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Lines of Enquiry
With the editor on holiday, we have a guest editorial this month – so step
forward
Backtrack
contributor
Dr. Malcolm Timperley.
Back in the early 1970s a teenager spent weekends and holidays at the
Dinting Railway Centre (RIP), cleaning locomotives, getting filthy but
becoming fascinated with This Whole Railway History Business. In time
said teenager went off to university and the all-enveloping world of a
career in medicine. Ploughing through bleary-eyed nights in operating
theatres and mind-bending psychiatric clinics he retained the notion of
returning to railway history at some point. Fast forward to retirement and
the ex-teenager answers an online advertisement from Inreach at the
National Railway Museum...
Mention the NRM and what’s the first thing that comes to mind?
Mallard
perhaps, Queen Victoria’s saloon, or maybe a day out that you
can pretend is for the kids. But there’s much more to both the NRM
and British railway history than classic locomotives and royal trains. The
submerged piece of the iceberg is the NRM’s library and archives. Known
as Search Engine, the collection is vast: 1.75 million photographs, a million
engineering drawings, 40,000 posters, a library with 25,000 books, 800
journals and more. Although it’s free to all, many researchers can’t get to
York, which is where Inreach comes in. Railway enthusiast puzzle-solvers
from diverse backgrounds (from a music teacher to a retired psychiatrist!),
Inreach is a small group of volunteers carrying out railway-related research
to order using Search Engine’s resources.
Anyone with a historical railway question can contact us. At the
weekly team meeting recent queries are discussed; the first question
is whether we can answer it at all. Despite the size of the collection,
sometimes the relevant information is elsewhere (eg The National Archives
at Kew), while for some questions it doesn’t exist anywhere. Next, the
enquirer is quoted how long it will take to answer and the cost. Inreach
charges just £25 per half day, with receipts funding improved access to the
library and archive collections. After payment, queries are assigned as team
members have expertise in different areas of railway history, technology
and operation. Once completed, the results are dispatched with other
relevant information such as copies or photographs, plus a log of the
sources consulted for future reference. Obviously there are no guarantees,
but even if Inreach draws a blank, we suggest where to try next.
The range of enquiries is wide. Frequently we receive family history
enquiries. If correspondence from family historians is to be believed,
almost every British family supposedly has an ancestor who once drove
Flying Scotsman
and/or
Mallard.
It often falls to Inreach to disappoint
them (tactfully), although not always. Unearthing a photograph of
someone’s ancestor on the footplate of a Gresley Pacific at King’s Cross
was reward in itself. Likewise there was surprised delight at locating the
class photograph of a former pupil at the British Railways Training School
in York, curbed on learning that a dozen of the smiling apprentices had
since died of asbestos-related diseases. A challenging request was tracing
the cross-country getaway route of a client’s ancestor who had committed
a burglary in 1866. The long arm of the law was longer than that of the
London & North Western Railway, with the culprit eventually apprehended
and sentenced to transportation and his Australian descendants finally
learned of his escapades.
Novelists often play fast and loose with railway history, but some
contact Inreach to check their scenarios before publication. Inreach had
to determine if a spy novel’s villain could travel from A to B in summer
1940 quickly enough to commit a murder and maintain his alibi. And
verify the configuration of beds on a 1950s Scottish sleeper so that a
whodunnit would stack up. For another author we researched Wallace
Hartley’s final journey. He was offered a job at short notice on a sailing
from Southampton during the miners’ strike of April 1912, when railway
companies operated reduced services and emergency timetables to
conserve coal stocks. Doggedly he made it to Southampton – just in time
for the sailing of RMS
Titanic.
As the ship sank, Wallace led the orchestra
playing to the passengers, the musicians being posthumously acclaimed
for their bravery.
Probably the weirdest request was to disprove the existence of
Brown Windsor Soup. A culinary historian had heard that this substance
(for want of a better word) was thick, stodgy, universally detested and
a staple of British dining car menus. We checked scores of menus from
the nineteenth century onwards without finding a single reference to this
fabled dish. Actually, the mythical soup was a 1950s joke by Alec Guinness,
subsequently extensively embellished by Spike Milligan. Somehow
it appeared in culinary histories as though it had been gracing railway
menus since Victorian times. We never know what might appear in the
Inbox...
