UNDERGROUND NEWS ISSN 0306-8617 1987 INDEX CONTENTS MAIN INDEX 2-10 LIBRARY EVENINGS 10 ISSUE NUMBERS, PAGES, DATES & NEWSFLASHES 10 LIST OF SOCIETY MEETINGS 10 LIST OF SOCIETY VISITS & TOURS 10 CREDITED ARTICLES 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 TXli.R^ THE CONTENTS ARE COPYRIGHT.
ACCIDENTS COLLISIONS Kensal Green l6.10.86 Moorgate 1975, and terminal precautions Richmond 18.9.8? Upminster depot.1.8? Walton-on-the-Naze (ER).8.8? Wembley Park 1936 DERAILMENTS Harrow North Junction?.9.8l Jubilee Line train at Neasden 20.?.86 FIRES AND SMOULDERINGS East Putney 8.6.8? London Bridge area, fire brigade exercise ACTON WORKS Devolution of overhaul work to depots and construction of new workshop New Workshop (talk) ADVERTISEMENTS Ladies underwear, reappearance London Underground, joint with Guinness World of Records (TV) Small advertisements in Underground News Aldenham depot converted to,32,^40,52,93 aircraft factory 229 Alderney Railway Society AUTOMATIC TRAIN OPERATION 151,1?2 District Line I963 2? Woodford-Hainault 196^1 2? Avon Metro, proposed AYLARD,J.F. 206,226 BADMAN,V. BAILLIE,A. BAKERLOO LINE Christmas Day services I936-8O Proposed extension to Nunhead and Dartford Stanmore service when opened 1939 TRAIN SERVICE HISTORY 1933-1956 1957-19?2 19?5-1986 BALFOUR,G. Beck, Harry, and the Underground diagram Belfast, HMS, re-equipped with London Underground transformers BetJeman,J, visited every Underground station BEVIN,R. BLAKE,J. BOOKS AND OTHER REVIEWS AND NOTICES Berlin Transport Central London, map and visitors' guide 198?/88. Complete British Railways Map & Gazeteer Docklands Customer Information Docklands Light Railway Official Handbook Doctor Who and the Web of Fear Early Underground Tile Patterns End of the Line (Victorian and Thirties Societies Geoffrey the Tube Train and the Fat Comedian Greenwood & Batley locomotives History of the Southern Railway Johnston, Edward Journey Planner (Underground diagram) ^ B 209 99 5^ 26 93 90 204 22? 75 55,65,88,1^46, 161 161 1 82 198 k 2 58 80 65 159 190 5^4 65, 1'4'4, 160 162 2k 2 98.1^1 203 25 55 66 19'4 198 1^42 19? 197 203,226 BOOKS AND OTHER REVIEWS AND NOTICES (Continued) Light Rail '8? 202 London Connections/NS-E map 13O LRT Annual Report for 1986/8? 166 London Transport Postcards I9? London's Underground Suburbs 25 MAGAZINES British Railway Journal 202 Building and Design, 6.2.8? 8k Buses Extra No.'4? 1^42 L.A.M. -London Underworld 159 MODERN RAILWAYS January I98? July 1987 August 198? Modern Tramway, June 198? MOTIVE POWER MONTHLY October 1986 November 1986 Railways South East, Winter I987/88 Railway World, February I98? Northern Wastes Old Oak Engineman Old Ordnance Survey Maps TELEVISION REVIEWS A Sheltered Life Design Classics - The London Underground Map Mastermind l8.1,8? Night Mail I I Roving attempt by music students The South Bank Show - Art and the Underground The New Girlfriend Their Trade is Treachery The Northern Line - A Short History The Underground Conspiracy Track Southern Railway VIDEO REVIEW One Man - 2,000 Layout Diagrams of the Jobs Wembley Park-Stanmore Workhorses of the Underground BORLEY,H.V. 22,65,105, Bramley ammunition depot closure BRIDGES Demolition of South Acton branch underline bridges Footbridge replacement, Pinner- Northwood Hills Holden Road, West Finchley, hit by crane on lorry BRIGHT, Dr.K., Knighted BRITISH RAIL & PREDECESSORS Automatic Warning System Aylesbury Station Open Day 198? Bedford electrification, extra trains Bicester South-Oxford reopening Catering changes Charing Cross, next train indicator CHILTERN LINE "Foreign" DMUs Haddenham & Thame Parkway station opened Locomotive and coaches observed Stoke Mandeville station reopened on Sundays Transfer of line to Western Region Computerised public address system Dover Hovercraft trains from Victoria Fares increases.1.8? FENCHURCH STREET STATION Office development nearly completed Provision for Jubilee Line extension Fine for ticketless passengers, 10 proposed Gauging train, demonstration to LUL Great Northern Electrics, reduction of midday service to Moorgate and withdrawal of Saturday service 26 158 175 I k l 201 52 kk,8k 2k 83 66 159 53 53 66 10^4,171 104 5k 157 203 175 85 83 158 145,160 100 65 3 231 72 131 140 73 151,164 209,231 189 152 209 106 226 106 55,96 133,144 2
