At the grouping in 1923 however all stock reverted to the teak livery. Renamed HMS, Built by T and W Smith at North Shields she operated on the. 37 (in the foreground in the top photograph) may have been the private saloon of Princess Alice. One of these locomotives was later equipped with oil-burning capabilities, but the increasing demands of railway traffic saw these engines withdrawn by 1893 after a relatively short life. This was opened in 1865 and, although well-equipped and furnished, struggled to make a profit (especially after Parkeston Quay opened). Another establishment at Chigwell has been doing this for some years previously. The board also received a letter from the drivers seeking improved working conditions. 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! #o`f .U*)\Y1 tBvrTPttX*A-h"3_-e4OcESy %VIO 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. By 1886 timber boxes were being constructed again as well as brick examples but this - with some variation - was the last design for Great Eastern signal boxes. Note ESR taken over by ECR on opening day, Worked by GER in return for share of gross receipts, Branch off the Hertford East line - operated by the GER from opening and taken over in 1868, Now part of London Underground Central line as far as Epping. Whilst every care is taken by the volunteer team cataloguing, errors will creep in and so if . Generally the wheel arrangements were 2-2-0 and 2-2-2 for most classes of locomotives. The GER built a laundry in 1888 in Colchester that supplied the hotels with bed linen, tablecloths etc. Bromley also designed an 0-6-0 class which lasted some 24 years in traffic. The company was grouped into the London and North Eastern Railway in 1923. The true Jazz services only lasted until 1926 when the service frequency and intensity was cut down due to the General Strike and rising competition from trams, trolley buses, motorbuses and private cars meant that the service on the former GER suburban lines was never brought back up to its planned level. In 1928, to avoid having to renumber tenders when they were moved between engines, the engine numbers were moved to the cab sides, the tenders then displaying only the LNER initials on their sides. [65], GER goods designs of this period were invariably 0-6-0 tender engines. Some wagon shunting work was carried out by horses but they would have found widespread work hauling delivery carts. Typically branch line services were worked by small tank engines usually with ancient carriages handed down from main line or suburban services. 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.The company was grouped into the London and North Eastern Railway in 1923.. Toggle navigation 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. In 1869 the situation had been reversed and it was quicker to get to Norwich via Cambridge (3 hours 30 minutes) compared to 4 hours 15 minutes via Ipswich. More ships were being ordered for Antwerp and Rotterdam traffic and proposals for 28 miles of new metropolitan lines and a new city terminus. No. 26 Oct 2017 #1 H. highspeed990 Member. There was a symbiotic relationship between the railway and property development - the existence of the railway made it possible for even industrial workers to move into new housing developments in the suburbs which then provided extra custom for the GER. [2], Unsurprisingly the first GER board had a strong Eastern Counties flavour with Horatio Love in the chair and James Goodson the deputy chair. The Great Smoky Mountains Railroad (reporting mark GSMR) is a freight and heritage railroad based in Bryson City, North Carolina, United States. On 8 June the board approached Parliament for the right to borrow more money and raise additional money through new shares to fund the expansion programme outlined above. Livery. [18] Plans to extend the western end of this line via a proposed 'London Main Trunk Railway', underneath Hampstead Road, the Metropolitan Railway (modern Circle line) and Tottenham Court Road, to Charing Cross, were rejected by Parliament in 1864. On 6 August 1889, there was an accident between Bishopsgate and Liverpool Street when an up passenger service ran into the back of a stationary empty coaching stock train. [citation needed] The locomotive then went off to run 36,000 miles (58,000km) on Peterborough to London coal trains before coming back to the works for the final coat of paint. . Unfortunately these were not very successful on passenger traffic and were soon deployed on freight workings. 567 GCR Class 2 4-4-0: N/A N/A Under Construction. Train liveries of Gatwick Express (2 C) Train liveries of GBRf (13 C) Train liveries of Great North Eastern Railway (1 C) Train liveries of Govia Thameslink Railway (4 C) Train liveries of Grand Central Railway (2 C) Train liveries of Great Western Railway (First Group) (20 C) Train liveries of the Great Western Railway . These were employed on services from Cromer and Yarmouth to Liverpool Street. As the train departed, the now-available engine would follow it down the platform before being sent either to one of the refuge bays in the platform ends or to a siding at the approaches to follow another arriving service into another platform in its turn. endobj The large function room known as the Hamilton Hall was restored in the 1990s and re-opened as a pub. the outboard works perfectly and starts on the fir . A new suburban line to Enfield Town via Seven Sisters was proposed as well as a new London terminus to replace an inadequate Bishopsgate. This pack contains: - Original 1838 smokebox . [14], The new directors were all allocated specific roles and a number of changes were made to reduce costs and improve profitability. Built by the London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) in 1937 at Doncaster Works and originally numbered 4488, it was named after the then newly formed Union of South Africa.It had previously been allocated the name Osprey and painted in LNER Apple Green livery on 17 April 1937, but was renamed and repainted into LNER Garter Blue to operate The Coronation. All services had connections to London Liverpool Street. Norwich was 3 hours and 15 minutes via Ipswich and 4 hours via Cambridge. These locomotives, numbers 305 and 306, were frequently used on royal trains and finished their careers as station pilots at St Pancras and Liverpool Street. @cnq@?5?5V)[n@N7f,^5if2OJ8 xD+*H"o^lv[L^(>|#ED$!p%*vQx0j ;\ff3R2PS7,`R,Ya}!J*Z| a:TG:>JsM(Q6~^\pOj%1# R2000 HORNBY OO Gauge Great North Eastern Railway 125 High Speed Pack Boxed - $138.47. 