Railways Remembered: Southern England 1962-1972

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Railways Remembered: Southern England 1962-1972Railways Remembered: Southern England 1962 1972 22. 50 This is the second book in the Railways Remembered series to draw on the work of Blake Paterson who was a career railwayman, a railway enthusiast and an accomplished photographer. At the time these photos were taken, he was working for the Western Region and aware of the great changes to the railway network which were underway. Even before the publication of Dr Beechings notorious report, he

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Covering all of the British Railways 4-6-0 and Mogul designs from their earliest days in 1951 through to 1968

The rural charm of the Hayling Island Branch and workings on the Isle-of-Wight in 1962 at Ryde lead into never to be repeated scenes of Haywards Heath when the famous “Bluebelle” specials ran with preserved motive power on the main line using locos T9 No

again celebrated the era of the heritage diesels with a few modern traction appearances

We see many train services at Salisbury and see the MPD towards the end in 1967

The series will cover events in depth as although it was a sad time

The captions are well researched and include locomotive details as well as historical information about the various routes

Traffic was drawn and dispersed to places in Scotland

6000 “King George V” is seen with the famous ‘Return to Steam’ special in 1971

as are the rural stations which are of great diversity and charm

We have boarded our Virgin Trains unit and depart from Lime

Bath and Bristol

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