Memories of Southern Railways

This second volume of memories continues the same style as the first, but at two differing periods. Firstly Mike Jacob s memories that pre-date his time on the Isle of Wight and then later, and as the title of this new book suggests, his visits to and travels on and around the Southern Region in the 1950s and early 1960s. Readers are privileged to see Hampshire railways in the 1940s, the time as a child he first saw a sailor carrying bananas at Portsmouth station - without knowing what they were: a strange machine that turned out to be the Leader on a test run, and later still visits to Eastleigh and interviews with the Works Manager: which revealed some interested facets on Mr Bulleid and his engines! The story continues with equally wonderful descriptions of visits from Kent across to Cornwall.