Hercules		m
Class 3 4-4-4T No. 10 Sir James (lined green livery) at Victoria Road		l
Class 4 4-6-4T No. 15 Mourne: Nasmyth Wilson official	29	u
Class 5 2-6-4T No. 16 Donegal: Nasmyth Wilson official		m
Class 5A 2-6-4T No. 21 Ballyshannon: Nasmyth Wilson official		l
Composite bogie brake and composite bogie carriages (black & white livery)	30
Londonderry Victoria Road with No. 6 Columbkille in platform 20 April 1953	31	u
Londonderry Victoria Road plan c1937		m
Londonderry Victoria Road looking towards Strabane 19 April 1958		l
Londonderry Victoria Road with No. 6 Columbkille departing for Strabane, 20 April 1953	32	u
Londonderry Victoria Road with No. 6 Columbkille waiting depature for Strabane, 19 May 1950		um
Londonderry Victoria Road with 4-6-4T waiiting depature for Strabane in early 1950s		lm
Londonderry Victoria Road with 4-6-4T No. 4 Eske waiiting depature for Strabane, June 1949 with mixed train including oil tankers at rear		b
Londonderry Victoria Road with 2-6-4T No. 19 Letterkenny waiiting depature for Strabane, 23 June 1937 with Craigavon Bridge visible behind	33	u
Londonderry Victoria Road 19 April 1948: new ground frame		m
Londonderry Victoria Road with 2-6-4T No. 8 Foyle, 20 April 1953 with broad gauge siding & Craigavon Bridge visible behind		l
Londonderry Victoria Road with 2-6-4T No. 8 Foyle, 20 April 1953 with broad gauge siding  from rear	34	u
Craigavon Bridge: mixed guage track & turntable with Shell oil tank wagons		l
Map: connecting lines in Londonderry (Derry)	35	u
New Buildings station 20 April 1953		l
No. 9 Eske at Desertone Halt in 1949	36
Donemana 20 April 1953 also plan	37	u
Ballyheather station (Will Hay in attendance?)		b
Ballymagorry with plan & mad dog	38
Strabane: map of lines & No. 2 Blanche arriving with oil tanks at rear on mixed train	39
Strabane with long excursion (19 vehicles) with 2-6-4T locomotives front & rear, 1951	40
Strabane with No. 3 Lydia on excusion (above) from Letterkenny to Derry?	41	ul
2-6-4T No. 4 Meenglas at Strabane in June 1949: transhipment shed to GNRI in background		ur
No. 4 Meenglas in June 1949 at Strabane: transhipment shed to GNRI in background and extensive yard	42	u
No. 4 Meenglas on freight at Strabane in early 1950s		l
2-6-4T No. 2 Blanche on mixed train at Strabane c1930	43	u
Railcar No. 19 with three vans at Strabane in 1950s		m
Railcar No. 10 with three vans at Strabane on 21 April 1953.		b
CDJR railcar No.3 (ex-Dublin & Blessington) at Strabane also shows entrance to refreshment room	44	u
Class 2 4-6-0T 8 Foyle and Class 5 2-6-4T 16 Donegal at Strabane		l
Victoria Road 19 May 1950: No. 6 Columbkille	45

'Down Postal'.  46.
Issue No. 1. Steve Holland.

Tennant locomotives. N.P. Fleetwood.
See Issue 1 page 65 (middle): location is Alexandra Dock, Hull: adjacent locomotives J75 (ex-H&BR)
Issue No. 1. Alan A. Jackson
General appreciation, some minor criticism of layout, and observes greater need to acknowledge photographers rather than collectors thereof.
Tennant locomotives. Mick Nicholson.
See Issue 1 page 65 (middle): location is Alexandra Dock, Hull: adjacent locomotives J75 (ex-H&BR)
Pouteau: locomotives (including GWR 4-4-0s) at Fratton. Bill Aves.
Reason for presence of GWR locomotives postulated: added to caption details. See Issue 1 page 32 (lower)
Tennants: scale drawings. Deryck Featherstone.
Criticism of lack of end elevations; standardization of scales.
Issue No. 1. Steve Sykes
Criticism of faintness of printing of line drawings & fish van (p. 36)

The North Staffordshire Railway's Stoke Works. Part 2. Basil Jeuda. 47-72.
Part 1 see Issue 1. Includes short notes on Locomotive Superintendents Luke Longbottom and John Henry Adams. Part 3 see Issue page 23

The Railway Photographs of F. Pouteau. Part 2: the Alexandra Docks Railway to the Furness Railway. John Alsop. 73-86.
For part 3 see Issue 3 page 61.

