tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-66453226828214940132024-03-19T02:54:43.572-07:00Robert Forsythe blogs the National Railway Museum York & ShildonA personal view of my interaction with the National Railway Museum. A huge collection was purchased by the museum from us in 2009. Their main outstation at Shildon happens to be much nearer home. 35 miles rather than 100.robertatforsythehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04316299884670781392noreply@blogger.comBlogger114125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6645322682821494013.post-27327444421925731392015-06-22T04:56:00.001-07:002015-06-23T00:23:38.401-07:00Barry Roseman visits the National Railway MuseumIt has been quite a weekend for us. Fiona turned 50 on Sunday and if you know anything about us, you will know there would be no Forsythe Collection at the NRM without the input of the chartered librarian who is Fiona. Over the years it has been pleasing to welcome visitors of some significance to see the collection. Professor Barry Roseman is one such. On Friday I had the privilege of being with him at the National Railway Museum, it was the third time we had met. About 13 years ago, he saw our collection in Prudhoe and he spent a day in the old reading room at York. We met again with the Institute for International Information Design (IIID) in Vienna in 2008. So I was very pleased to hear a while back, Barry was making another European tour of timetables. <a href="https://www.scad.edu/academics/faculty/directory" target="_blank">Barry is a Professor</a> at the Savannah College of Art and Design's Atlanta, Georgia base. <br />
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Tim Procter archivist at York made us both welcome and had a mouthwatering selection from both the main York Collections and the Forsythe Collection. I will show a few which excited us both.<br />
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First from the Forsythe Collection, Private Railways File L. Rather a good file because the word London is in it and that introduces many good lines, like the LMS. The Northern Division (Highland Scotland) programme of special trains June 2nd June 8th 1928 is a complete treasure trove if named theatrical companies, sunday schools and some very peculiar bits of passenger business are your thing. The little area I have alighted on is instance of the latter. My mother in law was the signalman's daughter born at Sloch in 1933. Here, five years before, a special call is made to deliver the wages. She remembers going to school on a Black Five but thinks those occasions missed these notices! Below are the arrangements being made for surfacemen's wives to do their shopping. What a role call of strange stops, of which Luib summit is perhaps the best known.<br />
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Staying with the obscure call theme, this tiny timetable from the main NRM collection has several attributes. It is early (1846) and clear. And it covers services from Cold Rowley (a Stanhope and Tyne location near Consett where the A68 crosses the railway and whose NER station is now at Beamish) to Crawley and Crook, two different outcomes heading south and west. The passenger services to Crawley through Parkhead/Blanchland station were not long lived. Quick gives full details.<br />
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The meat of what Barry was looking into was not just old timetables but dense timetables, where the compilers took no prisoners when it came to intelligibility. I swiftly had to find an Ian Allan Pre Grouping Atlas and Gazetteer to make sense of it all. In one LSWR passenger timetable we were able to find five separate trains in one column!<br />
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For Sunday entertainment, we took Barry to the Tanfield Railway Legends of Industry gala and a traditional British Sunday lunch in the Black Horse near Beamish. Barry's tour had already covered the National Library of Scotland collection and now continues to the National Archives at Kew and the Dutch railway museum in Utrecht. I am looking forward to Barry's views on Oyster and Chipkaart.robertatforsythehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04316299884670781392noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6645322682821494013.post-78497812880148820052015-02-14T03:01:00.002-08:002015-02-14T03:01:44.305-08:00Crosville Shelvoke & Drewry Freighter Toastrack Barmouth Promenade 1954<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Last week, myself and <a class="profileLink" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/user.php?id=771053841" href="https://www.facebook.com/simplonpc">Ian Boyle</a>
spent time with The Forsythe Collection at National Railway Museum
York. We came away with lots of images. This is a highlight. To
photograph a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shelvoke_and_Drewry" target="_blank">Shelvoke and Drewry</a> Freighter toastrack today would be a
challenge, and equally so to eyeball original publicity. In the Forsythe
Collection is a Barmouth promenade 1954 handbill using these vehicles.
Drewry links to railcar. The originals with registrations like CFM 340
were new in 1938 and had ECW bodies. I think Amberley Museum has a
replica. For an intense and changing selection of imagery of material in the collection follow me on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/robert.forsythe.39" target="_blank">Facebook</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Railway-Timetables/404742136234317?" target="_blank">Railway Timetables</a> or <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/49212920@N03/sets/72157629070962743/" target="_blank">Flickr</a>. robertatforsythehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04316299884670781392noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6645322682821494013.post-10384104209448598152014-03-22T02:46:00.001-07:002014-08-31T12:45:02.696-07:00Robert Stephenson's Egyptian Specials<br />
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">A note on
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The National Railway Museum has as one would expect an extensive Robert Stephenson collection. It is introduced<a href="http://www.nrm.org.uk/~/media/Files/NRM/PDF/archiveslists2012/businesses/Intro%20to%20RS%20co%20archive%20%20drawing%20lists.pdf" target="_blank"> here</a>. Soon I suspect I will need to be consulting this. This follows up some work I am undertaking based around the Mining Institute, Discovery Museum and Stephenson Quarter in Newcastle. Along the way this has spun me into the REMARKABLE story of three of the most extravagant railway engines ever built (I mean that). An essay follows. Please comment.<br />
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Since three
of these extra-ordinary locomotives were built, and one survives and since
numerous issues of interpretation follow, a note is provided about these
engines.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Robert
Stephenson was personally recruited to build the first element of the Egyptian
Railway System by the ruler of Egypt, one Pasha Abbas. They met in Cairo very
late in 1850. The system was laid out over the ensuring six years. During 1854,
his nephew <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Sa'id Pasha succeeded.
Inaccurately or otherwise the company history by Warren in 1923 refers to these
gentlemen as Viceroys.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">As the contract came to a close, Sa'id Pasha determined to have some very
special trains. Initially two were ordered from the Robert Stephenson Works at
the same time, they were works numbers 1181 and 1182. They were both built in
1858 but were not delivered and so taken into Egyptian stock until 1859 (that
is one little area of confusion). The project to build these engines would have
seemed extremely prestigious to Robert Stephenson. There is direct contemporary
evidence for this. The <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Newcastle Courant</i>
in its issues in December 1858 and early 1859 carried adverts announcing the
exhibition of these trains.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">A transcription is given of the 7<sup>th</sup> January advert. “By
permission of Messrs Robert Stephenson and Co. and the directors of the North
Eastern and Newcastle & Carlisle Railway companies will be exhibit (ed – <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">sic</i>), for a few days, in the beginning
of January next, at the Central Station, Newcastle, the MAGNIFICENT RAILWAY
TRAIN constructed by that eminent engineering firm for His Highness SA</span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">ï</span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">D PASHA,
Viceroy of Egypt; consisting of THE EXPRESS ENGINE AND CARRIAGE, For the
Pasha’s personal use, THE EXPRESS ENGINE AND TENDER, and the DOUBLE SALOON
CARRIAGE Built by Messrs J. & H. Burnup, Fitted up in the most sumptuous
manner for the Pasha and the Ladies and attendants of his <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">suite</i>. The exterior of the train is decorated with arabesque
designs of black, white and gold, in the first style of art, from the designs
of Mr Digby Wyatt. The proceeds of the exhibition to be applied to the funds of
the Shoeblack Brigade.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Digby_Wyatt" target="_blank">Matthew Digby Wyatt</a> was in his day the first Slade Professor of Fine Art at
Cambridge University, the secretary to the Great Exhibition of 1851 and
renowned as an Egyptologist. To commission him was to commission the very cream
of Victorian talent. His <a href="http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/printable/30109" target="_blank">DNB entry</a> does not mention the Stephenson engines at all! Something to change.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">At the time photography was in its infancy. Warren in 1923 was able to
show all three Egyptian specials with photos. It is not clear when or where
these were taken but the implication would be that they were ex works and for
such a prestigious job, turning to a photographer makes sense. It is not clear
using Warren that any previous Stephenson product had been photographed at the
works. His book has photos of Stephenson engines in service that could predate
1858.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Additionally in undertaking the present research, a new photo, unknown to
the Robert Stephenson Trust before has surfaced thanks to Les Turnbull. This
shows 1181 and its carriage outside the Newcastle Central Station and must have
been taken that winter<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6645322682821494013#_edn1" name="_ednref1" style="mso-endnote-id: edn1;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[i]</span></span></span></span></a>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The December adverts had thrown in for good
