UNDERGROUND NEWS ISSN 0306-8617 CONTENTS MAIN INDEX 2-7 ISSUE NUMBERS, PAGES, DATES & NEWSFLASHES 7 LIBRARY EVENINGS 7 LIST OF SOCIETY MEETINGS 8 LIST OF SOCIETY VISITS & TOURS 8 CREDITED ARTICLES 8 UNDERGROUND NEWS IS PUBLISHED & PRINTED BY THE LONDON UNDERGROUND RAILWAY SOCIETY. CORRESPONDENCE SHOULD BE ADDRESSED TO THE EDITOR WHOSE ADDRESS APPEARS INSIDE. MEMBERS ARE ASKED TO ENCLOSE A STAMPED ADDRESSED ENVELOPE IF A REPLY IS REQUIRED. OPINIONS EXPRESSED ARE THOSE OF CONTRIBUTORS AND NOT NECESSARILY ENDORSED BY TXXLaS. * e THE CONTENTS ARE COPYRIGHT.
A ACCIDENTS Breakdown Organisation (Talk) 79 Chief Inspector's Annual Report 175 COLLISIONS Central Line, Wanstead, 't.3.86 75 Kensal Green, l6.10.86 175 DERAILMENTS Neasden, Jubilee Line, 20.7.86 120,1^2 FIRES AND SMOULDERINGS British Museum, rubbish, 18.6.86 3 Kennington station, 1.10.86 175 On Victoria Line OXFORD CIRCUS, 23..8^1 Press Office problems 52 Talk by Dr.T.M.Ridley 24 ACTON WORKS Devolution of overhaul work to depots 127 and construction of new workshop Revised track layout (diagram) l82 World War I I activities 57 ADVERTISEMENTS Small Advertisements in l43,l't5,179 Underground News AGNEW,N.P. Alexandra Palace, train services 54 AYLWARD,Dr.R.W. 94 B BAKER,C. 23 BAKERLOO LINE Croxley Green depot, train working 33 Early days 1915-1922 89 Last 1938 Stock in passenger 2,15,l6 service - 20..85 BALFOUR,G. 57 BANCROFT,P. 77,122 Berlin, cars destroyed during escape 123 attempt BEVIN,R. 57 BOOKS AND OTHER REVIEWS AND NOTICES Access to the Underground 64 Bygone Ruislip and Uxbridge 77 D.C. Electric Trains and Locomotives 169 Docklands Light Railway - lineside 16O historical leaflets Doctor Who - A Celebration 159 Fly Through Terminal 4 - leaflet 76 Hastings Diesel Story II6 Inter City Direct (BR leaflet) 77 Locomotive History of the South 30 Eastern Railway London at War 64 London Regional Transport Report II8 for 1985/86 London's Metropolitan Railway 159 London's Termini (second edition) 53 London Underground Rolling Stock,3,169 1986 edition London Transport and the Politicians k2 MAGAZINES Buses Worldwide No.24 175 Model Railway Constructor - June I986 l40 Motive Power Monthly - July 1986 l40 On the Move -Oct/Nov 1985 65 Railway Magazine - October I986 175 Railway World - October I985 65 Railway World - November I985 65 The Magazine for London Living - 169 September I986 Your Model Railway - October I985 65 Now we've put Olympia on the Map- 77 leaflet Pop records with videos l48 Railway Passengers' Assurance Company 16O Railway Tickets, Timetables and Handbills 16O Tape Recording - 'Going Underground' l45 BOOKS AND OTHER REVIEWS AND NOTICES (Continued) The London Underground - A 122,156 Diagrammatic History Underground Pocket Map - April 1986 76 Underground Pocket Map - June I986 123 BONNETT,C.F. Address to LURS Appointed Managing Director, 70 Docklands Light Railway BORLEY,H.V. 30,52,123,145 BRIDGES Footbridge renewal near Chesham 130 BRITISH RAIL & PREDECESSORS Bedford electrification - increased 98 house prices Bristol Temple Meads restoration 4l CANNON STREET Roof glass 4l Towers restored 163 Charing Cross redevelopment scheme 67 Chiltern Line - cup presentation 175 Earls Court Exhibition centre - 53 possible station Fares Increases 12.1.86 