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Preview Issue January 2007
 
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Front Cover 34022 at Eastleigh 06/08/1961
2 Getty Files 1 - 'J' class tank No.2326
3 S15' class No.30499
5 Editorial
6 TRIALS AND TRIBULATIONS WITH THE MERCHANT NAVY CLASS 1941 - 1946
25 Getty Files 2 - 'Merchant Navy' class
26 Terry Cole's Rolling Stock File No.1 - S1 of set 652, set 656 S6406, S6634 of set 331
28 THE SCHOOLS AND THE "LYMINGTON BOATS"
35 FLASHBACK - 1, Lees Lane signal box Gosport line.
36 FOUND IN A WOODEN BOX - Salisbury turntable 1935/39
44 Getty Files 3 - Ascot 1935 class 'M7' 0-4-4T
45 A Short Sharp Shock - of Steam, Hugh Abbinnett on being a fireman in 1943
48 THE SOUTHERN ELECTRIC LOCOMOTIVES 20001 - 3
61 FLASHBACK - 2, LBSCR C2 0-6-0 No.446 at Waddon Marsh.
62 REAL ATMOSPHERE - Winchester at night 27/02/1965
64 PERMANENT WAY NOTES - LEWISHAM 1949
74 ALL OUR YESTERDAYS - February 1957 SOUTHERN REGION fron The Railway Observer
79 Brighton Atlantic - A personal journey
88 THINGS THAT GO BUMP IN THE NIGHT (and in the day as well) experimental buffer stop Hither Green 11/1930
90 THE BOTLEY TRAIN FIRE - and the other 'firemen'
97 COLOUR INTERLUDE - I-o-W - W20, W26 at Ventnor 07/1963, Shanklin station, W21 at Wroxall 08/1964, W17 at Sandown, W33 at Cowes.
Back Cover Nursling starting signal towards Romsey winter 1962/3
 
Issue No.1 September 2007
 
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Front Cover Petworth with 33018 on pick up freight circa 1963
2 Getty Files 1 - Waterloo 'A' Box gantry being demolished 1936. Ash Level Crossing 1965.
5 Editorial
6 THE BRIGHTON BELLE
16 QUESTIONS - QUESTIONS? CAN YOU HELP.
18 FLASHBACK - IS THIS THE ANSWER TO THE WINCHESTER PROBLEM?
20 Getty Files 2 - Grove Road Deptford pre WW2
22 Ramblings on, and of: THE E1/R 0-6-2 TANK ENGINES
34 NEW CROSS Circa 1907
36 REAL ATMOSPHERE - Winchester
38 WATERLOO LSWR to BR a brief summary Part1
54 NEW STOCK FOR THE EASTLEIGH BREAKDOWN TRAIN - 1957
58 Terry Cole's Rolling Stock File No.2 - S1007, in SOUTHERN livery 1st corridor No.7181, set 513 (3560, 975).
60 PERMANENT WAY NOTES - from Basingstoke to Woking LWRT 360' track train
65 REBUILDING - the letters and comments page
66 AND NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT - Bournemouth shed 09/06/1956
67 OR FOR QUITER CONTEMPLATION - Beddington signal box 1926
68 BRIGHTON LOCO WORKS - Apprenticeship Memories
82 SO FIRST TAKE YOUR ENGINE - the rebuilding of the 'Merchant Navy' class
90 TERMINUS TIMES - Hugh Abbinnett on the bombing of Southampton terminus in 1943
96 WHAT SIZE BANG WOULD YOU LIKE - detonator test between Feltham and Stains 02/10/1929
97 COLOUR INTERLUDE - Interior of PULLMAN VERA, 'H' class 0-4-4T at THREE BRIDGES - Midhurst branch
Back Cover LSWR down home signals Basingstoke 1960s
 