Wish You Were Here? Railway Postcards of Northamptonshire. Andrew Swift. 87-96.

Railway Archive Issue No. 3 (2003)

The Roberts Collection — an introduction by Phil Coutanche. 3-16.
Includes information on Mr F.A. Roberts who lived at Rosenberg in Beckenham: Roberts was clearly a man of wealth and lived in a substantial house and enjoyed golf and photography (using high quality equipment). The photographs were taken between 1894 and 1897. The collection is held by the South Eastern & Chatham Railway Society. Plea from R. Hawkins (4-43) to publish Continental items & minor errata: 0-6-2 tank not tender!..

Forest of Dean Private Owner Wagons — an update. Ian Pope. 17-21.
Main picture (18/19); enlargement of Upper Lydbrook Station (M&GW Severn & Wye Joint Railway) page 17: 1909: 2021 0-6-0ST plus train of brake thirds; in goods yard wagons from Messrs Evans, Adlard & Co Ltd (papermakers); Pates & Co, College Coal Exchange, Cheltenham (with dumb buffers) and Edgar Jarrett of BReam (5 plank, s. & end doors); (colour of coaches queried by Simon Dunkley 4-87); Gloucester Railway Carriage & Wagon official photograph of wagon lettered Evans, Adlard & Co, Postlip Mills, Winchcombe No, 1, and Forest of Dean Wagon Co wagons for Park Iron Ore & Coal Co. Nos. 100 and 101, possibly at Bullo.

The North Staffordshire Railway's Stoke Works. Part 3: 1914-1927. Basil Jeuda. 23-40.
Text notes involvement of Hookham, Locomotive Engineer, George Ivatt and Tom Coleman. Part 1 Issue 1 page 71. Part 2 Issue 2 page 47. Letter from Mick Nicholson (4-44) on lack of basic safety provision and specific comments added to caption data.Part 4: Issue 10 page 43 et seq.

A Photographic Survey of the North Staffordshire Railway's Stoke Works 1921. Basil Jeuda. 41-58.

Return to Moor Street. 59-60.
See also Issue 1 page 3: mainly interior shots published in the Great Western Railway Magazine in 1916.

The Railway Photographs of E. Pouteau Part 3: The Garstang & Knott End Railway to the Great North of Scotland Railway. John Alsop. 61-79.
This, like the earlier and later parts is both a selection of photographs & a full lisiting. See John Quick 4-44 which makes many corrections to GCR part of List. For Part 2 see Issue 2 page 73. See also Alsop letter RA5  58.

'Down Postal'. 80.
Points arising. Reg Davies.
See Issue 2 page 20 et seq: "reasons" stated for certain "actions" were incorrect: GNRI not interested in traffic to Derry as had its own route (broad gauge). Crews operating the Londonderry line remained with CDRJC and did not become NCC. Government of Northern Ireland approached British Transport Commission for transferof lines operated by NCC to Ulster Transport Authority. This was accomplished during 1948. Response from Stanley C. Jenkins in RA 5 page 58..
Stoke Works. Mick Nicholson.
Queries the term "switch" used on map on page 50-1 (Issue 2); page 63 upper: radial drilling machine not a forming machine; page 65 (upper) turning not grinding & 65 (lower) crane balancing, and page 72 signal produced at Crewe: may have been supplied new or from another location: notes LNER policy of cascading signalling equipment (specific cases in Hull area).
More on the MET. John Quick.
See Issue 1 page 36: GCR 5-ton fish van
More on the MET. T. Israel.
See Issue 1 page 36: train desription codes, and page 35 upper: limit of electric working

The Cambrian Railways photographs of H.W. Burman by Mike Christensen. 81-6.

Wish You Were Here? Railway postcards of Ireland. Neil Parkhouse. 87-96.

