Southern Times - Issue 9 Summer/Autumn 2024

Southern Times is the new quarterly periodical for followers of the Southern Railway, British Railways Southern Region, as well as the pre-grouping companies; LSWR, SECR, LBSCR, and SECR. Quarterly publication, 80 pages packed with articles and images that are Southern related including where possible, unseen views in every issue. Articles covered in this issue are: Original colour around Nationalisation ; The South Eastern from Ashford to Dover and coastal problems for William Cubitt. Part 2 ; Cycling on the Southern ; The SECR ‘J’ class tank engines ; By Withered Arm from Barnstaple Junction to Halwill Junction via Torrington ; Farnborough Air Show Traffic ; Stephen Townroe’s colour archive: The 1952 Shawford derailment ; In and around Fratton ; The Elham Valley line ; Treasures from the Bluebell Railway Museum ; The 1948 Southern Region Locomotive Building Programme ; From the Footplate 78.