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Extract from
the Introduction by Anne Letch:
During the last 80 years there has been an extensive quantity
of maps produced by London Transport and its predecessors, available free
to passengers, enabling them to find their way around London and its suburbs.There
has been an enormous interest in these items, they are extremely sought
after by collectors, but there has never been any official details published
as to what items have actually been issued......
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Extract from
the Preface:
In 1995, Dr Michael Duffy created a series of seminars
from the School of Engineering & Advanced Technology at Sunderland
University. The school was also the Centre for Engineering Change, and
is now the School of Computing, Engineering and Technology. Other sponsors
were the Newcomen Society, and the London Transport Museum (particularly
Mark Dennison) who provided the venue on 2 March 1996 for a meeting on
the work of Robert Dell.
After a personal introduction by Anthony Bull, CBE, OBE, (Vice-Chairman
of the London Transport Board from 1965 to 1971) formal papers were read
by four authors. The audience then visited Cobourg Street (London Underground's
control room for the Northern and Victoria Lines) to see Dell's equipment
there.
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Extract from
the Introduction by Peter Bancroft:
There has, not surprisingly, been some pressure from interested
collectors and researchers alike, to obtain some form of comprehensive
listing of the supplements. The list which follows has been formed by
looking at each supplement and using the title as the basis of the entry
for that particular supplement. In some cases, however, a year has been
added in brackets, where only a day and month were given. Also, dates
for the introduction of fares revisions have been added, where these were
not included in the title. A location has sometimes been added where this
was thought to be helpfull. The present listing arbitrarily covers the
period from the beginning of 1934 up to the end of 1991. This is largely
because of the ease of referring to bound volumes covering these years.
Supplements were, however, issued before 1934 in various forms.
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Extract from
the Introduction:
Soon after the passing of the 1968 Transport Act, which
had included the provision for LT to reclaim its relics and records, a
firm statement was made by LT to the effect that they believed that the
proper place for their relics and records was in London. They therefore
gave BR notice that they would reclaim their respective records and relics
when the move of BR items was being made to York. An agreement had already
been reached with the Greater London Council that LT's records, whilst
remaining LT property, would be housed in the Middlesex section of the
Council's Record Office, then at 1 Queen Anne's Gate Buildings. Dartmouth
Street, London, SW 1. The relics were actually reclaimed even before Clapham
closed and formed the basis of the collection displayed at Syon Park,
which opened on 23 May 1973. These items, mostly railway rolling stock/trains/buses
moved into the new LT Museum in Covent Garden in 1981.
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Extract from the
Introduction by Peter Bancroft:
I have often had a need to look
up magazine references to articles, letters to the editor, news items,
photographs, etc. about local railways within about a twenty mile or so
radius from Alton. In 1985, P J Long published The Railmag Index. This,
according to its introduction, was designed to allow 'quick & convenient
tracing of all information' in Trains Illustrated/Modern Railways/Railways/Railway
World. I have used it since on many occasions but quickly gained the impression
that it was full of numbers and plus/minus signs, but lacked any hard
information! However, in fairness it does seek to cover the whole subject
matter throughout the magazines concerned. It also ignored the much older
and longer running Railway Magazine. Although no particular importance
should be attached to the age of magazine items, there is clearly the
possibility that there are contemporary reports of much earlier happenings,
together with earlier photographs, maps, gradient profiles and maybe personal
reminiscences as well. These ought not to be ignored!
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The British Transport
Staff College at Woking
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Peter Bancroft
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Please note the illusration is
from within the book. The cover is gold lettering on green cloth..
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(Out
of print)
Extract from
the Introduction by Peter Bancroft:
In 1983, I wrote a short article about the British Transport
Staff College (BTSC), which was published in London Passenger Transport
No.11 July 1983). This was written largely from press reports and other
secondary sources. I subsequently agreed to write a much longer text with
the co-operation of the British Railways Board, based on original documentation
from the BTSC period which was made available to me. I hope that the result
is now a comprehensive account of the BTSC, starting with construction
of the house which would later form its base, and including a full account
of the Southern Railway Staff Training College which ran from 1947 - 1958.
The story ends when the BTSC courses, which were transferred to Ashridge
in 1982, finally ceased in 1986.
Many course members, whose names are given in Appendix
2, subsequently held, or hold, senior positions in nationalised transport
and elsewhere, in the years following their attendance at the BTSC. A
few of the high fliers have been highlighted in Appendix 3, but they are
by no means all, nor are they a representative selection. It is not possible
to know precisely what influence the College had on the subsequent careers
of all those who attended its courses, but the high hopes of those who
took the decision to set up a senior management training centre in 1959,
must surely have been justified.
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This set of 8 post cards was published by Nebulous books to
commemorate the closure of the Longmoor Military Railway on the 31st October
1969.