Fenit Pier with mackerel boats.	87
Bray station exterior showing goods yard, c1905	88	u
Bray station platforms, early 1930s, with locomotive taking water		l
Greystones station with southbound train arriving, c1905	89
Larne Town station, engine shed, turntable, and goods shed, c1890. (Lawrence of Dublin)	90
GS&WR 0-4-4T No. 74 at Cashel at new terminus c1905	91	u
Dundalk Newry & Greenore Railway 0-6-0ST No. 5 Carlingford and passenger train at Dundalk Queen Street, c1895		l
Coachford Station: Cork & Muskerry Light Railway (3ft gauge), pre-WW1?	92	u
Tullamore Station, c1905		m
Bridge over River Blackwater at Cappoquin with Ness Queen (river steamer)		l
West Clare Railway station at Kilrush (3 ft gauge) with Bagnall 0-6-0T and passenger train	93	u
Dun Laoghaire Pier station & junction with mail steamers (ships) alongside		l
Clogher Valley Railway train headed by Sharp Stewart 0-4-2T in Caledon main street on mixed train	94	u
Motor car No. 3 with two tast-rack trailers on Giant's Causeway, Portrush & Bush Mills Tramway in Portrush, c1930 (two Albion? single deck buses also in view)		l
North Waterford station with jaunting car in foreground	95	u
Queenstown station c1905 with steamers alongside (now Cobh)		l
Viaduct at Kilmacthomas with 2-4-0 crossing with passenger train (viaduct extant in 1999 letter Ed Dyball 4-87 Also long letter George Huxley No. 6 page 59	96

Cambrian Railways 2-4-0 No. 29 on turntable at Barmouth. (W.H. Burman). rear cover upper
Coloured view (post card?)
First class free-pass (LMS) for Mrs Hookham. rear cover lower
Inside and outside views (coloured).

Railway Archive Issue No. 4 (2003)

The civil engineering of the Chapeltown Branch. Bob Essery. 3-42.
Views taken of the line during construction (special feature for brick counters). See Letter  of appreciation in Issue 5 (page 59) from John Miles which mentions ballast colours which elicited a response in Issue 6 from Peter M. Hughes (page 79). Also in RA 5 page 5 page 59 letter from Richard Kinnear who questions function of ladder in photo on page 34.

Down Postal [letters]. 43 et seq
The Roberts Collection. Peter Swift.
See Issue 3 page 4 upper and info added to captions.
The Roberts Collection. R. Hawkins.
Plea to publish Continental photographs (see Issue 3 page 3 et seq), also minor errata
The Roberts Collection. Tony Wisdom.
See Issue 3 page 5: Victoria (carriage): concise definition.
The Roberts Collection. Nick Holliday.
See Issue 3 page 5: Victoria (carriage): longer definition & source thereof
The Roberts Collection. D.G. Williams.
See Issue 3 page 5: Victoria (carriage): notes Royal patronage & another source
The Roberts Collection. Allan Freeman.
See Issue 3 page 5: Victoria (carriage): his mother travelled in one, but not with Queen Victoria who patronised the type
The Pouteau listings. B.J. Harding.
See Issue 3 page 70 upper: not "Northwood", but south of Harrow-on-the-Hill
The Pouteau listings. Steve Sykes.
Caption (Issue 3 page 63 upper) correction: Manson four cylinder simple not as stated
The Pouteau listings. Ian Middleditch.
Caption (Issue 3 page 63 upper) correction: Manson four cylinder simple not as stated (argues date pre-1898). Caption (I3 64 upper): adds that class developed from Manson 306 class which in turn had been developed from Smellie class 22: notes Manson's relationship through marriage with Smellie: also notes linkage between Stirling GSWR designs and SER designs notably Q class 0-4-4T.
The Pouteau listings. Nick Holliday
See page 65 upper: horsebox (leading vehicle) is a GSWR horsebox and see also page 70 (middle) for star on 4-4-0 No. 1027 where writer suggests that five-pointed star was a Masonic symbol and notes many other specific sources for smokebox embellishments, especially on CR and HR locomotives, notably Highland railway liveries, from which a quotation is taken, but also on non-Scottish railways.
The Pouteau listings. John Quick.
Several specific corrections to feature in Issue 3 beginning page 61: info added to caption data.
Stoke Works points. Mick Nicholson.
See features on page 23 and 41 in Issue 3
Oston Dyke bridge - near Leicester? John Alsop.
Editorial box Issue 3 page 1 requested information about Oston Dyke: writer suggests Brooksby
GWR coach livery. Simon Dunkley. (page 87)
See Issue 3: pages 17-19 colour of GWR coaches (not crimson, but brown) and page 65 upper not a mixed train (just a slow train with horsebox).
Postcards of Ireland. Ed Dyball.
See 3-96 Macthomas Viaduct also suggests that Victoria (3-5) was a thing (note heading)
Not Hampshire. John Fletcher.
See "Sparsholt Church" 3-12 upper 43