'Fines' for ticfcetless passengers l40 abolished Fraudulent Travel Squad, Southern 175 Region GREAT NORTHERN ELECTRICS Diversion to Kings Cross, Sundays 10 Driver-Only-Operation Extension to Huntingdon, 13..86 175 Moorgate branch closed Sundays,ll6 Hastings Line - badger 'gates' 2 Inner London Network criticism ISLE OF WIGHT Film from cab and possible NSE 130 livery Minibus competition 68 Modified driving cab ends (photos) 158 Revised timings for catamaran link 'Ryde Rail' etc. 83 Ryde Rail Festival, 21.6.86 5,130 'Ryde Rail Profile' (future l40 prospects) Three-car trains 63,83 Kensington Olympia - extra through,77 services LT rolling stock on BR and BR on 1 LT - slides MARYLEBONE Proposed closure 53 Proposed closure abandoned Mersey Railway Centenary Celebrations 83 Merseyside - final class 503 EMU run l49 Neasden temporary platform 1940 17O NETWORK SOUTH-EAST Launch - 10.6.86 5 Rover Tickets -21.6.86 Rover Tickets - 13.9.86 1 Night Ferry - proposed reintroduction 4l NORTH LONDON LINE Broad Street - last trains 5 Class 313 workings 83,182 Derailed freight train, 4.6.86 5 Network South-East livery 5 Romford-Upminster electrification 10 St.Pancras station - reopening as hotel SNOW HILL TUNNEL SCHEME 30,53,59,,3,18O South Eastern Railway loco hostory 30 South East Network - extra stations l43 proposed Special Christmas Party trains from Marylebone Stansted Airport link ll,l43 Subsidies to be reduced 175 Ticket inspection - hand-held computer l40 terminals Track Recording cars on LRT 22,23 WATFORD-EUSTON LINE 2
BRITISH RAIL (Continued) WATFORD-EUSTON LINE (Continued) 501 class trailers used for filming l49 501 class unit Sandite conversion 182 6-car trains 67 Line diagrams with Great Northern lines 159 Reinstatement of 'ith r a i l l48 Removal of 4th r a i l 67 Signalling renewal programme 129 Various developments 98 WATFORD-ST.ALBANS - possible l43 electrification Welham Green new station 54,175 West Coast main line - driving trailers l40 BUTT,B. 79 C CAIRO METRO 33 Capital Caper - 27.9.86 167 CAR LINE DIAGRAMS District & Piccadilly revised 98 District Line - complaint about 'west- on-right' Victoria Line - new l64 Cemetery underground railways 81,167 CENTRAL LINE & CENTRAL LONDON RAILWAY Automatic Train Operation, end of 179 between Hainault & Woodford Cine-films featuring 80 Epping extension, difficulty of 31 obtaining authority, 1947 TRAIN SERVICE HISTORY 1933-1945 2 1945-1950 l4 1950-1968 36 10-1984 44 CHAMBERS,E.D. 159 CHANNEL FIXED LINK,41,53,3 Chelsea Flower Show - new site? 4l,54 CHRISTMAS & NEW YEAR Santa Claus at St.Pauls 54 Services I985 I8 CIRCLE LINE Dinner on Train (rag week) 68 CLARKE,W.R., appointed as Operations 70 Director, LUL CLEAVER,R.F. 32 Coach Station proposals 66 CONTROL Control Centre, concentration of control 34 into four rooms Control Centre, new. Baker Street 34,53 'Regulating Room Supervisor' -new grade 68 COWARD,B. 80 CRIME Fatal stabbing at Embankment 4.10.86 175 Government Report for Underground 175 crime precautions Police numbers increased & more CCTV II8 Report by eight London boroughs 123 Sale of stolen season tickets 4l Study Group set up 53 CR00ME,D.F. 30,31,32,60,78,159,171 CRUICKSHANK,A. 34 D DEEP SHELTERS - Goodge Street surface- 5 buildings painted DELAYS TO SERVICES 