On Shed September 2012 edition

On Shed September 2012 edition

    "Preserving the steam locomotive legacy...and more..on film"


September 2012 Edition

FRONT PAGE

This is the down leg of The Tamar Devonian, seen to the east of Nailsea and Backwell station on Saturday 28 July 2012. BR Class 8P Duke of Gloucester leads LNER A1 Class Tornado from Bristol Temple Meads towards Plymouth.(C) Nigel Power


Contents:Welcome, and site news...

Steam Tube Video Highlights
Steam Tube Photo Highlights
Tornado- The Story Continues
On This Day - September in Years Gone By....

Mega Shed Bash September 1962 (Dick Bodily)

UK Heritage Lines News
New Build News(VSLC & V499 Project), Jinty Appeal, Hengist
Around The World in 80 Railways. No 26: Old Delhi to Jaipur  (Courtesy NomadicSamuel on YouTube)

From Christian Wolmar....The Great Railway Revolution (Review)

                                      and August 2012 newsletter

From the USA:
150 Years of Steam - So Far (Steve Mitchell)
Another Milestone for SP 4449 (Steve Mitchell)
The Lumberjack Steam Train Crew (Steve Mitchell)

Wasatch Railroad Contractors- Videos

WATTRAIN Congress 

Miscellany....
Lancashire and Yorkshire School of Signalling (NRM on YouTube)
Signal Boxes of the Stourbridge Line (Martin Creese)
The Other Siberian Railroad

"Off The Tracks". Kind Permission Maurice Porter, Gazelle Films


Welcome

Its a pleasure to give you a welcome to this September 2012 edition of "On Shed"!
To the 40 new members....from Australia, France, the UK.....now bringing our membership to 1,155..a special welcome. It is our wish that you enjoy the ambience of Steam Tube, and feel able to contribute to the extensive Steam Tube library...which now stands at 4,455 videos and 22,855 photographs!

There has been the usual flurry of mainline steam during the past month, as the following highlights amply demonstrate. As always, thanks to you all for uploading your videos and photos so quickly.
And a gentle reminder to keep all shots legal (i.e. no trespassing)...Steam Tube supports Responsible Railway Photography.

This months edition sees us looking back 50 years ago (to 1962) with Dick Bodilys personal reminiscences....and looking forward to the WATTRAIN Congress at the end of this next month (September)

There are news items from the Jinty Appeal, the Hengist Project, and from our Australian members promoting the V499 locomotive build. Special thanks to Jonathan Newton.

Steve Mitchell provides some excellent research into the history of Union Pacific, and John Rimmasch at Wasatch Railroad Contractors visits the Nevada Northern Railroad Museum, and visits Durán, Ecuador where he finds the old locomotive shops of the Guayaquil & Quito Railway. Perhaps these shops will once again see their glory days... Thank you, John for your excellent series...

The Miscellany includes some interesting features.....take a look at the "Other Siberian Railroad" link.

Of course, there has been a lot of activity on railways generally worldwide.
The Railway Chronicle is the place to look for your railway news.

So, enjoy..............



Steam Tube Video Highlights







Steam Tube Photo Highlights






Tornado- The Story Continues




On This Day In This Month In Railway History
September

01/09/1905
The Witham (Essex) rail crash in England kills 11.

04/09/1905
William Dean , CME of the GWR (1877-1902) born 1840
07/09/1962
Last Cornishman express ran over the Stratford-upon-Avon to Cheltenham route:
this and other express trains were re-routed via the Birmingham - Gloucester line.

The Gloucestershire Warwickshire Steam Railway operates over the section of line previously used when The Cornishman train ran in its heyday.
Currently the GWSR is coping with the effects of two serious landslips. Please support the Emergency Fund so that the railway can recover from these setbacks, and move on with its ambitious plans to get to Broadway, and , who knows, to Honeybourne in the future.

