R350 Class L1 4-4-0 31785 and 6 wheel Tender in B.R. The wartime economy livery was adopted from the middle of 1915. 4 0 obj The trains ran to London where the water was distilled into three-imperial-gallon (14l; 3.6USgal) barrels and sold for sixpence (pre decimalisation price c. 1880, about 6.00 in 2021). The Great Eastern Railway (GER) was a pregrouping British railway company, whose main line linked London Liverpool Street to Norwich and which had other lines through East Anglia. [109], The farm survived into LNER days being sold in 1927 when the farmer reached 70 and retired. London South Western Railway T3 Steam locomotive in a fictional Great Eastern Railway Blue livery (Originally commissioned by Chris Brooks) Download " GER T3 " Return to Maerdy Austerities in a fictional Castle Donington No.3 livery (Originally created by Jace (TheTrainGuy19) In 1946 the LNER completely renumbered its entire locomotive stock, allocating particular groups of numbers to specific locomotive types. The frames were J69 0-6-0T engine in GER livery and carrying headboard. Whilst Parliament favoured competition it was also aware that the ECR was constantly at war with its neighbours and whilst these working arrangements were approved there was a condition that a bill for full amalgamation was presented by 1861. Similarly, a system of coloured boards representing the destination and/or route of each train was introduced, with the boards being fitted to the rear and sides of the guard's van which would be nearest the concourse at Liverpool Street and enable passengers to quickly find and board their train. In 1906 a new train set was produced for the North Country Continental train (see below) and in 1907 for the Norfolk Coast Express (see below). endobj [73] However, with the restaurant sets built in 1900 being corridor coaches, more corridor coaches were being added to main line sets. The dignified Royal blue of the Great Eastern livery, with its scarlet lining out, was embellished with a copper chimney cap, and brass beadings round the rim of the safety-valve . All trains called at the two stations on the branch, taking 18 minutes to get to the junction station at Wickham Market. He did advise that the board that it needed to reconstitute itself in order to rebuild confidence in order to acquire new capital. Sinclair's first design for the GER was the W class single drivers built between 1862 and 1867 by a number of engineering firms. However, by the afternoon of Thursday 16 th February they were gone and the tram was back in full standard fleet livery with no advertising present anymore. The station, situated 14 miles 3 chains (14.0 miles; 22.6 kilometres) south of Newcastle, serves the cathedral city of Durham in County Durham, <> Nevertheless, all were painted the same way, as were also the later C53 class six-wheeled engines of 1903. The NER used an attractive livery of creamy buff and a bright reddish-brown, using more of the brown than was usual on other lines and also using the buff on window frames & glazing bars. Visitors included Kaiser Wilhelm in 1891 and in later post GER days, Wallis Simpson and Fred Perry. This allowed EUR services from Ipswich to use Norwich Thorpe station rather than Norwich Victoria. Another wagon works was located at Ipswich (adjacent to the engine shed south of the tunnel). 3 0 obj Almost all of the Great Eastern's locomotives were, after 1880, built at Stratford Works and many lasted until the end of steam on the Great Eastern.[62]. Following the grouping of the GER into the new London & North Eastern Railway at the beginning of 1923, the new company wasted no time in establishing its livery for locomotives, and this was decided upon as early as March the same year. Because of attacks on east coast shipping, traffic previously moved by sea was also carried on the GER (and more specifically the Great Eastern and Great Northern Joint Railway). Following the grouping of the GER into the new London & North Eastern Railway at the beginning of 1923, the new company wasted no time in establishing its livery for locomotives, and this was decided upon as early as March the same year. Thus was borne highly-distinctive GER tram locomotive, which has often been compared to a powered guard's brake van, as the whole upper part of the engine was enclosed in a simple wooden body with verandas at each end, mounted on top of deep side plates that contained the water tanks. Available at 33.00 each are four-wheel Third, Brake . The Railway Executive Committee was set up in 1912 after an incident between France and Germany in the Moroccan Port of Agadir and would take directions from the military and liaise with the railway companies. The photos are of Stephen Middleton's six wheel GER coaches, with a "painted teak" finish. Between 1851 and 1854 the