24.3.86 - Trees on track North Weald 67 24.3.86 -No signalman at Harrow (LMR) 68 4.3,86 - Wanstead and Snaresbrook 75 10.5.86 - Mercury tube broken Finchley II6 Road 18.6.86 - Rubbish f i r e, British Musevun 3 21.8.86 - Burst water main at Old Street l48 DELAYS TO SERVICES (Continued) 17.8.86 - Person under train at l48 Gunnersbury 22.7.86 - Tunnel Cleaning Train l48 25.7.86 - Ex-ETT stalled at Acton Town l48 4.9,86 - Circle Line - handbag in doors 18O DEPOTS First depot overhaul, November I985 19 Hoverpad and l i f t i n g gantry 68 DISTRICT LINE 8e METROPOLITAN DISTRICT RAILWAY Gladstone,W.E., funeral train 1898 68 Kensington Olympia new regular service 73 One-Person-Operation from 4..85 26 DOCKLANDS LIGHT RAILWAY Bank Extension, 53,66,81,107,IO8 109,0,3,9 Canary Wharf proposals,66 Current r a i l arrangements 155 FULL DESCRIPTION 100-2 Contract & choice of system IO7 Identity of staff, rolling stock 1 and stations Introduction IOO-IO5 Maps 101 Photographs 103,104 Proposed extensions 107,l40 Routes described IO5-IO7 Ticketing, signalling, track 2 Track plans IO6 Heron Quays development l40 'Limited Capacity' restraining 163 Docklands offices Lineside historical leaflets 16O London Docklands Development Corp. l40,l63 Merchant banks to advise Government 4l on sale Photographs 153,154 Revised funding arrangements 67 ROLLING STOCK Delivery and Press preview 152 Technical description 155 Study Tour by bus, l8.6,86 69 DOWN,D.G. 10 E EAST LONDON LINE & EAST LONDON RAILWAY Liverpool Street extension s t i l l under 3 consideration Proposed return of A60 stock 181 Signalling at New Cross Gate 60 Signalling since 1950 New Cross area 60 ENGINEERING WORKS Acton Town-Northfields 1-3..85 5 Barking, road bridge 12,19 & 26.10.86 169 Chesham branch bridge renewal (various) 67,83 Chiswick Park 1-3..85 5 Golders Green point renewal (various) l68,l80 Harrow-on-the-Hill crossover 4/5.10.86 168 Hatton Cross-Heathrow 1-3..85 5 Northwood Hills-Pinner 6,130,138,179 15-31.8.86 ESCALATORS Earls Court - modernisation 134 Holborn - modernisation 133,137,l49 Maida Vale - modernisation l49 New escalator at Warwick Avenue l64 Numbers in service end-1985 93 October I986 changes 179 Prototype by W.& C.Pantin 94 Speedray experiment at Rotherhithe 54 Tottenham Court Road No.6 reinstated 68,l49 Victoria - new stickers 84 F FARES Fares income s t i l l buoyant 175 3
FARES (Continued) INCREASED 6.1.85 and introduction of Capitalcard 27 12.1.86 53.1.87 l66 Reduced central zone fare for through 53 BR bookings Reduced rate on BR Senior Citizens Railcard FITZHUGH,Dr.H., appointed Marketing & 70 Development Director LUL FROM THE PAPERS 10,40,53,66, 3,123,i4o,1,175 LONDON TRANSPORT 1935/40 New Works Programme - intentions 32 in 1946 ' - and the Politicians' - book review 42 ' -Magazine' - history _ 77 LT News - history 77 Museum developments 83 The Underground in the War (letter) 170 LONDON UNDERGROUND LIMITED Breakdown organisation - review of talk 78 Formation on 1.4.85 27 Maintenance work by outside contractors? 