Volume 82 (1938)
The first railway in Scotland: the Tranent-Cockenzie
wagon-way. Kenneth Brown. 1-3.
Early and then contemporary maps.
Closed stations in the Glasgow district. Graham E.
Langmuir. 7-11; 28.
Maps.
Volume 83 (1938 July-December)
Southern Railway train in new light green livery.
O.J. Morris (phot.). facing page 391
Schools class No. 927 Clifton on 12.30 Waterloo to Bournemouth
waiting to leave Waterloo. Dufaycolor.
Our colour plate innovation. 391-3.
Mainly a description of the Dufaycolor process and its limitations,
plus brief account of the colour plate in the Railway
Magazine.
No. 498
Nunn, K.A.C.R. A famous locomotive class: Holden's
"T19" express engines of the Great Eastern Railway. 417-22.
Tabulates building, rebuilding with Belpaire boilers and as 4-4-0s,
and withdrawal dates. Notes major exploits, including through workings between
Windsor and Lynn and the reverse.
Richens, F.G. The Cleobury Mortimer & Ditton Priors Light Railway.
427-31.
Light Railway Order granted 23 March 1901, but two extensions were
required. Main traffic was envisaged to be stone from Brown Clee Hill. Two
locomotives, Msanning Wardle 0-6-0Ts, were acquired and named Cleobury
and Burwarton. Secondhand passenger coaches were obtained from
the North London Railway. The line opened for freight on 1 July 1908, and
for passenger traffic on 19 November 1908, and closed to passenger traffic
on 24 September 1938.
Hewitt, John D. The Golden Valley Railway. 439.
Description of a journey from Pontrilas to Hay on a mixed train behind
5818.
The last passenger train from Ditton Priors. 453-4.
"signed" F.S.W.
Volume 86 (1940)
The Scottish train. C. Hamilton Ellis. 1-6
To Hamilton by L.N.E.R. Graham E. Langmuir. 7-9.
More G.&S.W.R. nights' entertainments. David L.
Smith. 28-35.
Adventures with Manson and Drummond 0-6-0s on the line from Ayr to
Stranraer with inadequately braked freight trains. One trip involved a locomotive
with a faulty smokebox door which kept on opening and the crew's lash ups
to keep the train moving.
Bakerloo trains to Stanmore. 37-43.
Highland notes. 44-5; 46.
Observations made in August 1939: Dunrobin (illus. of inside
of locomotive shed at Golspie with Sharp Stewart 0-4-4T (4085/1895). Signatures
listed inside cab: Alexandra 7 October 1870 (Queen), Alice 23 October 1873;
George 7 October 1895, Wilhelm 28 July 1901, Albert 9 September 1921 (King
George VI), Alfonso 1928 (King of Spain), Neville Chamberlain 23 April 1938.
Dornoch branch. J.K.C. Henderson. 45; 46.
15054 trundling along.
[Lybster branch]. R.A. Morrison. 46.
15053 outside Lybster engine shed and 15103 (ex-CR) and 15051 double
head a single coach on Lybster train and Wick (the second locomotive was
to provide power for a return excursion)
Number 514
Arctic weather on the railways. 225-7.
Photo-feature: T9 hauling 4-COR EMU probably on approach to Waterloo;
snow plough on Woodhead line (showing masts for electrification; Higham station
on Medway electrification; small snow plough on Beattock incline; Midland
(LMS) 0-6-0 snod in between Skipton and Colne; large snow plough on Cheshire
Lines, snowed in train on Beattock.
Volume 87 (1941)
Sir Nigel Gresley. 241-2 + plate. illus. (port.).
Obituary notice.
Volume 89 (1943)
A footplate ride on L.M.S.R. turbine engine No. 6202.
E.S. Waterhouse. 303-4.
"no sharp beat of the exhaust, just a hum to break the silence as
we gilded out". Describes trip from Euston to Liverpool and a return on
streamliner 6243 City of Lancaster: thought return journey much
dirtier.
Locomotive control. T. F. Cameron. (Outline of Railway
Traffic Operation - X). 328-30.
Author was Assistant General Manager (Works & General), LNER The
LNER had adopted the LMS system introduced in 1938 with the aim of increasing
productivity. Notes danger of maintaining boiler washing out, and the
need for training.
The first tube railway. Charles E. Lee. 331-6.
Peter William
Barlow greatly improved the tunnelling shield and combined
it with the use of cast iron segments to line the tunnels. He obtained powers
to build two tunnels. One ran from The Monument to St George's Church in
the Borough, but it had to be abandoned due to lack of funds (it became part
of the C&SLR: see May 1941 page 221: Jubilee of the City Tube). The Tower
Subway Act was passed in 1868 and
James Henry Greathead was the
Contactor. It was constructed from Tower Hill and took 15 weeks to tunnel
under the Thames. The shield was manufactured by Balls, Goodman & Co.
of Newcastle. The tunnel was 1340ft long. A 2ft 6in gauge railway was laid
with cable haulage of a vehicle known as an omibus. Very strong spings made
of vulcanized india-rubber were fitted at both ends. The line opended in
February 1870, but after a time the tunnel was converted for foot passengers,
of whom about 20,000 used it per week. The venture was killed by the opening
of Tower Bridge on 30 June 1894. The tunnel was then used by the London Hydraulic
Power Co. illus.
Derailments of S.E. & C.R. "River" tanks.
337.
Refers back to the series of articles by W.J. Reynolds on the Maunsell
2-6-0s.
Beauty in locomotive lines. 338.
Some reminiscences of the footplate—III. T.
Lovatt Williams. 341-4.
Experiences of LNWR locomotives, including Webb Compounds, encounters
with Sackfield. Also experiences
of GWR types: 0-6-0 and 4-6-0: these rode much better.
British locomotive practice and performance. Cecil
J. Allen. 345-9.
Observations of Merchant Navy performance mainly between Exeter
and Salisbury during WW2. Noted some problems with slipping, but also high
acceleration.
Some Continental Travel experiences—V. Charles Lake. 350
L.M.S.R. Coronation Scot as living quarters for U.S.
Army officers. 358.
See also page 307: Coronation Scot train at Jeffersonville, Indiana:
two illustrations one of complete train in use as living quarters for
!Quartermaster Corps and other showing cocktail bar looking rather
crowded.
L.M.S.R. streamline Pacific No. 6245 City of London.
359.
Naming ceremony at Euston on 20 July 1943 by Lord Mayor of London,
Sir Samuel G. Joseph, Lady Mayoress and Chairman of LMS, Sir Thomas Royden.
Locomotive, also shown at mpd in unrelieved black.
Midland Hotel, Manchester, forty years old. 368
Opened on 4 September 1903. Illus.
Notes and News. 369
The Why and the Wherefore. 380
Railway Literature. 384.
Volume 96
Dobson, K.S. Poppet valve development on the L.N.E.R. Rly Mag., 1950,
96,197-200; 176-7. 8 illus.