Description

Southern Times Issue 15

SOUTHERN TIMES is the quarterly periodical for followers of the Southern Railway, British Railways Southern Region, as well as the pre group companies: LSWR, LBSCR, and SECR.

Contents
Introduction 3
The HLV picture albums Steve Godden 5
The last days of steam at Weymouth Bob Winkworth 11
To close a railway: The Lyme Regis branch 17
P M Alexander on the Isle of Wight Courtesy of Peter Fitczuk 24
BR Blue (the first time around) 31
Altered signalling Nov/Dec 1924 32
The Southern W class tank engines 35
Stephen Townroe’s colour archive; ‘On Somerset & Dorset lines’
Part 2 Intermediate stations Templecombe to Bath 43
Fratton to East Southsea in retrospect Hector Maxwell 53
The colour archives of Michael Hardy. Part 2:
steam recalled (and not a Pacific in sight) 57
Tempus Fugit 68
Hampshire DMUs – love them or loathe them 70
Continuing the colour theme with Terry Tracey at Andover 73
Treasures from the Bluebell Railway Museum and Archive
Tony Hillman & Richard Peirce 75
From the Footplate 78