Eastern Counties Railway under the chairmanship of David Waddington had negotiated arrangements to work most of the other railways in East Anglia resulting in a network of lines totalling 565 miles (909km). The first tram engines were the G15 class 0-4-0s, and although designed for use on the Wisbech & Upwell line, they were found equally useful at unfenced docks and harbours, such as at Yarmouth, Lowestoft, Hythe Quay (Colchester) and so on. 7999 at the East Anglia Railway Museum in late BR livery. R40370, LNER, Flying Scotsman, Mk4 DVT, 82205 - Era 11, Hornby, Coaches & Coach Packs, 1:76 Scale 00 Gauge Italic Template:Use dmy dates Template:Infobox rail The Great Eastern Railway (GER) was a pre-grouping British railway company, whose main line linked London Liverpool Street to Norwich and which had other lines through East Anglia. Set Descending Direction. Trains were reformed into sets of 16 four-wheel coaches with each train having seating capacity for 848 people, with additional standing room in peak hours. This pack contains: - One locomotive in GNR Green No. Three examples built by Cowans, Sheldon & Company were purchased between 1892 and 1899. but bogie vehicles were painted with black underframes. x[[oF~0 Original station at Loughton abandoned, Junction with independent Colne Valley Line, Sutton Bridge Junction (Ely) - Sutton Bridge, Tottenham North and South junction - Highgate Road, Completion of through Witham to Bishops Stortford line, Lea Bridge - Shern Hall Street (Walthamstow), First section of modern-day Chingford branch. Black Livery Pre-owned - in Wrenn Railways box - professionally built 1 available We are selling a large . Great North Eastern Railway: Loco & Coach: GW Green (9) First Great Western: Locomotive: GW Purple (6) First Great Western: Locomotive: GW Purple & Yellow (11) First Great Western: Coach: None the less the services remained widely known as The Jazz and even in the 1940s was still running 18 trains per hour and between 160,000 and 180,000 passengers used Liverpool Street each day. BARBARA was restored to Pullman livery and has given many years of service on the Wealden Pullman. On September 24, 2022, it was revealed that Talyllyn will return in a Great Eastern Railway blue livery once its overhaul is complete. Numbers 1a, 2a and 3a were built at Stratford Works in 1885 initially as hand cranes. The first bogie stock was introduced in 1897 and in 1904 the first complete corridor train set was produced but even this had some 6-wheelers in its formation. Moreover, whereas the 'E' suffix was diligently applied to locomotives repainted at Stratford in the new LNER livery during the period between September 1923 and February 1924, not a single case has ever come to light of an engine in GE grey with the 'E' suffix. Before the war the GER had recruited the American executive Henry Worth Thornton - former superintendent of the Long Island Rail Road (in many ways an American counterpart to the GER, operating an intensive commuter service in and out of New York City) - as its general manager. They contained two first-class compartments with lavatories sandwiched between four third-class compartments and a luggage compartment. 1-10 6170 789 790 Note F4/F5/F6 numbered in same series. Why are a lot if not most trains still carrying First Great Western livery? The opening of the Great Northern and Great Eastern Joint railway in 1882 gave the GER access to the coal fields in South Yorkshire and East Nottinghamshire and this became an important source of traffic for the railway. Many rural branch lines had no more than a handful of services each day. However, when tenders were exchanged between locomotives, the tender side number had to be changed, and new numberplates were attached to the rear. Wheel Configuration: 4-6-0. These were applied to all locomotives over a short period of time - probably only a few weeks - and on most locomotives this was done at the running sheds. This prompted an internal investigation and in a board meeting at the end of the month, an absent Jervis-White-Jervis was replaced by William Shaw as deputy chairman. These formed the basis of the 40 strong 'little Sharpie' (or Number 1) class, with 10 being built by Stratford Works and the other 30 by Sharp Stewart hence the nickname. 1853. Love was considered too cautious and some on the board still resented his role prior to amalgamation at the ECR. Each individual train was arranged to spend as little as four minutes at the terminus between arrival and departure. 