Origin and use of Great Northern & North Eastern joint stock

[Jim Martin]

I recall reading somewhere that the origin of the GN&NE joint stock lay in the directors of the North British discovering that East Coast Joint Stock carriages were being used on London to Newcastle trains, and demanding that the GNR and NER desist, thus creating the need for a new joint stock pool. Is that correct; and if so, when did this happen?

 

Also, did GN&NE joint stock serve any other routes apart from London to Newcastle (London-Hull? London-Sunderland?)?

 

Thanks

 

Jim

[34theletterbetweenB&D]

If Ken Hoole's 'East Coast Joint Stock' is to be trusted, the GN and NE Joint Stock was instituted by agreement between these two businesses, and the stock employed London-York-Newcastle from 1903. The NBR's complaint arose in 1905, over the use of some ECJS vehicles for services which were London-Newcastle only, and thus not within the scope of the far earlier ECJS agreement to provide vehicles exclusively for through working London-Edinburgh, (and beyond on the Scottish network though that need not concern us). More GN&NE Joint Stock was constructed to remedy this.