The Railway Photographs of E. Pouteau Part 4: The Great Eastern Railway. John Alsop. 45-56.

The list contains GE-51 "Cromer [express] approaching Witham pre-accident on 1 September 1905: letter from Michael Brooks (5-58) claims that this was a fake and this was substantiated by J.E. Kite who sold the card to Brooks: in a notes author agrees.
The Roberts Collection Part 2: A South Eastern Railway Selection by Phil Coutanche. 57-69.

F class 4-4-0 on down train in cutting on approach to Elmstead Woods tunnel	57
as previous, but train of 6-wheel stock clearly shown	58
F class leaving southern portal of Polhill tunnel	59
F class 240 approaching Grove Park station with train including van for Grande Vitesse Continental traffic at front;	60	u
F class hauling two sets of "Greenwich" stock (close-coupled four-wheel);		l
F class No. 133	61
Class E or 118 Cudworth 2-4-0 at Dover engine shed (also SER standard gas lamp)	62
terminating train showing brake van with non-automatic and automatic vacuum brake and "last vehicle" board;	63	u
No. 240 with its driver		l
O class 0-6-0 290 at Bromley (SER)	64	u
Length gang with trolley at Grove Park		l
Grove Park A signal box	65	u
Grove Park B signal box with F class passing and clear view of bracket signal with non-fishtail distant: see also RA10 page 31		l
Old signal box at Grove Park with permanent way gang at work;	66
E class 2-4-0 No. 250 with train consisting of horsebox; carriage truck with carriage, further carriage truck and passenger coach at Grove Park - headcode indicated East London line	67	u
Enlarged view of horsebox & carriage truck		l
"Club train" in siding at Eltham (later Mottingham) awaiting return to France; 69l: . 57
"Club train" in siding at Eltham (later Mottingham) awaiting return to France; 69l: . 57
Sundridge Park station

A Mystery Accident. 70.
Accident probably involving GWR coaches Nos 549 (six-wheel luggage composite) and 312 (4-wheel luggage composite) and 0-6-0T with row of terrace-houses and goods shed; probably c1880. See Issue 6 page 78 letter from Christopher Redwood, author of The Weston, Clevedon & Portishead Railway (1981) which claims that location was Clevedon (GWR) and accident happened during running round at the terminus. John Lewis (RA 5 page 58) lists identies of carriages.

Simmonds, Robin. The American 0-8-0s of the Port Talbot Railway.. 71-87
This very thoroughly researched infers that Walter James Hosgood, who was appointed Locomotive & Machinery Superintendent to the PTR on 1 March 1897, was incompetent in drawing up an inviation to tender document and in subsequent negotiations with the successful tenderer, the Cooke Locomotive Company, and their London agents. Subsequently further 0-8-2Ts were acquired from Sharp Stewart. Cited/quoted material includes the relevant RCTS parts (GWR), articles and books by Atkins, Ahrons, and articles by Rutherford. PRO archives are also cited. The illus. have mainly been published previously: 0-6-2T No. 120 supplied Cooke Locomotive Co. (Locomotive Magazine 1900 February); 0-8-2T No. 20 (manufacturer's photo. also reproduced Locomotive Magazine 1900 May); No. 21 in Duffryn Yard (Railway Magazine 1900 November) and No. 19 supplied Sharp Stewart. See Issue 6 pp 77-8 for letter from Desmond Coakham which argues that Churchward was eager to examine the PTR locomotives to establish methods of construction; there was a problem with the flat grates on top of the bar frames; cites David Allenden's articles in Model Rlys from the 1970s for survey of American practice. The valve spindles induced a rocking motion. In Issue 5 page 60 see latter from Mick Nicholson which gives full citation for David Allenden's contribution to Model Railways and letter from Peter Treloar who notes that the GWR reboilered the class in 1908: two illus in reboilered state and cites pp. K245-6 of RCTS Locomotives of the GWR. Part 10. Finally, Robin Simmons returns to subject, especially rebuilt locomotives in RA 7 page 74.