53 Management changes l40 Poetry on trains 54 GARRIE,N. Graffiti on the Underground GRAHAM,R. GREEN,N. GREATER LONDON COUNCIL Abolition Archives, taken over by City of London GREENAWAY,R.J. H 51 82,1,175 78,3 HEATHROW AIRPORT Capacity after Terminal 4 81 Estimated traffic growth to 1995 Taxi fee dispute 53 Traffic growth in 1985 53 HEATHROW TERMINAL 4 -see PICCADILLY LINE HIBBERT,D.M. 170 Hong Kong, Island Line 66 HYDE,N. 32, INDICATORS - see TRAIN DESCRIBERS JACKSON,A.A. James,J. JOHNSTON, Edward, blue plaque 81 67 30,60,123 171 M MADRID METRO 175 Maginot Line underground electric tramway MERSEYSIDE TRANSPORT Class 503 in LMS livery, shopping trips 26 Metropolitan cars to Liverpool in WWTI 49 METRO-CAMMELL - see RAILWAY MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY METROPOLITAN LINE & METROPOLITAN RAILWAY CHESHAM BRANCH Bridge renewal work 67,83,130 Centenary celebration proposals 82 Memories of workings in 1942 78 Turntable 3,123 Cine-film from cab, CI91O 80 Conversion of 'main line' to OPO 132,18O Destination boards for special 52 excursions Kilburn-Edgware Road tube proposal 33,65 London's Metropolitan Railway - book 159 'Met. Men and Models' -talk 23,52 Metropolitan Railway in its Prime - 35 talk Pinner area track renewal August I986 138 Sleet trains -use of 12/83 stocks 26 during A stock OPO conversion Traffic growth - Marylebone closure abandoned WATFORD BRANCH Connection to Croxley Green - study 130 MODELLING Hornby 0-gauge Met. electric 122,159 locomotives Tube station l40 Moscow Metro 33,8I LETTERS TO THE EDITOR 10,30, 77,78, 143, LIFTS Earls Court -renewal Lambeth North - renewal Lancaster Gate -renewal Numbers in service end-1985 October 1986 changes LONDON BUS ENGINEERING Futiire of Aldenham Works Closure of Aldenham Works LONDON BUSES LTD.,41,53,2, LONDON REGIONAL TRANSPORT Budget and plans for 1986/87 4 31,32,57,60 3,122,123 156,170,171 134 129,l44 93 179 129 123,,l4o NAILER,F Newcastle - see Tyne & Wear Newspapers with Underground items - see FROM THE PAPERS New York Subway NORTHERN LINE 1938 stock - reintroduction Abandoned Bushey Heath extension, proposed station layout (letter) Abandonment of 1935/40 extensions Hendon Air Pageant traffic 1924-37 N 53,98,130 152,175 171 31,32,60,76 170 Bus route tendering 41 4l Coach station proposals 163,175 0 Report for 1985/86 8 Salaries of Chairman and Directors OBITUARIES increased Lady BETJEMAN 81 Subsidy reduced Sir Reginald GOODWIN 175 Tenders invited for cross-london 123 W.W.MAXWELL 175 bus services Henry MOORE 1 Travel Information on Ceefax etc. 180 Hermann von SIEMENS 175
ONE-PERSON-OPERATION - see Staff, also under Rolling Stock types PAOLOZZI,E. exhibition of t i l e patterns 53 PARIS Bomb on train 66,l63 Cine-film, cl930 80 'Entertainers' on trains 163 'Metro' restaurant in Belgium Office development One-day strikes 3,175 Roofs of MS6l stock Society v i s i t & special train 1.86 48 Station decor 64 Video news service at stations l49 PASK,B.P. l43 PAYNTER.K. 79 Peking 4l,53 PERMANENT WAY - see TRACK Photographs in Underground News 15,16,21,22 85,86,103,104 141,142,153,154,157,158 PICCADILLY LINE Cockfosters extension 1932/33 cine-film 80 Dedicated Test Track 5 HEATHROW EXTENSION Alleged replacement of spoil after 42 opening ceremony Increased traffic from taxi strike 4l TERMINAL FOUR Commissioning new signalling 1-3..85 5 Erroneous operation of passenger train 7 First test train Official opening and f u l l 70,81,84 description Passenger antipathy to