The GER Class Y14, classified as the Class J15 on the London and North Eastern Railway, is a class of 289 0-6-0 mixed traffic tender locomotives built from 1883 - 1913 for the Great Eastern Railway. This class of locomotive was later the inspiration of the Reverend Awdry's Toby the tram engine. By December 1866 little interest was being shown in the new shares, so the board went unsuccessfully to the Bank of England and Union Bank for further loans. With the introduction of the corridor restaurant cars in 1904, the time was eased to 87 minutes, but the introduction of the Class 1500 4-6-0 express engines in 1912 saw a running time of 82 minutes.[43]. By 1924 over 280,000 people were using The Jazz every day and Liverpool Street was regularly handling over 40,000 passengers per hour in peak periods. [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. This essential reference book is fully Below the solebars were entirely black, although the wooden centres on the Mansell wheels were varnished. vermilion lining. 48 - Booklaw. [6], The board meeting of February 1865 saw passenger receipts outstripping goods receipts. Many original structures it inherited from constituent railways struggled on in various states of disrepair, not only through Great Eastern days, but through its successor company London & North Eastern Railway from 1923 until 1947 and indeed to the end of steam on the Great Eastern in 1959. Joined 30 Sep 2017 Messages 279. 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. Wheel Configuration: 0-6-2. 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). Generally many branch services would be timed to connect to services to the main line thus providing through journeys. More ships were being ordered for Antwerp and Rotterdam traffic and proposals for 28 miles of new metropolitan lines and a new city terminus. 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. Livery. The North Country Continental operated between Harwich and Manchester Piccadilly usually being routed via March and the GNGEJR route. A freight vessel which served until 1934. 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 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. 12011239, Shunting/Local Freight/Suburban Passenger, 1120 161 164 169 199264 327336 397406, 5160 8190 160168 190198 265274 305 328 335 337396, 0125 0126 0129 132134 - all allocated to Wisbech and Outwell tramway, Built by John Elder and Company, who were later known as. The GER's famous blue livery was introduced on all locomotives in 1882. 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. . Lining was black with vermilion edging. Early locomotives were painted in green with black and vermilion lining, although some were painted in a These locomotives were built to succeed the three classes of 4-4-0 employed by the GER on express services which were becoming heavier as the railways prospered. For enthusiasts,researchers and modellers of the Great Eastern Railway. Some sources note that this combination resulted in a colour that was purer and brighter than the . The building was demolished in 1967.[107][b]. This was the biggest hotel on the system. The Class 360/0 units were transferred to East Midlands Railway in 2021 for the London St Pancras. The agreement was ratified by the LT&SR shareholders on 26 June 1911. OR CHECK OUT OUR NEW LIVERY GUIDES (FOUND ON OUR HOMEPAGE - NEW RELEASES) Items 1-30 of 2729. Name: Alfred. It had 26 rooms. Silver (4) Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway: Loco & Coach: Anglia Blue (11) Anglia Railways: Locomotive: . owned by the National Railway Museum today. On taking over the entire route in 1862, the GER improved speeds on the Colchester line so that Colchester was reached in 70 minutes (non-stop) and Yarmouth (via the East Suffolk route) could be reached in 3 hours 25 minutes. These were for LIVERPOOL (detached Doncaster on the outward journey)+ LIVERPOOL + MANCHESTER(detached at Lincoln and routed via the Great Central routes) + BIRMINGHAM (via Midland Railway routes) + BIRMINGHAM (via London and North Western routes)(both of which were detached at March).[47]. GER Great Eastern Railway locomotive 70010 steam trains, phantom rides, stations and countryside in East Anglia The Norfolk Coast Express operated between Cromer and Liverpool Street and a purpose-built train was built for this service in 1907. 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. Waddington departed under a cloud in 1856 and was replaced by Horatio Love. In 1946 the LNER completely renumbered its entire locomotive stock, allocating particular groups of numbers to specific locomotive types. Bromley also designed an 0-6-0 class which lasted some 24 years in traffic. 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. At the other end of the scale, small engine sheds at the end of country branch lines had perhaps one or two locomotives in their charge. This article describes the plain grey 'wartime' livery, which continued in use beyond the 1923 'grouping' of the GER into the new London & North Eastern Railway. In 1899, the new suburban stock was . It was not acquired by the GER until 1 July 1890 when an act of parliament incorporated the Hunstanton and West Norfolk Railway. 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. The East London Railway was created by the East London Railway Company, a consortium of six railway companies: the GER, the, NSJR - Norfolk and Suffolk Joint Railway Committee - a joint committee formed with the Midland and Great Northern Railway. These included continual conflict over working of other lines, suspicion and distrust of the joint committee, inadequate services to and from London, on-going litigation and law costs and a lack of progress on amalgamation. The last one, GER no. Formed in 1862 after the amalgamation of the Eastern Counties Railway and several other smaller railway companies the GER served Cambridge . In 1914 this was reduced to five with King's Lynn and Doncaster being abolished. 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 outboard works perfectly and starts on the fir . Categories & Keywords. All were withdrawn between 1898 and 1902. "Jersey Lily" in 4mm scale. but bogie vehicles were painted with black underframes. 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. Opened same day as all East Suffolk lines listed below. [9] The internal investigation concluded that many of Jervis-White-Jervis's concerns were relevant including borrowing more money than authorised and the poor deal the GER got on leasing the London and Blackwell Railway. Three services were run each day although it was never a particularly well patronised service.[46]. Visitors included Kaiser Wilhelm in 1891 and in later post GER days, Wallis Simpson and Fred Perry. 564 is preserved on the North Norfolk Railway;[67] and G58 no. Due to personal reasons, my model railway has been had minimal use 144962924117 , then it is unlikely that many will remain in service for much longer. Page. 