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Post by Chris W on Oct 19, 2016 20:14:05 GMT
Having found two press cuttings that referred to the 1976 bombing at West Ham recently in one of Brian Hardy's LU stock books... I found myself browsing the internet for other editions at the end of last week. I momentarily weakened (didn't take much  ) and ordered a couple of more editions, one of which was the 11th, published in 1988. Today it arrived.... and low and behold, in the pages of Battery loco's I found the following railway press cutting dating back to July 1958   Railway Press cutting 12-7-1958 by Chris Westcott, on Flickr I'm not sure of the publication, however as the reverse also refers to railway events of the time, IMO it's certainly from the railway press of the day... If anyone else comes across historical press cuttings.... or am I the only lucky one.... please share  |
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Post by theblackferret on Oct 19, 2016 21:28:51 GMT
Not quite a press cutting, but an historical publicity handbill: <img style="max-width: 100%;" alt="" src='  '> Got this from a file at HBMC when I worked there in the 1980's. I never looked at the reverse until tonight, and then discovered the overlay was from:  what seems to be an SR working Timetable!! |
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Post by grahamhewett on Oct 20, 2016 21:08:05 GMT
@chris W -might be the Railway Magazine which didn't abandon letterpress until the early sixties (if I recall correctly). There wasn't a great deal of choice for railway periodicals back in the day. L8 and L9 were amongst my favourite works stock because of their bizarre appearance. There was a working in the late '50s which saw one appear at Acton Town around midday presumably to take wheel sets and other kit to Ealing Common depot. theblackferret -nice to see the use of AE in Rutupiae |
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Post by theblackferret on Oct 20, 2016 21:35:39 GMT
Yes, when I worked there, there were several Area Inspectors of Ancient Monuments or Area Architects who regularly petitioned the typing pool, in the manner that only such erudite could, for word processors to automatically have an Æ Key on every machine. Quite rightly so, of course. |
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Post by grahamhewett on Oct 20, 2016 22:00:31 GMT
Yes, when I worked there, there were several Area Inspectors of Ancient Monuments or Area Architects who regularly petitioned the typing pool, in the manner that only such erudite could, for word processors to automatically have an Æ Key on every machine. Quite rightly so, of course. Why stop there? Why not go for the OE combo, too? [The HBMC certainly had a Whitehall reputation for being extraordinary, even by Whitehall standards, only the College of Arms was stranger]. |
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Post by roythebus on Oct 25, 2016 22:38:55 GMT
Looking at the name of the Southern Railway GM, a Mr.Szlumper, that name cropped up quite a bit in the book of the London United Tramways. that Szlumper was either one of the top bods of London United or a local councillor.
The SR page is probably from a special notice rather than the WTT, or maybe a WTT amendment. Interesting to see the horse box traffic for race days at Sandown Park, with a booked working from Reading to Esher via the West curve at Virginia Water, then round to Weybridge for Esher. I can't remember when that curve was lifted.
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Post by norbitonflyer on Oct 26, 2016 6:25:24 GMT
The General manager of the Southern in the late 1930s was Gilbert Szlumper. His father Alfred had been the LSWR’s chief engineer, responsible for the Waterloo rebuild and its first electrification projects among other things. Alfred's brother James worked for the London Underground Group (which included London United Tramways) as well as in a number of projects in South Wales, and after he retired went into politics and became Mayor of Richmond. LUT had a very small presence in Richmond itself, as Richmond Bridge never took trams, and the tramway over Kew Bridge to Richmond remained a horse-drawn anomaly until it closed in 1912.
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Post by brigham on Oct 26, 2016 10:39:27 GMT
Why stop there? Why not go for the OE combo, too? [The HBMC certainly had a Whitehall reputation for being extraordinary, even by Whitehall standards, only the College of Arms was stranger]. Good idea. Then we could spell phœnix properly! |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 26, 2016 21:54:12 GMT
L8 & L9 (originally District locos 19A & 20A) were scrapped in 1969 as their work was taken over by road vehicles. They were known as "The Acton Wheel Carriers" but they were used for shunting at Ealing Common Depot. The batteries were removed, as the locos had collector shoes, and could not be replaced as batteries of that type were required during WW1 for submarines.
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Post by grahamhewett on Oct 27, 2016 10:46:43 GMT
@atlastrack - Graeme Bruce's magnum opus on LU works vehicles makes it very clear indeed that L8 and L9 were used to carry stores between Acton and Ealing Common; in particular,he notes that the business case for renewing them in 1958 was based on a comparison with the cost of using lorries to convey the stores and that it was a change in the economics of lorry operation that did for them in 1969. No mention of shunting, alas.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 27, 2016 11:32:35 GMT
Not sure what the source of the info was - my memory fails - but the removal of the batteries is quoted in more than one source as being during WW1 when they were being used for shunting at Ealing where traction current was always available. The shunting usage may well have been a temporary war-time measure.
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Post by grahamhewett on Oct 27, 2016 12:31:27 GMT
May well have been a short term thing. By the '50s, their lunch time workings to Ealing Common clearly showed the wagon part filled with kit. Not quite clear how much shunting was needed at Ealing Common - certainly the R and Q stock sets tended to remain in the same 4s and 2s for long periods at that time. 'Fraid I can't remember back as far as the CDE stock formations (apart from the cars parked on the Ealing Common Alps for many years) so those might well have required more setting out before entering service each day.
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) and ordered a couple of more editions, one of which was the 11th, published in 1988.
