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. 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. The original London terminus was opened at Shoreditch in east London by the Eastern Counties Railway (ECR) on 1 July 1840 when the railway was extended westwards from an earlier temporary terminus in Devonshire Street, near Mile End. The frames were The North Country Continental operated between Harwich and Manchester Piccadilly usually being routed via March and the GNGEJR route. Elsie is generally shedded overnight at Knapford Sheds with Toby and Henrietta. 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. The next Adams locomotive was the first UK 2-6-0 locomotive built in 1877. Built by the local Tollemache family (of brewing fame) in 1902, the hotel was lavishly equipped with tennis courts, winter gardens, a putting course, croquet lawns and a squash court. R2000 HORNBY OO Gauge Great North Eastern Railway 125 High Speed Pack Boxed - $138.47. Numbers 1a, 2a and 3a were built at Stratford Works in 1885 initially as hand cranes. 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. . With lifting capacity of 1012 long tons (1012t) they were employed on permanent way work. , then it is unlikely that many will remain in service for much longer. Ten 0-4-2T locomotives (Class 61) followed between 1877 and 1879 and these lasted until 1907. Prior to 1862 the companies that had built the various parts of the network operated locomotives from a variety of engineering companies. Generally the wheel arrangements were 2-2-0 and 2-2-2 for most classes of locomotives. 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line station at Tollesbury, Roughton Road Junction - Runton West Junction, Extension of 1904 line - passenger services withdrawn from this section in 1921, 17901899 Note D14/15 numbered in same series, 9196 100110 141147 170 179 188 589/90 780788. [64] Some of the T19s, incidentally, were rebuilt as 4-4-0s (class T19R) between 1905 and 1908, having been taken off express work by the "Claud Hamiltons". Then followed various corridor composite brakes followed each detached from the rear of the northbound train en route. Number 20 was the first of a class of six 2-2-2T locomotives (although three more were also built by R B Longridge and Co of Bedlington, Northumberland). In the same month, Deputy Chairman Charles Turner resigned due to suspected fraud which was to lead to his bankruptcy later in the year. This was a world record for a steam-hauled railway system. FOR SALE! Below the solebars were entirely black, although the wooden centres on the Mansell wheels were varnished. In the 1880s both routes had similar times, but by 1887 the Ipswich route offered a time of 2 hours 40 minutes which improved to 2 hours 31 minutes in 1897 and by a further five minutes in 1906. [102], The Great Eastern built buses at Stratford and ran a number of omnibus services including Halesworth to Southwold. 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. 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. These used older rolling stock with high-density seating (often using wooden benches for ease of cleaning after being used by passengers from docks, factories and markets in dirty work clothes). . [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. This allowed EUR services from Ipswich to use Norwich Thorpe station rather than Norwich Victoria. 125 photos. the equivalent of the blue used previously. The chairman of the parliamentary committee suggested to the board that the next bill should include a direct Spalding to Lincoln link. By 1920 the farm was producing 40,000 eggs per month for the GER as well as chickens, turkeys, fruit and vegetables for the GER hotels, restaurants, dining cars and buffets. The latest issue from Railway Modeller. Livery. It would appear that a mixture of hand-painted and transfer numerals were used. The GER tried to sell it in early 1907 but it failed to meet its reserve price so closed in July 1907. It was not acquired by the GER until 1 July 1890 when an act of parliament incorporated the Hunstanton and West Norfolk Railway. By 1997 there were still 90 of these in service, but with recent (2012) changes, and more changes expected. The market also had an extensive goods depot and a nearby railway station. [19], A new London terminus at Liverpool Street was opened to traffic on 2 February 1874, and was completely operational from 1 November 1875. Generally many branch services would be timed to connect to services to the main line thus providing through journeys. All services except the 09:35 departure had a connection from London Liverpool Street. Great Eastern Railway No. Typically branch line services were worked by small tank engines usually with ancient carriages handed down from main line or suburban services. Slightly bigger improved versions of the class followed in 1853 and 1854. However the high capital costs required of electrifying the GER's much more extensive and wider-reaching suburban network - estimated at 3 million (140 million in 2021) - were beyond the perennially cash-strapped GER's resources. Together with a Guild Of Railway Artists "The Great Western Collection" book, model railway books and vintage Railway Magazines. By 1895 this was down to 1 hour 30 minutes. 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). 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 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. Name: Alfred. The GER had a reputation for doing things on the cheap and this certainly was cheaper than building new stock. Additionally The Times suggested the GER may be about to appoint a receiver. Hattons re-introduce Great Eastern Railway livery to Genesis coach range. . 