So the ex-teenager got his wish, working in the world’s largest railway
history archive and even using some of it to research pieces for the journal
you’re currently reading. If you want to find out more about Inreach or
want Inreach to find out more for you, email inreach@nrm.org.uk.
Malcolm Timperley
There are occasions when I lack the time or (it must be conceded) the
inspiration to compile an editorial, so if anyone else would like to follow in
this writer’s footsteps and offer a guest editorial, then you need a subject
(some collected thoughts, a philosophy, an argument, a grievance or
whatever) in around 850 words and this space could also be yours.
Ed.
Contents
East Lancashire Lines
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Murphy’s Law: Class 84
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393
By Road and Rail across the Forth
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398
The Severn Tunnel – Part One
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406
Eric Lomax – The Railwayman of
War and Peace
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412
Trevor Owen’s World of Steam
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416
Focus on Newcastle
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421
A Bolton Exodus
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424
‘75000s’ on the Southern Region:
A Case Study
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431
In the Water
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436
The ‘Didcot Fly’
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438
Emile Bachelet and the Dawn
of ‘Maglev’ – Part One....................................... 440
Readers’ Forum
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445
Book Reviews
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446
BR Class 4 4-6-0 No.75047 passes
Sandhills heading towards
Liverpool Exchange on the
Lancashire & Yorkshire route into
the city on 17th July 1965.
(Trevor Owen/Colour-Rail.com 392881)
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above
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There’s some fine open country in the southern Pennines and
Ribble Valley and spring greenery is coming alive at Pleasington where
the railway crosses the River Darwen. On 4th May 1968 LMS Class
5 4‑6‑0 No.45407 is working the 10.50 Preston–Blackburn parcels.
The locomotive had just been transferred from Speke Junction shed
to Lostock Hall (Preston) but must have been in good condition,
appearance notwithstanding, since it lasted to the end and remains a
consistently reliable main line performer in preservation.
EAST LANCASHIRE LINES
BackTrack
welcomes a new colour contributor
DAVID RODGERS
who was out and about recording
the last months of steam working on British Railways
in 1968. In this first selection of his work the focus is on
the East Lancashire line between Preston and Burnley.
below
:
Lostock Hall locomotive depot was situated south of Preston on the line linking the Liverpool and Blackburn routes and
became one of the last three steam sheds at the end of such working in August 1968. LMS Class 5s and 8Fs predominated and
on Good Friday that year, 12th April, Class 5 No.44713 heads this shed road, with the tender of an Ivatt Class 4 2‑6‑0 in the left
background. Four months to go and counting…
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BACKTRACK
above
:
Small-town Lancashire represented by Huncoat, between Burnley and
Accrington, where LMS 8F 2-8-0 No.48257 is in charge of the 13.25 empty
newspaper vans from Colne to Red Bank Sidings, Manchester, on 1st June. The
train would take the Bolton line at Blackburn to reach Manchester which back then
was a major printing and distribution centre for the newspaper industry. This
working was one of the very few, if not the only, non-freight duty of Rose Grove
shed, Burnley, and a Class 5 would usually have been rostered. In the left back-
ground are the disused sidings of Huncoat Colliery which had closed that February.
The station is well kept with whitened edges and window sills but still gaslit, a
widespread practice for some years yet. On the right the wall of the building
advertises John Smith’s ales of Tadcaster (in Yorkshire!) for some reason when
Thwaites’s excellent beer was being brewed only a few miles away in Blackburn!
Note the old ‘X’-shaped television aerials on the terraced house chimneys.
below
:
The celebrity performer of 1968 was BR
‘Britannia’ Pacific No.70013
Oliver Cromwell
which the previous year had become the last
steam locomotive to undergo a works overhaul
and it was kept in service after withdrawal
of the rest of the class at the end of 1967 for
use on enthusiasts’ specials such as this one.
On 13th April it was climbing out of Wilpshire
Tunnel on the line from Hellifield which joined
the East Lancashire route at Blackburn. The
train was a BR Scottish Region excursion from
Edinburgh and was hauled by No.70013 from
Hellifield via Manchester Victoria to Stockport.

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