Issue No.2 January 2008
 
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Front Cover Wadebridge 1963
2 Eastleigh running shed ? Circa 1903
4 Schools' class No.931 with armoured cab 15/01/1943
5 Editorial
6 LYMINGTON BRANCH
18 A PRIVILEGED PERSPECTIVE - H. L. BUTLER a log of some footplate trips as a pupil appentice
24 LONGPARISH circa 1900
26 WOOLSTON 1889
28 Purely by chance - number plate off Adams T3 4-4-0 No.E561 with weight diagram
30 THE SWAYING FOOTPLATE - part 1 of Norman Denty's experiences
40 WATERLOO LSWR to BR a brief summary Part2 - with plan of 1922
51 Getty Files 1 - Waterloo to Weymouth train 26/05/1950
52 FOR WHOM THE BELLE TOLLS - the Devon Belle
64 Terry Cole's Rolling Stock File No.3 - ex SECR coaches, composit S5449, 1st S7347, Departmental 1st saloon 1062S.
66 REAL ATMOSPHERE - Walton on Thames - Winchester
68 September1966 - not a good month - accidents.
70 June 1955 had not been good either - ASLEF strike
71 PERMANENT WAY NOTES - WATERLOO STATION platforms 1 to 7 relaying
75 REBUILDING - the letters and comments page
76 Getty Files - junction signal Motspur Park Junction 16/06/1936
77 Weedkilling Trains
80 SOUTHERN STATIONS & HALTS - Monks Lane Halt up and down sides 24/08/1947, High Rocks Halt up and down sides 13/09/1950.
82 PRODUCTION LINE BUILDING OF ALL STEEL ELECTRIC STOCK EASTLEIGH 1946
92 35005 'CANADIAN PACIFIC' - the fitting of a mechanical stoker 03/1948 to 04/1951
95 and speaking of steam versus diesel
96 A TASTE OF - 3ton Scammell Mechanical Horse No.2519M
97 COLOUR INTERLUDE - 'Z' class 0-8-0T at EXETER (ST DAVIDS) - Exeter junction - Seaton branch- Yeovil junction
Back Cover 34099 leaving Seaton Junction 03/1963
 
Issue No.3 April 2008
 
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Front Cover Class S11 30403 at Bournemouth in mixed SR and British Railways livery
2 King Arthur No. 782 'Sir Brian' at Salisbury Platform 4.
4 Head on view of 21C1 at Eastleigh circa 1941
5 Editorial
6 Pictures at Basingstoke
7 Basingstoke Part 1 - The years down to 1904
23 Missed Opportunities 1 The Urie 4-8-0
26 34085 at Eastleigh Works 9 January 1950
27 Victoria: 9th December 1949 A sad mistake. A collision between 34084 on the 'Golden Arrow', light engine 34085 and an eight coach electric to West Croydon.
33 Picture of 34103 'Calstock' leaving Reading West
34 Pictures around Evercreech Junction
35 Wither the Somerset and Dorset' The sad, and at times downright deceitful way, closure of the S & D was achieved.
44 Sandling Junction two 8 wheeled type 'J' 3rd brake Pullmans P40 and 41 Holiday coaches
46 More from the wooden box Salisbury - west end departures, No. 457 'Sir Belvedere', 449 'Sir Torre', 746 'Pendragon', 768 'Sir Balin' and two views of 747 'Elaine'
52 Memories of a young trainspotter - at St Denys 1945-1949
54 Pictures of I-o-W Central 4-4-0T No.6 and I-o-W Central railcar No.1
55 Audit time on the Isle of Wight - a circa 1940/1 listing of fixed assets, rolling stock, set formations, Ryde Pier Tramway, side view of FY and NR No.1, Pictures of IWC 4-4-0T No. 6, IWC 2-4-0T No.5 and whats left of IWC A1 0-6-0T W9.
68 Picture, signals in St George's Hill cutting Walton on Thames
69 Picture, Waterloo 4-COR and 34052
70 The 1932 Brighton Line Resignalling part 1
79 Picture, Banstead goods yard 1935
80 Terry Cole's Rolling Stock File No.4 - ex SECR O1 Class and 5 comp brake 3rd coach S3291, ex LSWR coorridor brake 3rd S3175 both on KESR 13/08/1952, ex LBSCR A1X 32677 and rebuilt ex LSWR 48' lavatory bi-composite 508 to diag 758 now 58' brake composite 6404 to diag 418 Langstone Bridge 03/05/1953.
82 Push-Pull to Alton' - Hugh Abbinnett on a M7 working.
92 PERMANENT WAY NOTES - 'State of the art' track relaying - 1948 use of a TRM and compressor wagon.
96 2-NOL in a carriage washer Orpington 27/03/1946
97 COLOUR INTERLUDE - 30587 2-4-0WT at Boscarne Junction with clay train 22/07/1960 - Hatherleigh Station with Ivatt 2-6-2T 41312 16/07/1960 - 'L' Class 31760 at Aldershot 03/07/1960 - 'E2' Class 32102 at Farnborough circa 1960 - 30729 shunting at Padstow July 1960.
Back Cover Furzebrook on the Swanage branch circa 1950
 