BRITISH RAIL & PREDECESSORS (Continued) ISLE OF WIGHT Article in Modern Railways 158 Article in Modern Tramway I k l Developments 7, 150,197 Trains in NS-E livery 76,95 Leaves on the track, tree removals LNER LOCOMOTIVES Earmarked for Underground use in WWII 87 Fitted with tripcocks for LT lines 87 Neasden temporary platform 22 NETWORK SOUTH-EAST Increased traffic 9k Planned improvements I987-1997 53,105 North London Line overhead electrification ROYSTON-CAMBRIDGE ELECTRIFICATION Agreed Started Signalling system Euston-Watford line 105 130 52 SNOW HILL TUNNEL SCHEME General 73,96,106,144 New trains 2 Scheme for low level St.Pauls station 54,144, SOUTH EAST NETWORK Disruption from under-investment Improvement plans Networker stock 131 Retention of compartment carriages 131 Special funds for special obligations Stansted Airport link Vending machine development WATFORD-EUSTON LINE Class 313 six-car trains 100 Class 501 trailers, again repainted for filming 2 Croxley Green, buffer stop over-run 76 Croxley Green shed, demolition 1, 133,142 Croxley Green branch, varied rolling stock 76,1,163 Derailed engineers train, Watford Junction 21..86 76 Reduced Sunday service 132 Signs and indicators 163 Wiggenhall Road bridge demolished 150 See also ACCIDENTS, COLLISIONS Watford-St.Albans, electrification CHANNEL TUNNEL Agreement on payments by BR/SNCF Dr.Tony Ridley, Chairman of Eurotunnel English breakfasts on trains Excavating machines Rolling stock tendering Royal Assent and Treaty Select Committee recommendations Shaft at Calais Traffic forecasts raised Charing Cross & Waterloo Railway, 1882 proposal CHILD,G.J. CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR Christmas Day services on Bakerloo Line 1936-I980 New year's Eve I986 free travel Circle Line, Barbican diversion I965 CLARKE,W.R. Address to Society, Docklands Light Railway, Part I I CLEAVER,R.F. Cleopatra's Needle on the Embankment Coach Station, Victoria, to LRT COLD WEATHER PRECAUTIONS Current Rail heating I963 Stations open all night, Madrid and Paris CONNOR,P.R. 88 CRESWELL,P.R. CRIME Assault and robbery on Victoria Line Criminal statistics BR,SR and LUL, 1982 and 1986 Fatal stabbing at Embankment 4,10.86 Mugging at Green Park New security initiatives (I987) Report and action Robberies reduced on parts of the Underground CROOME,D.F. 52 Crystal Palace Loop (Hammersmith & City Line) DEEP SHELTERS, GENERAL DESCRIPTION DELAYS TO SERVICES approved 209 8. 1.87 - Metropolitan train stalled Wimbledon line, station refurbishment 99 near Lords West London Line, pressure for. 6.87 Cable fire at Bank improved services 106 15. 6.87 Signal failure at Baker - BRITISH RAIL ENGINEERING LTD. Street (Met.) Workshop closures 105 16. 7.87 - Burst water main, Euston BROWN,P.A. 159,160,171,194 8. 7.87 Signal failures. Brunei, Marc Isambard, biography 2 - Piccadilly Line BUCK,J. 160 15. 8..87 ) Signal failures. Metropolitan Bulldog Drummond films 104,171 20. 8.87 ) Buskers, Chinese singing nun 100 22. 8.87 Thunderstorms in Essex. 8.87 - Crane on lorry hit Holden Road bridge C 16. 10.87 Hurricane-force winds DEPOTS - CAR LINE DIAGRAMS Ealing Common and Ruislip, Legionnaires' disease in staff showers Bakerloo Line car diagram in wrong direction 190 Highgate, current state Jubilee Line car diagrams in wrong Stonebridge Park, extra sidings direction 150 proposed CENTRAL LINE AND CENTRAL LONDON RAILWAY Detrainment exercise, Aldwych branch, Automatic Train Operation BR, final operation over, 1970 Freight service withdrawals Light Railway study for outer ends 56 Station names, fictitious in film "Bulldog Jack" 104 Travel conditions in Ilford before the Central Line l84 CHAMBERS,E.D. 54,l40,193 24.2.87 Development scheme, Osterley Park DISABLED PASSENGERS Provisions in LRT Annual Business Plan Talk by J.Wagstaff to Society Talking Underground station guide Ticket Inspectors' identity cards with raised lettering Trial announcements on trains 131 2 2 131,2 144,184 63 194,226 82 72 13 23 232 209 73 1,208 172 131 105 18 54 209,54,226 173,225 l60 76 144 151 155 164 193 2 231 231 105 44 79 105 19 176 190 232 3
DISTRICT LINE & METROPOLITAN DISTRICT RAILWAY One person operation, report ot talk 70 Seven-car trains, 1971 South Acton branch history 23,65 Upminster line stations, transfer to LT Withdrawal of Hounslow service and some non-stopping DOCKLANDS LIGHT RAILWAY Address to Society by Mr.W.R.Clarke 13 BANK EXTENSION Approved, but awaiting finance 73 Description ik Notes on 131,l44 Progress 2 Removal of remains from St.Michael's burial ground l84 Third reading in House of Lords 5^ To go ahead I85 BECKTON EXTENSION Details 14,20 Flying junctions at Poplar 209 Government approval in principle IO6 Invitations to provide finance 73 Notes on 131 Parliamentary B i l l deposited,54 Powers for freight working l44 Buffer over-run at Island Gardens, 10.3.87 1,144 CANARY WHARF Proposals i4,130,i43,i44,i84, Station demolition 209 Conference, October I987 98 Customer Information leaflet 