Terminal 4 Smoke tests 8O Special train for UITP Meeting 26 Track and signal diagram 6 Tunnel movement west of Hatton Cross 33,51 Train doors opened in tunnel 30.6.86 POINTS OF INTEREST 32, Population of London - decline halted 3,123 POWER SUPPLY AND DISTRIBUTION Supply by L.E.B, from 1990 40 Public Relations in the London 51 Underground - report of talk Proposed new line between Fulham l43 Broadway and Dalston Junction PUBLICITY Posters with poems 4l RAIL TOURS Starlight Express 30.3.86 & 6.4.86 RAILWAY MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY Cammell Laird Shipyard -worker takeover bid RIDLEY,Dr.T.M. Road schemes - costs Road tunnel at Leytonstone, Green Man ROBERTSON,A.J. ROLLING STOCK GENERAL Overhaul dates, abandonment of marking, I982 Overhaul date stickers Prototype rolling stock (talk) Review No.9-1985 Rolling Stock Round-Up 1 LOCOMOTIVES BATTERY First of six on t r i a l L New - picture bullseyes 75 24 l43 175 159 127 84 20 27,176 86 68 ROLLING STOCK (Continued) LOCOMOTIVES (Continued) Beyer tanks - transfers between 30 Metropolitan & South Eastern Metropolitan electric - Hornby model 122 Steam locomotive No.1 (ex-l44) 65 Unimog L85 (photograph) 86 MONTHLY ALTERATIONS November 1985 10,19 December I985 19,78 January I986 39,65,78 February 1986 65,78,4 March 1986 78,ll4 April 1986 96,146 May 1986 Il4,l46 June 1986 129,130 July 1986 l46 August 1986 l47 September I986 163 October 1986 177 OTHER SERVICE STOCK High-Deck wagons ordered 130 Hopper wagons HW400-437 - disposal 54 Track Recording Car (ex-13 stock) 26 Weltrol wagon borrowed from BR 179 SURFACE STOCK Circle Stock 1933-1951 58,122 Early Metropolitan saloon ceirs at 20,21 North Woolwich & Gloucester Metropolitan Line mock-ups 1939-52 METROPOLITAN SALOON STOCK Sold for further service 49 Summary of wartime withdrawals 120 Utilisation during WWII 56,78,170 Withdrawals recollected Tank Target Units 1942-43 76 CO/CP Metadyne camshaft controls,63 A6O/ Conversion to OPO 67,85,1l4,128,132,l64 Experimental suspension removed from car 52l8 PHOTOGRAPHS In OPO condition Pre-OPO form C69/77 Adjustment of cab fittings for OPO 'Train to Morden' on sticker Unit 5701 - extended repair period TUBE STOCK Bakerloo Line 1915-22 Central Line in 1933 Gate stock car in Edgwarebury Lane Piccadilly Line in 1963 - Cine-film Refreshment trains of WWII PRE-1938 Introduced on Central Line 1938 ^Prototypes and experiments Retention for low and developments 1935 EXPERIMENTAL Conversion to articulated unit Described in talk 1938 Experiments Last day in service -20..85 On North Downs steam railway Photographs on 15.9.86 Reintroduction Autumn Short history on slides 1956/59/ I986 181 85 l4i 67 179 182 89-93 3 129 80 80 4 63 63 2, 15, 16 84 156 88,3,128 148,152,175 63 Described in talk 63 1960 PROTOTYPE Cessation of A.T.O. 179 Described in talk 63 Use of cars -June I986 128 1967 Hainault-Woodford - history of use on 179 Scheme for working with 12 stock I76 5