Wish You Were Here? Railway Postcards of Leicestershire by Andrew Swift 89-96.

Railway Archive No. 5 (2003)

Painting Victorian trains. Anthony J. East. 3-13.
Dr East is an industrial chemist with considerable experience of dyeing synthetic fibres and an interest in both railway history and model railways. He begins with stressing the limitations of colour vision and colour perception. The composition of paints and their pigments are succinctly surveyed then each of the pigments available within the Victorian period is examined in turn: white, black, reds and browns, yellow (chrome yellow i.e. lead chromate), blues (originally very expensive, but synthetic materials became available in the 1870s), greens and vermillion. There is some especially useful information about Midland/LMS lake (crimson) and on the differences between Wolverhampton and Swindon green. Illus.: (colour): LBSCR 4-4-0 No. 213 Bessemer (yellow) and GNR 4-2-2 (A4 class) No. 266 (green) (both signed "F.Moore"; GCR 4-4-0 No. 694 (green) reproduced by chromlithography (see letter from George Huxley Issue 6 page 59)  coloured lantern slide of Victoria station with LNWR 0-6-0ST and LBSCR A1X Terrier coloured "blue"; coloured printed postcard of two GWR steam railmotors (railcars) with intermediate trailer at Ford Platform in Plymouth probably late 1905; b&w: details from LSWR S11 4-4-0 No. 395 showing flaking of paint on boiler and cover for cross water tubes, Plymouth 1907; paint making at a Glasgow factory in about 1920 in leather-lined wooden baths; three illus from album from Alexander Fergusson & Co.'s paint works in Port Dundas, Glasgow showing the manufacture of white lead from thin sheets of lead sheet exposed to acetic acid; the removal of the white lead from the plates and its packaging in sealed tins (none of the workers were wearing adequate protective clothing for this hazardous process; coloured: GER 4-4-0 No. 1870 (blue); MR 4-2-2 No. 116 (red) and LSWR No. 706 ("blue") caption states "205" page 11 lower: see letter from Roger Brasier RA 7 page 87 who owns print of same locomotive in more tradtional colour. (all chromolithography) and Märklin toy 4-4-0 Guage 1 (LNWR) in "Midland red" photographed outdoors with digital camera. This article led to an extensive, and predominantly appreciative correspondence. In Issue 6 there were letters on page 59 from the Author giving details of a Mander Brothers paint catalogue in his possession and further notes on Caledonian Railway blue which was probably lightened Prussian blue, called Antwerp blue in the catalogue; from Mike Grocock, partially on the various shades of North Eastern Railway (NER) Saxony green [a recent vision of V2 Green Arrow on the NNR displayed that the sound was perfectly imperfect; the clouds of smoke and steam, and the smell were wonderful, but the less said about the Brunswick green (plain black lettered "NE" would have been an improvement!)]; cites two books relevant to Victorian paints and a partial citation of Rly Engr., 1895 (October) on coach construction (including painting) by the CR; from Michael Hardy comment on the darkness of the colour illustrations and on the methods used for block making of the original "F. Moore" plates in The Locomotive..." and for the LPC coloured postcards. Terry McElarney adds appreciative comments..

The disgraceful affair of the Thomas Street Level Crossing or the town clerk who boobed. John R. Long. 14-25.
Errors made on the part of a former town clerk of Newport (Mon) and the failure of the Newport Improvements Commissioners to react correctly to the Bill for the South Wales Railway (subsequently the Great Western Railway) concerning a level crossing in the centre of Newport. The railway was prepared to make an initial provision for a bridge in spite of its legal justification for a level crossing, but the Commissioners would not accept this and a dispute was to run for twenty five years and only ended with Newport's objections to the Caerleon Loop and the conversion of the South Wales mainline from broad gauge to standard gauge forced a settlement. The cause of this dispute was due to the failure of the Solicitor to the Commissioners, Thomas Woollett to examine the Act for the South Wsales Railway. Illus.: contemporary mas (pre and post railway in colour); b&w image of Newport station in 1860s looking west; Thomas Street level crossing viewed from road. looking towards Kings Head Hotel and showing gates to crossing; railway view of crossing looking east (page 22): see letter from Mick Nicholson (Issue 6 page 77) stating that the device mentioned in the caption as a "locking bar" was a wheel chock; canal towpath under the railway line with part of freight train above and three policemen below (page 24): this last illustration and several points within the text are covered in a letter from Ray Caston (Issue 6 page 77): Caston argues that the illus. does not show towpath but start of work on Shaftsbury Street bridge; gives the closure date for Courtybella Station and states that Sirhowy did cross the Cardiff Road on a bridge (it was the replacement railway which bridged the road).

