Contents Listing - Articles & Features in this issue
N2 0-6-2Ts - Part One of a three-part survey Lady Victoria Colliery - Scruffy locos in South Wales Manx meanderings - Photographs by W.A.C. Smith Ian's half century - Photographs by Ian S.Carr The Waterside railway - Scottish NCB steam action A celebratory occasion...100 years of the Shoreham-Horsham line ...and s sad occasion - The last day on the Guildford-Horsham line Taking the Weight - Pooley & Son's maintenance vans A tunnel vision - Track lifting on the S&D The Ramsgate Tunnel Railway - Subterranean and all-electric The Kington Railways - Part Three: the Presteign branch And finally - Contractors' locos By the By - Readers' letters Welcome to Railway Bylines 10:8. One of the major articles in this month's issue looks at the N2 0-6-2Ts - the famous workhorses of the North London suburban services. As has become customary with our 'nut and bolt' locomotive surveys, the article will continue in next month's issue. By spreading an article over two issues we are spared the frustration of having to shoe-horn everything into just twelve or fourteen pages; instead, we have the space to go into greater detail and to include far more photographs. Given the sheer quantity of first-rate photographs we were offered for this article (those N2s certainly were popular!), it would have been hugely disappointing to have consigned a substantial number of them to the "can't use - not enough room" pile. In fact, yet another envelope of N2 photographs arrived in the post only this morning; these photographs are far too good not to use, so we are tempted to extend the article to three parts, the third being almost entirely pictorial. We'll let you know more when we know more ourselves. In the last couple of issues we have mentioned the possible use of colour photographs in Bylines. When and if that happens (at this moment it looks like a 'when' rather than an 'if'), colour will be used only sparingly - a page or two here and there. So don't start worrying that we will be totally abandoning black & white; the greater proportion of each issue will still be in glorious mono. (Despite our liking for black & white, any jokes about the cheapskate editor having a black and white dog because the licence is cheaper will be ignored.) We have already received some very interesting colour slides, but we need to see more. If you have any top-quality colour slides of Bylines-type subjects - slides which justify the use of colour, as opposed to almost monochromatic views of soot-covered locomotives and rolling stock amid soot-covered surroundings - we would very much like to hear from you.
Article Snippets
The Waterloo & City Railway - only the second 'tube' line to be built in London - was a completely isolated entity; while this had no effect on the everyday running of the line, on the rare occasions when rolling stock needed to be taken on or off the railway there was no direct escape route. Instead, stock had to be brought up and down by means of a special hydraulic hoist. The top of the hoist - the Armstrong Lift, as it was known - was at the end of a short siding alongside Waterloo main line station. This picture of the hoist was taken on 3 October 1951. The level of the tube rails was 41ft below that of the surface rails. On 13 April 1947 a Southern Railway M7 famously familiarised itself with much of the 41ft drop when, after shunting four loaded coal wagons on to the hoist, it fell down the shaft on to the wagons below.
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