ROLLING STOCK (Continued) TUBE STOCK (Continued) 12 Mkl and Mkll operating together l42 Mkl car with steerable bogies 26 Mkl -scheme to run with 1967 stock 176,177 Mkll - allocation list 31.10.86 177 Mkll to Bakerloo Line 5,148 Various experiments on Mkll 95 13 'A' and 'D' identification stickers l49 Car 864 in T4 opening (photo) 85 Conversion to OPO 128 Various experiments 95 1983 Order for l6^ extra trains l64,176 Unit 3605 allocated for tests l64 1986 PROTOTYPE Described at Baden-Powell House 94 meeting Romney, Hythe & Dymchurch Railway 54 Rotterdam Metro 67 SIGNALLING Blackfriars-Westminster, revised New Cross Gate, to LU standard Signals at Park Junction (letter) SIGNALLING & TRACK DIAGRAMS Acton Works Docklands Light Railway - track/stations Heathrow Terminal 4 loop Surrey Docks-New Cross/New Cross Gate Singapore tunnelling teams -help with collapsed hotel SOCIETY ACTIVITIES Annual General Meeting I986 12 Chairmanship - relinquished by B.R.Hardy Changes of Chairman, Despatch Officer & Editor of Underground News Committee Report 1985 Postal Sales, change Preservation progress President, Committee & Officers 12,65, Roving Progress REPORTS OF MEETINGS - 1985 November December REPORTS OF MEETINGS - 1986: see SOCIETY DIARY at end SILVER JUBILEE FILM SHOW, 12.4.86 SUBSCRIPTIONS 1986 1987 Underground News - summer 1986 printing problems Visits - correct procedvire SPECIAL TRAINS 1983 stock to T4 loop, UITP, 25.10.85 BR High-speed Track Recording Hastings Diesels,.5.86 STAFF Criminal Injuries Compensation Board - compensation rejected ONE-PERSON-OPERATION District Line conversion, 4,.85 Metropolitan 'main line' conversion Piccadilly Line, stock conversion PROGRESS AND PLANS July 1986 December I986 Singing Booking Clerk (Nicholas Murray) Station staff reductions, 18..85 T.S.S.A. -application to join Confederation of Shipbuilding & Engineering Unions 54 60 170 182 106 6 61 66,27,34 28,52 52 27 64 95,144 80 23 24 12,23,29 12,179 160 144 26 22,23 6 26 32,180 128 8 181 41,42 26 4 STANWAY,L.C. STATION CAR PARKS Increased charges & developments STATIONS Lavatories Report (LPRC) PROGRESS REPORTS November 1985 July 1986 October 1986 Re-lighting, progress Aylesbury - Open Day, 14.6.86 Baker Street - Lisbon plaque Barking - renovation Blackfriars, office development Canons Park damaged coping stones Chalk Farm, UTS alterations Charing Cross - RH &DR advertisement Chesham, turntable and run-round loop CLOSED STATIONS Featured in slide show King William Street, wartime posters Quainton Road - history Colindale -reversal of trains for Air Pageant Covent Garden, closure when no lifts available, 2.6.86 Dollis Hill, closed for asbestos remova Earls Court, l i f t & escalator renewals Eastcote, painted lampstandards EDGWARE ROAD (Met.) Review on slides Subway scheme Farringdon - history 1865/66 Heunmersmith - Island site - demolition of Bradmore House Harrow & Wealdstone exit signs Hatch End-Royston Park entrance Kensington Olympia, car parking increas ed Lancaster Gate l i f t renewal Liverpool Street (Central) warning bell Loughton, resurfacing Metropolitan Line, additional entrances MODERNISATION Alperton 9,54,68 ANGEL 'Blind-minders' during modernisatio Extra lifts being considered Baker Street Bank 53,68, Belsize Park Borough Bow Road Chancery Lane 9, Covent Garden Earls Court Embankment 7, Euston 68, Finsbury Park 9, Gloucester Road 8, Green Park Holborn 8,133, Holland Park 100,i43 Kings Cross 8,83,84, 137,143 Knightsbridge 137 Leicester Square 7,135 LIVERPOOL STREET Bishopsgate development 'Country club' on old bay