Fly shunted [photographs lacking information]. 26.
Egg & Poultry Demonstration Car
GWR vehicle at Llandyssil station c1910
Ex-Cornish Minerals Railway 0-6-0T in transition to Lynn & Fakenham status
See Issue 6 (page 59) letters from  Brian Janes, Brian Lacey and Peter Treloar who consider that the photograph was probably taken whilst the locomotive was still in Cornwall before its transition to the Far East, although Lacey considers that it may have been taken at Sharp Stewart. It was probably CMR No. 12 (Sharp Stewart 2361/1874). Treloar thinks that the men are Cornish looking and suggests that Francis Trevithick was responsible for the design. He also notes that CMR No. 10 went via the Colne Valley & Halstead Railway to the South Hetton Colliery. Cites RCTS Locomotives of the Great Western Railway Part 3 and Clark's Illustrated history of M& GNR locomotives (1990). Nicholas May (RA 7 page 74) states the leading dimensions of these back-to-back locomotives..
Urban/suburban station.
With sign for Fear Bros, Coal & Corn Merchants in cramped goods yard and platform bookstall. See Issue 6 page 77 letters from Mick Hutson and Alan de Burton state that was Ashford (Middlesex) c1900.

The History of the steam locomotives of the Mersey and Mersey Electric Railways. Neil Parkhouse. 27-48.
Includes side and froont elevations drawn by E.J. Watson, and many photographs (the details of both of which are tabulated). The author notes that for clarity reference is always made to the numbers used by the Mersey Railway and not those used by successor-owners. Note many of the pages were printed in landscape format. Beyer Peacock supplied two types of locomotive to cope with the extremely severe conditions in the Mersey Tunnel which included gradients of 1 in 27 and the necessity for condensing apparatus: these were 0-6-4Ts and slightly later 2-6-2Ts. The former had double frames and inside cylinders, the latter had outside cylinders, and some which reached Swindon via the Alexandra Docks Railway emerged looking quite modern. The text supports the illustrations and includes a considerable amount on the Metropolitan Railway 4-4-0Ts Illus. (photographic unless shown otherwise):
0-6-4T: No. 4 Gladstone at Birkenhead Park (page 27): see letter from Peter Witts in RA 7 page 76 concerning F. Moore's involvement;
No. 1 The Major at Birkenhead Central; drawings (side & front elevations), and at Birkenhead Park:
No. 6 Fox at Rock Ferry station; No. 1 not named (Beyer Peacock official photograph);
No. 8 Birkenhead at Birkenhead Central; No. 7 Liverpool at Birkenhead Park;
No. 4 Gladstone at Birkenhead Central; No.9 Connaught at Birkenhead Central;
No. 5 Cecil Raikes at Rock Ferry on 29 October 1887;
ex-No. 24 as GWR 1346 awaiting scrapping at Swindon on 11 September 1927;
ex-MR No. 3 as ADR No. 23 at Newport Pill probably in 1905;
2-6-2T Brunless at Birkenhead Central and at Rock Ferry station with two cylinders above buffers and as reboilered by GWR 1204 at Newport in about 1925;
former MR No. 13 ex ADR 25 as substantially rebuilt by GWR becoming 1199 at Swindon in February 1924;
GWR 1207 waiting scrapping at Swindon on 11 May 1932 (letter from Mick Nicholson (Issue 6 page 77) makes it clear that the two illus at foot of page 35 were taken at different times and locations);
Victoria (drawing: s. & f. els.);
Banstead drawing: s. & f. els.;
Cecil Raikes at Coppice Colliery, Shipley on 3 April 1952:
0-6-4T Liverpool drawing: s. el & photo. as prepared for export to  J. & A. Brown in Australia page 39 see also letter from Peter Witts RA7 page 76;
Cecil Raikes at Coppice Colliery in 1930s and on 3 April 1952;
ex MR 2-6-2T No. 18 as Briggs & Co. Dorothy at Whitwood Colliery c1930;
Whitwood in engine shed at Whitwood Colliery c1935;
Whitwood with new cab c1950;
ex MR No. 18 as  Dorothyat Whitwood Colliery in January 1947 Dorothy in late 1930s;
Metropolitan Railway 4-4-0T 18 Hercules in 1864;
Metropolitan Railway No. 7;
Metropolitan Railway No. 63;
ex-Metropolitan Railway No. 7 as Mersey Railway No. 2 in Metropolitan Railway livery: drawing (s. & f. elevations) and photos as in late 1920s and later when condition had deteriorated and Meresy Electric Railway No. 3 both as drawing and as photo on arrival from LNER in 1939 (ex-LNER J66 No. 7297). There is no illustration of Mersey Railwat service locomotive No. 1 which had been obtained from the Metropolitan Railway. See Issue No. 6 page 77 for letter by Trevor Davies citing R.G. Preston's The Richmond Vale Railway (1979) for the final disposal of the Australian former Mersey Railway locomotives, including the one preserved. See also letter from Philip Atkins (Issue 6 page 77) citing writer's own contribution in Rly Wld 1976 (March/April). Heavy flange wear was encountered on the 0-6-4Ts hence the development of the 2-6-2T type which incorporated water lubrication. Could not establish source of names, Burcot, Burnley and Banstead. GWR 1346 (0-6-4T) was fitted with a Belpaire boiler supplied by R & W Hawthorn Leslie.  

