A photographic journey of the ever changing railway scene of
southern England stretching from Cornwall to the Kent Coast, served
from 1953 to the present day by the Southern Region and its
successors. When our story begins steam west of the Portsmouth man
line still reigns supreme whilst much of the rest of the network is
served by Southern Electric. Many of the trains at work in 1953
were of pre-1939 origin, some even dating back to the first decade
of the 20th century, although the influence of Oliver Bullied's
revolutionary semi-streamline pacifics and high capacity suburban
electric multiple units pointed to the future. By 1967 diesel would
replace steam, and electrification would spread, whilst many less
well used lines in Hampshire, Dorset, Devon and Cornwall would
close. Electrification had begun in the London area in the early
1900s, expanding to the Kent, Sussex and east Hampshire coasts, in
the process creating the greatest main line electrified system in
the world: this would continue down to today.
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