platform General progress Interchange escalators out of use Mansion House 8, Marble Arch 8, Oxford Circus Paddington 8, Piccadilly Circus 9,66,136, St.Pauls 9, Sloane Square South Kensington Sudbury Town 30 148,i8l 175 7 8 135 180 2 83 33,163 68 181 5 3,123 1 30 158,170 6 134 181 30 158 159 123 42 164 83 123,78,135 n 179 6 138 136,i43 100,i43 100 136 136,143 100,143 138 136,143 136, l43 135,145 135,180 9,135 137,143 163 98 138 54 137,i40 135,i43 16,137 100,135 137,181 137,l43 8,136 138,143 180 6
STATIONS (Continued) MODERNISATION (Continued) Temple Tottenham Court Road 7,53 Warren Street Waterloo West Kensington Monument, 1933 escalator plan Northfields, footbridge demolition Old Street, burst water main Ongar, platform repair Piccadilly Circus, London Pavilion subway link Rotherhithe, speedray escalator control Ruislip - l i s t of a.m. peak train departures Shepherds Bush 'carpet' Stonebridge Park, face-lift Victoria - Harburg bullseye Warwick Avenue, new escalator Waterloo, proposed Channel Tunnel terminal, reasons for selecting Wembley Park platform (photo) Whitechapel, development scheme Wimbledon, repainting Stolport, start of work STRIKES Proposed, May I985, media information 8,136,68,135 137 138,143 9, 135 159 68,6 148,164 83 54 6 148 164 3 l4l i4o,53 81 52 TIMETABLES AND TRAIN SERVICES (Continued) NORTHERN LINE Improved service, autumn 1986 New W.T.T. 3,.86 PICCADILLY LINE New W.T.T. 7.4.86 for T4 extension South Harrow stablers -use of trains by passengers SUMMARY OF TRAINS IN SERVICE November I985 June 1986 November 1986 Sunday football at Wembley 23.3.86 VICTORIA LINE Improved service, Autumn 1936 New W.T.T. 3..86 Reinstatement of 34th train 3-6.85 TRACK Change to flat-bottomed rail and concrete blocks Overseas track systems Traffic, increase by ko% in 1985/6 compared with 1982/3 TRAIN DESCRIBERS Central Line, present layout and replacement TUNNELS Sewer reinforcement Third Dartford road tunnel proposed 9 173 72,81 6 88 74 174 67 120 17k 74 ii3,i43 l49 l40 TAIL PIECES 54,84 Taxi shelters near underground stations 53 Taylor Woodrow Construction - notes from 100 house magazine TICKETS 120 Years - Part I I 193 Ticket equipment, redundant, advertised 181 for sale Travelcards, Capitalcards, etc., heavy II9 sales UNDERGROUND TICKETING SYSTEM Address to LURS by N.P.Agnew On-the-spot fines 4l Start of work and general description 40 Transport Ticket Society 179 TIMETABLES AND TRAIN SERVICES BAKERLOO LINE New W.T.T. 12.6.86 75 Train services 1915-22 89 CENTRAL LINE Improved services, autumn I986 9 New W.T.T. 3..86 171 Notting Hill Carnival I38 TRAIN SERVICES & W.T.T's 1933-1945 2 1945-1950 l4 1930-1968 36 10-1984 44 DISTRICT LINE New W.T.T. 7.4.86 73,81 Notting Hill Carnival ' 138 Proposed service improvements 181 Earlier close-down on all lines 1942-46 76 Earliest and Latest trains, June 1986 74,ll6 Easter services I986 67 General improvements planned 7/I986 88 JUBILEE LINE Improved service. Autumn I986 9 New W.T.T. 3..86 173 METROPOLITAN LINE NewW.T.T's 7.4.86 73,81 No.2 Section W.T.T. 29.9.86 156 England V Scotland football match 98 Proposed service improvements 181 Notting Hill Carnival I38 Pinner track renewal I38 Through service to East London Line? l40 VICTORIA LINE End of outstabling, Victoria