Scrapping began in 1883 with the last two locomotives being withdrawn in 1894. 7999 at the East Anglia Railway Museum in late BR livery. Charles Turner 1866-1868 (continued as vice chairman after 1868), This page was last edited on 25 February 2023, at 07:08. [14], The new directors were all allocated specific roles and a number of changes were made to reduce costs and improve profitability. In 1899 Holden built the first GER all-bogied suburban train and although a success, the next one did not follow until 1911. 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. The memorial was unveiled by Sir Henry Wilson, who was assassinated by two Irish Republican Army gunmen on his way home from the unveiling ceremony. Passenger numbers continued to rise in the early 20th century and a survey in 1913 showed that some of the GER's suburban trains were carrying up to 1400 people each and the station itself was beginning to suffer from overcrowding at peak times that was not only preventing the easy movement of people in and out and delaying the departure of trains but presenting a danger to the public. 3 0 obj Class: Great Eastern Railway S69 Class Tender Engine. With a lifting capacity of 35 long tons (36t) both were employed on railway work until the 1960s. Royal trains were also worked from St Pancras to Sandringham in Norfolk, and race day trains to Newmarket also operated into St Pancras. The hen houses were built at Stratford Works and had individual works numbers. At a busy engine shed such as Stratford, each individual coaler employed on the coaling stage was expected to empty the contents of a 10-long-ton (10t) coal truck during his shift. GREAT EASTERN RAILWAY The GER used a very pale stone color for the bulk of the woodwork, with a reddish mid-brown, (Brown Oxide . 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 . Three more cranes (numbers 4a, 5a and unnumbered) were also built at Stratford c1907. 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. The purpose of this train was to encourage self-sufficiency during the food shortages of the First World War. In 1899, the new suburban stock was . 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). 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. All services had connections to London Liverpool Street. At Liverpool street tracks were rearranged and new junctions between running lines added to improve capacity and flexibility. 567 GCR Class 2 4-4-0: N/A N/A Under Construction. Visitors included Kaiser Wilhelm in 1891 and in later post GER days, Wallis Simpson and Fred Perry. In 1900 the majority of GER suburban trains were composed of four-wheeler carriages. Great Northern Big Sky F7 by Buzz Baxter (Buzz456) GN bsb F7.zip - 27.4 MB. Suspended during the First World War, these were briefly revived but stopped running in 1922.[42]. [73] However, with the restaurant sets built in 1900 being corridor coaches, more corridor coaches were being added to main line sets. 1 'Talyllyn’, is to return with a new look once its overhaul is completed.. Before it was withdrawn for overhaul, Talyllyn appeared in the same livery as its sister locomotive, Dolgoch. 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. Withdrawn from ferry service in 1925, converted to work boat. On September 24, 2022, it was revealed that Talyllyn will return in a Great Eastern Railway blue livery once its overhaul is complete. They were numbered in two series, D5500-D5699 and D5800-D5862. In 1914 this was reduced to five with King's Lynn and Doncaster being abolished. The large function room known as the Hamilton Hall was restored in the 1990s and re-opened as a pub. The tram started the week of 13 th February still carrying the vinyls and was still in this state on the Wednesday. During 1916 the GER ran a poultry demonstration trains throughout East Anglia often visiting towns on market day. Windows were always two panes high in this design. All trains called at the two stations on the branch, taking 18 minutes to get to the junction station at Wickham Market. 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. GER Great Eastern Railway locomotive 70010 steam trains, phantom rides, stations and countryside in East Anglia Elsie is generally shedded overnight at Knapford Sheds with Toby and Henrietta. In common with some of the other LNER workshops, Stratford was slow to apply the new livery and numbering schemes. Originally seating 20 & having a coup, toilet & pantry, ARIES regularly . The growth of London suburban traffic saw a requirement for additional tank engines. 407: . By 1915 A. J. Hill instigated a policy of converting old four-wheel carriages into bogied stock and some 500 four-wheeled carriages were converted this way. Two of these locomotives were rebuilt from the 2-2-2 to a 4-2-2 configuration later in their lives and these two, plus one of the original locomotives, carried a canary yellow livery. Need help? Some details of other directors can be found here. These were tried across the network and required payment of a supplementary fare. 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. 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. R40370, LNER, Flying Scotsman, Mk4 DVT, 82205 - Era 11, Hornby, Coaches & Coach Packs, 1:76 Scale 00 Gauge Therefore, if a tender had remained with the same engine in the period 1923-8, it continued to carry a GER plate with GER number. Both coaches carry names for 'Thomas' events. Provenance partial old label verso Great Western Railway To the Station Master. After the war the GER opened the hotel again, but it closed in 1923. Thenceforth, the locomotives were left in French grey undercoat, with only those parts of the engine that were normally black (in the blue livery) thus painted. A freight vessel which served until 1934. Scrapping began in 1888 with the final locomotive withdrawn in 1899. Great Eastern Railway (Note: Numbers in brackets refer to specific references) . Locomotives of the LNER Pt. The GER and Great Northern Railway each submitted bills for a line from March to Spalding and although the GNR was successful the GER was awarded running rights over the new line which would later become part of the Great Northern and Great Eastern Joint Railway. Learn Great Eastern Railway facts for kids. yellow ochre colour and hence acquired the nickname of 'canaries'. Generally the wheel arrangements were 2-2-0 and 2-2-2 for most classes of locomotives. 