197. . By this time there was little money available for dividends and the company looked very carefully at their expansion programme and unprofitable branch lines. In total, Thornton and Russell's new optimised service provided an increase in capacity of between 50 and 75 per cent without any major changes to infrastructure, no new rolling stock and a total cost of only 80,000 (3.6 million in 2020 - only a fortieth of the projected cost of electrification). FOR SALE! See below - possibly first passenger route to close in the UK? [100][101], The May 1911 issue of the Great Eastern Railway Magazine (the in-house magazine of the GER) stated the company had 1,750 horses the majority of which worked in the London area. endobj Joined 30 Sep 2017 Messages 279. The main freight class built by the GER was Worsdell's Y14 (LNER J15) 0-6-0 class. The service was initially operated by the GER's existing stud of 2-4-2T engines such as the M15 and G69 while carriages were adapted versions of either existing four-wheelers or new-builds to these older designs. Had there been an invasion then the railways had evacuation plans for the civilian populations. "London & North Eastern Railway". By February 1862 the bill had its second reading and was then followed by a lengthy committee process where various parties petitioned against the bill. This was a world record for a steam-hauled railway system. However, I have chosen that a handful of B12s will survive in my AU, but only a slight few. Bury 1838 Bar-Frame 2-2-0 in London & Birmingham Railway livery. [37] Each main shed had a number of sub-sheds and locomotives would work from these sheds for significant periods. In 1922 the GER locomotive allocation across its sheds was: Cambridge - 178; Colchester - 47; Doncaster - 5; Ipswich - 131; King's Lynn - 37; Lincoln (Pyewipe Junction) - 12; Lowestoft - 22; March - 97; Norwich - 119; Parkeston - 20; Peterborough East - 86; Stratford - 555; Wisbech - 7; and Yarmouth - 20. Additionally The Times suggested the GER may be about to appoint a receiver. The Sandringham Hotel at Hunstanton was opened on 1 May 1876 and built by the Lynn and Hunstanton Railway. The company set up a section dedicated to the movement of military traffic and between 1914 and 1918 nearly 10.5 million men were moved on GER services as well as significant numbers of horses and supplies. Royal trains were also worked from St Pancras to Sandringham in Norfolk, and race day trains to Newmarket also operated into St Pancras. On 7 August 1862 the bill passed and the Great Eastern Railway was formed by the amalgamation of the Eastern Counties Railway and a number of smaller railways. The large function room known as the Hamilton Hall was restored in the 1990s and re-opened as a pub. More ships were being ordered for Antwerp and Rotterdam traffic and proposals for 28 miles of new metropolitan lines and a new city terminus. Body of GER 1380 4 Wheel Carriage, built 1892 at Stratford works for London suburban traffic (2019) The remainder of the engines was black, with red lining on the side plates. It had 26 rooms. Despite several half-hearted attempts by the GER during the latter part of the nineteenth century, it was the Midland Railway (MR) that finally bought the London, Tilbury and Southend Railway (LT&SR) in 1912 with the MR offering a better deal for the LT&SR shareholders than the GER ever had. The GER had always intended to introduce more powerful engines and more modern and higher-capacity carriages to The Jazz to maximise the improvements. Fish traffic emanated from Lowestoft and Great Yarmouth. There were a number of ports on the GER including King's Lynn, Great Yarmouth, Lowestoft, Felixstowe and Parkeston Quay. Note that the numbering is not necessarily contiguous:[37]. 8A - RCTS. Elsie is generally shedded overnight at Knapford Sheds with Toby and Henrietta. This was one of only a handful of light railways that were constructed true to the spirit of the 1870 Tramways and Light Railways Act, which intended to facilitate the building of new railways in rural areas. The GER had a total of 11 breakdown cranes. Lima Consolidation in BCLC RR livery. More bogied suburban trains followed in 1911 and were deployed on the Ilford, Gidea Park and Loughton services. LIVERY COMPANY NAME PURPOSE IMAGE; A.T.S.F. [25] Slate grey body and solebars + white lettering. In 1870/1 the balance shifted back to the Ipswich route, with a time of 3 hours 35 minutes compared to 3 hours 53 minutes via Cambridge. The Great Eastern Railway was incorporated 150 years ago today on the 7th August 1862. Both classes entered service in 1864/65. yellow ochre colour and hence acquired the nickname of 'canaries'. 11531198 numbered in same series as J16. 