Tag Archives: Southern Railway

Hope you all enjoyed your Christmas Day!  We’ll start today with some ghosts of Christmas past… Brighton in 1906…. Eastbourne in 1905…. And the classic shot of the works Terrier at Brighton (photo Charlie Verrall)…. Petersfield in 1898…. And St … Continue reading →

Christmas greetings and blessings to all our readers! A wintery Hastings scene for Christmas Day (photo Rob Crouch.) And this popped up as my Windows login and was quickly saved for a Swiss Christmas greeting.

As we head rapidly for Christmas, some snippets from the web…… Some American electrics, including the wonderful GG1’s…. Also electric, Gatwick has a new improved station.  I haven’t got the train there, just driven underneath the bridge from the station … Continue reading →

We visited the Tolworth show this morning, so some pictures from this good exhibition will follow over the next few days.  But it’s been a busy day, so a few more odds and ends for today. Rail replacement bus?  Not … Continue reading →

Nothing like a little Jago Hazzard for a Wednesday….. And if you want to go in ever decreasing circles…. I worked and lived near Vauxhall for a number of years – but well after the milk trains had gone. If … Continue reading →

Recovery continues…..  I’ve never seen so much rain on a motorway as there was going north.  A horrible six hour drive (plus loo and coffee breaks) turned into an easy four hours in the sun coming home.  It’s a long … Continue reading →

Just a few photographs, as I recover from a trip up north to my niece’s wedding! Three of one of the Bulleid 1-co-co-1 diesels.  Photos by John Atkinson. And the opposite end of the size scale…  A B4 shunter… And … Continue reading →

We’ll start with a little bit of film of the Bembridge branch.  All too brief…. An interesting prototype, and some interesting film clips…. Jago Hazzard has been thinking.  Dangerous. Model this on your layout! Of course, it’s been done before….

Just a little photo-dump of another favourite locomotive – the Southern Region Co-Co electrics. Early days – Southern and British Railways.  I am not sure what colour the strange Southern livery is – I’ve never seen that one before.  It … Continue reading →