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. Both classes entered service in 1864/65. [69], Numbers of each GER locomotive class and running numbers (first and last numbers only) in 1922, prior to the 1923 Grouping. Ten engines were later built for the London and North Eastern Railway by Beyer Peacock, and it is one of these locomotives that is preserved today. 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. The GER had a reputation for doing things on the cheap and this certainly was cheaper than building new stock. Now in Stock The Rolling Stock of Britain's Main Line Railway Operators in 2023 The definitive guide to all locomotives, coaching stock and multiple units that run on Britain's main line railways with full owner, operator, livery and depot allocation information for every vehicle. See below - possibly first passenger route to close in the UK? In 1859 Sinclair (Chief mechanical engineer (CME) of the Eastern Counties Railway and later first CME of the Great Eastern) started some form of standardisation with the Y Class 2-4-0 locomotives, of which 110 were built by various engineering firms (including one French firm). GS. However, the vast majority of the lines built under the Act were street tramways in towns and cities. stream 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. By 1877 the GER were consolidating their own design, which featured a gabled roof, with large overhang, and weatherboarding. [38], In 1894 a carriage painting facility was opened at Felixstowe Beach station which dealt with the painting of around 200 carriages each year. By March the board was meeting most days in an effort to keep the railway running. The Y14 locomotives were designed under the supervision of Thomas William Worsdell (T.W. Russell (former chief designer at Stratford Works), Thornton developed a way of comprehensively overhauling and optimising the Great Eastern's suburban service to increase capacity on the existing infrastructure with minimal investment. To help with this the coaches had their doors painted in different colours to identify the class of each compartment - first class were painted yellow and second class for blue, with the third class accommodation which made up the majority of all the GER's trains being unmarked. These were non-corridor compartment-type coaches, but in for third class the compartment dividing walls were cut down to the level of the tops of the seats, allowing more nimble passengers to climb over the seat backs between seating bays to find empty seats. "Jersey Lily" in 4mm scale. . 007 Skyfall - White with Black 007 Logos - Loco/DVT have Daniel Craig/Judy Dench images on Each Side . Note that the numbering is not necessarily contiguous:[37]. per page. More bogied suburban trains followed in 1911 and were deployed on the Ilford, Gidea Park and Loughton services. Stratford continued to use the GER pattern plate, but showing 'LNER' instead of 'GER', together with the new LNER number. Name: Alfred. Had there been an invasion then the railways had evacuation plans for the civilian populations. [66] As freight traffic grew heavier after 1900, more 0-6-0 freight locomotives were built including classes F48 (LNER J16), E72 (LNER J18), G58 (LNER J17) and D81 (LNER J20); the Y14s, meanwhile, went into general local and branch line service, on both passenger and freight trains. [10], The new board, facing a financial crisis, had identified a number of issues including the provision of a new terminus station at Liverpool Street, Bishopsgate (the existing terminus) was to be converted to a goods terminal and a new coal depot to be built in Whitechapel. The Great Eastern name has survived, being used both for the Great Eastern Main Line route between London and Norwich, and also for the First Great Eastern train operating company which served much of the old GER route between 1997 and 2004. Fish traffic from Lowestoft and Great Yarmouth was growing and money was being spent on stations, replacing wooden bridges and upgrading the track. Wheel Configuration: 4-6-0. %PDF-1.5 should be taken from preserved vehicles, museums, or historical societies. This train included the first restaurant car on the Great Eastern (in 1891) and this was also the first service in the UK to allow third-class passengers to dine. Between 1880 and 1922 the Great Eastern produced some distinctive locomotives, and several of these have been preserved. Page 3: Durham: Durham is a railway station on the East Coast Main Line, which runs between London King's Cross and Edinburgh Waverley. The Great Eastern 0-6-0Ts - Railway Observer 1954 & RCTS. 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. [74] #o`f .U*)\Y1 tBvrTPttX*A-h"3_-e4OcESy %VIO Class Y: 1859-66. New 0-6-2 L77 Class tank engines were introduced from 1921, along with new eight-wheel 57ft-long (17.3 metres) compartment coaches (with the added refinement of steam heating for winter use), which had their class identification colours painted in a strip between the windows and the roof rather than on the doors. 4a and 5a worked from Ipswich (until 1967) and March (until 1962). 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