15/09/1830
The Liverpool and Manchester Railway opened.
During the ceremony, William Huskisson MP, became the first person to be killed by a train.
The Rocket 150 event held at Rainhill in 1980 marked the 150th anniversary of the worlds first inter-city railway and the Stephensons legendary Rocket locomotive.
Go to: http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/steamtrains/7305.shtml

17/09/1909
Beyer, Peacock and Company of Manchester, England, steam the first Garratt articulated steam locomotive, built to the design of Herbert William Garratt.K Class No. K1 for the Tasmanian Government Railways North East Dundas Railway.
(MOSI is pulling out all the stops for the 100^th birthday celebrations of one of Manchester’s most famous steam locomotives.
It is taking the K1, the first Beyer-Garratt produced by the Beyer, Peacock company, back to its birthplace in Gorton, Manchester, on August 17 to celebrate 100 years since it first steamed off the production line.
The anniversary has special resonance as the town of Gorton is also celebrating 100 years since it became part of Manchester, through its Gorton 100 celebrations.)

The Worlds First Garratt

17/09/1912
The Ditton Junction rail crash near Widnes, England, kills 15.The Official Report by Lieutenant-Colonel Yorke

19/09/1882
Oliver Bulleid, CME , Southern Railways (1937-48) born in New Zealand (d 1970)


At Nine Elms MPD


19/09/1906
14 die as a result of the Grantham rail accident on the Great Northern Railway, when a sleeping car train is derailed passing through Grantham statiopn at excessive speed.
The Official Report

24/09/1917
Bere Ferrers rail accident(England) kills 10 New Zealand soldiers.
25/09/1913
Death of Herbert William Garratt, English steam locomotive builder and inventor of the Garratt
locomotive type. (b 1864)
27/09/1825
The Stockton Darlington Railway opened. It was the first passenger rail service, the steam locomotive travelled at 10mph.


Opening of the Stockton and Darlington Railway c1825 painted in the 1880s by John Dobbin, . The image shows crowds watching a train on the bridge over the River Skerne in Darlington

27/09/1919
September 27 to October 6..Railway workers in the United Kingdom stage a strike, called by the National Union of Railwaymen.



During the First World War the cost of living increased rapidly. Fron July 1914 to September 1915, for example, food prices rose 37%. For the duration of the War the government was in control of the railways. Wages were increased, but at a slower rate than the risin in the cost of living. NUR and ASLEF responded jointly and forced the Board of Trade to award wage increases in September 1916 and April 1917. In March 1919 the coalition government indicated that it intended to review the War Wage, with a view to reducing it at the end of the year. The NUR and ASLEF started a second national railway strike in September 1919, which in nine days won both a change in pay policy and the reduction of the working day to eight hours.(Wikipedia)

28/09/1928
3rd class sleeping cars introduced on those British railways providing such a service.


28/09/1883
Formal opening of first electrified section of Giants Causeway Tramway in Ireland, utilising hydroelectricity.

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Mega Shed Bash September 1962

It was the last weekend in September and an early start was essential  for our TGS Railway Society was planning to visit 7 sheds and a works in the Leicester, Nottingham , Doncaster and Retford areas using coach travel by means of a rather unreliable 30 seater Austin coach. In reality we were to visit no less than 9 sheds that day and we were to see about 500 locomotives, including over 400 steamers, 36 of them namer Pacifics! We were due to set off from Towcester at 6.30am which would have necessitated a very early 5 mile bike ride, but luckily I found out that the coach was passing my house and that the driver was prepared to stop to pick me up a I was the only one who lived on the route from the depot, others were not so lucky. Rob Ward and Rex Partridge who lived near the coach depot were already on board to ensure that the driver didn’t forget to stop for me.

At Towcester we met our teacher Mr ‘Percy’ Shaw and fellow pupil Chris Leah, who between them had organised the trip, along with the rest of our party.  There was no motorway then and the journey to Leicester seemed to take absolutely ages. First shed was Leicester Midland (15C).  About 45 locos were on shed mainly mundane 8Fs and 4Fs but also ‘Jubilee’ 45575 ‘Madras’ of Kentish Town and a couple of Fairburn tanks.

Next an eagerly anticipated ca


On Shed September 2012 edition