The Southern Railway between 1923 and 1939 was the only British
company to carry out a sustained programme of electrification which
became known as the Southern Electric. Unlike many recent projects,
each incremental step was completed on time and within budget. This
successful project was more impressive as it was achieved during a
period of economic stagnation (including the great depression') and
despite government disapproval of the method of electrification.
The driving force behind this endeavor was the railway's general
manager, Sir Herbert Walker, but at his side was his electrical
engineer, Alfred Raworth, the man one journalist described as an
electrification genius'. Alfred Raworth's career began working with
his father the eminent consulting engineer and entrepreneur, John
Smith Raworth. Following the collapse of his father's business
Alfred joined the railway industry and devised an ambitious and
innovative electrification design. This was discarded when the
railways of southern England were grouped' into the Southern
Railway after which he took responsibility for the implementation
of the electrification schemes. With Walker's retirement in 1937,
those who continued to support steam traction took the policy lead.
A marginalised Raworth retired but was later to witness the
fruition of many of his discarded ideas.
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