Issue No.4 September 2008
 
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Front Cover Urie 'H16' No.30519 at Clapham Junction on ECS workings
2 Bournemouth Central July 1951
4 Swanage 1965
5 Editorial
7 The 150th Anniversary of the London, Chatham & Dover Railway. The development of the LCDR system - a photographic tribute
21 The 1932 Brighton Line Resignalling part 2
29 The Legacy of Mr Price - 2 pictures the third class carriage and 2 of the 'I3' locomotive No.79 involved in his death
33 From RINGWOOD to CHRISTCHURCH an almost forgotten railway
40 RAY CHORLEY - Obituary
40 QUESTIONS - QUESTIONS….?
42 BRITISH RAILWAYS - SOUTHERN REGION MAGAZINE - the final volume for 1949 reviwed
53 Along the Sussex Coast - 80 Years Ago - picture article of the trains east of Lewis through to Hastings
60 Certainly not an essay in concrete, perhaps more of a sentence - drawing of a pre-assembled concrete fogman's hut to Drg No CW8/46
62 Petersfield Circa 1884/1885 - 2-4-0T No.191 with what is thought to be the Midhurst branch train
64 Burning Bulleids' a definite precursor to the article that follows
67 ERIC BEST Memories of South Hampshire and a Railway Career
90 More on Weedkilling
92 PERMANENT WAY NOTES, Third rail items on the Southern
97 COLOUR INTERLUDE - No.54 'WADDON' restored in 1963 at Eastleigh, 'W' class tank 31922, 'M7' tank 30035, 'V' class 30915 Brighton, 'D1' 31487
Back Cover Wokingham SOUTHERN ELECTRIC sign board
 
Issue No.5 January 2009
 
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Front Cover Victoria, June 1963 6PAN set No.3023 Brighton via Quarry Line.
2 The result of enemy action at Victoria, 10.25 pm, 9th October 1940. Damage to 'Brighton Belle' sets, Audrey nearest camera.
4 LBSCR steam railcar No.1 in later livery.
5 Editorial
7 Sir Sam Fay London & South Western Days. Covers between 1872 & 1901 including the start of "The South Western Gazette.". With contempory photographs.
20 Bridge over the River Torridge. Three views of the replacement viaduct being built for the conversion of the line for the NDCJLR.
23 Conundrums - odd pairing on a signal bracket at Stone Crossing Halt in the first half of the 1960s.
24 Basingstoke Part 2 - Rebuilt and Expanded - with track layout and new building alterations.
41 Private Owner Wagons - 10 Ton C. EMMENCE Horsebridge No.9 - 10 Ton LAWRENCE & Co (Portsmouth) Ltd Portsmouth No.12
42 REAL ATMOSPHERE - 73067 in Salisbury loco shed and 'Engine Arrangements' board - a pair of 'standards' outside Basingstoke shed.
42 Victoria - a selection of photographs by George Heiron
48 Victoria, December 1949 - revisited - follow on from issue 3 from a newspaper cutting
49 THE SWAYING FOOTPLATE - part 2 of Norman Denty's experiences continuing as a young fireman at Bournemouth in WW2
54 ROMSEY LSWR - The story of the Cooper Family 1900 - 1931 with a series of photographs taken circa 1912.
64 Southern Shipping -picture article including, MV 'DORSET COAST - ST 'FALAISE' - MV 'SHANKLIN' - ST 'NORMANNIA' - ST 'LORD WARDEN' - ST 'LONDRES' - ST 'MAID OF ORLEANS' - ST 'MAID OF KENT'.
71 The Proposed Railway to East Wittering - a description of the proposed extention of the HMST in 1913.
75 SCENES FROM 1950 to 1952 - photographs including 102501at Oatlands cutting and LBSCR class' I2' WD 72400 and 720401 awaiting scrapping.
82 Terry Cole's Rolling Stock File No.5 a trio of brake-vans - S54900 ex LSWR 12439 10 ton single ended road van branded for internal K&ESR use at Robertsbridge. SR 5587? ex LBSCR (348-361) 15 ton single ended road van at Norwood Junction. S55434 ex SECR 6w 20 ton double veranda van at Esher. Plus correction to issue 3.
84 PERMANENT WAY NOTES, Third rail items on the Southern part 2 - "Southern Conductor Rails" on joining the Conductor Rails and maintaing good earth continuity.
88 REBUILDING' - The letters and comments page
90 THE KENT COAST ELECTRIFICATION Phase 1 - describing the routes, service and stock including delivery dates.
97 COLOUR INTERLUDE - covering July and August 1967 as recorded at Woking and Salisbury. 35030 at Salisbury, unidentified 'Light Pacific' approaching Woking, two 'Standard' 4-6-0's head west from Woking, Salisbury yard.
Back Cover 34019 'Bideford' at Eastleigh.
 
