Ron Buckley's evocative photographs reveal the changing scene of
the Southern Railway, illustrating from the 1930s onwards those
pre-grouping classes that were still working. These included the
work of such well-known designers as Dugald Drummond and Robert
Urie of the London & South Western Railway, the Billintons and
Earle Marsh of the London, Brighton & South Coast Railway, and
Harry Wainwright and Richard Maunsell of the South Eastern &
Chatham Railway. Ron's later photographs, from 1946 onwards,
continue to show remaining working pre-grouping locomotives and
also portray the newer Oliver Bulleid-designed Pacifics introduced
in 1941. Visits to the Isle of Wight during the 1930s, '40s, '50s
and '60s enabled him to capture images of almost the entire fleet
of locomotives working there during those four decades. Born in
1917, Ron Buckley has been photographing railways since the age of
15. He joined the London, Midland, Scottish Railway as a wages
clerk in 1934 and retired in 1977 after over forty-two years'
service with the railways.
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