measure “………THE EXPRESS ENGINE AND CARRIAGE , on the same frame. For the
Pasha’s exclusive use, capable of obtaining a speed, exclusive of stoppages, of
70 miles an hour; THE MILITARY ENGINE AND TENDER, constructed to draw a weight
of Two Thousand Tons and the DOUBLE SALOON CARRIAGE……….” Surely some hyperbole
here? The Military Engine and tender must refer to the 2-2-2 1182. 1181 was the
2-2-4WT and in effect a very early steam railcar, a few others of this concept
appeared in the period, a private runabout.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Bill Fawcett’s 2008 History of the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway also
discussed 1181. The N&CR suffered from staff abstraction tempted by the
prospect of steam trains in the sun. To illustrate it he used the Tuck colour
postcard 9274 published in March 1906 in the Railways of the World set. The
description on the card was <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Khedives
Special.</i> That terminology has stuck and is used in the Cairo Railway Museum
although I am told the term was not applied in the life of these locos (however
Clothier page 35 seems to evidence otherwise in 1903). Fawcett ascribes the
decoration of 1181 to the leading London decorator John Cruce. This raises a
clear issue. He further says the train was tested on the Newcastle &
Carlisle (your author imagines it speeding through Prudhoe, just one of a
succession of pioneering Newcastle made trains tested down the line).</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Whilst 1181 was entirely self contained, the 1858 photo at Central
clearly shows a similarly styled four wheeled carriage attached. Once in Egypt,
1181’s life was terminated by an accident in 1879. Alan Clothier describes the
three engines in pages 34-35 and elsewhere in his <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Robert Stephenson Abroad Egypt 1847-1859 </i>volume. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">There (and in
Warren) we are introduced to 1295 which came from the works in 1862. This was
another 2-2-4WT. It has a more substantial rear cabin or Kiosk as they came to
be called in Egypt. In Arabic </span><span class="fsl"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Almloinh is kiosk, as applied to signal cabins. I
think we can see how the word works. Clothier and Warren both assert 1295 was
decorated by Matthew Digby Wyatt. I see no reason to doubt that but add that in
1858 the local newspaper linked him to 1181.</span></span></div>
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<span class="fsl"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">1182, the fabulously detailed 2-2-2 was returned to Black Hawthorn at
Gateshead for a rebuild in 1870. Without all the decoration, she lasted until
1907. According to Clothier the Pasha drove both Kiosk 2-2-4Ts with special
silver controls. So by 1908, only 1295 was left. For the 1933 International
Railways Conference, the Cairo Railway Museum at Ramses Station was constructed
and opened. When you measure this with the progress of the York Railway Museum
and other British efforts inter-war, the Egyptians were absolutely out in front. Pride in the railway remains important in <a href="http://egyptianchronicles.blogspot.co.uk/2008/09/today-in-history-first-egyptian-railway.html" target="_blank">modern Egypt</a>.</span></span></div>
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<span class="fsl"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The new museum was stuffed with Stephenson artefacts and has remained so
ever since. My prime source is the 1979 English language catalogue of 134 pages
plus illustrations. 1295 has had pride of place, a quick <a href="https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Cairol+Railway+Museum&client=firefox-a&hs=qVz&rls=org.mozilla:en-GB:official&channel=sb&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=yVstU7SqHZOShQe_5IHYCQ&ved=0CAoQ_AUoAg&biw=1024&bih=601" target="_blank">Google search</a> will
readily find her in recent imagery. I am advised that the unrest of the very
recent past has brought about a temporary closure of the museum although
special parties are evidently still seeing 1295 in 2014. My Facebook shows one
such party. In addition to 1295, a Stephenson 0-6-0 running number 142 of 1867
is preserved there. There is a large scale model and drawings of running number
1, a Stephenson 2-4-0 of 1852. There are also models and imagery of the
specials. Exhibit 78 in 1979 was a workshop model of the Khedival train. This
includes a model of the 2-2-2 and a statement that it remained decorated until
1887.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There was then an officer’s
saloon, the original built in Egypt in 1868. Then there was “The Princesses
Carriage” by Wright and Co. of 1858. This was four wheeled and the catalogue
says the original was made in Birmingham (yes indeed, by an ancestor of Metropolitan Cammell, the coach is shown and written up in <i>Metro-Cammell 150 years of Craftsmanship</i> page 4ff). This is not the vehicle behind 1181
in the photo, six windows in the photo at Central, seven in the catalogue. Then
in the catalogue is described and illustrated the 1858 SIXTEEN WHEEL Mason
saloon from America. About the most amazing railway carriage that could ever
have been made!</span></span></div>
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<span class="fsl"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">After that the catalogue moves to the Robert Stephenson made Family
Saloon of 1863. That should not be the one with 1181 in 1858. Next, followed
another Wright’s product, the Family Carriage of 1855. Perhaps this is the
vehicle at Newcastle in 1858? Alan Clothier thinks not and I am minded to agree. Items were supplied by Stevenson which are not in the model exhibit in Cairo. Alan has access to photos taken by T. Worden of Newcastle and it really would seem these were commissioned to be taken at the works and that Warren had access to them in 1923. They are definite candidates for the first photos taken at the work's instigation. Whether they connect at all to our header photographer is unclear, but one of Worden's images clearly shows a four wheeled double saloon as described in the adverts. Its windows and ventilators correspond to the coach in the header photo. Alan has also scoured the <i>Newcastle Journal, Newcastle Courant </i>and <i>Carlisle Journal</i>. It is clear that in the early months of 1859 a lot was written about these trains and they were "run in" on the Carlisle line. There are clearly many more original items of
considerable interest in Cairo to top this. Just alighting on one more, the catalogues
reveals that the original contract between Pasha Abbas and Robert Stephenson
survived.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The tale of these three Stephenson locomotives cannot be bettered I judge
in railway history for its fantastical nature, nor for the manner in which it
evidences the Stephenson effect in selling an entire railway system to a place
far removed from Newcastle and in a manner self consciously extravagant in its
execution. That it then enters the story of a pioneering railway museum which
has safe guarded the key artefacts through difficult times and then in
exploring the subject some fascinating issues of historiography are raised in
the immediate vicinity of the works means that this tale still has all the
power of intrigue that one assumes Geordies on a cold January day in 1859 must
have felt as they took in these wonderful creations.</span></div>
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More discussion of this photo and story is taking place in the Robert Stephenson Facebook group <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/248105144749" target="_blank">here</a>.</div>
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This photo may <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">inter alia</i> be the
earliest photo of the Newcastle Central station, one of the earliest of a
Robert Stephenson Works product ( I rather think others were done of these
specials) and in potentially showing first generation Newcastle & Carlisle
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robertatforsythehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04316299884670781392noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6645322682821494013.post-51335017180622574542013-10-04T03:06:00.000-07:002013-10-23T06:04:19.535-07:00Going to a Wikimedia Editathon in YorkI have this event in my diary now. 19th October 2013. Does it interest you? <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Railways/National_Railway_Museum_editathon">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Railways/National_Railway_Museum_editathon</a><br />
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Eight wikimedians turned out and here are some results from myself, (look at its neighbours) <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:National_Railway_Museum_item_1998-10584_High_Sheriff%27s_Dinner_Menu_Royal_Station_Hotel_York_8_March_1858.jpg" target="_blank">https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:National_Railway_Museum_item_1998-10584_High_Sheriff%27s_Dinner_Menu_Royal_Station_Hotel_York_8_March_1858.jpg . </a>robertatforsythehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04316299884670781392noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6645322682821494013.post-53950904810840093302013-07-24T09:02:00.001-07:002013-07-24T09:04:00.387-07:00Post Office RailwayI admin various web locations looking at individual themes relevant to The Forsythe Collection (a large part of which is at York). One is called Railway Philately on Facebook. A new upload shared the picture below and said "<span class="hasCaption">Mail
by rail, should - famously - include the Royal Mail's own electric tube
railway under London. Now mothballed. One of the 1927 units is on
display in National Railway Museum York. Here it is on 26th February
2013. Two electric power units sandwich a low slung carrier with
containers for the mail (white item). See <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Post_Office_Railway" rel="nofollow nofollow" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/<wbr></wbr>wiki/<wbr></wbr>London_Post_Office_Railway</a>". Explore further at <a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=452726238158013&set=a.289658411131464.59677.289650821132223&type=3&theater">https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=452726238158013&set=a.289658411131464.59677.289650821132223&type=3&theater</a> .</span><br />
