NEW OCTOBER 2017. In April, May and July 1922 the Railway Magazine had a series of three articles entitled 'Essex Coast Branches of the Great Eastern Railway'. They were written by J F Gairns.
He divided his survey into four parts: the Southend group of lines (including Southminster and Maldon East); the Clacton, Walton and Brightlingsea branches; the Harwich branch; and the Kelvedon, Tiptree and Tollesbury light railway. For each section he took a brief look at its history, the features of the line itself and the traffic it carried at that date.
The articles are illustrated by his own snapshots of stations. These were the GER station at Southend, Shenfield and Hutton, Wickford, Woodham Ferrers, Burnham-on-Crouch, Southminster, Maldon (East) and Heybridge, Clacton-on-Sea (two views), Brightlingsea, Manningtree, Bradfield, Parkeston Quay, Harwich Town and Kelvedon Low Level.
Two extra bonuses are added at the end. The first is a quarter-page report from the Locomotive Magazine of October 1904 telling of the opening of the light railway to Tollesbury and giving a short description of it. The second bonus, since Gairns's articles had no maps, are the three relevant pages from file MP001 which contains the diagrammatic maps of the whole of the GER system in 1919.
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O.S. plans 25". Colchester St. Botolphs - Colchester Triangle - Hythe - Wivenhoe - Alresford - Thorr..
£1.00
One drawing. GER third class tramcar No. 212 of 1905 for the Kelvedon and Tollesbury branch. 4mm and..
£0.80
O.S. plans 25". Gidea Park & Romford Factory. Tilbury Riverside. Westcliff. Southend Central. Sh..
£0.60
BR(E) 1968. From Bethnal Green to Ipswich. Includes the branches to Southend Victoria, Braintree, Su..
£2.70
This is a set of three drawings formerly numbered D13 in the Sales List, showing the station as surv..
£2.50
NEW MARCH 2014. The CD contains one A1 drawing of Southminster station, three A1 drawings of t..
£5.00
NEW AUGUST 2014. Instruction No. 2476 issued by the LNER on 30 August 1923 to lay down signalling re..
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NEW AUGUST 2016. A set of 35 coloured snapshots recording the railway buildings at Southminster from..
£2.00
NEW OCTOBER 2016. A set of twenty black-and-white photographs illustrating the Tendring Hundred line..
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NEW JANUARY 2018. AVAILABLE TO MEMBERS ONLY. We apologise for excluding non-members from this ..
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NEW APRIL 2020. These scans are of a hard-cover pocket book for issue to railway workers on th..
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NEW MAY 2020. This consists of 114 pages from the BR Continental Timetables dated 31 May to 3 Octobe..
£1.50
NEW APRIL 2020. In December 1985 the Harwich branch was resignalled with colour lights. This i..
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