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BRITAIN’S LEADING HISTORICAL RAILWAY JOURNAL
Vol. 33
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No. 11
NOVEMBER 2019
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IN THIS ISSUE
THE MIDDLETON-IN-TEESDALE BRANCH
A WEST COAST RACING TRAIN OF 1888
THE BASS BREWERY RAILWAY TRIPS
BR STANDARD CLASS 3s IN COLOUR
THE SOUTHERN IN DEVON IN THE 1970s
NORTH EASTERN STEAM IN COLOUR
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GROUPING
BRITAIN’S
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BY A. J. MULLAY
Creating the ‘Big Four’ in 1923
“The Grouping was unnecessary, its
conception flawed, its planning muddled, and
its execution clumsy.”
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this new publication from Pendragon Publishing,
the irst history of the 1923 Grouping to be
published in book form for many years. Lavishly
illustrated, this book explores why the idea of
compact, zonal, railway groups quickly emerged
as something quite diferent, with new rival
companies having no territorial rights, and with
competition and duplication of routes remaining
unchanged. Employing a blend of oicial archives,
personal memoirs and contemporary publications
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history is subjected to clinical examination.
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Vol. 33 . No.11
No. 343
NOVEMBER 2019
RECORDING THE HISTORY OF BRITAIN’S RAILWAYS
Signalling in all its variety
An apparently much appreciated occasional feature in
Backtrack
is the
‘Signalling Spotlight’, presenting historic colour photographs of signals,
signal boxes and related equipment, accompanied by detailed captions.
This month’s guest editorial shows how efforts are being made to record
the present signalling scene, a rapidly changing aspect of railway operation.
In our youth, how many of us wanted to get into, or got into, the local
signal box? Now you have the chance to get into hundreds of them. For
five years, FARSAP, the Film Archive of Railway Signalling and People,
has been recording signalling as we knew it before the signalling
revolution sweeps it away.
With the support of Network Rail, volunteers from the Signalling
Record Society and Friends of the National Railway Museum have been
filming the buildings, equipment, practices and people signalling UK
railways. Over one hundred films are already available to view free of
charge on the FARSAP website – just search ‘farsap’ or go to http://
www.s-r-s.org.uk/farsap
Variety might be the spice of life – and it also applies to signalling.
FARSAP has tried to capture the unique, the unusual, the traditional
and the more modern installations at work. We go from the nineteenth
century up to ERTMS testing in the present day. Take the former
Caledonian Railway 1891 box at Greenloaning as an example. It still
has the original Stevens lever frame although the box is now only
occasionally opened to cater for additional traffic such as the Ryder
Cup golf. Also, in Scotland the 1901 28-lever box on a busy triangle
at Carmuirs East Junction near Falkirk was filmed before its closure in
2017.
There are nine videos covering the history and present-day working
of the remote Blea Moor box on the Settle and Carlisle route. The block
shelf still supports the original Midland Railway instruments while
the signalman’s lever cloth maintains the shine on the original levers.
Across the Pennines, Michael Rising, a lifelong signaller, describes the
working of over twenty signal boxes across the Tyneside area in five
videos. These include the working of the Pontop flat crossing where
two main lines crossed on the level, as they still do at Newark on the
East Coast Main Line.
York’s new Rail Operating Centre (ROC) recently took over the
semaphore signalling on the Selby to Hull route and two FARSAP videos
capture eighteen box locations. Working of the North Eastern Railway
swing bridges at Selby and Goole is covered and the film includes aerial
drone footage. One of the locations is Oxmardyke where at one time
eight hand-operated gates were used for the level crossing over four
tracks.
One-time box lad and signalman, then Member of Parliament and
finally ennobled, Baron Snape of Wednesbury was delighted to be
taken back to his old signal box at Stockport Edgeley No.2. This busy
box controlled the traffic into and out of Stockport Edgeley MPD (9B)
and still operates in a busy traffic area where steam has given way to
‘Pendolinos’. The FARSAP film shows Peter Snape back at his old job,
working the instruments and levers and explaining how the job used to
be.
Old and new in Kent is reflected in the films of the girder bridge
box at Canterbury West with its South Eastern & Chatham Railway
frame. Nearby Canterbury East box, now closed but a Grade II listed
building, is also covered. Then at Maidstone East the box contains a
Westinghouse miniature lever frame originally built during World War
II “in case of necessity” which first saw service at London Cannon Street
before removal to its current location. The listed 1899 box at Maidstone
West is also featured and shows a fascinating demonstration of a strain
gauge to measure the ‘pull’ needed to get long rods and wires to work
correctly in varying weather conditions. (The writer well remembers at
age fourteen learning on hot and cold days about the coefficient of
linear expansion and tensioning on the wire of a faraway distant signal
with no motor assistance.) Finally, in Kent one of the few manually-
operated gated crossings left in the county at Cuxton is shown in
operation with its small frame and tappet locking.
