£12.95

9781913251772

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

Don’t forget you can also subscribe to the Southern Times

Issue 9: Contents

Introduction 3
Original colour around Nationalisation 5
The South Eastern from Ashford to Dover and coastal
problems for William Cubitt. Part 2 Jeremy Clarke 9
Cycling on the Southern Ian Shawyer 15
The SECR ‘J’ class tank engines 19
By Withered Arm from Barnstaple Junction to
Halwill Junction via Torrington 27
Farnborough Air Show Traffic. From the notes of John Davenport 45
Stephen Townroe’s colour archive: The 1952 Shawford derailment 52
In and around Fratton Images by Tony Harris 60
The Elham Valley line A Earle Edwards 63
Treasures from the Bluebell Railway Museum
Tony Hillman 67
The 1948 Southern Region Locomotive Building Programme 70
The nightmare …
From the Footplate 78