203 Developments after I987 202 Electrification, planned dates Exhibition at LT Museum 150 Fares and ticket system 54,152 First impressions 199 General summary of progress as at February 1987 18 LEWISHAM EXTENSION PROPOSED Details 208,209 Protected corridor 94 LINE DIAGRAM Mansion House includes DLR 163 Stratford station 134 LDDC support for Beckton extension 21 Manchester light r a i l demonstration 1 Modern Railways article 175 ON UNDERGROUND CAR LINE DIAGRAMS Central 206,2 District 2 Metropolitan 2,232 Operational problems 209,231 Photographs 9 Postcard sets on sale l64 Poster "Catch the Light" l64 PUBLIC OPENING Deferred Day 198,209 Pudding Mill Lane, possible loop Reinforcement for extra traffic 131,,209 ROLLING STOCK Car diverted to Manchester 56,75 Delivery dates and repairs 152 Further deliveries 56 Royal Albert Dock, development of land to north l84 Royal opening I85 Staff, ballot on union representation Timetable of f i r s t / l a s t trains and frequencies 200 Trade union representation 209 Traffic, heavy to Greenwich 209 "Doctor Who" episodes on London Underground 206 E EAST LONDON LINE & EAST LONDON RAILWAY Engineering works posters in Urdu and Bengali 30 Light Rail study 56 Line Manager and options under study 133 New public address systems 30 Petrol leak Shoreditch-Whitechapel 189 Photographs A & D stocks 0 Traffic levels and I9OI Yiddish poster 65 Eating and drinking on trains 209 ELLIS,J.T. 70 ENGINEERING WORK Baker Street (Met.) track and signals l49 British Rail from Liverpool Street 75 East Putney-Putney Bridge 20.9-87 2 Northwood Hills-Pinner 24 Preston Road track renewal 10. 5-87 l't9 Rayners Lane 15.3.87 8? Ruislip-Uxbridge resignalling 3-5.87 l49 Sudbury Town-Sudbury H i l l 75 Surrey Docks footbridge 30 Wembley Park-Willesden Green 90 ESCALATORS Aluminium look Canada and London, speed of repair, comparison Chancery Lane, notice on 56 In 1986 51 June/July 1987 changes 186 New at Liverpool Street, 194l 24 W.& C. Pantin prototype. Manor House 51,l86 F FARE EVASION CHECKS JOINT CRACKDOWN Barking and Fenchurch Street 2 Heathrow l43 New operation l43,l84 FARES Increased 10.1.88 224 FITZHUGH,Dr.H. Address to LURS l45 Letter to Financial Times l42 FLOODING Euston 16.7.87 155, Review of precautions and vulnerability I85 St.Pauls.1.87 75 Underground flooding, sabotage 5^ FOPP,M.A. 2 From the Papers,53,72,94,105 130,142,184,208,2 FULLER,D.J. 64,2 G GET TUBEWISE - game I88 GILLHAM,J 161 GRAFFITI On the Underground 53,90,94,99 130,142,l43,l44 Poster at Alperton 232 GREATER LONDON COUNCIL Took over London Transport 1970 GREATER MANCHESTER Demonstration of Docklands car 1 Rapid transit scheme, progress Reduced contribution from rates to public transport GREENAWAY,R.J. 177 GREENSLADE.P. 71 GRIERSON,A. 9
H HACKNEY, PRESSURE FOR TUBE LINE 7^ HALL,D. 182 HAMMERSMITH & CITY LINE Coal trains 1941-1965 6 5, l 4 l Crystal Palace Loop 173 Signalling and track 1951-1983 173 Westbourne Park-Paddington tracks taken over 1970 HARDING, Sir Harold 134 HARDY,B.R.,194 HARVEY,D.J. 172 HEATHROW AIRPORT Redevelopment of Terminal 3 l43 Study of new railway routes 73,94 Taxi-sharing scheme l43 Hong Kong Mass Transit Railway 88 HOUGHTON,P. 22,9 HYDE,N. 24,58,141,173 Hydraulic power in London 73 LONDON REGIONAL TRANSPORT (Continued) B i l l s in Parliament for I986 session Coach Station study, further inquiry,106 Corporate identity programme 210 London Builders closure 209 LONDON TRANSPORT 1963 - LONDON TRANSPORT BOARD formed Architectural Heritage 193 Chairmen I961-1982 MUSEUM Cab simulator 30 Mural 105 Piccadilly Circus model acquired 134 Postcards wanted l46 Success of " f i r s t 30 minutes free" l43,151 LONDON UNDERGROUND LTD. Braille guide to the Underground 73 Capital expenditure plans I987/88 94 Computers l42 Privatisation 184,209 "The London Underground 1961-1985", talk INDICATORS - see Train Describers INDICATORS "Bus Meets Train", Piccadilly Line IVEY,F.W. JACKSON,A.A. JAMES,J. Japan, urban railways JOHNSTON, Edward - book review JUBILEE LINE Authorised 1971 Fenchurch Street, eastern extension Opened in 1979 PROPOSED EXTENSIONS New Cross & Lewisham Thamesmead & Beckton Proposed London Bridge extension Start of work 1972 KEIGHLEY & WORTH VALLEY RAILWAY Dreadnought coaches KEYS,I.R. Kilometre posts introduced 1971 K 24 89 86,9,193 162 89 197 226 187 188 73,,188 151,163 204 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR 22,52,64,86,104,7 1,9,144,159,160 161,171,193,206,225 Level crossings on the Underground, north of Amersham 62 LIFTS Borough, new Wadsworth l86,222 Covent Garden & Holland Park 97 Covent Garden, reinstated 1,133 Early history 189O-I933 194 