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BRITAIN’S LEADING HISTORICAL RAILWAY JOURNAL
Vol. 31
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JANUARY 2017
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Vol 31 . No.1
No. 309
JANUARY 2017
RECORDING THE HISTORY OF BRITAIN’S RAILWAYS
Notes from a small island
Welcome all to the first issue of Volume 31 and all that 2017 holds
in prospect for us. The contents of each and every issue of
Backtrack
are what might be described as a catholic mixture, with a selection of
subjects as wide-ranging as railway history can throw up: as well as the
expected examinations of locomotives and carriages, and the studies
of lines and stations, we might find them sharing pages with prime
ministers and their attitudes to railways, circus train journeys, Lenin’s
travels across Europe, film stars on railways, suffragettes, snowdrifts,
strikes and sex scandals. No doubt that will continue.
Articles will appeal to different readers in different ways and to
different extents – and that applies on a personal basis as much to me as
to anyone else. One current feature which has particulartly, as they say,
‘floated my boat ‘ is ‘By Steam to the Steamers’, Malcolm Rivett’s survey
of the railway connections with sailings to and from the Isle of Man.
The reason for my interest is that when I was a lad in Bury in the
1960s the summer holidays – or that part of them not occupied by
the family fortnight away – stretched ahead with seemingly limitless
opportunities for days out, mostly local explorations, picnics and
simple pleasures of that ilk. In those far-off days whereof I write we
had no car, but then neither did many families, so the local bus and
coach operators stepped forward with their programmes – who
remembers Ribble, Warburton’s, Yelloways, Fred Craven? – to run us
to the usual seaside resorts, Chester, Alton Towers, Hardcastle Crags
(the ‘Switzerland of the Pennines’ if you believe it) and so on. Evening
outings were promoted to the futuristic world of Manchester Airport
viewing gallery and (improbable as it might seem) Charnock Richard
services on the M6, joined later by Lancaster services as a tantalising
alternative, at the time the only contact most us had with the sleek
connotations of aeroplanes and motorways. But good old British
Railways was on its marks as well with a range of excursion fares and
one of its most attractive offers was a combined train and boat ticket
to Douglas, Isle of Man – there and back in a day.
The adventure started by taking the train from Bury’s Knowsley
Street station on the Central Lancashire line between Rochdale and
Bolton: steam-hauled (a Standard Class 4 as I recall) in non-corridor
compartment coaches. Many of its trains continued beyond Bolton
towards the Lancashire Coast or, in our case, Liverpool Exchange and
from there an easy stride took us to the Landing Stage where the Isle of
Man Steam Packet Company’s boat awaited us.
There is something special, I think, about leaving a country by
sea, even if only to cross to the Isle of Man. I watched Liverpool and its
famous waterfront recede as we sailed into the Mersey and then first
parallel to the coast, with Blackpool Tower still a clear and distant shape,
until we left the land behind us. On board a proper ship you could stroll
around the decks, imagining yourself bound for the ‘New World’ while
taking in the tang of the salty air and the churning foam as you ploughed
through the briny. You could descend to look down over the engine
room where there was generally a man with an oil can going round its
machinery and before reaching the island you could partake of a decent
lunch in the dining saloon.
There wasn’t time enough in Douglas, unfortunately, to travel
on the Isle of Man Railway but I did note that its fine terminus station
was looking rather shabby. The second visit occurred after the railway
had experienced closure but in the first year after its revival under the
‘Ailsa regime’ and one of its bright green engines did hint at cautious
optimism. We did have the chance to ride the length of the famous
horse tramway, though! Incidentally, today’s Manx government seems
strangely ambivalent about the horse trams at the moment; perhaps
they have an ‘image problem’. Hopefully it will come to appreciate what
a distinctive historic asset it has.
In the succeeding years the Isle of Man suffered a downturn in its
tourist popularity as holidays abroad became more affordable, with the
island further disadvantaged by its relative inaccessibility for the ‘short
break’ market. It was not until the 1990s that I made the crossing again –
this time to stay on the island and enjoy the Isle of Man Steam Railway’s
remaining line to Port Erin along with its two vintage electric railways
to Ramsey and Snaefell Summit. The Isle of Man and its railways seem
to have weathered some awkward times and now seem in good heart –
which is more than can be said for the ‘big railway’ which took me from
Bury to Liverpool to board my first ‘packet’: it closed in 1970!
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Contents
Visiting Kentish Town and Cricklewood
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4
Claims against Railway Companies
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7
To the North Coast Exhibition
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13
From Gravel to Buddleia
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14
By Steam to the Steamers – Part One
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20
Shakespeare Country
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25
The Junctions at Firbeck
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28
East Anglian Stopping Points
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31
‘Kings’ of the Road
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32
The Jutland ‘Jubilees’
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36
Inherited Express Passenger Locomotives
of the South Eastern & Chatham Railway
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38
Lincolnshire Signal Boxes
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46
Ripon – A City no longer with a Railway
– Part One
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38
The Origins, Diagnoses and Historical
Prevention of Track Failures – Part Two
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48
Readers’ Forum
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62
Book Reviews
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62
GWR ‘King’ 4-6-0 No.6006
King
George I
is monarch of all it
surveys at Swindon Works in
February 1960.
(Trevor Owen/
Colour-Rail.com BRW2480)
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above
:
The LMS ‘Jubilees’ were the mainstay of Midland line expresses for
many years and Kentish Town had a sizeable allocation of them. No.45622
Nyasaland
was at its home shed on 9th June 1962, with Kentish Town
Sidings signal box beyond it.
below
:
No.45598
Basutoland
had been a Kentish Town engine during the
VISITING KENTISH TOWN
AND CRICKLEWOOD
At the London end of the Midland Railway main
line two locomotive depots provided the motive
power – Kentish Town, which was mainly for
passenger work, and Cricklewood, which dealt
principally with freight.
GEOFF RIXON
visited
them with his camera in their last few years.
1950s but later migrated to Burton from where it took a trip up to London
and was photographed at Cricklewood during 1963 after Kentish Town
had closed.
above
:
The Read Brothers’ beer bottling stores (‘Dog’s Head Brand’) formed
a backdrop to many locomotive portraits at Kentish Town shed, in this case
‘Jubilee’ No.45639
Raleigh
on 9th June 1962.
below
:
A rare visitor to Cricklewood on 23rd March
1963 was BR Standard Class 5 4‑6‑0 No.73092 (in
mucky green) from Gloucester.
below
:
‘Royal Scot’ 4‑6‑0s were latecomers to the Midland main line. On 23rd February 1963 No.46112 was at Cricklewood with its
Sherwood Forester
nameplates already removed to ensure their sale value, no doubt.

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