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<br />robertatforsythehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04316299884670781392noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6645322682821494013.post-4138256633570410322013-07-22T04:22:00.000-07:002013-07-22T04:26:32.947-07:00An A4 and a Royal BirthThe NRM knows about co-incidence.<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-23402103" target="_blank"> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-23402103</a> is the breaking news about the new Royal Baby. Inside it however Prince Charles' schedule for today saw him being hauled by an A4 into the NRM Great Hall.<br />
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Also see <a href="http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/main-topics/general-news/grandfather-to-be-charles-steams-into-yorkshire-1-5877817" target="_blank">http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/main-topics/general-news/grandfather-to-be-charles-steams-into-yorkshire-1-5877817 </a>.robertatforsythehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04316299884670781392noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6645322682821494013.post-12613407724399212492013-07-15T08:52:00.001-07:002013-07-19T08:15:51.067-07:00Mallard 75<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Everyone at the NRM will be very relieved that the <i>Mallard </i>75 event is proving very popular and with lengthy queues (water and fruit provided) to see the engines. The event I read has far outstripped the 2012 Railfest. There are some leads like the NRM's <a href="http://www.nrm.org.uk/PlanaVisit/Events/mallard75.aspx" target="_blank">own take</a>. A <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2354692/Mallard-surviving-sister-locomotives-come-celebrate-75th-anniversary-speed-record.html" target="_blank">Daily Mail </a>report. The <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/uknews/10156679/The-Mallard-in-pictures-The-worlds-fastest-steam-locomotives-75th-anniversary.html" target="_blank">Daily Telegraph</a> story. I have not been myself but did go to Shildon to see the finished <i>Dominion of Canada</i>. <a href="http://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/ShowUserReviews-g186346-d207903-r167556637-National_Railway_Museum-York_North_Yorkshire_England.html" target="_blank">Trip advisor</a> has given very good reviews. More or less co-incidentally all the closure stories have been <a href="http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/10520735.NRM_safe_as_Mallard_75th_anniversary_celebrations_begin/" target="_blank">put to bed</a>.<br />
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On he 19th July the NRM reported that 140,000 people had visited the A4s at York since 3rd July. A Flickr album for the event is <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/nationalrailwaymuseum/sets/72157634698783715/?uid=UA-542777-8&utm_campaign=140%2C000+people+can%27t+be+wrong&utm_medium=email&utm_source=NRM+Adult+Events" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
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Slipped into the NRM <a href="https://twitter.com/railwaymuseum/status/355643239769980928" target="_blank">Twitter feed</a> on the 12th July was confirmation that Paul Kirkman who has been acting director since November 2012 is now confirmed in the post as director. " As we see record figures for <a class="twitter-hashtag pretty-link js-nav" data-query-source="hashtag_click" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23mallard75&src=hash"><s>#</s><b><b>mallard75</b></b></a> we're happy to announce appointment of new Director, Paul Kirkman, who joined last Nov on secondment". <br />
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This piece of study directly relates to the Forsythe Collection in the NRM Search Engine archives. The text in an earlier version was previously in <a href="http://www.forsythe.demon.co.uk/other_pages/erenum.htm" target="_blank">my own website</a>. When this upload was made another one went to <a href="https://www.facebook.com/notes/robert-forsythe/eastern-region-e-numbers/497446083662485" target="_blank">Facebook Notes</a>.<br />
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Corrected to 21.06.2013<br />
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EASTERN REGION E NUMBERS <br />
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For a fuller understanding of British Railways pocket timetable practice, an appreciation of the regional referencing systems used is beneficial. Once these systems can be listed a picture of what was issued becomes clearer. In the following paper an attempt to catalogue the known use of ER references is undertaken. The system was not totally constant throughout the period, but the core annotation was an E number. Earliest use may be E400 in 1951.<br />
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The pattern that follows consists of the E numbers in numerical order followed by the timetable name, and the extremities of the known dates to which the number was applied to this issue. The known dates reflect my collection. Thus some WYPTE lines may appear to cease to use the E number earlier than the probable actual date of May 1982. This reflects missing timetables. It will also be possible to guess where dates may be extended by comparing sequences. This has not been done nor has a full account of different timetable types been made. Some cryptic notes about type for individual entries may be seen as my working notes.<br />
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Obviously anomalies exist. Perhaps the most intriguing arise in the later 1980s. At this time, York took over promotional responsibility for certain LMR lines, and so E numbers exist for routes like the Cumbrian Coast. Likewise Birmingham took over Anglian Provincial/Regional lines and ceased using E numbers. The routes which it appears can claim the longest E number life are former ER routes which were not passed to the Birmingham office (the former NER routes had operated their own system references prior to the ER takeover). So, some NSE routes carried on using E numbers for a period, thus E408 was used continuously for Cambridge route timetables between at least 1957 and 1988. Another group of candidates (as time has passed) come from North Eastern local services (see below).<br />
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E numbers remained in use by some sectors for a very long time as careful perusal of the list will show - essentially, I believe, material from the York publicity office (CAS EAST >RRNE> Northern Spirit>Arriva Trains Northern) will carry E numbers (despite the fact that once York was the NER office!). E41, E61, E63 and E65 rival E408 above in lasting a solid 30 years from 1972-2002 which since this was a period of continual change in many respects, as our leaders tell us, was some achievement. In 1987 a new series from E1 was issued for Intercity cards. These show how E numbers are being issued off the former Eastern region. I am fairly definite E numbers came to an end when in 2003 ATN moved to a new 1/3 A4 timetable format. Timetables issued in the autumn of 2002 were the last to carry them. This usage is not yet entirely reflected in this table which was first prepared in the early 1990s.<br />
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E numbers were not universal on the Eastern Region though nearly so. Another system known in the late 1950's used PP/xxx/xx as the identity mark. Early Paytrain guides appear under a C numbering scheme (c1970). Timetables also carried other reference numbers, most noticeably a BR35xxx/xx number. This too was often static for decades.<br />
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The arrival of feedback (and even unsolicited donations of relevant material) is a good excuse to do some updating so it is encouraged. In this regard I wish to thank Duncan Burnett of Sheffield.<br />
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E1 Scunthorpe-Doncaster-London IC card 1987-1993<br />
E2 Retford-Newark-London IC card 1990-1993<br />
E3 Scarborough-York-London IC card 1987-1993<br />
E4 Bradford-Leeds-London IC card 1988-1993<br />
E5 Boston-Grantham-London IC card 1987-1993<br />
E6 Sunderland-Newcastle-London IC card 1988-1993<br />
E7 Durham-Darlington-London IC card 1989-1993<br />
E8 Yarmouth-Norwich-London IC card 1987-1988<br />
E8 Middlesbrough-Darlington-London IC card 1989-1993<br />
E9 Ipswich-Manningtree-London IC card 1987-1988<br />
E9 Peterborough-London IC card 1992<br />
E10 Diss-Stowmarket-London IC card 1987-1988<br />
E10 Grimsby-Lincoln-London IC card 1989-1993<br />
E11 Huddersfield-Wakefield-London IC card 1988-1993<br />
E12 Harrogate-London IC card 1988-1993<br />
E13 Edinburgh-Berwick-London IC card 1988-1993<br />
E14 Aberdeen-Dundee-London IC card 1988-1993<br />
E15 <br />
E16 Hull-London IC Card 1990-1993<br />
E17 Aberdeen-Edinburgh-Newcastle IC card 1989-1993<br />
E18 Darlington-Newcastle-Glasgow IC card 1989-1990<br />
E18 Glasgow-Newcastle-York IC card 1991-1993<br />
E19 Edinburgh-Newcastle-York IC card 1989-1993<br />
E20 Edinburgh-Newcastle-Peterborough IC card 1989-1993<br />
E21 Leeds-Manchester-Liverpool (E170 cross refs on tt) 1981-1982<br />
E22 Durham-Darlington-York IC card (from E30) 1991-1993<br />
E23 Darlington-Durham-Newcastle IC Card (from E31) 1991-1993<br />
E24 <br />
E25 <br />
E26 Scotland-North East-Cleveland-London IC Ubt 1989-1991<br />
E27 Yorkshire-Humberside-London 1989-1991<br />
E28<br />
E29<br />
E30 Durham-Darlington-York IC card (onto E22) 1991<br />
E31 Darlington-Durham-Newcastle IC Card (onto E23) 1991<br />
E32<br />
E33<br />
E34<br />
E35<br />
E36<br />
E37<br />
E38<br />
E39 Lincoln-Nottingham 1984<br />
E40 <br />
E41 Hull-Scarborough or vv 1972-2002<br />
E42 Spalding-Peterborough 1972-1980<br />
E42 Lincoln-Spalding-Peterborough/Cambridge 1980-1982<br />
E42 Doncaster-Cambridge or Peterborough 1983-1992<br />
E43 Doncaster-Cleethorpes 1976-1986<br />
E43 Leeds/Sheffield-Doncaster-Cleethorpes 1989<br />
E43 Cleethorpes-Manchester Airport 1998-2002<br />
E44 Barton on Humber - Cleethorpes 1974-1976<br />
E44 Hull-Cleethorpes Humberlink 1981-1998<br />
E45 Sheffield-Retford-Cleethorpes 1972<br />
E45 Retford-Cleethorpes 1976-1977<br />
E45 Huddersfield-Lincoln 1998-2002<br />
E46 Newark-Cleethorpes 1972-1992<br />
E47 Lincoln/Grantham-Skegness 1972-1986<br />
E47 Derby-Skegness 1989-1992<br />
E48 Lincoln-Sheffield 1972-1974<br />
E48 Sheffield-Lincoln/Cleethorpes 1978-1984<br />
E48 Sheffield-Retford-Lincoln/Cleethorpes 1986-1992<br />
E49 Grantham-Nottingham 1972-1987<br />
E50 Sheffield-New Mills 1977-1982<br />
E51 Hull-Goole/Selby(-York/Leeds) 1978-1993<br />
E52 Huddersfield-Clayton West-Sheffield 1972-1982<br />
E52A Huddersfield-Clayton West-Sheffield 1972<br />
E53 Leeds-Harrogate-York 1972-1982<br />
E53A Leeds-Harrogate-York 1972<br />
E54 Leeds-Goole 1972-1982<br />
