 | NORTH LONDON RAILWAY
Reprinted and Updated 2nd Edition - March 2012
by Dennis Lovett
ISBN 978-1-906919-47-4
Book 21.7cm x 30.5cm Hardback 162 Pages 200+ B&W Photographs
Publisher: Irwell Press
Availability: No Longer Available
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| | In October 1993 Dennis Lovett was seconded by InterCity to work part time on the North London Line Modernisation Project as Communications Manager, joining the project team full-time when InterCity headquarters closed in March 1994. He suddenly found himself working on a piece of railway about which he knew very little and soon discovered that this was a line with a very complex history indeed. He found throughout his railway public affairs career that it was important to read up on lines such as this, in order to have the answers, so that when journalists and others asked the questions, he either knew the answer or where to find it in the quickest possible time! He would often attend meetings or brief journalists about the project, when questions would inevitably be asked about the line's past. The modernisation of the North London Line in the mid-1990s created a great deal of attention and in order to understand its future, it was necessary to get to grips with the past. Over the two years he worked on the project, such information was collated. It was not then the intention to produce a book but as the project passed to others, he was persuaded that the collected information should be placed before a wider audience. Little did he realise that when his day to day involvement with the project finished, that it would take so long to achieve the desired result or that it would continue to be of interest ten years after the first edition was published. Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 - Opening Up London, From the London & Birmingham to the Docks
- Chapter 2 - Towards Surrey, Lines to Kew, Richmond and Hammersmith
- Chapter 3 - Through Hampstead Heath Camden Road to Old Oak Junction
- Chapter 4 - The Happy Afterthought, Dalston to Broad Street
- Chapter 5 - The Railway Town in the City, The establishing of a works at Bow
- Chapter 6 - Eastern Expansion, Victoria Park - Stratford
- Chapter 7 - Great Northen Connections
- Chapter 8 - Under THreat from Buses and Trams
- Chapter 9 - Electrifcation Plans
- Chapter 10 - Battle Lines, The First World War
- Chapter 11 - Between the Wars
- chapter 12 - The Second World War
- Chapter 13 - A Period of Recovery
- Chapter 14 - A Bleak outlook
- Chapter 15 - New Hope, New Life
- Chapter 16 - Towards Tommorow
- Chapter 17 - A Bright Future?
- Chapter 18 - Ten Years on
- Appendix 1 - Stations Served by NLR and its successors
- Appendix 2 - Goods depots served by NLR and its successors
- Appendix 3 - Stations on connecting lines
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