Steam Around Basingstoke & Salisbury

Basingstoke, Eastleigh and Salisbury are important Rail Centres on what was originally the London and South Western Railway, and later the Southern Railway and finally the South Western Section of the Southern Region. Basingstoke is where the main lines from Waterloo diverge, to Southampton, Bournemouth and Weymouth, and to Exeter and the West of England. Basingstoke also acts as an interface between the former Southern and Western Regions for inter-regional passenger and freight traffic. Eastleigh is also a major railway junction between the route from Waterloo to Southampton, Bournemouth and Weymouth and cross-country services from Portsmouth and Brighton to Salisbury and beyond. This book contains in chronological order photographs of Steam hauled services and individual locomotives taken at these locations, supplemented by some others from elsewhere on the LSWR mainlines, from between 1956 and 1965, the majority of which have not previously appeared in print.