E55 Leeds/Bradford-Ilkley 1972+1973-1982<br />
E55A Ditto but West Riding issue 1972<br />
E56 Sheffield-Pontefract-York Paytrain issue? 1972?<br />
E56A Ditto West Riding issue 1972<br />
E56 Ditto 1973?-2002<br />
by now title is York-Sheffield (this line has a very<br />
complicated tt history)<br />
E57<br />
E58 Chelmsford-London 1986<br />
E59 Hull-Sheffield 1998-2002<br />
E60 Hull-Doncaster/Leeds 1998-2002<br />
E61 Newcastle-Darlington-Teesside or Middlesbrough-Gateshead MC 1972-2002<br />
E62 Bishop Auckland - Saltburn 1972-1974<br />
E62A Ditto Darlington 1974-1981<br />
E62 Ditto Saltburn (some are from Stanhope) 1989-1993<br />
E62 Darlington-Saltburn 1974-1981<br />
E62 Newcastle/Bishop Auckland-Saltburn 1998-2002<br />
E63 Newcastle-Carlisle or Sunderland-Carlisle 1972-2002<br />
E63a Hadrian's Wall Bus 2000<br />
E64 Newcastle-South Shields 1972-1981<br />
E65 Middlesbrough-Whitby 1972-2002<br />
E66 Newcastle-Berwick-(Edinburgh) or Berwick-Newcastle 1972-1993<br />
E66 Chathill Newcastle 1998-2002<br />
E67 Newcastle-York 1989-1991<br />
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E68-70 are unknown<br />
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E71 Ipswich-Felixstowe/Lowestoft 1972-1987<br />
E72 Cambridge-Ipswich 1972-1988<br />
E73 Norwich-Cambridge 1972-1988<br />
E74 Norwich-Yarmouth-Lowestoft 1972-1988<br />
E75 Norwich-Sheringham 1972-1988<br />
E76 Ipswich-Norwich-Yarmouth 1975-1976<br />
E77 Kings Lynn-Ely 1976-1982<br />
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E78-79 are unknown<br />
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E80 Windermere-Oxenholme 1987-1991<br />
E81 Wickford-Southminster 1972-1981<br />
E81 Carlisle-Barrow in Furness 1988-1992<br />
York by now has lost the Southminster line<br />
E82 Sudbury-Colchester 1975-1979<br />
E83 Eastern Counties and the North (see onto E178) 1958-1962<br />
E83 Colchester-Clacton-Walton 1972-1979<br />
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E84-89 are unknown<br />
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E90 Leeds/Bradford-Skipton 1972-1982<br />
E91 Leeds-Bradford-Hebden Bridge 1972-1981<br />
E92 Leeds-Huddersfield-Marsden 1972-1982<br />
E93 Doncaster-Selby-York 1972-1991<br />
E94 Leeds-York 1972-1982<br />
E94 Sheffield-Doncaster-Cleethorpes/Hull 1991-1992<br />
E95 Leeds-Wakefield-Doncaster 1973-1981<br />
E95 Sheffield-Retford-Lincoln/Cleethorpes 1990<br />
E96 Leeds-Selby 1972-1981<br />
E97 Leeds-Barnsley-Sheffield 1972-1982<br />
E98 Sheffield-Doncaster 1972-1983<br />
E99 Doncaster-Goole 1972-1980<br />
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E100-103 are unknown<br />
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E104 Newcastle-the Coast 1972-1976<br />
E105<br />
E106 Leeds/Bradford-Ilkley 1968-1969<br />
E107 <br />
E108 York-Cardiff 1971-1973<br />
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E109-121 are unknown<br />
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E122 Leeds-Hull 1968-1980<br />
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E123-131 are unknown<br />
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E132 Newcastle-Doncaster 1972-1982<br />
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E133-135 are unknown<br />
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E136 Bradford-Leeds-London (see also E156) 1970-1987<br />
E137 Leeds-London card 1986<br />
E138 Leeds-Scarborough 1971-1990<br />
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E139-143 are unknown<br />
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E144 Leeds-Halifax-Liverpool 1971-1982 <br />
E145 <br />
E146 Leeds-Bradford-Skipton-Morecambe 1972-1978<br />
E146 Leeds-Morecambe/Carlisle 1978-1993<br />
E147 <br />
E148 Leeds-Manchester card 1972-1973<br />
E149 <br />
E150 Newcastle-Durham-London card 1969-1978<br />
Ditto folder 1978-1984<br />
E150 Sunderland-Newcastle-Durham-London Folder HST 1986-1987<br />
E151 <br />
E152 As next but card 1970-1973<br />
E152 Hull-London (Folder CI and HST) 1974-1987<br />
E153 <br />
E154 York-London 1968-1971<br />
E155<br />
E156 Bradford-Leeds-London KC card and card folder (see also E136) 1970-1981<br />
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E157-159 are unknown<br />
E160 As next but card 1968-1979<br />
E160 Hull-Leeds-Liverpool (Folder CI) 1980-1981<br />
E161 <br />
E162 Chesterfield-Sheffield-Liverpool cards 1972-1974<br />
E162 Humberside-South Yorkshire-Liverpool 1980-1986<br />
E163 <br />
E164 Teeside-London KC card+HST card 1969-1979<br />
Ditto HST folder 1978-1981<br />
Ditto Cleveland-London KC HST Folder 1981-1984<br />
Ditto Intercity small folder (v.rare!) 1987-1988<br />
E165 <br />
E166 North East-West Country 1975-1976<br />
E167 <br />
E168 North East-South Wales 1974-1975<br />
E168 North East-South West (Folder CI and HST) 1977-1985<br />
E168 North East-Cardiff 1976-1977<br />
E169 <br />
E170 Newcastle-Liverpool (fundamentally) 1979-1999<br />
as MXE170 it was still being issued in 2003<br />
E171<br />
E172<br />
E173<br />
E174 Leeds-Rotherham-Sheffield 1970-1972<br />
E175<br />
E176<br />
E177 <br />
E178 Eastern Counties - East Midlands and the North 1969-1979<br />
(see from E83)<br />
E179 <br />
E180 York-Selby-London 1970-1983<br />
E180 York-London 1983-1986<br />
E180 Scarborough-York-London 1986-1987<br />
E180 York-Leeds 1998-2002<br />
E181 Leeds-York only, card folder 1972-1973<br />
E181 Leeds-Carlisle/Morecambe 1998-2002<br />
E182 Leeds-Harrogate only, card folder 1972-1973<br />
E183 <br />
E184 Leeds-Huddersfield only, card folder 1973<br />
E185 Leeds-Wakefield only, card folder 1973<br />
E186 Leeds-Sheffield only, card folder 1973<br />
E187 Leeds-Doncaster only, card folder 1973<br />
E188 Sheffield-Doncaster only, card folder 1973<br />
E189-199 are unknown<br />
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E200 Doncaster-Sheffield- Lincoln - Eastern Counties 1973-1979<br />
E201<br />
E202 Inter City Services to and from Stevenage 1975-1977<br />
E202 Principal Train Services Stevenage HST Folder 1979-1980<br />
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E203-207 are unknown<br />
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E208 Royston-London 1974-1977<br />
E209 <br />
E210 Knebworth-London 1974-1977<br />
E211 <br />
E212 Brookmans Park-London 1974-1976<br />
E213<br />
E214 Old Street-Drayton Park card 1976<br />
E215 <br />
E216 Hertford-Hitchin 1976<br />
E217 <br />
E218 Welwyn Garden City-Moorgate GN Electrics folders 1976-1981 <br />
E219 <br />
E220 Hertford North-Moorgate GN Electrics folders 1976-1981<br />
E221 <br />
E222 Wood Green-Moorgate GN Electrics folders 1979-1981<br />
E223 <br />
E224 Royston-Kings Cross GN Electrics folders 1978-1981<br />
E225 <br />
E226 Peterborough-Huntingdon-London (Yourtrain) 1978-1981<br />
E226 Peterborough-Huntingdon-London (Folder CI+HST+Intercity) 1982-1988<br />
E227 <br />
E228 Royston-Cambridge 1978-1981 <br />
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E229-299 are unknown<br />
except<br />
E290 Named Trains from and to (ER London termini) 1957-1962<br />
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E300 Inter City Services from Newcastle Sunderland Durham 1972-1978<br />
E300 Inter City from Leeds 1983-1986<br />
E301 Inter City from Newcastle/Durham 1983-1984 <br />
E302 Inter City Services from Darlington Hartlepool Middlesbrough 1972-1976<br />
E302 Inter City from Doncaster 1973-1985<br />
E303 Inter City Services from Sheffield and Chesterfield 1972-1983<br />
E304 Inter City Services from Hull 1972-1973<br />
E304 Principal Train Services from Selby 1983<br />
E305 Principal Services from LLS and Fenchurch Street 1969-1972<br />
E305 Inter City from Wakefield 1984-1985<br />
E306 Inter City Services from London Kings Cross 1971-1975<br />
E307 Inter City Services from Peterborough and Grantham 1969-1970<br />
E307 Ditto without Grantham 1972-1979<br />
E308 Inter City Services from Doncaster 1972-1977<br />
E309 Inter City from Hull 1985<br />
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E400 London-Hull/Leeds/Bradford/Harrogate 1951-1961<br />
E401 <br />
E402 London-Ely-Kings Lynn-Hunstanton 1959-1964<br />
E403 London-Sheffield 1956-1969<br />
E403A Ditto card 1959-1960<br />
E403 Ditto 1970-1971<br />
E404 London-Cleethorpes 1955-1980<br />
E404 Cleethorpes-London 1980-1988<br />
E405 London-Doncaster 1957-1960<br />
E405 London-Doncaster-Scunthorpe (See onto E437) 1968-1975<br />
E406 As next but also Scarborough-Saltburn 1955-1964<br />
E406 London-Bridlington-Filey 1967-1968<br />
E406 London-Peterborough-Doncaster-Scunthorpe (see from E437) 1976-1977<br />
E407 London-Lincoln 1959-1965<br />
E408 Cambridge-London (various folders and cards) 1957-1976<br />
E408 Kings Lynn-London (see also E450) 1976-1988<br />
E409 Bury St Edmunds-London 1956-1960<br />
E409 London-Spalding-Louth 1964-1965<br />
E409 London-Grimsby 1970<br />
E410 London-Scunthorpe 1956-1961<br />
E410 Cambridge-London 1988-1989<br />
E411 London-Huddersfield/Halifax 1956-1964<br />
E411 London-Huddersfield 1966-1967<br />
E412 Yarmouth-Lowestoft-London or vice versa 1956-1984<br />
E412 Yarmouth-Diss-Manningtree-Stowmarket-London 1985<br />
E412 Yarmouth-Norwich (and others)-London 1985-1987<br />
E413 London-Clacton 1970-1971<br />
E414 London-Berwick Upon Tweed 1958-1964<br />
E414 London-Colchester-Clacton (see also E417) 1971-1973<br />
E414 London-Colchester 1970-1971+ 1973-1981<br />
E415 London-Gainsborough 1961-1963<br />
E415 London-Kelvedon 1973-1976<br />
E415 London-Marks Tey 1981-1982<br />
E416 Sheffield-Penistone-Manchester 1960-1969<br />
E417 London-Clacton/Walton (see also E414) 1952-1967<br />
E417 Huntingdon-London 1972-1976<br />
E418 Colchester-London (see also E414) or vv 1956-1966<br />
E419 London-Sheringham 1956-1965<br />
E419B London-Norwich (no other stats, see onto E448) 1963 card 1964 CILF<br />
E419 Ipswich-London 1970-1971<br />
E420 Chelmsford-London 1956-1962<br />
E420 London-Witham 1962-1980<br />
E421 London-Southend 1972-1975<br />
E421 London-Southend Victoria 1976-1981<br />
E422 Maldon East-Witham and connections 1960<br />
E422 London-Walton on the Naze (see onto E426) 1972-1981<br />
E423 Braintree and Bocking-Witham (see also E435-6) 1958-1960<br />
E423 London-Harwich 1972-1981<br />
E424 <br />
E425 <br />
E426 Clacton-Shenfield 1980-1981<br />
E426 London-Chelmsford-Walton 1981-1982<br />
E427 London LLS-Harlow Town card 1962<br />
E428 Ely-Norwich 1963-64<br />
E429<br />
E430 Barking-Gospel Oak (see also E456) 1981-1982<br />
E431 Colchester-Clacton-Walton 1963<br />
E432 London-Norwich (see from E449) 1966-1973<br />
E432 Norwich-Diss-etc-London 1973-1982<br />
E433 Ipswich-Chelmsford 1963-1980<br />
E434<br />
E435 Braintree-Witham-Maldon (see from E423) 1962-1963<br />
E435 Maldon-Witham 1964<br />
E436 Braintree-Witham (folders and cards) 1970-1982<br />
