Journal 61 — Summer 2016

The Tewkesbury & Malvern Railway: James Allport & The Board of Trade / By Andrew Surry
Snippets from the Illustrated London News
Foreigners
Rediscovering the North End of Derby Station
Methley Station
Neilson’s Sidings, 1981: A Christmas Day Excursion
Through Carriage Working at Wigston Junction
Accident At Silkstream Junction, June 1907
Query Corner
Comments on Items in Previous Journals

Front cover

The illustration on our front cover also forms Fig. 1 of our leading article by Andrew Surry on the Tewkesbury and Malvern Railway. The caption below is that for Fig. 1 of Andrew’s article.

This coloured postcard view, based upon a photograph by W.H. Mizen of Upton-on-Severn station around 1906, shows the buildings there complete with glass canopies and Midland barge boards. The pattern bricks were yet more elaborate on the station entrance and even the weigh-bridge house had an elegantly pointed gothic roof. Clearly no expense was spared, which was unfortunate for the company, which had no expense to spare.

[Midland Railway Study Centre, No. 68074: John Alsop collection]
Rear cover

Our Back Cover shows a Midland Railway handbill advertising the new return services of through-carriages to Birmingham from London St. Pancras via Wigston South Junction. The timings confirm those that John Gough provided in his response (From St. Pancras to Birmingham by Scheduled Train, Midland Railway Society Journal No. 59, Autumn, 2015, pp.31) to George Huxley’s original Query No. 114. This is one piece of evidence in support of what we know about this obscure service of the Midland Railway, and John Stevenson’s article pulls together that information and what can be reliably surmised about how the Midland moved the through-carriages at Wigston.

[John Stephenson Collection]

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