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. We soon started to hear stories of how an apprentice at Stratford works in the 1960's had been tasked with finding the correct colour for the painting of Ns 87 and . LNER V1 2-6-2 Tank Locomotive. 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 equivalent of the blue used previously. The Liverpool Street site and its approaches were already full utilised, with no room for additional or extended platforms, more tracks or an enlarged station concours. Another wagon works was located at Ipswich (adjacent to the engine shed south of the tunnel). The chief mechanical engineers of the Great Eastern Railway were: The chairmen of the Great Eastern Railway were: Viscount Cranborne went on to be the British prime minister between 1885 and 1892 and between 1895 and 1903. . However, I have chosen that a handful of B12s will survive in my AU, but only a slight few. Enfield and Wood Green (Palace Gates). With lifting capacity of 1012 long tons (1012t) they were employed on permanent way work. [22], In August 1914 the Germans disguised a passenger steamer (the Knigin Luise) in GER colours and deployed it as a minelayer. 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. 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. The frames were The last Y14s ran until 1962, and no. Drawings Collection. In 1891 the Great Eastern introduced the first restaurant car to its North Country Continental service. Great Northern Big Sky F7 by Buzz Baxter (Buzz456) GN bsb F7.zip - 27.4 MB. <>/XObject<>/ProcSet[/PDF/Text/ImageB/ImageC/ImageI] >>/Annots[ 13 0 R] /MediaBox[ 0 0 595.32 841.92] /Contents 4 0 R/Group<>/Tabs/S/StructParents 0>> should be taken from preserved vehicles, museums, or historical societies. You're currently reading page 1; Page 2 . V.g.c. In the same month, Deputy Chairman Charles Turner resigned due to suspected fraud which was to lead to his bankruptcy later in the year. Express services on the GER were latterly in the hands of the Class S69 (LNER class B12) 4-6-0 locomotives. However the appearance was thought of as 'jazzy' in the slang of the period and a local newspaper called the service The Jazz, which quickly became widely used. 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. . 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. The new suburban services were popular with passengers and the press (which had frequently criticised the GER in the pre-WW1 years for overcrowding and slow journey times, even to the extent of running long-term campaigns against the company). The GER built a laundry in 1888 in Colchester that supplied the hotels with bed linen, tablecloths etc. [70][71], Whilst not being at the forefront of carriage development, there were a number of interesting developments on the GER worth noting.[72]. These notes were intended to allow modelling of a few goods vehicles from 'foreign' companies to pre-grouping and early Big Four layouts. 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 used materials from the closed, Through route Cambridge to Ipswich now complete. 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 . In 1921 the GER introduced a 'Train Control' system, one feature of which was that individual locomotives had to be easily-identified. Minories used as a temporary terminus - initially a rope worked line. GER - Great Eastern Railway. 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. . DESIGNED BY Mr J. HOLDEN, M.INST,C.E., M.INST.M.E.. [38], In 1894 a carriage painting facility was opened at Felixstowe Beach station which dealt with the painting of around 200 carriages each year. Strict Board of Trade regulations decreed that the locomotives had to have their working parts enclosed, must not let off steam, have speed governors fitted and so on. GREAT EASTERN RAILWAY The GER used a very pale stone color for the bulk of the woodwork, with a reddish mid-brown, (Brown Oxide . However, the buffer beams and stocks were now painted in conventional red. Need help? Generally the wheel arrangements were 2-2-0 and 2-2-2 for most classes of locomotives. 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. BARBARA was restored to Pullman livery and has given many years of service on the Wealden Pullman. R2000 HORNBY OO Gauge Great North Eastern Railway 125 High Speed Pack Boxed - $138.47. Following an accident at North Wootton in early August 1863, where the deaths of five passengers was partially attributed to the poor state of the rolling stock, a large rolling stock order was placed. However, by 25 June the House of Lords had rejected the bill and the board took steps to protect the company's property from its creditors. The clashing bright colours of the painted doors and the identification boards were seen as a distinctive feature of the new services from the start and early GER publicity referred to 'The Rainbow Service'. [44] The detached engine would be topped up with water from a newly-installed water column at the concourse end of each platform road. At this time the locomotives were generally allocated to the major shed in the area and the smaller sheds had no actual allocation.[36]. However Bromley's first class of 4-2-2 locomotives were built by Dubs and Kitson with 12 allocated to Stratford and four each to Norwich and Yarmouth sheds. Later that year the GER was in talks about expansion northwards with the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway (L&YR) which lead to the deposition of a bill in early 1865. The Royal Navy was using coal as its primary source of propulsion and additional coal trains would have been operated through the area as well. The GER had to transport greater numbers of passengers commuting in and out of the urban centre and at lower fares. 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. [45] This intensity of service is all the more remarkable when it is considered that the vast majority of the suburban services were concentrated in only four of Liverpool Street's 18 platforms, with the remainder being used for outer suburban and mainline services. Renamed HMS, Built by T and W Smith at North Shields she operated on the. [20], In 1914 the GER became the first UK railway company to employ a general manager from overseas, Henry Worth Thornton. Both Summers, Formerly Lord Cranborne and later the Marquess of Salisbury, Great Eastern Railway Society Journal Issue 111 Pages 1220, Great Eastern Railway Society Journal 111-page 24 S Jenkins, Great Eastern Railway Society Journal 127-page 12 J Watling, Last edited on 25 February 2023, at 07:08, Great Northern and Great Eastern Joint Railway, Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway, Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Thames Ironworks and Shipbuilding Company, RAILWAY SCHEMES (METROPOLIS). %PDF-1.5 Three more cranes (numbers 4a, 5a and unnumbered) were also built at Stratford c1907. 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) 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. 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.. 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