February & March 1987 changes 97 Finsbury Park 86 Historical queries 26 In service annually I 9 6 I - I 9 8 5 29 In 1986 50 July 1987 changes 186 Lower landings at platform level II6 Spiral stairs in same shaft as l i f t II6 Light Railways, report & further studies 56 LONDON REGIONAL TRANSPORT Annual Business Plan for 1987/88 I8 Annual Report I986/87 166 MADRID METRO MAPS Central Line shown to Mile End, 1938 Poster map preserved at Acton Town UNDERGROUND Additions Diagram, reviewed in TV programme Line colours Merseyside Transport METROPOLITAN LINE & RAILWAY GENERAL Aylesbury & Wendover refreshment f a c i l i t i e s Aylesbury-Verney Junction in l890's CHESHAM BRANCH BR diesel service withdrawn I967 Effects of Great Central Railway construction FREIGHT FACILITIES WITHDRAWN 1965-1967 Finchley Road Freight workings, steam hauled Gade Bank, Croxley Green, property auction Joint Line today, articles 61 Level crossings north of Amersham Neasden estate bought by Asda? Proposed extension to Moreton Pinkney R.A.F. Halton Reflections on the Metropolitan Rajlway (talk) Stations Amersham-Harrow, present state Stations, selected, Harrow-Winslow Road/Westcott, present state and LT boundary marker UXBRIDGE BRANCH Freight service withdrawals 1964 WATFORD BRANCH Light r a i l study, Rickmansworth- Croxley Green-Watford Junction MODELLING 1931/34 Tube Stock 1938 Tube Stock Metropolitan electric locomotive Standard Tube Stock MORGAN,R.F. Moscow^ Metro Mott, Hay & Anderson Museum of London, Docklands coach tours M 73 104 189 100 159 74, 100 i 4 i 202 l40 i 4 i 24,163,78, 139 62 78 i 4 i 71 139 192 56 226,2 54 2,226 189 1 164,184 14 5
N NASSE,S. 206 National Union of Railwaymen, Christmas card with banner of Rickmansworth branch 231 New York Subway 106,190 NON-STOPPING Bakerloo Line pattern 1933 2 Withdrawn from District Line 1964 NORTHERN CITY LINE Closed north of Drayton Park 1964 Stock replacement 1964 NORTHERN LINE & PREDECESSORS Abandoned Bushey Heath extension 22 A Short History, book review 157 CITY & SOUTH LONDON RAILWAY Euston extension, 80 years 6 Sidings and loco spurs 1919 156 Working Timetable 1919 156 Freight service withdrawals 1962-1964, New Light on the Northern Wastes (meeting) 162 Present state of abandoned routes. Finsbury Park-Brockley H i l l Proposed Brockley H i l l bridge 52 Signal cabin code letters, northern branches 175 Stations on southern section "listed" 210 Weston Street signalbox 8,,156 0 OBITUARIES L.A.BARTRIP 2 C.Hamilton E l l i s 184 S.E.Jones 55 One Person Operation - see Staff and Rolling Stock Types P PARIS METRO "BOA" Articulated train 26 Disneyland extension proposed 73,106 Geological map of subsoil Murdered passengers 105., 106 Stations open a l l night in cold weather 73 Talk by B.R.Hardy (B.J.Prigmore Memorial Lecture) 229 The Paris Metro - An Update 44,133 Permanent Way - see Track PHILLIPS,C. 226 Photographs in Underground News 91, 92,95,96 9, 0, 179^, 180 PICCADILLY LINE 8c PREDECESSORS ALDlvTYCH BRANCH Detrainment exercise 24.2.87 79 Disused tunnel, archive for records? 105 Waterloo extension, powers granted HEATHROW EXTENSION Approved 1970 Opened to Hatton Cross 1975 Opened to Heathrow 1977 Powers granted 1967 Proposed station names on Cockfosters extension 175 Terminal 4 o f f i c i a l opening 90 Poems on the Underground 194 Points of Interest 54,58,86,104,156 POST OFFICE TUBE RAILWAY His tory 160 Night Mail I I, TV feature 53 Open Days for anniversaries 231 Review of Greenwood & Batley (Greenbat) locomotives l42 POTTER,G.N. 105 POWER SUPPLY & DISTRIBUTION Greenwich boilers shut down 1972 Lots Road modernisation Neasden, closed I968 Power cabling at Victoria, Victoria Line 9,172 PRICHARD,R. 172 PROPOSED NEW TUBE LINES/EXTENSIONS Neasden - Bounds Green IO5 South East London 150 POSTERS Commissioned from artists 20,l45 International Model Railway Exhibition ll4 "The Tate Gallery by Tube" 98 With poems IO6 R RAILWAY MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY ASEA - Brown Boveri merger BRITISH RAIL ENGINEERING Luxury c ar Workshop closures IO6 Metro-Cammell, large BR order 54 Ransome & Rapier, closure 231 RENNIE.K.T. 208 RIDLEY, Dr.T.M. 2 ROADS Government approved schemes 131 Non co-operation by London councils 130 West London, high speed IO6 ROBERTSON,A.J. 225 ROLLING STOCK GENERAL Accident-damaged under repair 1 DESTINATION BLINDS Deletions from original A stock 24 Northolt or- North Weald? 