E437 London-Peterborough 1964-1965<br />
E437 London-Peterborough-Retford 1969-1974<br />
E437 Retford-Peterborough_London 1975-1976<br />
E437 London-Peterborough-Doncaster-Scunthorpe (see onto E403) 1976<br />
E437 Scunthorpe-Doncaster-London (Folder HST) 1979-1982<br />
E438 London-Retford 1967-1968<br />
E439 London-Barnsley 1964-1982<br />
E439 Sheffield-London HST folder 1983-1984<br />
E440 London-Rotherham (folders and cards) 1964-1971<br />
E440 Sheffield-Chesterfield 1982-1991<br />
E441 <br />
E442 Grantham-Lincoln 1959-1960<br />
E443 Sheffield-Dronfield-Chesterfield 1983-1984<br />
E443 Hull-York card 1985-1986<br />
E444 Hull-New Holland 1959-1960<br />
E445 Lincoln-Cleethorpes 1963<br />
E446 London-Chesterfield 1964-1971<br />
E447 Norwich-Mundesley-Melton Constable 1959-1960<br />
E448 London-Norwich (only stats see from E419B) 1964-1965<br />
E448 London-Colchester Intercity small folder 1984-1988<br />
E449 Wickford-Southminster see onto E81 1958-1960<br />
E449 Norwich-London (see also E432) (no other sta) 1967-1968+1981-1985<br />
E449 Ditto cards 1970-1980<br />
E450 Boston-Lincoln 1959-1960<br />
E450 Kings Lynn-Ely-London (see onto E408) 1972-1976<br />
E451 Norwich-Yarmouth-Lowestoft (see onto E74) 1958-1959<br />
E452 Norwich-Dereham-Kings Lynn/Wells 1959-1964<br />
E452 London-Bishop's Stortford 1975-1981<br />
E453 Romford-Upminster 1958-1960<br />
E454 Sheffield-Barnsley-Leeds 1963-1969<br />
E455 Lincoln-Derby 1961<br />
E456 Yarmouth-Lowestoft 1958<br />
E456 Kentish Town-Barking (see E430) 1960-1961<br />
E456 Liverpool Street-Shenfield 1976<br />
E457<br />
E458 Cambridge-Harwich and Bury-Marks Tey 1959-1960<br />
E458 London -Billericay-Southend Victoria 1976-1977<br />
E459 <br />
E460 Cambridge-Peterborough-The North 1961<br />
E460 London-Southend Central (see also E421) 1977-1981<br />
E461 Audley End- Bartlow 1958-1963<br />
E461 London-Wickford-Southend Victoria (see also E421) 1981-1982<br />
E462 Trains from Sheffield for Businessmen 1968-1969<br />
E463 <br />
E464 Sheffield-Penistone-Huddersfield 1968-1969<br />
E465 Sheffield-Grimsby-Cleethorpes 1966-1969<br />
E466<br />
E467<br />
E468 Norwich-Dereham-Kings Lynn 1968-1969<br />
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gap to E474<br />
E474 Norwich-Sheringham 1967-1969<br />
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E476 Cambridge St Ives 1968-69<br />
Huge gap from E477 to E522 save<br />
E484 Manor Park-Liverpool Street 1959<br />
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E522 Doncaster-Sheffield 1956-1965<br />
E522 Sheffield-Doncaster-Hull 1972-1984<br />
E523 Doncaster-Scunthorpe 1959-1966<br />
E524 Sheffield-Barnsley 1960-1964<br />
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E525 Dronfield-Sheffield/Chesterfield 1965<br />
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E526-528 are unknown<br />
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E529 London-Worksop 1960-1961<br />
E530 Lincoln-Retford-Sheffield 1966<br />
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huge gap till<br />
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E600<br />
E601<br />
E602<br />
E603 Liverpool Street-Rochford Peak Hours Services card 1970-1971<br />
E604<br />
E605 Liverpool Street-Brentwood Ditto 1970-1971<br />
E606 Liverpool Street-Ingatestone Ditto 1970-1971<br />
E607 Liverpool Street-Marks Tey Ditto 1970-1971<br />
E608<br />
E609<br />
E610 Liverpool Street-Chingford Ditto 1978<br />
E611 Liverpool Street-Weeley Ditto 1970-1971<br />
E612 Liverpool Street- Thorpe le Soken Ditto 1970-1971<br />
E613<br />
E614<br />
E615<br />
E616<br />
E617 Liverpool Street-Kelvedon Ditto 1970-1971<br />
E618<br />
E619 Liverpool Street-Chadwell Heath Ditto 1970-1971<br />
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Copyright R N Forsythe robertatforsythehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04316299884670781392noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6645322682821494013.post-4858924946635621582013-06-18T08:57:00.000-07:002013-06-25T11:44:13.178-07:00Culture minister re-assuresThanks to my FB friend Thomas Edmondson for link<br />
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<span class="userContent">This is at least encouraging - Culture Minister says 'Museums not closing'<br /> <br /> <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-22948171" rel="nofollow nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-22948171</a></span><br />
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<span class="userContent">followed up with</span><br />
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<span class="userContent">The solution to the national museum funding problem <a href="http://www.museumsassociation.org/museums-journal/news/25062013-national-museums-to-be-allowed-to-access-reserves">http://www.museumsassociation.org/museums-journal/news/25062013-national-museums-to-be-allowed-to-access-reserves</a> .</span><br />
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robertatforsythehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04316299884670781392noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6645322682821494013.post-60129325799440158982013-06-12T11:25:00.002-07:002013-07-19T08:16:40.327-07:00The Archbishop of York is concernedThe controversy over the future of the National Railway Museum at York is now in the Archbishop of York's i<a href="http://www.archbishopofyork.org/articles.php/2914/museum-funding-in-the-north-of-england" target="_blank">n tray</a> .robertatforsythehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04316299884670781392noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6645322682821494013.post-11689429262247547552013-06-08T08:38:00.001-07:002013-06-08T08:38:33.164-07:00The Story Reaches Breakfast<span class="userContent" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}">The
last news story on BBC Breakfast this morning a few minutes before 10 am. The
plight of the Science Museum Group with the A4s to the fore. The museum
contributor was David Fleming head of the National Museums on
Merseyside. Of course my solution to the NRM was not there. It can stay a
free museum by removing it from government and making the rail industry
pay. A win win situation. </span>robertatforsythehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04316299884670781392noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6645322682821494013.post-71111441342675371922013-06-05T09:02:00.000-07:002013-06-05T14:37:51.159-07:00Ian Blatchford on the BBCWorth making a headline although it is discussed two posts down. Today it has been the head of the Science Museum Group with a dire <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-22781573" target="_blank">statement on BBC</a>. Let me say clearly if the situation is that bad, there is enough money in the British rail industry to carry its own museum paid by a levy on players in that industry. And if they don't want to do it, government could force them. You want to run, own, maintain trains on the network. You will pay this levy. And if the museum is made more accountable, no bad thing.<br />
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And then in the same day one reads a closure denial also <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-22766162" target="_blank">a BBC report</a>. robertatforsythehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04316299884670781392noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6645322682821494013.post-59296410200873686892013-06-04T12:12:00.000-07:002013-07-15T09:02:59.348-07:00A Daily Mail StoryA good read <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2333385/Record-breaking-steam-locomotive-Mallard-goes-display-sister-trains-time-mark-75th-anniversary-126mph-journey.html" target="_blank">http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2333385/Record-breaking-steam-locomotive-Mallard-goes-display-sister-trains-time-mark-75th-anniversary-126mph-journey.html </a>and some wonderful pictures. But do you agree with the thesis?<br />
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The paper says <br />
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Record-breaking steam locomotive Mallard goes on display with two
sister trains for first time to mark 75th anniversary of 126mph journey</h1>
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<li><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: 1.4em;">In a scene not witnessed since the Thirties the three trains sit beside each other at York's National Railway Museum</span></span></li>
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and it is based on Bob Gwynne's from the Museum's quote.<br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'This
is a very special sight because here we have a scene that hasn't been
seen since the 1930s. We haven't seen this for 75 years or so.' </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">How accurate is this? Surely at any time through to the mid 1960s, A4s could have assembled en echelon? If the debate is about garter blue and skirts, one of them on display is not in that state. And even if you focus on that, presumably it was possible into the 1940s. The 25th aniversary of the record was in 1963. I shall look into what if anything was done then. Of course, the Germans think the record is theirs. As you can tell I am simply uncomfortable when <i>Daily Mail</i> hype carries away a museum.One of two of the people who have left comments with the paper have wised up to this.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Then I opened Wikipedia and was reminded "</span><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">On the weekend of 5 July 2008, <i>Mallard</i> was taken outside for the
first time in years and displayed beside the three other A4s that are
resident in the UK, thus reuniting them for the first time since
preservation."</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">David Farms was there and wrote this "</span><span style="font-size: 1.2em;"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id=".reactRoot[227].:0:1:1:comment490175397722887_3889087.:0.:1.:0.:1.:0.:0.:0:2"><span class="UFICommentBody" id=".reactRoot[227].:0:1:1:comment490175397722887_3889087.:0.:1.:0.:1.:0.:0.:0:2.:0"><span id=".reactRoot[227].:0:1:1:comment490175397722887_3889087.:0.:1.:0.:1.:0.:0.:0:2.:0.:0"><span id=".reactRoot[227].:0:1:1:comment490175397722887_3889087.:0.:1.:0.:1.:0.:0.:0:2.:0.:0.:0">Sunday
5th July. Wikipedia is not totally correct though. Mallard in Steam
having been outside on a number of occasions prior to this date, Sir
Nigel Gresley in steam as stand by for the "Special" and Bittern co</span></span><span id=".reactRoot[227].:0:1:1:comment490175397722887_3889087.:0.:1.:0.:1.:0.:0.:0:2.:0.:3"><span id=".reactRoot[227].:0:1:1:comment490175397722887_3889087.:0.:1.:0.:1.:0.:0.:0:2.:0.:3.:0"><span id=".reactRoot[227].:0:1:1:comment490175397722887_3889087.:0.:1.:0.:1.:0.:0.:0:2.:0.:3.:0.:0">smetically
