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BRITAIN’S LEADING HISTORICAL RAILWAY JOURNAL
Vol. 31
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No. 5
MAY 2017
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Vol 31 . No.5
No. 313
MAY 2017
RECORDING THE HISTORY OF BRITAIN’S RAILWAYS
Just for the fun of it
Railway excursions are up for consideration this month. Now, the
last goodness knows how many months have been wearisomely
bedevilled with news of disputes and strikes on the Southern trains
and I doubt that many of those commuters obliged to endure
the consequences of them, or indeed who are regularly prised
into overcrowded carriages all around the railway system, would
instinctively classify themselves as fans of railway travel. Airy political
promises of ‘more carriages’ in the future must seem like The White
Queen’s assertion to Alice (of Wonderland fame) that “The rule is jam
tomorrow and jam yesterday – but never jam today.” Those daily
starved of that jam would probably not be thinking of taking a ride
on a railway excursion as their choice of a day out purely for the sheer
pleasure of it.
I’ve had my differences with modern rail travel and the standards
it offers (as readers will be well aware!) but nevertheless, on a good
day when everything works out well, I can still enjoy a train journey
and find it as good a means of getting about as any and better than
most.
To that end I admit to occasionally enjoying a charter train
excursion – what used to be generically termed a ‘railtour’. The
emphasis of these in terms of the ‘passenger experience’ has changed
markedly in recent years. They were for a very long time aimed
primarily at railway and locomotive enthusiasts, often with special
features to them as selling points: unusual motive power over a
certain route (such as a Southern Pacific over Ais Gill), rare mileage (eg
freight-only lines), tours commemorating disappearing locomotive
classes, farewell journeys over lines about to close. Another curiosity
of the ‘railtour era’ was the brake van tour, suitable only for the stoical,
which did short-distance explorations around goods spurs, industrial
systems etc in a manner upon which today’s ‘Health & Safety’ would
at the very least frown fiercely. The classier railtours might include a
buffet car for sandwiches, hot drinks and tins of beer but the more
experienced and better-organised participant would be wise to take
his own hard tack; a flask of hot soup was generally recommended.
How different the philosophy is now! Today’s special trains
are unashamedly marketed for those seeking a more upmarket
excursion; whilst there are still standard class coaches for the ‘gricing’
element, the money to be made is from passengers preferring first
class accommodation and at-your-seat catering, whether that be
at the ‘cakes and scones’ level or silver service in what is creatively
termed ‘premier class’, with full breakfast and three-course dinner.
And credit where it’s due, the quality is really very good indeed. Last
autumn an early start from Manchester was greeted with the prompt
dishing-up of the bacon, egg, sausages
et al
to awaken and enrich
the inner constitution, then after a stirring climb over Shap behind
Scots Guardsman
a delightful run back around the Cumbrian Coast
was even further enhanced by platefuls of tasty comestibles eased
down by a couple of bottles of ‘Gravy Train Ale’. Moreover, a word in
praise of the waiters and stewards would not be out of place. Working
on your feet all day on a fast-moving train is demanding, added to
which are early starts, late finishes and the prospect of the same again
the next day.
From what I gather these trains have gained an appreciative and
fairly regular clientele which makes luxury train travel its chosen form
of leisure actvity. It’s not cheap, though, and for five or six of these
trips at premier class fares you could book a holiday abroad but I for
one can certainly see their appeal.
Excursion trains, then, have moved a long way from the ‘cheap
trips’ of the past, when they were conceived as giving the working
masses an affordable day out at the seaside or in the country air. Later
specials to particular events like exhibitions, ceremonial occasions,
works outings, political and industrial rallies, race meetings, football
matches, total eclipses of the sun and, of course, those legendary ones
to public executions all expanded the scope of the railways’ service
to the general public. They became a fixture, in their differing ways,
of the yearly calendar whereby people were offered the chance of
an easy change of scene and it was only the inevitable consequence
of the growth of private motoring and the post-Beeching policy of
ridding the railways of sidings full of seldom used rolling stock which
brought about their slow demise in their traditional form. The rarity of
total eclipses and the abolition of public hangings didn’t help, either.
Nowadays the journey itself, and for many the joy of having
a splendid steam locomotive to haul the train, is almost of greater
significance than the destination. For years a railway excursion could
produce a rake of carriages for which no better use could be found:
often non-corridor stock over far longer distances than was desirable,
with all the ‘discomforts’ and ‘inconveniences’ that would thereby be
entailed. The future editor cooped in a non-corridor compartment
on a 1960s ‘Blackpool Lights’ excursion would not have imagined
his later self ensconced in a first class seat reflecting on life over a
restorative midday gin and tonic while at the same time musing over
his choice of starter and main course for later. But if he could, he
would definitely have relished the thought!
Contents
Carnforth and Cumbria
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288
District Railway Electrics
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293
The Great Western in Wirral – Part One
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300
Signalling Spotlight
Scottish Signal Variety
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306
Railway Excursion Traffic 1830-1899
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308
Go West
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316
Readers’ Forum
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317
Book Reviews
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318
BR Standard Class 5 4-6-0
No.73069 on the vacuum-worked
turntable at Carnforth locomotive
depot early on the morning of
6th July 1968.
(David Rodgers)
Class 56s on the Coal
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260
Railway Post Offices
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262
The Lambton, Hetton & Joicey Railway
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268
Back to the Settle-Carlisle Line
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275
Dublin Amiens Street – in the
Rare Ould Times
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278
South of the Solway
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280
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ON THE COAL
The Class 56 3,250hp Co-Co
heavy freight locomotives
appeared on the British
Rail scene in 1977, 134
being built up to 1984. The
first 30 came, surprisingly,
from the Romanian builder
Electroputure due to a lack
of capacity at home. The
Romanian locomotives
proved troublesome due
to poor workmanship and
later had to be extensively
rebuilt. Many have been
withdrawn, some sold
abroad to Hungary, but
the Class 56s did some
impressive freight haulage
work in their time. These
photographs of them on
coal traffic in Yorkshire were
taken by
KEITH DUNGATE.
left
:
The British Rail era: No.56
CLASS 56s
091 leads a rake of empty
merry-go-round coal wagons
out of Healey Mills Yard on 30th
September 1986.
No.56 098 is heading a
southbound empty MGR train
crossing from the up to the
down fast line in Doncaster
station on 27th March 1995.
below
:
top
:
In the attractive but
now obsolete English,
Welsh & Scottish livery,
No.56 114 stands at
Milford West Sidings with
the 15.22 MGR train to
Drax Power Station on
2nd May 2001.
middle
:
No.56 104, wearing
Railfreight Coal Sector
grey, passes Milford
Junction with coal
wagons on 16th February
1990.
Transrail’s No.56
056 is working the 10.49
from Wardley opencast
mine in Co. Durham to
Doncaster Down Decoy
Yard past Mill Lane,
Brayton, near Hambleton
Junction on 30th March
2000.
bottom
:

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