The Roberts Collection. Part 3: mainly London & South Western. Phil Coutanche. 49-57.
See letter and sketch map from J.M. Gregory in RA 7 page 76.who provides the precise location of the photographs taken in the vicinity of Winchester (that is first six in table below)

'Down Postal'. 58
Irish railway politics. Stanley C. Jenkins.
See letter from Reg Davies (RA 3 page 80) and original article RA 2 page 20 on complex political situation of railways in Ulster: notably Unionist anti-railway stance and Labour's avoidance of anything to do with Stormont at time of railway nationalization in mainland Britain.
Pouteau corrections. John Alsop.
See RA3 page 61 et seq
Cromer accident. Michael Brooks.
The Pouteau list GE-51 "Cromer [express] approaching Witham pre-accident on 1 September 1905:claims that this was a fake and this was substantiated by J.E. Kite who sold the card to Brooks: in a notes author agrees.
Nicht Gepikchurtakën. Peter Witts.
See RA 3 page 71 upper: trespassing photographer?
Pouteau observations. Bill Aves.
See RA4: 53 (upper) down train; 53 bottom 2-4-2T not 0-4-4T; 55 upper: corrects comments in caption on push & pull service to Palace Gates; 56 bottom: brake fitted Y14 class, and p. 91 lower queries locomotive type and wrong line working.
GWR coaches in mystery accident. John Lewis.
See RA4 page 70: identies of carriages involved in accident [at Clevedon]
Chapeltown branch bridges.John Miles. 59.
Letter of appreciation for feature in Issue 4 page 3 (KPJ would gladly add brickbats) and further letter in Issue 6 page 78 from Peter M. Hughes (on ballast colours and on brick types used).
Subsidence and ladders. Richard Kinnear.
See magnum tedious on page 34 of RA4.
More on railway postcards of Leicestershire. Peter Witts.
See Issue 4 page 59 et seq.: further notes on stations at Medbourne, Broughton Astley (locomotive was a Johnson 0-6-0 with H class boiler), Blaby, Leicester (Midland Railway) (with tender of 4-2-2), Overseal & Moira, Grimston, Glenfield Tunnel (had gates at both ends), Great Glen (note on headgear worn by staff), Heather (LNWR ran most of the train service), Syston, Kirby Muxloe and Glenfield.
The Port Talbot US 0-8-2Ts. Peter Treloar. 60.
See feature in Issue 4 page 71: notes that the GWR reboilered the class in 1908: two illus in reboilered state and cites pp. K245-6 of RCTS Locomotives of the GWR. Part 10.
The Port Talbot US 0-8-2Ts — further reference. Mick Nicholson.
See feature in Issue 4 page 71: cites article by Dennis Allenden in Model Railways, 1977 (Dec.) 597-601 on the class.