2 0 obj Then, as line speeds on this or the Cambridge line improved, the focus of the Norwich services would shift from one to another. The last one, GER no. As the GER served a predominantly rural area, the majority of outward traffic was agricultural in nature. The Great Eastern Railway Society Journal Special no.3 - All Stations to Liverpool Street (articles by Lyn Brooks and Geoff . By 1915 they were organised onto four districts (primary sheds in parenthesis): Southern (Stratford); Eastern (Ipswich); Northern (Norwich); and Western (Cambridge/Peterborough). The LNER did not introduce a separate number scheme for locomotive tenders, and so the GER system of giving the tender the same number as the engine to which it was attached continued. Number & Name Type Builder Photograph Livery History Owner Notes No. 007 Skyfall - White with Black 007 Logos - Loco/DVT have Daniel Craig/Judy Dench images on Each Side . 26 Oct 2017 #1 H. highspeed990 Member. Consideration was given to electrification, following the model of the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway which had electrified its inner suburban routes between 1909 and 1912 and so been able to run both more and faster services on existing infrastructure. The GER was working many trains on the London Tilbury and Southend Railway at this time and the Sharpies were deployed on this traffic. The history and exact status of many of these railways is quite complex. These used older rolling stock with high-density seating (often using wooden benches for ease of cleaning after being used by passengers from docks, factories and markets in dirty work clothes). Hattons has added Great Eastern Railway liveries to its Genesis range of vintage c. Read More. Material: Brass, Cast Iron, Diecast. The 2-4-2Ts, of which none survive, were mostly cascaded out of suburban traffic by the 1940s and worked until the late 1950s on branch lines. 289 examples were produced between 1883 and 1913 with most being built at Stratford Works, although a small number were built by Sharp Stewart. Despite the trend to bogied stock, Stratford still included three 6-wheeler carriages and a 4-wheeled luggage van in this formation. The company was grouped into the London and North Eastern Railway in 1923. Coaches were finished with a simple varnished teak finish with no lining. In a few instances, it would appear that the numerals were outlined in a darker colour - black or perhaps vermilion. These 'jazz trains' as they were commonly known carried more passengers in the rush hour than any other railway in the country. Specific military traffic was generated at Brimsdown, Ponders End and Stowmarket. The GER owned 1,200 miles (1,931km) of line and had a near-monopoly in East Anglia until the opening of the Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway in 1893 although there were a number of minor lines, such as the Mid-Suffolk Light Railway that stayed resolutely independent until after the grouping in 1923. They were converted to steam cranes at Stratford c 1905/06 and lasted into LNER days. Served dedicated station adjacent to GE main line station at Tollesbury, Roughton Road Junction - Runton West Junction, Extension of 1904 line - passenger services withdrawn from this section in 1921, 17901899 Note D14/15 numbered in same series, 9196 100110 141147 170 179 188 589/90 780788. You're currently reading page 1; Page 2 . Ipswich engine shed for instance had a tube shop and a smithy containing eight forges and a steamhammer.[40]. GER - Great Eastern Railway. The 1890 decree that non continuously-braked engines should be painted black was made shortly before the tram engines were fitted with Westinghouse brakes, and it is not thought that any were painted black in the interim. On 1011 December 1891, the Great Eastern Railway's Stratford Works built one of these locomotives and had it in steam with a coat of grey primer in just 9 hours 47 minutes; this remains a world record. In the same month, Deputy Chairman Charles Turner resigned due to suspected fraud which was to lead to his bankruptcy later in the year. should be taken from preserved vehicles, museums, or historical societies. This suggests that despite the fact that some of these railway companies had been taken over by the Eastern Counties Railway prior to the 1862 Act, they still legally existed. In 1920-21 twenty new S69 class 4-6-0 locomotives were constructed by Beardmore & Co. Learn Great Eastern Railway facts for kids. During the following parliamentary session, the official parliamentary bill allowing the takeover by the MR was passed on 7 August 1912 although it was legally backdated to 1 January 1912. Scale: 1:76. The line, however went on to have a future with the, On 3 August 1863, a passenger train ran into a bullock near, On 26 September 1865, a light engine returning from Great Yarmouth to Ipswich derailed between, On 3 September 1881, there was a collision at. Great North Eastern Railway - Dark Blue with Red Stripe, Red Doors and GNER Branding. Originally seating 20 & having a coup, toilet & pantry, ARIES regularly . %PDF-1.5 As trains got heavier, these locomotives were replaced by the Class L77 0-6-2T (LNER N7) designed by Alfred John Hill and introduced in 1915. Generally many branch services would be timed to connect to services to the main line thus providing through journeys. 