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. Ipswich engine shed for instance had a tube shop and a smithy containing eight forges and a steamhammer.[40]. On 17 October 1891, a passenger train was derailed at, On 24 December 1891, an accident occurred at Barnby Box (between, On 5 April 1905, two trains collided on the junction directly north of, On 1 September 1905, an express passenger train, On 12 July 1913, an express passenger train collided with a light engine at, On 1 January 1915, an express passenger train. There were also then the units that were being moved to the front line. [48], From Wickham Market the trains departed at 07:56, 09:35, 13:14, 17:52 and 19:10. By August 1868 the tide was turning with increased receipts and some debts being paid off. 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. The Felix Hotel located in Felixstowe was purchased by the GER in the 1920s. Serving the East End of London, the London Docklands and the capital's eastern suburbs, the Great Eastern's suburban services had a much greater proportion of working class industrial workers, labourers and lower-ranking office workers than the suburban networks of the likes of the London and South Western Railway or the Metropolitan. Documents include minutes of board, shareholders' and committee meetings, stock and share records, specifications, contracts and plans of construction works, locomotive and rolling stock records, staff records and accountant's records. Shunting was generally in the hands of 0-6-0T locomotives although of note were the Class J70 tram engines employed at Ipswich docks and on the Wisbech and Outwell tramway. At this time the locomotives were generally allocated to the major shed in the area and the smaller sheds had no actual allocation.[36]. The GER borrowed some Metropolitan Railway A Class 4-4-0T engines in the early 1870s and had 15 T7 class 0-4-2T engines built, followed by some 0-4-4T engines, one of which was the first locomotive to carry the distinctive GER Royal Blue livery. Beneath, side-skirts covered the wheels, and American-style cow-catchers were fitted. Matters were hardly helped when deputy chairman Samuel Laing resigned to become the chairman of the London, Brighton & South Coast Railway on 1 July. [25], The exterior of Liverpool Street station (1896), Former GER Class S69 at Liverpool Street Station locomotive yard (1948), County School, a GER-built junction station (2008), The Great Eastern had one of the largest engine sheds in the country at Stratford which in January 1923 had an allocation of 555 locomotives. You're currently reading page 1; Page 2 . Although proceedings were initiated no prosecution resulted.[16]. In 1920-21 twenty new S69 class 4-6-0 locomotives were constructed by Beardmore & Co. [41] The GER's famous blue livery was introduced on all locomotives in 1882. This meant that passengers no longer had to find a compartment with vacant seats before boarding which reduced the dwell time - Thornton and Russell aimed to get the time spent at intermediate stops down from minutes to seconds. 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). A redundant steam locomotive was employed in the task at Lowestoft and a number of fish and open carriage wagons were converted to saltwater tanks. By 1877 the GER were consolidating their own design, which featured a gabled roof, with large overhang, and weatherboarding. 212 Great Eastern Railway Magazines a full set of bound copies issues 1-15 1911-1925. From 1890, goods locomotives were painted in unlined black, although some shunting engines also received Another failure, this class of 15 locomotives were withdrawn after a working life of eight years, mostly working coal traffic between Peterborough and London. x[[oF~0 After privatisation in the 1990s the ECML franchise was operated by Great Northern Eastern Railway (GNER), National Express, East Coast (government-managed), VTEC and now LNER (also government . Livery Description. Accurate matches Free delivery for many products! 2 0 obj However - again with typical Stratford perversity perhaps - the opposite was often the case. The last locomotives of this class were withdrawn in 1894. Between 1880 and 1922 the Great Eastern produced some distinctive locomotives, and several of these have been preserved. The Class 360/0 units were transferred to East Midlands Railway in 2021 for the London St Pancras. use. The market also had an extensive goods depot and a nearby railway station. The GER was working many trains on the London Tilbury and Southend Railway at this time and the Sharpies were deployed on this traffic. 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. However, thought also had to be given to renumbering the locomotive stock, and in the interim, in September . [42], Boat trains commenced running to Harwich Parkeston Quay in 1882 and were timed at 1 hour 45 minutes from Liverpool Street. , then it is unlikely that many will remain in service for much longer. Great North Eastern Railway, often referred to as GNER, was a train operating company in the United Kingdom, owned by Sea Containers, that operated the InterCity East Coast franchise on the East Coast Main Line between London, Yorkshire, North East England and Scotland from April 1996 until December 2007.. During March 1996, Sea Containers was awarded the franchise to operate the East Coast . Wheel Configuration: 4-6-0. "Jersey Lily" in 4mm scale. It was bought by Hunstanton Urban District Council in 1950 and used as offices and a library until 1959 when the property was converted into flats. Charles Turner 1866-1868 (continued as vice chairman after 1868), This page was last edited on 25 February 2023, at 07:08. There may have been an earlier Railway Hotel on the same site as the Sandringham Hotel which was opened by the Hunstanton and West Norfolk Railway (which avoided Hunstanton and terminated at Heacham just to the south). Fish traffic from Lowestoft and Great Yarmouth was growing and money was being spent on stations, replacing wooden bridges and upgrading the track. Category: Transportation . The final locomotives introduced by Johnson were two C8 class 4-4-0 locomotives which were built with no engine brakes and no dedicated tenders. The Great Eastern was clearly in an expansionist phase with further locomotives (forming the basis of standardisation over its disparate inherited fleet), carriages and wagons under construction. 