LNER by Paul Atterbury

Author:Paul Atterbury
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781784422707
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2018-01-22T00:00:00+00:00

LNER poster promoting travel along the Yorkshire Coast by train, from a painting by Frank Mason, 1937.

At the same time, the LNER ran a very dense and busy suburban network. Much of this had been inherited from the Great Eastern, whose suburban services in and out of Liverpool Street were famously challenging and efficient. The GER’s suburban services were known as ‘Jazz’ trains, not because of their rapid turnaround at the start and end of each journey, but because of the coloured stripes on the carriages – yellow for 1st class, blue for 2nd – which gave the trains a jazzy appearance. However, there was much more, with the LNER’s suburban traffic active in a semicircle to the north of London, from Clacton, Colchester, Chelmsford, Bishop’s Stortford, Cambridge and Hitchin to Aylesbury. These services were operated generally by specially designed carriages in quadruplet sets that would be permanently coupled in pairs, to make the famous LNER eight-carriage sets known popularly as ‘Quad-Arts’. These were built in large numbers in the 1920s, and continued to serve the main suburban routes well into the British Railways era. For other suburban routes, five-carriage quintuplet sets were also produced. These could also be paired to make ten-coach trains.

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