150 Revised type. Central Line 151 Doors opening on trains in tunnels l84 Rolling Stock Review -No. 10 49 Rolling Stock round-up 1986 4? Roof finishes on aluminium stock 167 Stock allocations by lines at 31..86 49 LOCOMOTIVES BATTERY L21 with wedgelock coupling adaptors l 4 l With Met. saloon stock bogies 175 C & SLR electric locomotives, l i s t 7 L13A/B, scrapping 90 MONTHLY ALTERATIONS October 1986 26 November I986 46 December 1986 26,46 January I987 74 February I987 94,0,189 March 1987 0,132 April 1987 132,146 May 1987 " 146 June 1987 148,186,210 July 1987 186 August 1987 210 September I987 229 OTHER SERVICE STOCK a60 stock Sandite vehicle 93 Hopper wagons sold to I s l e of Wight Railway 190 Rail Wagon RW462 with "ELK" marks 2 Rail wagons in use with "ELK" equipment l49 Service stock summary No.5 14? TMM77I, fire damage l49 Track Recording Train 177,179 Weed-Killing train 53,90,151 SURFACE STOCK District "B" stock, pre-19l8 variations 1 6
ROLLING STOCK (Continued) SURFACE STOCK (Continued) Early District & Metropolitan, queries 131 METROPOLITAN Dreadnoughts on K & WVR 151,163 SALOON STOCK In Ministry of Supply contract registers 64 Stored during WWII, additional 86 Q23 DM car at Gloucester 3 A6O/62 STOCK Car 5139 with blue roof domi! 30 Car 5232 in accident three times I5O Deliveries 1962 2? OPO Conversions 93 Sandite vehicle 93 UNITS OVERHAULED 5092 & 5052, new finishes l68,2 5002 with new finishes 231 C69/77 STOCK Delivered I97O Ordered I968 D STOCK Advert card retention strips 99 TUBE STOCK BAKERLOO LINE Leeds Forge car to I s l e of Wight? 86,194 Leeds Forge trailers 2l4 Rolling stock at 1933 2 CAMMELL LAIRD STOCK History and description Instruction train withdrawn Central London stock modernisation 1926- C & SLR carriages - l i s t Gate stock motors converted to air doors Watford Joint stock PRE-1933 "STANDARD" 19 MCW, 19-29 UCC cars Cars for Bakerloo "local" service WITHDRAWAL Central Line I962 Piccadilly Line 1964 Northern City Line 1966 1935 EXPERIMENTAL Withdrawn 1966 1938/49 Complete operation on Bakerloo Line 1949 Farewell tours 1986 Full car histories of five reinstated trains On North Downs Railway Portable compressors on three-car units Reintroduction on Northern Line Reminiscences 1938 and 1943 Train operating with one motor car operative Transferred from North Downs Railway to Alderney Use on last trains 1956/59/62 Car 1031 in accident twice Entry into service Major f a c e l i f t, 1962 stock Mixture in one train, 1956/62 1960 PROTOTYPE Pilot motors for Track Recording train 1967 Future plans and extra units 1972 Mkl & Mkll " J " doors Car 3542 Car 3335 Mkl, conversion to work with 1967 stock Unit deemed "overhauled" 2l4,218 218,219 216,217 7 2l4 76 217 218. 8 90 61 75 l 4 i 52,93 1 64 151 133 150, 190 178 149 30,189 164 154 189 ROLLING STOCK (Continued) TUBE STOCK (Continued) 1973 In service 1977 OPO conversion, progress summary Pre-recorded public address Track Recording car conversion 1983 Car 3701, a l l silver front Cars to Brush of Loughborough & Hunslet of Leeds 1986 PROTOTYPE Delivery runs in slide show Exhibited at Woodford Modern Railways article Personal View Photographs Private demonstration, trains "A" & "B" at Neasden Seating capacity & ventilation Train "C" on test Rome, air polution ROVING ATTEMPTS Mr,J.Bond 1.6.8? Spastics Society 17.9.87 SEOUL METRO SYSTEM Sheltering in the tubes, TV programme SIGNALLING Aldgate old signalbox demolition Diagram illustrating signal aspects on Camden-Watford line, BR, LMR Euston-Watford & Upminster lines JUBILEE & METROPOLITAN LINES Computerisation progress Transfer of control to Baker Street Jubilee Line, speed control removed Metropolitan Line, Baker Street area Signal cabin code letters Uxbridge signalbox closed "W" type signal discs SIGNALLING & TRACK DIAGRAMS Hammersmith & City Line Kensal Green area SIGNS & NOTICES Line diagrams at Mansion House Prototype signs. Bow Road & Victoria 76, Reproduction station name signs for H.M.S. London Standard-size bullseyes at Mansion House West Ham plastic stickers SOCIETY ACTIVITIES Announcements at Society Meetings Annual General Meeting 1987 Australian Members Competition, study trip CONNOR,P.R., co-opted to Committee Editorship of Underground News, revised arrangements Formation of Society in I961 Preservation of trailer O8063, panel-beating help needed President, Committee & Officers Registrar, Mr.T.R.Baker Underground News, colours of covers West German representative appointed REPORTS OF 1986 MEETINGS October November December REPORTS OF 1987 MEETINGS - see Society Diary at end REPORT OF VISIT, West Germany Sound Library, l i s t of subjects Subscriptions 1988 97 225,232 177 30 98 93 136 175 138 91,180 1 172 3 145 164 89 66 3 33 52 55 3 3 190 175 l49 146 174 35 163 ii4,163 151 163 134,163 10 0 88,146 55,55 146 10,132 0 55 13 70 67,1 70 197,2 7
