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Southern Railway

Nationality:  British

Brief Bio:  1923-1948, railway company, England

Notes:  The Southern Railway in the United Kingdom, which existed between 1923 and 1948, was geographically the smallest of the four railway systems created in the Grouping ordered by the Railways Act 1921. Confined to the south of England, it owned no track north of London. In the area south and south-east of London it had a virtual monopoly, while some of its lines to the south-west were in competition with the Great Western Railway. The war-devastated company was nationalised, along with the rest of the British railway network, in 1948, into British Railways, as the Southern Region. Many of its lines in London and Kent had been damaged during the war and much of the rolling stock was either damaged or badly in need of replacement. At the time of nationalisation the Southern had started a vigorous programme of rebuilding and renewal.


11 Related Objects

'Camelot' Locomotive Nameplate
nameplate

1919
Colour print, Southern Railway 4-4-0 "Schools Class" locomot
print


Coloured general arrangement drawing (black line print) of S
general arrangement drawing


model locootive chassis - southern railway schools class
model locomotive chassis


model steam locomotive - southern railway
model locomotive


Mounted photograph of Southern Railway 4-6-0 4-cylinder expr



Photograph of Signal Cabin, Waterloo, Southern Railway, Wate
photograph


Southern Railway "Merchant Navy" class 4-6-2 locomotive, 1944
phptograph


Southern Railway 4-4-0 3-cylinder express locmotive no. 900 "Eton", 1930
photograph


Southern Railway U1 class 2-6-0 express locomotive no. 895
photograph
Southern Railway

Two short lengths of rail joined with fishplates, with two c


1930

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