restored as Silver Link were displayed for about two hours outside NRM.
Mallard having pulled a "Special" from Doncaster. After that I believe.
it took the special to Scarborough and back. Scarborough council having
paid for the turntable there to be renovated." The question now is whether in 2008 there were three or four together at York?</span></span></span></span></span> </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id=".reactRoot[8].:0:1:1:comment490175397722887_3887758.:0.:1.:0.:1.:0.:0.:0:2"><span id=".reactRoot[8].:0:1:1:comment490175397722887_3887758.:0.:1.:0.:1.:0.:0.:0:2.:0"><span id=".reactRoot[8].:0:1:1:comment490175397722887_3887758.:0.:1.:0.:1.:0.:0.:0:2.:0.:0">And whilst you look into this an interesting resource is <a href="http://www.nrm.org.uk/~/media/Files/NRM/PDF/resourcepacks/Mallard%2075%20resource%20pack.pdf" target="_blank"><i>here</i></a>.</span></span></span> </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;"> <i>I grant that when the six are together that will be a novelty that cannot have happened since at least 1963 when Mallard was withdrawn.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">A Railway Magazine feature August 2013 p14 details a late occasion when six BR A4s were together. It was May 12th 1966 at Aberdeen Ferryhill shed.<i> </i> </span><br />
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robertatforsythehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04316299884670781392noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6645322682821494013.post-61197285791975763942013-06-04T00:47:00.002-07:002013-06-09T12:55:24.497-07:00Alarm Bells RingFrom my Facebook<br />
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<span class="userContent">Would it seem like a decade of mismanagement
exemplified in the 4472 restoration and the allegedly cost free Mallard
party that gets you to this <a href="http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/manchesters-museum-science-industry-faces-4044896" rel="nofollow nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/manchesters-museum-science-industry-faces-4044896</a></span><br />
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? For the railway museum I say cut it loose from government and hand it to the railway industry and the enthusiast.<br />
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<span class="userContent">Despite my great admiration for the NRM those who follow this blog will wise up to the thought that my own exposure to the inner workings of the operation and my reading of the media have led me to the conclusion it has been management light for quite some time. Over the last decade or so the parent SMG group has been in the same dock (reflect how Andrew Scott had to move from York to London to cover another's hiccup). Now if this report is anything like accurate, the inevitable cannot be postponed for a lot longer.</span><br />
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<span class="userContent">I think there is a solution, I have given it above. But regardless of what I think, the real importance is that there is a proper debate. The NRM has fought shy of the media for about eight months now. That is not how you have a debate. Why does not the Institute of Railway Studies organise a proper debate in York about the future of the museum? I have every reason to be concerned with a vast amount of my life's work there. However we did put safeguarding clauses into the sale contract against a change of circumstance.</span><br />
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<span class="userContent">Other reporting (please send links)</span><br />
<span class="userContent"><a href="http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/10460385.National_Railway_Museum_under_threat_from_funding_cuts/" target="_blank">http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/10460385.National_Railway_Museum_under_threat_from_funding_cuts/ </a></span><br />
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<span class="userContent"><a href="http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/10460528.National_Media_Museum__under_threat_if_cuts_continue_/">http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/10460528.National_Media_Museum__under_threat_if_cuts_continue_/</a> </span><br />
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<span class="userContent"><a href="http://library.prospect.org.uk/id/2013/00751?_ts=50274">http://library.prospect.org.uk/id/2013/00751?_ts=50274 </a></span><br />
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<span class="userContent"><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-22781573">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-22781573</a> The Science Museum Group boss with a worrying message. </span><br />
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<span class="userContent"><a href="http://www.itv.com/news/calendar/update/2013-06-07/york-mp-lobbies-over-future-of-national-railway-museum/">http://www.itv.com/news/calendar/update/2013-06-07/york-mp-lobbies-over-future-of-national-railway-museum/</a> York MP calls for a debate.</span><br />
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<span class="userContent"> </span>robertatforsythehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04316299884670781392noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6645322682821494013.post-77289643297289203082013-05-27T11:49:00.003-07:002013-05-27T11:49:38.682-07:00Dominion of Canada + Director Interviews<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="userContent">The finished job. 4489 at Shildon today 25th May 2013. And more or less same time frame, the position for Museum Director is now advertised rather than acting Director. I believe Paul Kirkman is in the running and is probably front runner. The Guardian posted the advert on the 25th April 2013. And see <a href="http://www.nationalmuseums.org.uk/media/job-pdfs/job-3472.pdf" target="_blank">here</a>.</span>robertatforsythehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04316299884670781392noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6645322682821494013.post-3718967933427884812013-03-28T10:58:00.001-07:002013-03-28T10:58:11.171-07:00NRM Development E news 1Not every piece of news I get from the NRM I report on. But this first issue of a new newsletter is worth flagging over several self evident fronts.<br />
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The outgoing address NRM Development News <development newletters.nrm.org.uk=""></development><br />
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The Reply to sponsorship-reply@newsletters.nrm.org.uk<br />
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The content as delivered today:<br />
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Welcome! <br /><br />Welcome to your new enewsletter from the NRM Development Team. Down the Line will bring you all the latest news and updates from the museum to show how your support really is making a difference to the work we do. <br /><br />We will bring you details of upcoming projects and exhibitions that you can support, and information about special supporter events that we have planned for you throughout the year.<br /><br />If you have any questions or comments, please do not hesitate to get in touch.<br /><br /><br />New Look Station Hall<br />After two years of securing funds for the renovation of our Station Hall, we are pleased to announce that the project is now complete. Since moving the locos in 2011 and creating a new entrance to the space, we have focussed on objects, lighting and installations to recreate the sights and sounds of a working station. The Royal Platform is now richly decorated to display our collection of majestic royal carriages. Our passenger platform has been brought to life with objects and stories given to us by the public as part of our Station Stories hunt. Sound recordings are helping to tell the story of a running goods depot; while the chance to watch Nightmail and Terminus brings a whole new visual element to the space. An in depth account of the <br />project can be found in Ruth's blog.<br /><br />Mallard 75<br />Our main focus so far this year has been raising sponsorship to reunite the six surviving A4 Pacific Class locos as part of the Mallard 75 celebrations. On 3rd July 2013 we will launch a spectacular series of events to celebrate the 75th anniversary of Mallard achieving the world speed steam record. The centrepiece of the programme will be a one off grouping of the A4s around the turntable at the National Railway Museum, but will also include a unique exhibition It's Quicker by Rail at our Art Gallery, breathtaking lighting of the six locos as part of the Illuminate York festival, and a spectacular finale event and line up at our sister site in Shildon. Donors to the Mallard 75 project will receive special access to the A4 collection, and a certificate of recognition for any contribution made. Remember to visit our website for all the latest Mallard related news and announcements. To find out how you can support the Mallard 75 celebrations, please contact the development team. <br /><br />Remember to visit our website for all the latest Mallard related news and announcements: <a href="http://newsletters.nrm.org.uk/re?l=5urgseI1n5zkv0I0">http://newsletters.nrm.org.uk/re?l=5urgseI1n5zkv0I0</a><br /><br />Dates for your diary<br /><br />2 May: Evening of Family Fun<br />This unique event will give you the opportunity to enjoy some of the Museum's most popular activities after hours. With free steam rides, live drama performances, craft activities to take home, and a tour of the royal carriages, there is something for everyone.<br />*Please note that this event is for NRM Patrons and Corporate Partners only. To find out about the benefits of these schemes and how you can join, please contact the team: development@nrm.org.uk<br /><br />23 May: Annual Dinner<br />This evening is an opportunity for us to welcome supporters and friends, old and new, in recognition of their tremendous ongoing support. We strive to position ourselves at the heart of the modern industry and debate, and trust that you will find the evening a great networking opportunity with other industry leaders.<br />*Please note that this event is for NRM Patrons and Corporate Partners only. To find out about the benefits of these schemes and how you can join, please contact the team: development@nrm.org.uk<br /><br />7 June: Wilton Power Station Tour<br />An exclusive behind the scenes tour of Wilton International Site at Middlesborough. Guests will be taken on a plant tour of Sembcorp Main Power Station, the Control Room and Rail Head, and visit to the Transporter Bridge.