UPDATED JANUARY 2024..  This is circular A.R.P.2 issued by the LNER in December 1940. Its purpose was to provide guidance to their staff on how to proceed during air raids.

Topics covered in its 20 pages include amongst others how warnings of air raids were to be disseminated; that the working of trains should be continued; lighting restrictions; repair gangs out working on the line; train lighting; passenger stations; how to prevent the public using tunnels as air raid shelters; which direction signs should be removed; unexploded bombs and crashed aircraft; and the possibility of interference to communications by enemy parachute troops.

A recent addition, courtesy of Mike Bootman, is a second file consisting of a three-page account of carriage lighting on the LNER as it evolved during the war. This includes the specified make-up of a regular 19-coach 600 ton train! If you have already purchased the earlier version of RH039, contact us at sales@gersociety.org.uk and you will be sent this bonus file free of charge.

The main file includes an index, is word-searchable and has bookmarks to the main sections. Both files will be available to download as soon as payment has been made. You go to your account and click on ‘Downloads’. New customers create an account as they place their order.