Issue No.6 April 2009
 
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Front Cover "West Country" class No.34035 "Shaftsbury" showing cowling modifications as of early 1960 at Eastleigh Works.
2 Circa 1948 Guildford bound from Woking "H16" 4-6-2T No.518
4 Southern Magazine' picture of Swanwick staff possibly 1889 or 1910?
5 Editorial
6 LANCING CARRIAGE WORKS - first in series with plan dealing with the works.
20 BUDEFUL DRUMMONDS - pictures and short notes on "M7" CLASS No.35 and "K10" No.152 at Bude
22 HUMAN ERROR AT LONDON BRIDGE - on collision of two PUL-PAN 6-sets and a doubt about the offical accident report.
28 LIFE AT SOUTHAMPTON - part 1: Introduction and Overview. Life at the Southampton Train Supervisors Office.
46 EVERY PICTURE TELLS A STORY … - picture of 4th Queens Own Hussars tank (non railway type) "On manoeuvres by the Meon Valley line"
49 The SOUTHERN RAILWAY: from inception through to Nationalisation and beyond. Part 1 The 'Railways Act, 1921' on the process of "Grouping" and the ramifications there of.
58 SMOKE GETS IN YOUR EYES - 3 views of 14th September 1908 showing the signal gantry on Grosvenor bank outside Victoria LB&SCR obscured by smoke. They reveal also interesting rolling stock and train workings.
60 WATER TROUGHS ON THE SOUTHERN - the 1948 'Report of Department set up to consider the provision of Water Troughs' examined.
70 Terry Cole's Rolling Stock File No.6 three push-pull trains - ex LB&SCR set 724 (originally 991) at Brighton 26th September 1951. SE&CR ex rail motors set 482 at Westerham 24th September 1953. L&SWR ex 'Emigrant' stock set 738 or 739 at Paddock Wood on the Hawkhurst branch train 18th August 1951.
72 WHITSTABLE HARBOUR - Two views of the harbour at Easter 1939.
73 BIRDS EYE VIEW - Waterloo centred on the lift to the 'Drain', with 'SUB' and 'EPB' sets in sidings. - 'Train of Events' - 'Merchant Navy' class No.35021 failed on the 'Bournemouth Belle' at Southampton Central
74 The BULLEID STEAM REVERSER GEAR - A description of the gear and its operation.
82 PERMANENT WAY NOTES, Third rail items on the Southern part 3 - "Southern Conductor Rails" on the design and operation of the 'hook switch' to provide electrical isolation.
88 Feed back on George Heiron - George Heiron's Southern Collection WATERLOO to ILFRACOMBE. Barry Sumsion provides amplification and explanation for some of the events depicted in the pictures.
89 ACCIDENTS AND EMERGENCIES AT GUILDFORD - extracts from the Guildford Station St John Ambulance Association 'Occurrence Book' from between May 1931 and February 1934.
90 URIE'S BIG TANKS - the "G16" 4-8-0T and "H16" 4-6-2T classes potted history with livery notes.
96 The Remembrance Class in detail. Picture of No.2329 during rebuild and rebuilt cab view of 1934, plus four colour plates from The Railway Magazine circa 1937 showing suggested livery change for the Southern Railway.
98 Travels with my camera - 1 Barcombe Mills 'Q' class 0-6-0 No.30549. - 2 Pre-grouping survivor, Signal Epsom Downs February 1971. - 3 Hailsham with Tunbridge Wells to Eastbourne service. - 4 Sandown showing stored 'O2's No. 20 'Shanklin', 30 'Shorwell' and ? 31 'Chale'.
Back Cover 22nd November 1964 at Brockenhurst during replacement of signal box and the fitting of new lifting barriers.
 
