Description
Book SynopsisIn this second and final volume, the whole of the East Coast Main Line between King’s Cross and Edinburgh Waverley stations is examined closely, with a particular emphasis on the ways and structures: the line, stations, connections, yards, and other physical features. Interposed are accounts of the traffic at the principal stations (including connecting and branch line services) with observations on changes over the period 1939 to 1959. Some emphasis is placed on freight traffic on account of its importance and, perhaps, its relative unfamiliarity to the reader. The lines, stations, and many other elements are described as they were in August 1939, but as some plans on which they are based are dated before the late 1930s, there may be marginal differences from the precise layout in 1939.
Table of Contents1 The East Coast Main Line’s Principal Points; 2 Alterations to the Way and Structures (1939-1959); 3 Locomotives of the ECML (1939-1959); 4 ECML Locomotive Depots, their Allocations and Workings; 5 Passenger Rolling Stock on the ECML; 6 Management and Staff of the ECML; 7 ECML Stations and Signal Boxes in 1939; 8 ECML Wayside Stations and Closure Dates; 9 ECML Tunnels and Principal Overbridges; 10 Gradients and Speed Restrictions on the ECML; 11 Staff Distribution (October 1939); Endnotes; Bibliography.