SOCIETY ACTIVITIES (Continued) UNDERGROUND NEWS Cover colours Editorial arrangements Future, Chairman's message 153 January 198?, special arrangements VISITS FRANCE June 1985 in Modern Tramway 10 September I987 74 SOLAN,J.P. 103 SPECIAL TRAINS 1938 stock farewell tours I986 90 1986 stock moves for Woodford Week I38 Hastings diesels 90 BR high-speed track recording 90 STAFF Cap badges for depot clerks 99 Compensation claim for suicides 54 Disciplined for misdemeanovirs l43 Duties, article on train working/running 2 LRT News, back numbers required 131 Staff numbers, 1961-I986 annually 29 ONE PERSON OPERATION Circle Line authorised 1973 Colour TV monitors 190 District Line (talk) 70 Hammersmith & City Line, early TV monitors 104 Metropolitan Line, issue of new position switch key l l 4 PICCADILLY LINE Opposition by London Strategic Policy Unit I85 Introduced 199 OVERTIME Discussion 208 Trade union restrictions on 16O Rosters, duty (article) 1 0 2, l 6 0,l6l The "Fluffy Link" 5 Tubeline journal, relaunched in newspaper style 99 Uniforms, new, on t r i a l 98,99 Video made for station staff l43 Station Car Park developments 75 STATIONS, GENERAL Decorative embossed t i l e s by Harold Stabler 54 Drinking on the Underground 169,170 Electronic vending machines ll4 Garden competition 1987 2 L.F.B. boxes with station plans 99 Northern Line, southern stations "listed" 210 Number of stations served I96O-1986 29 Preservation campaign 53 Re-lighting programme Upton Park 76 Roundels, new and old types 99 MODERNISATION C r i t i c a l article by Gavin Stamp 72,73 C r i t i c a l article in Financial Times 106 Independent opinion by John Winter 209 LRT reply in Financial Times l42 Progress Report February I987 I8 Summary of criticisms 9 Summary of progress in 1986/87 I66 Talk to Society by Mr,D.Hall 182 UNDERGROUND TICKETING SYSTEM Station alterations - see Tickets STATIONS, INDIVIDUAL ACTON TOWN 1968 map preserved under glass I88 Recent ticket office history 161 Reglazing canopies 99 Angel, short history II8 Aylesbury open day 20.6,87 l40,l64 BAKER STREET Chiltern Court coal siding closure Numbering of east end Circle bridge 76 Balham, WWII bombing 67 Bank, special cleaning attention l43 STATIONS, INDIVIDUAL (Continued) BARBICAN Barbican Centre, need for station IO5 Closure for asbestos removal I9O Barons Court Canopy renewal 231 Bethnal Green WWII sheltering disaster 67 BOROUGH History and new l i f t installation 222 New Wadsworth l i f t s 186 Bow Road, experimental signing 131 Brixton, closed for asbestos removal I89 Bromley-by-Bow, closed for asbestos removal 151 Chancery Lane, poster re- standing on escalators 56 Chiswick Park, "listed" 9 CLOSED STATIONS Aldgate East, remaining footbridges l64 Blake Hall demolition 134 Brompton Road 133,2 City Road 22 Disused stations, letter 22 Euston - street stations I60 King William Street (TV feature) 104 Winslow Road station house 9 COVENT GARDEN Reopening of old exit subway 22 Suggested escalator scheme l44 WITHDRAWN LIFTS Reinstated 1 Withdrawn again 133,l49 Debden, closed for asbestos removal 100 EALING BROADWAY Electric loco inspection pit l 4 l Two-car bay f i l l e d in 99 Eastcote, no Christmas decorations I986 75 East Putney, fire 8,6.87 l64 EDGWARE Current state 44 Shopping development 73 Shunting neck removed 99,150 Elephant & Castle, 1939 reconstruction work at platform level 3 Embankment, disused archways and stairways 24 EUSTON Flood from burst water main 155, Plan of original layout 7 Reconstruction for Victoria Line I I 8 Remaining disused elements of old station 22 Surface station closures 19l4 16O U.T.S. work - barriers out of use 76 Farringdon 96,160 Finchley Central, proposed extra sidings FINCHLEY ROAD Clostlre of freight interchange sidings l 4 l Jubilee/Metropolitan connections 3 Finsbury Park, lifts/subways 22,26,86 GLOUCESTER ROAD Closed for l i f t modernisation 201 Deleted from publicity matter 226 GREEN PARK Devonshire House rent increases l84 Escalator smouldering.6.8? 151 Jubilee Line tilework replaced l49,l64 HAMMERSMITH Island site developments 131 New ticket machines (Met Line) l l 4 Station (D&P) repainted 163 Harrow-on-the-Hill, boundary markers 100 High Barnet garden competition winner 2 Highgate, recent developments 44 Hillingdon, new station proposed 2 HOLBORN Closxire for asbestos removal 189 Door position markings 1964 Fibre-optic cable installation 5^1 8