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 tram started the week of 13 th February still carrying the vinyls and was still in this state on the Wednesday. In 1900 the majority of GER suburban trains were composed of four-wheeler carriages. A peculiar speciality of the GER were the tram engines, built initially for the Wisbech and Upwell tramway. 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). 415: Great Central Railway large mahogany framed Over-Mantel Mirror engraved "GCR . The Y14 locomotives were designed under the supervision of Thomas William Worsdell (T.W. 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. endobj 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. Nevertheless, all were painted the same way, as were also the later C53 class six-wheeled engines of 1903. [1] It also served a suburban area, including Enfield, Chingford, Loughton and Ilford. Following the First World War, timber shortages resulted in the GER resorting to steel sheeting for carriage body panels, and this prompted the company to change to crimson lake for carriages, also in 1921. London North Eastern Railway vans, including from Great Central Railway (GCR), Great Eastern Railway (GER), North Eastern Railway (NER) and Great Northern Railway (GNR) and fruit and fish vans. Construction of the first locomotive was completed in the final week of September 1957, and the handing-over took place on 31 October. Class: Great Eastern Railway S69 Class Tender Engine. The majority of the Great Eastern's locomotives and rolling stock were built at Stratford Works, part of which was on the site of today's Stratford International station and the rest was adjacent to Stratford Regional station. The Norfolk Coast Express operated between Cromer and Liverpool Street and a purpose-built train was built for this service in 1907. In 1902 the Northern and Eastern Railway was finally absorbed by the GER, although it had been worked by the Eastern Counties Railway under a 999-year lease taken on 1 January 1844 whereby the Eastern Counties Railway would work the Northern and Eastern Railway in return for an annual rent and division of the profits. [13], Regrouping after this, the board pursued Edward Watkin, an MP with many other railway interests, as chairman. On 2 July a suit was bought before vice-chancellor Sir Richard Malins and the GER was placed into chancery. 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. 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]. Built on the Thames she was employed on summer excursions from Harwich to Felixstowe and Ipswich. However - again with typical Stratford perversity perhaps - the opposite was often the case. [65], GER goods designs of this period were invariably 0-6-0 tender engines. Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for HORNBY - GREAT EASTERN RAILWAY SET - THE NORTHUMBRIAN - MINT AND BOXED at the best online prices at eBay! Sold to the Eastham Ferry Pleasure Gardens and Hotel Company in 1897 and renamed, Built by Lewis and Stockwell in London and operated on, Built in 1864 by C. Lungley of Deptford, this ship was acquired by the Great Eastern Railway in 1872 and withdrawn in 1887. This was the first formation without six-wheeler carriages in the 12-car formation, which included eight carriages for Cromer, two for Sheringham and two for Mundesley. By December 1863 the financial picture was looking better and in early 1864 the GER started looking a new railway to move coal from South Yorkshire to London via Spalding and the GN link from Spalding to March. 490, was preserved as part of the National Collection when withdrawn in 1959. Alfred John Hill became an apprentice at the Great Eastern Railways (GER) Stratford Works in 1877, and rose through the ranks to become GER Chief Mechanical Engineer in 1912. . The wooden bodies of the tram engines were built and maintained by the Carriage & Wagon Department, and from this time, two or three tram engines were repainted with crimson lake bodies. The GER's famous blue livery was introduced on all locomotives in 1882. Whilst Parliament favoured competition it was also aware that the ECR was constantly at war with its neighbours and whilst these working arrangements were approved there was a condition that a bill for full amalgamation was presented by 1861. 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. 8A - RCTS. Material: . As built, the initial engines were steam-braked only. Charles Turner 1866-1868 (continued as vice chairman after 1868), This page was last edited on 25 February 2023, at 07:08. Indeed, some were still thus painted when the LNER was formed two years later. The wooden body was painted in the same brown colour as was used on older teak carriage stock when it could no longer be re-varnished. 567 GCR Class 2 4-4-0: N/A N/A Under Construction. 2{cyWN[Gu"ydFYD ?("p$a^#,2W@$O*O "XAdOr$':;2oE`d)nshorY\kjy-zF]=U76ZL,b&AM;t gFQx82)Uq% X~[e`)UI$2#d3[-0H^-~^? In 1897 the 8:30pm train was run as two separate trains - 8:30pm for the Hook of Holland and 8:35pm for Antwerp. Three services were run each day although it was never a particularly well patronised service.[46]. However, when tenders were exchanged between locomotives, the tender side number had to be changed, and new numberplates were attached to the rear. Sinclair's first design for the GER was the W class single drivers built between 1862 and 1867 by a number of engineering firms. R350 Class L1 4-4-0 31785 and 6 wheel Tender in B.R. Many rural branch lines had no more than a handful of services each day. Liverpool Street received its first electric lines in 1946 and electric suburban services - finally replacing The Jazz - began in 1960. 