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. [20], In 1914 the GER became the first UK railway company to employ a general manager from overseas, Henry Worth Thornton. The GER had always intended to introduce more powerful engines and more modern and higher-capacity carriages to The Jazz to maximise the improvements. The suburban trains used 4-wheel coaches for much longer than most other contemporary companies. The photos are of Stephen Middleton's six wheel GER coaches, with a "painted teak" finish. He did advise that the board that it needed to reconstitute itself in order to rebuild confidence in order to acquire new capital. For instance it is estimated that some 150 engines were outbased from Stratford at any one time. Great Northern Big Sky F7 by Buzz Baxter (Buzz456) GN bsb F7.zip - 27.4 MB. Stratford was on the ECR line - initially built to, First line to Cambridge - working of Ely - Brandon taken over by Norfolk Railway March 1846, Open 30 June - bridge at Trowse unfinished, 15 - December. Body of GER 1380 4 Wheel Carriage, built 1892 at Stratford works for London suburban traffic (2019) 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 side skirts and cow-catchers were plain blue and black respectively. A change of leadership also occurred with Horatio Love being replaced by James Goodson as chairman with Captain Henry Jervis-White-Jervis as his deputy. [108], Dodnash Priory also served as a rest home for GER horses. With a lifting capacity of 35 long tons (36t) both were employed on railway work until the 1960s. The Y14 locomotives were designed under the supervision of Thomas William Worsdell (T.W. It consisted of Ultramarine Blue over an undercoat of French Grey, with black smokebox and vermillion buffer beams and lining. Stratford Engine Shed, for instance, had 163 2-4-2T engines of four classes. R350 Class L1 4-4-0 31785 and 6 wheel Tender in B.R. Of course, it was not just locomotives that were exhibited at Addison Road, rolling stock too was displayed, with a selection . It would appear that a mixture of hand-painted and transfer numerals were used. Vermilion continued to be used for buffer beams, numberplate backgrounds and coupling rods. The first Class 31 entered service in November . Photographs show variations in the shapes of the actual numerals used - some engines having flat-topped '3's, for example. <> B12 Sprite made by BaconOverlord582. Numbers 1a, 2a and 3a were built at Stratford Works in 1885 initially as hand cranes. Cab roofs appeared white in official photographs, but were probably grey in regular The GER employed significant numbers of women during this period as many men had joined the army. Windows were always two panes high in this design. The introduction of Pullman cars to the GER was the idea of American General Manager Henry Worth Thornton. The board consisted of six former ECR directors with two Eastern Union Railway, two Norfolk Railway and one each from the Northern and Eastern Railway (still an independent body at this point) and East Anglian Railway. 564 is preserved on the North Norfolk Railway;[67] and G58 no. All were withdrawn between 1898 and 1902. The GER also operated suburban services out of Fenchurch Street station with trains to North Woolwich, Blackwall (until 1925) Gallions and Loughton sharing the station with the London Tilbury and Southend until 1912 when the Midland railway took over operation of that railway. 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. They contained two first-class compartments with lavatories sandwiched between four third-class compartments and a luggage compartment. In the early days of the GER the 5 p.m. departure from Shoreditch (the terminus before Liverpool Street) took 52 minutes to reach Bishop's Stortford (average speed 38.5 miles per hour (62.0km/h)) and 92 to get to Cambridge. 289 examples were produced between 1883 and 1913 with most being built at Stratford Works, although a small number were built by Sharp Stewart. The livery of the stock was teak (effectively varnished wood) but in 1919 the decision was taken to paint all stock dark red. Solebars were painted teak with th metalwork painted brown. The boat is in great condition I've only used it a few times it has launch wheels fitted and comes with the bags to pack it way. 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]. [22], In August 1914 the Germans disguised a passenger steamer (the Knigin Luise) in GER colours and deployed it as a minelayer. Date: 1853-1958. The Norfolk Coast Express operated between Cromer and Liverpool Street and a purpose-built train was built for this service in 1907. Learn Great Eastern Railway facts for kids. Sinclair's first design for the GER was the W class single drivers built between 1862 and 1867 by a number of engineering firms. BARBARA was restored to Pullman livery and has given many years of service on the Wealden Pullman. Slate grey body and solebars + white lettering. 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. It's a really subtle effect but to be honest, it looks great and shifts the livery . 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