<br />*Please note that this event is for NRM Patrons only. To find out about the benefits of this scheme and how you can join, please contact the team: development@nrm.org.uk<br /><br />3 July: Mallard 75 Great Gathering Gala Dinner<br />Enjoy a drinks reception in Station Hall and exclusive preview of our new art exhibition, then move into the Great Hall for a unique chance to dine surrounded by the six surviving A4 locomotives. Hear the story of the Great Gathering from those who made it happen, and enjoy a sumptuous three course meal and coffee. Tickets for this spectacular event, at a cost of £75 each, are limited so book yours now: <a href="http://newsletters.nrm.org.uk/re?l=5urgseI1n5zkv0I1">http://newsletters.nrm.org.uk/re?l=5urgseI1n5zkv0I1</a><br /><br />14 September: Railways change lives<br />In partnership with The National Archives, we'll be holding a one-day conference at York to look at how railways have changed our lives, drawing on the archives and collections of the National Archives and our museum. Tickets, at a cost of £50, are limited and available on a first come, first served basis so book now at <a href="http://newsletters.nrm.org.uk/re?l=5urgseI1n5zkv0I2">http://newsletters.nrm.org.uk/re?l=5urgseI1n5zkv0I2</a> or download the full programme and speaker list here: <a href="http://newsletters.nrm.org.uk/re?l=5urgseI1n5zkv0I3">http://newsletters.nrm.org.uk/re?l=5urgseI1n5zkv0I3</a><br />Note: On Saturday 7 September, The National Archives will host the same conference programme at Kew so that people from London and the South East can attend. Visit their website for details and to book online: <a href="http://newsletters.nrm.org.uk/re?l=5urgseI1n5zkv0I4">http://newsletters.nrm.org.uk/re?l=5urgseI1n5zkv0I4</a><br /><br />For further information on any of the above events, please contact the team directly. Thank you for your continued support. It is very much appreciated by everyone here at the museum<br /><br />Best wishes,<br /><br />The Development Team<br />e: development.org.uk<br />t: 01904 686 285<br /><br /><br />Offers for supporters<br /><br />Bachmann Midland Models<br />We would like to offer supporters the opportunity to purchase two of these exclusive models at a reduced price. Platinum Midland Compound £130 (save £40) Standard Midland Compound £110 (save £30)<br /><br />Contact tish.bolton@nrm.org.uk for more details<br /><br />Great British Loco Pin Collection<br />A landmark tribute to our greatest British locomotives, each of these pins is an original, unique design, celebrating the greatest British locomotives of all time. Every pin comes with its own fascinating fact card, providing more of each train's story.<br /><br />Find out more here: <a href="http://newsletters.nrm.org.uk/re?l=5urgseI1n5zkv0I5">http://newsletters.nrm.org.uk/re?l=5urgseI1n5zkv0I5</a><br /><br />Mallard 75 Memorabilia<br />A new range of exclusive Mallard 75 products will be available to purchase in the NRM shop from Saturday 30 March. The collection incorporates artwork designed around the loco's 4468 number, using Mallard's dynamic and beautiful new colouring.Visit the shop here:<br />
<a href="http://newsletters.nrm.org.uk/re?l=5urgseI1n5zkv0I6">http://newsletters.nrm.org.uk/re?l=5urgseI1n5zkv0I6</a><br /><br />Don't forget to add this email address to your safe senders list<br />National Railway Museum, Leeman Road, York, YO26 4XJ. Tel 08448 153139<br />www.nrm.org.uk | nrm@nrm.org.uk<br /><br />robertatforsythehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04316299884670781392noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6645322682821494013.post-89070469993632096522013-03-26T03:24:00.000-07:002013-03-26T03:24:24.802-07:00Royal PatronageRoyal Patronage matters, this tweet @clarencehouse: Prince of Wales becomes Patron of Mallard 75, celebrating 75yrs of steam train world speed record <a href="http://bit.ly/16d6b5U" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/16d6b5U </a>.robertatforsythehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04316299884670781392noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6645322682821494013.post-58881872795948833672013-03-11T02:28:00.000-07:002013-03-11T02:29:45.438-07:00Flying Scotsman delayed till 2015<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I shall try not to get too emotive about 4472 although I find it difficult not to observe that the time/money the engine and the A4 party have consumed could have been spent a 1000 better ways. The NRM is at York, yes, but it was not intended to be Gresley centric. Anyway enough comment, I simply want to record the links on the latest chapter in the saga:<br />
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<a href="http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/10277771.Flying_Scotsman_not_back_on_the_rails"><span class="UFICommentBody" id=".reactRoot[5].[1][2][1]{comment345208942250182_653966}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0">http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/10277771.Flying_Scotsman_not_back_on_the_rails</span></a><br />
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<span class="UFICommentBody" id=".reactRoot[5].[1][2][1]{comment345208942250182_653966}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0">And the FCP report with a personally felt surprising number of redactions (said to be because a tender process for the repairs will start).</span><br />
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<span class="UFICommentBody" id=".reactRoot[5].[1][2][1]{comment345208942250182_653966}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0">Header photo dates my first encounter with 4472 on visit to Norwich in 1967. Plenty of ephemera about the engine including my 1967 excursion Norwich to York (first visit to museum) in The Forsythe Collection in Search Engine at NRM.</span>robertatforsythehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04316299884670781392noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6645322682821494013.post-11716216908299160062013-03-04T06:17:00.002-08:002013-03-04T11:25:32.341-08:00Dates for the six A4s at YorkRailway Magazine August 2012 p17 Steve Davies "Current thinking anticipates all six being together for one month at the NRM, followed a little later by a further week, also at York". Railway Magazine April 2013 the "line-up of six A4s will start on July 3rd and will last a week".<br />
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This date is not exactly the same duration as in the NRM press release quoted previous post, till 17th July and in the R Mag p64 same issue. robertatforsythehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04316299884670781392noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6645322682821494013.post-63739805435035939962013-02-27T04:19:00.001-08:002013-06-04T01:03:39.264-07:00York 26th February 2013<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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It has been a year since one of us was in York. Fiona was in this month in 2012. Does'nt time fly when aunts die, illness strikes and museum director's change. I managed to York and met Tim Procter the archivist who cares for The Forsythe Collection. It was very worthwhile. It is all now in a new roller shelving home. Two gentleman from Harwich were there for the day working on NRM materials including The Forsythe Collection. I used my time to make 250 pictures of items which will appear probably in various Facebook locations. Tim is preparing a detailed Collection Development Plan. Graham Cornish has been continuing to work through the binders making A4 descriptive sheets. It being 2013 it was difficult not to take a picture of A4s.robertatforsythehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04316299884670781392noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6645322682821494013.post-56105730096418847262013-02-07T07:13:00.000-08:002013-02-07T07:13:02.300-08:00Mallard 75 DateThis just in from the NRM<br />
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Date is announced for the Great Gathering, part of Mallard 75 celebrations.<br /><br />We're delighted to announce the date for our Great Gathering of all six surviving A4 class locomotives. On 3rd July, 75 years to the day since Mallard became the world's fastest steam locomotive, you can see all the remaining members of Sir Nigel Gresley's iconic class gathered around our Great Hall's turntable. <br /><br />For the first time all six locomotives will be together to commemorate Mallard's historic achievement in style. Two of Mallard's sisters have even traveled 2,527 miles across the Atlantic to join in the celebrations with Dwight D. Eisenhower and Dominion of Canada coming from the U.S.A and Canada respectively. <br /><br />One of these repatriated machines, Dwight D. Eisenhower, has just gone on display in our museum. Both Dwight and Mallard have recently been given a fresh coat of paint to get them on top form for the occasion and can be seen side by side in our Great Hall. Dominion of Canada is also currently undergoing cosmetic restoration which can be seen at our sister museum in Shildon.<br /><br />The Great Gathering will be free entry and there is no need to book. Keep an eye on our website and Facebook page for more details and images in the build up to the event.<br /><br />Find out more: <a href="http://www.nrm.org.uk/mallard75">http://www.nrm.org.uk/mallard75</a> robertatforsythehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04316299884670781392noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6645322682821494013.post-45140801409053485822013-02-04T06:03:00.000-08:002013-02-04T06:07:55.547-08:00Repatriation stops where?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="userContent">The <i>Railway Magazine</i> March 2013 p49 a letter
from John Cousins which I reproduce by typing it all in in full "Canada
was obviously incapable of maintaining A4 60010 in an acceptable
condition for which they should be ashamed, and, as a result, relinquish
custody to the UK". A head of steam is being built up of which this is
an example to campaign for one or both of these A4s to stay in Britain.<br /> <br /> M<span class="text_exposed_show">y
take is that this approach is shameful on our nation and it disappoints
me that a magazine as august as this would even print the letter,
presumably it reflects their postbag.<br /> <br /> Anyone who takes time to
think this through will realise the North American institutions did as
well by these two as many of our own operations including the National
Railway Museum have done. An international deal was negotiated by the
National Railway Museum on our behalf. You can argue about the merits
over whether this was money well spent but there are no grounds
whatsoever (within the boundaries of good taste and diplomacy) to undo
the deal. We restore cosmetically the locos, we enjoy them this year,
they go home in 2014. Four other A4s are in the country to enjoy anyway.