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 . Norwich was 3 hours and 15 minutes via Ipswich and 4 hours via Cambridge. Both coaches carry names for 'Thomas' events. Under the LNER, brown again became the standard colour for the wooden bodies, the smaller LNER numberplate being mounted centrally, as before. All trains called at the two stations on the branch, taking 18 minutes to get to the junction station at Wickham Market. Turntables were generally small in 1900 the longest was 50 feet (15m) enough to turn the later B12 Class 4-6-0 locomotive. 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). Free delivery for many products! endobj 7999 at the East Anglia Railway Museum in late BR livery. The wartime economy livery was adopted from the middle of 1915. This was confirmed on 4 July. The GER had to transport greater numbers of passengers commuting in and out of the urban centre and at lower fares. The Class 2s were a series of express locomotives built between 1887 and 1892 for use on the MSLR.When the LNER formed they became the D7s, by then they were already obsolete, and all were withdrawn between 1926 and 1939, with no preserved examples. 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. The only concession to the new ownership was that the smaller LNER numberplates replaced the GER type, and the new number was shown in the old 'Train Control' figures. GER - Great Eastern Railway & Operators. Lining was black with vermilion edging. 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. Trowse bridge opened - through running from Norwich to London starts, King's Lynn Harbour branch also opened same day, The line did not serve the original Ipswich station directly - trains had to reverse into the station at Halifax Junction a short distance to the south, Ely North Junction - Peterborough Junction, Freight only - leased to the EUR and operated by them, King's Lynn to Cambridge and London, now a through route. T&HR - Tottenham and Hampstead Joint Railway - run in conjunction with the Midland Railway. The GER supplied separate luggage compartments for most of its main line stock. After the tramway closed, Elsie was brought with Toby and Henrietta to the North Western Railway. Material: Brass, Cast Iron, Diecast. The competition from the trams, and concerns over . "London & North Eastern Railway". but bogie vehicles were painted with black underframes. GER - Great Eastern Railway. Despite the trend to bogied stock, Stratford still included three 6-wheeler carriages and a 4-wheeled luggage van in this formation. 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. Sort By. 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 main freight class built by the GER was Worsdell's Y14 (LNER J15) 0-6-0 class. Gender: Male. Hattons has added Great Eastern Railway liveries to its Genesis range of vintage c. Read More. Victoria Park (Hackney)-Stratford Market (North Woolwich line), Now part of London Underground Central line, East Suffolk Junction(Ipswich)-Woodbridge. Horatio Love 18621863 - a stockbroker and former chairman of the Eastern Counties Railway. News. It consisted of Ultramarine Blue over an undercoat of French Grey, with black smokebox and vermillion buffer beams and lining. 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. When 'Train Control' was introduced, the large yellow numerals replaced the GER initials on the side plates. [103], The GER owned five hotels at the end of their existence in 1922.[104][105]. Great North Eastern Railway: Loco & Coach: GW Green (9) First Great Western: Locomotive: GW Purple (6) First Great Western: Locomotive: GW Purple & Yellow (11) First Great Western: Coach: The last two cranes (number 6a and SB4) were built by Ransomes & Rapier of Ipswich in 1913 and 1919. Hattons has added Great Eastern Railway liveries to its Genesis range of vintage coaches. By 1916 unnecessary travel was being discouraged to conserve coal supplies. types used blue above the footplate. [70][71], Whilst not being at the forefront of carriage development, there were a number of interesting developments on the GER worth noting.[72]. . 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! One of the more obscure services the GER offered was the delivery of sea water. RAILWAYS OF BRITAIN-45. As it adjoined the North Sea the GER undertook a significant role in the war. However, I have chosen that a handful of B12s will survive in my AU, but only a slight few. This was the biggest hotel on the system. The last one, GER no. All were withdrawn between 1898 and 1902. The sea water was used in baths and was still running as late as 1910 although the exact final date of operation is unknown.[50]. The station, situated 14 miles 3 chains (14.0 miles; 22.6 kilometres) south of Newcastle, serves the cathedral city of Durham in County Durham, Need help? Learn Great Eastern Railway facts for kids. These formed the basis of the 40 strong 'little Sharpie' (or Number 1) class, with 10 being built by Stratford Works and the other 30 by Sharp Stewart hence the nickname. Why this should be is unknown: perhaps the company was supplied with an official GER photograph of one of the Stratford-built engines with the drawings, whilst the painting instructions were not specific, other than stating that the main colour to be used was grey? 4a and 5a worked from Ipswich (until 1967) and March (until 1962). The new services were introduced in July 1920. L.N.E.R APPLE GREEN CLASS B1 ENGINE BRAND NEW (ex-shop stock originally direct from manufacturers) BOX & PACKAGING AS NEW (possibility of superficial surface rubbing to outer sleeve through storage and handling complete with un-opened accessories and paperwork) The hotel prospered until the Second World War where it first housed the LNER Accounts department and was then requisitioned by the War department and used by various British and Canadian regiments during the rest of the war. 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