The Cambrian Railways photographs of H.W. Burman: Part Two. Mike Christensen. 61-6.
Sharp Stewart 0-6-0 No. 39 (1445/1863);  Sharp Stewart 0-6-0 No. 10 (2347/1873); Robert Stephenson 0-6-0 No. 93 (3093/1903); Vulcan Foundry 0-6-0 No. 79 (1446/1894) all at Aberdovey Sand Siding; Sharp Stewart 4-4-0 No. 21 on passenger train running above Dovey Estuary (see also Issue 3 page 82 upper); Sharp Stewart 4-4-0 No. 16 on down train departing Pensarn (train includes bogie coach from GWR); Sharp Stewart 4-4-0 No. 61at Barmouth Junction with cattle wagons (see also Issue 3 page 84); Sharp Stewart 2-4-0 No. 53 (1633/1865) approaching Barmouth Viaduct; Sharp Stewart 2=4=0 No. 28 Mazeppa (1400/1863) with up local at Harlech; Neilson Reid 0-6-0 No. 88 (5402/1899) light engine at Harlech; Sharp Stewart 4-4-0 No. 20 (3356/1886) at Harlech on passenger train dwarfed by LNWR bogie van.

Pouteau listings Part 5: The Great Northern Railway. John Alsop. 67-84.

Wish You Were Here? Railway postcards of Aberdeenshire. John Alsop. 85-96.
Ballater station; Class S 4-4-0 No. 79 with LNWR Royal Train at Ballater station; GNSR bus at Braemar; stations at: Lumphanan, Cambus o' May, Park, Murtle, and Bieldside; Aberdeen Joint Station during reconstruction; stations at Kinaldie (with O class 4-4-0 No. 7), Monymusk, Kennethmont, Inverurie (new station of 1902), Udny (with O class 4-4-0), Cruden Bay, Acnnagatt, Maud (with O class 4-4-0 No. 6); Longside in December 1906 following snowstorm, 4-4-0 and coach No. 171 stuck in snow; Fraserburgh with St Combs branch train (also shown in colour on rear cover);
St Combs terminus with D class 0-6-0T No. 8 on passenger train 96 upper;
train on 2ft 3in gauge Strathbathie Light Railway which was built by the Seaton Brick & Tile Co with Hudswell Clarke 0-4-0ST Newburgh (WN 545) crossing Murcar Golf Course (96 lower): see letter from Peter Witts (RA 7 page 76) on Newburgh and subsequent rolling stock used on line.

LTSR 4-4-2T Tilbury Docks. Rear cover upper.
Chromolithograph which appeared originally in Rly Mag.,

Fraserburgh station. Rear cover lower.
Coloured postcard.

Railway Archive Issue No. 6 (2004)

Swift, Peter W. The Drummond 4-6-0s of the London & South Western Railway. 3-24.
A very detailed account of the Drummond four-cylinder 4-6-0s from the highly unsuccessful F13 and E14 designs which had been intended to operate expresses between Salisbury and Exeter, but which ended up hauling coal trains between Salisbury and Southampton, through the less unsuccessful G14 and P14 designs to the T14 class which was moderately successful. Some of the less successful types formed the basis for Urie rebuilds as 2-cylinder locomotives. The F13 class was unusual in combining Stephenson valve gear for the inside cylinders and Walschaerts for the outside. The illustrative material includes five broadside views of the varieties taken outside Exmouth Junction mpd. General arrangement drawings of the F13, T14 and G14 are also included with a warning on their dimensional accuracy (although it would seem improbable that Lottery funding could be achieved to build an F13). There are also views of the class in service. See also letter from Roger Brasier (RA 7 page 87) who comments on Eric Langridge's involvement in the design and his observations on scragging on the earlier types with widely separated pairs of cylinders. Ted Lloyd (RA 7 page 75 disputes claim that F13 was first 4-cylinder design for a British railway: Webb 1400 class for LNWR introduced in 1903. Further Pouteau illus of No. 331 in Number 15 page 79