STATIONS, INDIVIDUAL (Continued) HOLBORN (Continued) Third new escalator in Piccadilly bank l86 Use of extra tunnels in WWII 54 Holloway Road 22 Hyde Park Corner, closed for asbestos removal 9^ Kew Gardens, platform buffet bar 99 KINGS CROSS Bay platform used as concourse I963 2? Disused C & SLR stairway 22 Electronic vending machines ll4,152 Property scheme to move terminus north Resited OPO mirrors (Circle) 76 Reconstruction of tube station 1939 II8 Knightsbridge, original sock shop 131 Lancaster Gate l i f t renewal notices 206 LIVERPOOL STREET Disused stairs at west end of Central Line platforms 22 New escalator in 19^1 24 Maida Vale "listed" 193 Manor House, escalator replacement 51,l86 MODERNISATION ANGEL Extra subways and l i f t s proposed History and alternative improvement plans 154 Baker Street 98 BANK Alignment of DLR extension, modernisation halted at station 56 Bow Road 210 Cannon Street, Jubilee Line I88 Euston, coat of arms explanation 226 Farringdon 2 Finsbury Park 20 Gloucester Road 105,134 Liverpool Street 73,76 Mansion House 99,l63 Marble Arch 20 Mile End 210 Oxford Circus 20 PADDINGTON Description of work 1 Plaque unveiled by Brunei descendents 1 Work commended in international design competition 231 South Ealing, details of new scheme 19O South Kensington 133,l45 Tottenham Court Road 20 Moorgate, resited OPO mirrors (Circle) 76 Mornington Crescent "listed" 193 Newbury Park, second car park 3 Northfields, cinema history 16O Northwood, reversing point 24 Netting Hill Gate, closxire for asbestos removal 2 Oxford Circus 22,92,100 PADDINGTON Metropolitan electric locomotive photographed west of suburban station 226 Track connections with \<[R removed Park Royal, "listed" 9 Piccadilly Circus,134 Pimlico, opened 1972 Redbridge, repainted 2 Regents Park 50,75,l44,l64 Rickmansworth, roof renewal 231 St.Pauls, flooding.1.87 75 Shepherds Bush carpet cleaned 100 Snaresbrook 76 South Kensington redevelopment scheme l84 SOUTH WOODFORD Goods yard bought for housing 151 Tunnel segments removed 3,134 Surrey Docks 30, Swiss Cottage, "stinging eyes" l43 STATIONS, INDIVIDUAL (Continued) TOWER HILL Modernisation & enlargement scheme 75 New station opened 1967 Upton Park re-lighting 76 VICTORIA Closure for asbestos removal from booking hall 3 Experimental re-signing 76,1l4,163,190,206 Harburg bullseye resited 56 Wapping, notice when l i f t out of use 100 Waterloo 73,75,l43 Wembley Park, U.T.S. work 150 West Ham, BR stickers 134,163 West Hampstead, BR stickers 150 West Kensington, widening of eastbound platform, west end 163 Westminster, Wimbledon 99,l85 Stephenson Photographic collection 65 Strike, proposed 24-hour, January 1987 73 T TAIL PIECES 76,100,4,134,152,164,2 TELEVISION, CLOSED CIRCUIT Coloured monitor at Edgware Road 30 District Line, additional 99 Introduction at Holborn I962 TELEVISION COMMERCIALS Joint, with Ideal Home Exhibition 100 Terminating journeys - flashing lights l4l THOMASON.J. 65 TICKETS & TICKET MACHINES C & SLR destination ticket colours 23 District Railway, destination codes 23 Season ticket, acquiring duplicates 131 Travelcards, Capitalcards, popularity 19 UNDERGROUND TICKETING SYSTEM Alterations at Eastcote & Pinner 2 Alterations at further stations 75 Closure of Travel Information Centres 76 Euston 76 New machines in service Il4,l49 Progress & l i s t of dates 230 Progress at November I986 20 Progress of station installation l89,2 Rayners Lane, Ruislip Manor 56 TIMETABLES & TRAIN SERVICES SUMMARY OF TRAINS IN SERVICE End 1961 to November I986 29 May 1987 1 BAKERLOO LINE Operation, formation and numbering 1939-1954 58 Train services and timetables 1953-1956 2,58 Train services and timetables 1957-1972 58 Watford peak service I965 CENTRAL LINE New timetable autumn I987 139,171 Special North Weald services 150,l64 City & South London Railway 1919 156 DISTRICT LINE End of uncoupling 1971 Improvements planned, spring I987 21 New timetable May 1987 109 EAST LONDON LINE Improvements planned, spring I987 21,65 New timetable May 1987 IO8 General improvements planned, spring 1987 21 METROPOLITAN LINE 1939-40 calling at Bakerloo stations 58 New timetables May I987 106,107 Proposed' improvements, spring 1987 21 Reduced service No.2 section, 10-21 August 1987 193 9