Power signalling is certainly not excluded. At Liverpool Lime Street,
the last Westinghouse lever frame in use on Network Rail’s North West
route is shown signalling this busy terminus. The 95 miniature levers
made in 1948 make for an easy pull but a lot of walking up and down
the length of the frame. In its rocky setting we learn that the box roof is
twelve-inch thick concrete! The roof of the power signal box at King’s
Cross may be thinner, but the box controls the East Coast Main Line
the 44 miles to Sandy in Bedfordshire. Here we can see the 1977 NX
(entrance-exit) panel in full and busy use with a glimpse of the testing
of ERTMS (European Rail Traffic Management System) on the Hertford
Loop. Over at Manchester Piccadilly the 1988 panel signal box, actually
housed in an office block, is shown hard at work in two films signalling
fourteen well-used platforms.
Many of the principles underlying signalling practices and
equipment are explained simply in a set of ‘primers’ dealing with specific
topics. Block and single line working, the telegraph and interlocking are
shown and demonstrated by practitioners. Finally, a range of railway
people have their say in films where they reminisce about their service.
The FARSAP collection is still building and will serve as an important
record for decades to come.
Mike Peart
FARSAP Team, York.
Contents
The ‘77XXX’ Standard Class 3s
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644
The Middleton-in-Teesdale Branch
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646
A West Coast Racing Train of 1888
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652
The Last Four Bass Day Trips 1911-1914
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655
The Southern in Devon through the 1970s
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660
Odd ‘Princess’ out
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667
Metropolitan & Great Central Line Stopping Trains
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670
Wanderings in the North East
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672
Bodies on the Railway
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675
‘Much In Little’ – The railways of Rutland and Stamford
– Part Two
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681
The Railway at Shireoaks, Worksop and Rhodesia
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688
Electrifying Merseyside
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690
Highland Moments
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694
From Road Unto Rail – Exercises in Technology Transfer
– Part One
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696
Thomas Grey: Tweedmouth’s Railwayman Poet
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700
Readers’ Forum
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702
Book Reviews
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702
British Railways Standard Class
3 2-6-0 No.77016 at Ardrossan
Town station in August 1960.
(Rail Online.co.uk ROS-638)
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ABOVE
:
The ‘77XXXs’ were allocated from new to the North
Eastern and Scottish Regions. Here is the first of the class
No.77000 shunting at Calverley & Rodley, on the Aire
Valley main line, while working a pick-up goods on 19th
August 1966. By then it was based at Stourton depot.
(Gavin Morrison)
BELOW
:
Class 3s based at Hurlford shed, Kilmarnock,
THE ‘77XXX’ STANDARD CLASS 3s
The British Railways Standard locomotive programme produced
a Class 3 2-6-0 design, intended to take account of the light axle
loading of some branch lines which precluded larger types. They
were in effect tender versions of the Class 3 2-6-2Ts already in
production and appeared from Swindon Works in 1954. The
class totalled just twenty locomotives, the introduction of diesel
multiple units and the waning fortunes of branch lines leading to
cancellation of further orders. The class became extinct in 1967.
worked on the Glasgow & South Western main line and
around Ayrshire. This is the last of them, No.77019, with
a coal train at Polquhap, on the GSW route near New
Cumnock, in May 1964.
(J. B. Snell/Colour-Rail.com SC811)
TOP
:
One route particularly associated
with the Class 3s was the Stainmore
line across the Pennines from Bishop
Auckland and it was appropriate that
one was used on the last train, a farewell
special, on 20th January 1962. Double-
heading with Class 4 No.76049, No.77003
(fitted with a snowplough) prepares to
leave Kirkby Stephen East for Tebay.
(Gavin Morrison)
MIDDLE
:
No.77015 reflects on the future
of the Lanark–Muirkirk line at Glenbuck
in March 1961: another three years yet.
No.77015 remained true to Hurlford shed
all its twelve-year working life.
(Derek Cross/Colour-Rail.com SC185)
BOTTOM
:
An oddity in the class was
No.77014 which ended up at Guildford
shed, the only one to be based on the
Southern Region. There it held out until
the end of SR steam in July 1967, the last
to be withdrawn, and is here seen on
Guildford’s vacuum-worked turntable
during its final months.
(A. Gray/Colour-Rail.com 307445)
NOVEMBER 2019
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