490, was preserved as part of the National Collection when withdrawn in 1959. Publications Team 2022-12-23. 110 were built Neilson & Co: first 20 R. Stephenson & Co.: 15 R. & W. Hawthorn 15 . By 1883 brick boxes were being built to a plainer design, although 1884 saw some ornateness returning. [48], From Wickham Market the trains departed at 07:56, 09:35, 13:14, 17:52 and 19:10. The next Johnson class was an 0-6-0 goods engine (Class 417) introduced in 1867 and 1868 and numbering 60 engines. . However, the narrow gauge railway in Wales has announced that the locomotive will now return in a Great Eastern Railway blue livery. . The new services were introduced in July 1920. GER Great Eastern Railway locomotive 70010 steam trains, phantom rides, stations and countryside in East Anglia Yeadon's Register Vol. The first part of the link joining the Ipswich to Bury St Edmunds line to Norwich, Leased to the EUR and operated by them. L.N.E.R APPLE GREEN CLASS B1 ENGINE BRAND NEW (ex-shop stock originally direct from manufacturers) BOX & PACKAGING AS NEW (possibility of superficial surface rubbing to outer sleeve through storage and handling complete with un-opened accessories and paperwork) The finish consisted of a 'French' grey undercoat, four coats of ultramarine blue, and several coats of blue. 125 photos. The board also received a letter from the drivers seeking improved working conditions. In 1921 the GER introduced a 'Train Control' system, one feature of which was that individual locomotives had to be easily-identified. Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for Hornby Dublo/Wrenn N2 Locomotive Repaint GER Blue Livery OO Gauge 2 Rail at the best online prices at eBay! Solebars were painted teak with th metalwork painted brown. Designed by James Holden and also known as the '1500 class', these engines were built at Stratford Works (51 engines) and William Beardmore (20 engines). The portions were detached at North Walsham. The latter was notable for being the first all corridor set built by Stratford Works. Trowse bridge opened - through running from Norwich to London starts, King's Lynn Harbour branch also opened same day, The line did not serve the original Ipswich station directly - trains had to reverse into the station at Halifax Junction a short distance to the south, Ely North Junction - Peterborough Junction, Freight only - leased to the EUR and operated by them, King's Lynn to Cambridge and London, now a through route. the outboard works perfectly and starts on the fir . The first locomotive turned out with any indication of its new ownership was the WR 4-6-0 No.4946 Moseley Hall repainted in full GWR livery, but with the tender lettered BRITISH RAILWAYS using the old GWR style letters. As LNER class D13, the last worked until 1944. Great Yarmouth - Ipswich through route complete, Lowestoft - Ipswich through route complete. Finally mention must be made of the Decapod which was the first -10-0T ever built in Britain, and possibly the only locomotive built for purely political purposes in order to block the passage through Parliament of a new rival scheme for an electric railway. From 1850 to 1855 Cambridge could be reached in 75 minutes (53.75 miles (86.50km) from Stratford), a further 20 minutes to Ely (14 miles (23km)) and a further 55 minutes to Wymondham (43.5 miles (70.0km)) giving an average speed of 47.5mph (76km/h). Waddington departed under a cloud in 1856 and was replaced by Horatio Love. Following the First World War, timber shortages resulted in the GER resorting to steel sheeting for carriage body panels, and this prompted the company to change to crimson lake for carriages, also in 1921. By 1878 the Cambridge route was ascendant, with times of 3 hours 12 minutes for the fastest trains compared to a time of 4 hours 10 minutes via Ipswich. However - again with typical Stratford perversity perhaps - the opposite was often the case. The hotel prospered until the Second World War where it first housed the LNER Accounts department and was then requisitioned by the War department and used by various British and Canadian regiments during the rest of the war. On Feb. 24, at the central station in Kyiv, Ukraine's capital, a new memorial was unveiled to the 353 Ukrainian railway workers who had been killed during the first year of Russia's full scale The Great Eastern attempted to obtain a West End terminus, alongside the one in east London, via the Tottenham and Hampstead Junction Railway, formed by an Act of Parliament of 28 July 1862. The side skirts and cow-catchers were plain blue and black respectively. 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