Now find something more important to talk about or fund raise for in
railway heritage. There is no shortage of choice.</span></span> <br />
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Also posted at<a href="https://www.facebook.com/robert.forsythe.39/posts/443066979100396" target="_blank"> https://www.facebook.com/robert.forsythe.39/posts/443066979100396</a><br />
(BTW an interesting exercise would review all the Deltics (their lineal successors) in preservation in Britain and comment on their varying states).robertatforsythehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04316299884670781392noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6645322682821494013.post-21457342795253557502013-01-25T04:02:00.000-08:002013-01-25T04:02:20.457-08:00Funding the restoration of the Trans-Atlantic A4s.<br />
"The Friends of the National Railway Museum have officially announced a
£50k donation towards the cosmetic overhaul of the A4 locomotives
repatriated from North America. The estimated cost of the cosmetic
restoration works to No. 60008 and No. 60010 in the National Railway
Museum’s York and Shildon workshops is in the region of £22,000 and
£37,000 respectively. This is based on all work carried out by
contractors and the costs associated with buying the necessary parts and
equipment for the work being undertaken by the National Railway Museum
workshop teams. This includes the supply of paint, asbestos remediation
to make the vehicles safe for sanding and painting, the removing and
refitting of the motion and body work repairs".<br />
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"A spokesperson for the museum said:<br />
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“Although fundraising towards
the cosmetic restoration phase of the Mallard75 project is still
ongoing, we are delighted to officially announce the Friends’ generous
donation towards the work necessary to display Dwight D Eisenhower and
Dominion of Canada alongside their sister locomotives in the Great Hall.
It is a significant contribution towards the cosmetic restoration work
on the two vehicles which is planned to be complete by late spring. We
hope the spectacular sight of all six surviving Gresley A4s around the
Great Hall turntable will be a suitable reward and we would like to
express our heartfelt thanks for the Friends’ support.”<br />
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<span class="messageBody" data-ft="{"type":3}"><span class="userContent">The
National Railway Museum commits to do a job before the funding is in
place. Should public institutions do this? To cover itself the Friends
of the NRM make a considerable donation towards the restoration of other
institution's artefacts. Am I the only person who thinks this is odd? </span></span></h5>
robertatforsythehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04316299884670781392noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6645322682821494013.post-36394656251160532512013-01-06T11:56:00.001-08:002013-10-11T05:59:33.333-07:00Puffing Billy lives in the Science Museum LondonPuffing Billy lives in the Science Museum London but was built in Wylam 200 years ago. That thread of linkage to the NRM is why I now share a press release from Beamish and Wylam Parish<br />
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(extracted from a PDF from Wylam Parish and Beamish)<br />
Photograph was taken at the Haugh Pit in the early 1860’s and shows Puffing Billy with the driver J. Carr (right) and fireman W. Greener (left). In the background are three buildings still standing today - the former school of 1854 (far left), Laburnum House (centre) and the Wesleyan Chapel of 1834 on the extreme right.<br />
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Invitation to community groups<br />
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In 2013 communities along the Wylam to Lemington waggonway will be celebrating 200 years since steam locomotives were used to transport coal from Wylam colliery to Lemington staiths on the River Tyne.<br />
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These early engines were the cutting edge technology of the period. being the first commercial steam locomotives working on the adhesion principle. They helped pave the way for the future development of modern railways across the world.<br />
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‘Puffing Billy’ was one of these steam locomotives, built circa 1813 – 14, working for nearly 50 years along the waggonway. The engine survives today, almost certainly the oldest locomotive in the world and a fully operational working replica was built in Beamish and launched in 2005.<br />
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A group of interested parties has begun to meet to discuss possible events to develop a programme for a Puffing Billy Festival which will include visits to and from Beamish Museum , involve the Puffing Billy replica, community events and an attempt to replicate the steam power that travelled down the lines with pupil power that will travel along the track way from Wylam to Newburn (along its original route). <br />
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This group, including so far, representatives from Wylam Parish Council, Beamish Museum, members of local groups, members of the public, Northumberland County Councillors and officers and Newcastle City Councillors and officers would like to invite you to find out more and how you can get involved at an informal meeting on;<br />
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Wednesday 16th January at 7pm Walbottle Campus,<br />
Hexham Road, Walbottle. Newcastle upon Tyne. NE15 9TP<br />
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We all feel that this is a great opportunity to use this very significant anniversary to build on the many successful community events of 2012, foster cross community links and develop cross county links and are keen and excited to involve as many people and groups as possible.<br />
Please pass this on to other interested parties, come along, have a cup of tea, find out the ideas we have had and discuss any ideas of your own. <br />
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If you would like to come along or have any questions then please contact either; <br />
Geraldine Starker Community Engagement Co-ordinator, Beamish Museum <br />
0191 370 4000 (ext 2080) geraldinestraker@beamish.org.uk<br />
Tom Martin Wylam Parish Council <br />
01661 852025 tommartin1963@sky.com<br />
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In the Hexham Courant 1st February 2013 it was announced that the Puffing Billy replica which lives at Beamish will visit Wylam on 21st September 2013. A great piece of community news.<br />
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In the end a very successful festival with major help from Beamish and some help from the NRM was held. More detail <a href="https://www.facebook.com/PuffingBilly200" target="_blank">here</a>. robertatforsythehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04316299884670781392noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6645322682821494013.post-86364904700242032242013-01-05T03:50:00.001-08:002013-01-05T09:54:30.890-08:00A Great Central new outstation for LeicesterSomething looking more positive which the February dated<i> Railway Magazine</i> covers is the development of a plan for another outstation like Shildon but at Leicester. This is headlined as a £10 million development covering up to 50 new jobs and handling 200,000 visitors a year. Paul Kirkman current museum director has given his blessing to the development of the scheme's funding package. As with Shildon, this will be a partnership. In this case with the Great Central Railway at Leicester North station and with Leicester City Council. Being of a certain age I remember a previous attempt perhaps 40 years ago when National Collection items spent some years in store in Wigston Roundhouse pending a museum development then. I think what actually happened was that Leicester developed the Abbey Pumping Station project and at least some of the items in store wound up at the Midland Railway Centre?<br />
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It is worth bearing in mind that if this happened, the NRM would have substantial on the ground presence at York, Shildon, Swindon and Leicester. In the round it would certainly assuage those who worry about the "northocentric" nature of the NRM, I don't. At some point however, you wonder when collecting mania on large objects will encounter a brick wall. Despite Shildon a sizeable chunk of NRM collection is at places like Kineton in secure store. The Leicester development should be an exciting and positive scheme if it assists in getting all the NRM collection into public areas. But will we in 10 years be seeing yet another outstation? My own take for some time is that increasingly the need is for the NRM to be a backstop in preservation management. Apart from the icons let the private sector take the load and intervene by the state only when a single figure survivor is threatened.<br />
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Seeing the financial details of a Shildon would be interesting for instance. How much does it cost the NRM each year? How much does Durham County pay and how secure is that? £11.3 million was the capital cost at Shildon in 2004. Shildon welcomed <a href="http://www.nrm.org.uk/AboutUs/PressOffice/PressReleases/2010/September/1millionthvisitor.aspx" target="_blank">a million free visitors</a> in its first six years. Some parallels are evident. That is fine, doing something twice is no bad move. Leicester's visitor catchment should be a better one than Shildon.<br />
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The new <i>Steam Railway</i> has a feature "Is it time for a national register of Locomotives?". Yes, I say. There is such for British maritime heritage. 20 years ago my father was working with the World Ship Trust on the International Register of Historic Ships. About that time I tried to persuade Neil Cossons at the Science Museum of the need for a register and grading system in railway preservation. I was rebuffed. Yet since then the concept has gained in momentum. The work has been <a href="http://www.vintagecarriagestrust.org/surveystatus.asp" target="_blank">done on carriages </a>by the Vintage Carriage Trust based at Ingrow.<br />
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(A PS to this story, <a href="http://www.thisisleicestershire.co.uk/Town-loss-pound-10m-railway-museum/story-17738868-detail/story.html" target="_blank">a rival's view!</a>) robertatforsythehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04316299884670781392noreply@blogger.com2