sidings 68 Lambeth Council request for extension 54 to Crystal Palace WASHINGTON METRO WATERLOO & CITY LINE Armed raider besieged Modernisation proposals Operating practices Rolling Stock developments Station rehabilitation Traffic, November 1985 Trains in NS-E livery W 52 163 143 175 130 98, 143,181 l49, 158,i64,181 ISSUE NUMBERS, PAGES, DATES & NEWSFLASHES Issue No. Date (1986) Pages Newsflashes 289 January 1-12 _ 290 February 13-28 1/86-7/86 291 March 29-42 292 April 43-54 8/86- - 14/86 293 May 55-68 15/86-37/86 294 June 69-86 38/86-50/86 295 July 87-98 51/86-54/86 296 August 99-6 35/86-70/86 2 September 7-130 71/86-80/86 298 October 131-150 31/86-93/86 299 November 151-164 94/86-93/86 300 December 165-182 99/86- l2 4/'a6 Friday 7 February Tuesday 25 February Wednesday 30 April Monday 2 June Sunday 6 July LIBRARY EVENINGS Friday 22 Au^just Thursday 25 September Monday 3 November Wednesday 10 December 7
Review on Page SOCIETY DIARY - I986 MEETINGS AT BADEN-POVfELL HOUSE Friday 10 January 34 'The Metropolitan Railway in i t s Prime', A.Cruickshank. Friday l4 February 50 'Press and Public Relations in the London Underground', N.Garrie. Friday 7 March 'Prototype Rolling Stock', R.J.Greenaway. Friday 21 March 63 Annual General Meeting and Slide Presentation. Friday April 79 'The London Underground Breakdown Organisation', B.Butt & K.Paynter. Friday 9 May 94 'The 1986 Prototype Tube Stock', Dr.R.W.Aylward. Friday 13 June 'Metro Track Systems', C.F.Bennett. Friday July 'The Underground Ticketing System', N.P.Agnew. Friday 8 August l43 120 Years of Underground Tickets - Part I I ', B.P.Pask. Friday 12 September 160 'Lesser-known Aspects of the London Underground' -LURS Committee Members. Friday 10 October 'The Docklands Light Railway - Part I I ', W.R.Clarke Friday l4 November 'The London Underground B.R.Hardy. 1961-I986', Friday 3 December 'One-Person-Operation - District J.T.Ellis. Line', LIST OF SOCIETY VISITS AND TOURS - 1986 Friday 24 to Sunday 26 January Paris Metro Tuesday February Post Office Railway and Workshops Tuesday 20 to Tuesday 27 May East and West Berlin Saturday 31 May Ealing Common depot Saturday l4 June Bakerloo Line signalboxes Saturday 28 June Golders Green depot Saturday 9 August Hammersmith depot Wednesday 3 September Baker Street Signalling Control Centre Saturday 13 September Baker Street and Aldgate signalboxes Friday 3 to Monday 6 October Wuppertal, West Germany Sunday 16 November Study Tour of London Underground stations ATTENDANCES OF SALES STAND Nil CREDITED ARTICLES Issue Page Title & Author 294 82 Graffiti on London's Underground: Richard Clowser. 295 89 Early Days on the Bakerloo/LNWR Sejrvice: Alan A.Jackson, 298 132 Metropolitan Main Line OPO: J.P.Solan. 298 133 Escalator Replacement: John Gillham 300 167 Underground Railway in Kensal Green Cemetery 7: E.D.Chambers. MEETING AT LT MUSEUM. COVENT GARDEN Saturday 12 April 80 Society Silver Jubilee Film Show, Barry Coward. MEETING AT IMPERIAL COLLEGE Saturday 18 October 'Modern d.c. Electrification Design as Applied to B.R.', R.S.Care & I.J.Wetherall. MEETING AT ROTHERHITHE CIVIC Saturday 15 November Overseas Reunion Meeting CENTRE Compiled by D.F.Croome 23.1.87 Printed and Published by The London Underground Railway Society 8