FROM THE RAILWAY MAGAZINE ARCHIVES
YEARS AGO
NOVEMBER 1922
Underground extension
A CONTRACT has been placed by the London Underground Electric Railways for the construction of a new line between Edgware (Church Lane) and a point north of Queen’s Road, Hendon, where a connection will be made with the line now being constructed between this latter point and Golders Green.
The amount of the new contract is £258,468, and provides for the construction of permanent way, steel super-structures and bridges, electrical equipment, signalling, station buildings, etc.
There will be stations at Colindale, Burnt Oak and Edgware. The length of the new piece of line will be three miles. The work is scheduled to be completed before the end of 1923.
YEARS AGO
NOVEMBER 1972
A find in Yorkshire
THE North Eastern Coach Group has recently discovered a most interesting coach body in a field in North Yorkshire. This, it transpires, is from one of the two petrol-electric railcars built by the NER at York in 1902/3.
It had the letters LNER in the centre of each side of the passenger saloon, flanked by the number 3170Y. It is now in a green livery, with a verandah running the length of one side, the whole covered by a corrugated-iron roof. Latterly it has been used as a holiday chalet. [Note: This vehicle was acquired in 2003, restored by The NER 1903 Electric Autocar Trust, and returned to service at the end of 2018 at the Embsay Railway.]
North Yorks Moors reopening
THOUGH hopes had been expressed of an opening in 1972, it is now unlikely that necessary Light Railway Order formalities will be completed to allow the North Yorkshire Moors Railway to open to the public before next year.
On the railway itself, the North Yorkshire Moors Historical Railway Trust, successor to the NYMRPS, was registered with charitable status in February. The railway owns the track from Grosmont to near Ellerbeck – the section from there to Pickering being the property of the North Riding County Council, which has undertaken to amortise it to the railway over the next 20 years.
YEARS AGO
NOVEMBER 2002 Departmental HST
TWO HST power cars are to be acquired by Railtrack/Serco as a 125mph track measurement and inspection train.
The Porterbrook-owned, Virgin Trains-operated vehicles Nos. 43013 and 43014 will run with up to five ex-HST Mk.3 vehicles currently being rebuilt for the purpose. The sets should be complete by Christmas. Power car
No. 43062 will also join the fleet once minor repairs have been carried out. The power cars are expected to be painted in Railtrack yellow livery.
Class 58 farewell tour
LESS than 20 years after they were introduced, the Doncaster-built Class 58 locomotives have worked their last revenue-earning duties in this country for EWS.
The type made national news after an accident on August 26 during the penultimate ‘Bone Breaker’ tour, which hit the buffers at Walton-onNaze at 5mph, but Hertfordshire Rail Tours’‘Bone Idol’ farewell special on September 1 suffered no problems at all on its journey from King’s Cross to Skegness, returning via Toton, Oakham and Peterborough.
No. 58024 worked the last tour out of King’s Cross with No. 58020 on the rear. No. 58020 was detached at Peterborough to run to Toton to work the train back to London while No. 58024 continued to Skegness via Barkston Junction, its 12-coach train packed with nearly 600 enthusiasts.