Post by mrfs42 on Mar 3, 2008 16:30:49 GMT
I've spent the past couple of hours sorting, cataloguing and databasing some Working Timetables from the '30s and '40s.
Couple of interesting points and questions - the alternate bold/non bold in Northern WTTs (Bold via Bank) has an old historical provenance in timetable galleys: Bakerloo trains beyond Queen's Park to Harrow/Watford before the Stanmore branch were bold and Elephant/QP services were plain. A similar case pertains in Central London WTTs - Ealing trains (made of 'Ealing Stock' - as had been on the Bakerloo Watford services) were bold and 'Local stock' (the original CLR multiple units) were also plain on the TT galley.
The questions (I realise these might be really obscure and potentially the answers are unknown
:
In the Central London TT (82, October 1935) there are three trains of the 'Ealing Stock' that are shown to run as 'block trains'and two of the local trains likewise. Does anyone (TP/Benedict?) know why? They were all 6-car trains - the 7-car Ealing stock (three trains out of the twenty-two Ealings) coupled/uncoupled.
Moving onto the Met. - there seems to have been two WTT 83s published first coming into force on 5/5/1941 and the second on 6/10/41. Was there a Traffic Circular note correcting the numbering? I'm not sure what number WTT was in force on the City Widened Lines at this time - East London TTs were at this time issued as an un-numbered subsection of No. 1 Section. The two WTT 83s are definately non-identical!
Couple of interesting points and questions - the alternate bold/non bold in Northern WTTs (Bold via Bank) has an old historical provenance in timetable galleys: Bakerloo trains beyond Queen's Park to Harrow/Watford before the Stanmore branch were bold and Elephant/QP services were plain. A similar case pertains in Central London WTTs - Ealing trains (made of 'Ealing Stock' - as had been on the Bakerloo Watford services) were bold and 'Local stock' (the original CLR multiple units) were also plain on the TT galley.
The questions (I realise these might be really obscure and potentially the answers are unknown
:In the Central London TT (82, October 1935) there are three trains of the 'Ealing Stock' that are shown to run as 'block trains'and two of the local trains likewise. Does anyone (TP/Benedict?) know why? They were all 6-car trains - the 7-car Ealing stock (three trains out of the twenty-two Ealings) coupled/uncoupled.
Moving onto the Met. - there seems to have been two WTT 83s published first coming into force on 5/5/1941 and the second on 6/10/41. Was there a Traffic Circular note correcting the numbering? I'm not sure what number WTT was in force on the City Widened Lines at this time - East London TTs were at this time issued as an un-numbered subsection of No. 1 Section. The two WTT 83s are definately non-identical!