TIMETABLES & TRAIN SERVICES (Continued) Notting H i l l Carnival 1987 PICCADILLY LINE Improvements planned spring I987 New timetable May I987 Public timetable booklets Sunday Church Interval, abandonment Twenty-four hour clock introduced 1964 Tokyo Metro and other railways Track, flat-bottomed TRACK PLANS & SIGNALLING DIAGRAMS Fleet Line: Fenchurch Street-Lewisham Hammersmith-Westbourne Park Victoria-Green Park TRAFFIC INCREASE By 50% in I986 compared with I98I By 70% over last five years Passengers & receipts 196I-I986 TRAIN DESCRIBERS DOT MATRIX Introduction featured in slide show Making graffiti-writing easier Spurious Bakerloo indications Hammersmith, old non-stopping display illuminated Oral train describer at Angel Train Radio Tube Research Audience Classification TUNNELS British Library construction Experimental at New Cross 1972 Selkirk Mountain, British Colximbia Tunnel lights in sidings I963 Tunnel segments removed 76, Tyne & Wear Metro UNCOUPLING OF TRAINS Ceased on District Line 1971 In 1961 Pattern on Bakerloo Line 1933 Reintroduced on Bakerloo Line U.S.S.R. Sverdlovsk Metro VICTORIA LINE Conversion of 1972 Mkl stock History Volks Electric Railway U W 1950 201 21 108,133 152 105 89 1 188 174 173 166,184 29 3 93 53 56 163 151 103 134 2 9 189 154, WADE,P. 2 WAGSTAFFjJ. I76 WATERLOO & CITY LINE Blackfriars station? 54 History since 1940 I96 Operational day extended 231 Proposed extensions I98 Rolling stock in NS-E livery 6,l64 Rolling stock update 30 Sponsored rolling stock 76,95 White City Training Centre opened I963 ISSUE NUMBERS. PAGES. DATES & NEWSFLASHES Issue No. Date (1987) Pages Newsflashes 301 J a nuary 1-16 302 February 17-30 1/87-7/87 302A February 31-42 303 March 43-56 8/87-16/87 304 April 57-76 17/87-40/87 305 May 77-100 41/87-67/87 306 June 101-4 68/87-89/87 307 July 5-134 90/87-104/87 308 August 135-152 105/87- l4l/87 309 September 153-164 142/87-163/87 310 October 165-190 164/87- /87 3 November 191-2 186/87-204/87 3 December 213-232 205/87-220/87 Review on Page SOCIETY DIARY - I987 MEETINGS AT BADEN-POWELL HOUSE Date, Title & Speaker 71 Friday 9 January - "Reflections on the Metropolitan Railway", P.Greenslade. 88 Friday 13 February - "Far Eastern Metro Systems", P.R.Connor. 89 Friday 13 March - Review of I986 Underground Events, F.W.Ivey. Friday March - Pre-AGM Slide Show, R.J.Greenaway. - Friday March - Annual General M e e t i ng. 176 Friday 10 April - "The Work of the Unit for Disabled Passengers", J.Wagstaff. 145 Friday 8 May - "Marketing on the Underground", Dr.H.Fitzhugh. 177 Friday June - "The New Track Recording Car and Pilot Motors", R.J.Greenaway. 162 Friday 3 July - "New Light on the Northern Wastes", J.Blake & J.James. 182 Friday 10 July - "The Modernisation of London Underground Stations", D.Hall. 194 Friday l4 August - "An Underground Pot-Pourri", B.R.Hardy. 204 Friday September - "Acton's New Workshop", I.R.Keys. 2 Friday 10 October - "London Aircraft > Production Group", M.A.Fopp. Friday 13 November - "Experiences During Commissioning of the Docklands Light Railway", A.Pearce. Friday December - Cine Film Show, J.S.Laker. MEETING AT IMPERIAL COLLEGE " 229 Saturday 17 October - The B.J.Prigmore Memorial Lecture - "The Paris Metro : and R.E.R.", B.R.Hardy. LIBRARY Thursday February Monday 6 April Thursday 21 May Sunday June Tuesday July EVENINGS Sunday 23 August Monday 5 October Thursday November Tuesday 29 December LIST OF SOCIETY VISITS AND TOURS - I987 Tuesday 24 March: Post Office Railway. Tuesday 2 June: Gatwick Airport Rapid Transit Link. Saturday 1 August: Study tour of eastern end of Central Line Tuesday 1 to Friday September: Study tour of transport systems in France. Sunday 1 November: DLR & East London Line. 10
CREDITED ARTICLES :ssue Page Title Author 302 23 Some early forms of ticket identification H.V.Borley 302 23 The South Acton branch H.V.Borley 302A 32 The Kensal Green Collision Enquiry Brian Hardy 302A ko A Personal View Nick Mitchell 303 kk Northern Heights Update Jim Blake 303 kk The Paris Metro - An Update Bert Steinkarap 304 61 Casing the Joint Today - I A. J.Reed 30k 62 Level Crossings on the Underground A.J.Reed 30k 63 Charing Cross & Waterloo Electric Railway M.G.E.Woollard 304 67 The Underground goes under the Rails J.C.Gillham 305 78 Casing the Joint Today - I I A.J.Reed 305 78 The Proposed Metropolitan Railway Extension N.H.Green 305 79 The Holborn-Aldwych detrainment exercise K.T.Rennie 306 102 Running or Spare? - Part I P.R.Connor 307 103 Underground People Unmasked J.P.Solan 307 6 Eighty Years of the Euston Extension Aidan Harris 307 2 Running or Spare?- Part I I P.R.Connor 307 5 The Fluffy Link J.P.Solan 308 138 Personal View ( I986 Stock) Richard Thomas 308 139 Casing the Joint Today - I I I A.J.Reed 308 I'tO Aylesbtu-y Station Open Day I987 A.J.Reed 309 170 Drinking on the Underground K.T.Rennie 310 187 East of Charing Cross - the planned Jubilee Line extensions Jonathan 3 192 Casing the Joint Today - IV A.J.Reed 3 199 First Impressions of the Docklands Light Railway D.F.Croome 3 214 The 1920 Cammell Laird Tube Stock B.J.Prigmore, E.Shaw & Brian Hardy James Compiled by D.F.Croome. 1..87 Published by the London Underground Railway Society. Printed by: The Woodgrange Press Ltd., 98 Woodgrange Road, Forest Gate, London, E7 OEW.