Issue No.7 July 2009
 
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Front Cover The first BR 'Blue' era. 35029 at Stewarts Lane, painting by Craig Tiley.
2 Waterloo SR/BR concourse picture
3 Editorial
4 Pictures of the Callington viaduct under construction.
5 The Callington Branch - History and Memories. With pictures and sketch map.
22 Poster Time - SECR Poster and original photograph.
23 The Southern and the Silver Screen - The making of 'The Wrecker' and 'Oh Mr Porter!'
31 Clapham Junction Signalling School - 3 pictures.
33 Selsdon Road to East Grinstead in 1884. Pictures of the newly completed Croydon, Oxted & East Grinstead Railway in 1884.
42 Clapham Junction 10th May 1965 - The collapse of 'A' Box.
48 Late LSWR to early BR (with a few gaps in-between) - a personal collection of photographs.
60 Scuppering the "U-Boats" - The 18 months after the dieselisation of the Redhill - Reading line in January 1965.
66 Scuppering the "U-Boats" - Years Earlier four photographs of No.A800 'River Cray' after the Sevenoaks disaster in 1927.
68 Man of the Southern Sir Eustace Missenden - a look at his railway times.
74 A Brighton Suburban Train of the 1870s - picture of No.70 Blackwell and 4w eight set.
76 Southern Exposure' - a look at aspects of signal working.
82 1948 and all that… some pictures of the 1948 locomotive exchanges.
86 Stock Storage on the Ardingly Branch - follow on from issue 5 on withdrawn and condemened stock storage on the branch.
94 Rebuilding' - The Letters and Comments Page(s)
98 Terry Cole's Rolling Stock File No.7 Some Electric Stock. Tadworth Derby Day 30th May 1951 4-SUB unit 4174 and 4-LAV unit 2927. 4 EPB unit 5026 at Lancing Works.
100 Three Generations of Railwaymen, in Three Different Departments - Locomotive, Traffic and Civil Engineering.
108 Permanent Way Notes, Mechanised Ballast Cleaning at Petts Wood
113 COLOUR INTERLUDE - No.31803 shunting the yard, No.34023 'Blackmore Vale' on a up Bournemouth line service at Farnborough 6th October 1965. Also at Farnborough during the eletrification work 'Crompton' D6548 and 'Hymek' D7021, 'Spitfire' No.34066 and 08/09? not known with 'Hymek' D3044.
Back Cover Platform 4 Christ's Hospital
 
Issue No.8 October 2009
 
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Front Cover Oakley station between June 1963 and November 1966.
3 Dover Priory in the early 1950s
4 LBSCR 8 ton Van No.8199 at Littlehampton being loaded from a Duke & Ockenden cart (from West Sussex Past Pictures)
5 Editorial
6 Oakley a simple wayside stopping place - blink and it's gone. With pictures and signaling diagram
10 Terry Cole's Rolling Stock File No.8. ex SECR 1415 as S 1097 S, 10 comp at Sheerness 1954. ex LSWR compo No.886 as 3rd lavatory S 616 at Redhill 1952. ex LBSCR 2 coach IoW set 505 at Bembridge 1953.
12 BRIGHTON 1903, 1890 and 1933. Picture article
16 The Southern Railway Servants Orphanage also known as: 'WOKING HOMES' on the life and times of this most renowned institution.
34 ST JOHNS STATION, LEWISHAM History, Mystery & Connections. A description of the area with diagrams and pictures.
46 EXPELLED! Uppingham to Bradfield the naming saga of Schools class 4-4-0 No.923.
47 LIFE AT SOUTHAMPTON - part 2: Specific Routes and Traffic Flows.
58 DÉ JÀ VU' The 1939 Chalk Fall at Shakespeare Cliff
66 The SOUTHERN RAILWAY: from inception through to Nationalisation and beyond. Part 2 The Inheritance.
83 A DISAPPOINTED MAN a sad tale of a watch.
84 RECOLLECTIONS OF THE A. C. E. a description of a trip.
89 Page top - Poem Last Train from Waterloo. Page bottom onwards 'Rebuilding' - The Letters and Comments Page(s)
92 Permanent Way Notes, Formation Renewal at Paddock Wood.
95 Memories of TUNBRIDGE WELLS WEST
97 COLOUR INTERLUDE - Tunbridge Wells West ticket office and platforms, Cheam Station frontage, and Plymouth Friary after closure.
Back Cover 'N' No.31408 near Hinton Admiral 12th August 1965
 


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