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"Southern"

A selection of Southern steam, in the south and elsewhere...

Terrier 32650 arrives (I think) at Hayling Island
M7 0-4-4T no. 30055. Brighton? - its home in 1959
Terrier 32662 (also based at Brighton in 1959) at the back of Newhaven shed
Railtours:

The RCTS "East Midlander" (no. 5) ran from Nottingham, via Normanton / Wetherby / Ripon to Darlington, returning York / Knottingley / Doncaster / Newark - behind 4-4-0s 30925 "Cheltenham" and ex-LMS 40646, on 13 May 1962. Seen at Church Fenton and on shed (Annesley) after the tour

The Bulleid pacific 34002 "Salisbury" hauled the "Great Central" tour on 13 August 1966, from Waterloo to Nottingham. The ongoing tour was hauled by an 8F, a B1 and EM1 electric, before returning south behind 34002. Seen at Nottingham Victoria.
More familar territory - 34102 "Lapford" at Waterloo
34008 "Padstow" at Nine Elms (more or less the viewpoint for David Shepherd's "...the last hours)
"King Arthur" 30798 "Sir Hectimere" and 34051 "Winston Churchill" on shed
What a constrast! "Lord Nelson" 30857 "Lord Howe" and "Terrier" 32678 at Eastleigh shed.
Drummond "Greyhound" T9 30313 stands outside the diminutive shed at Okehampton
31737, designed by Wainwright for the SECR, at Stewarts Lane
30954 is one of a class of 8 0-8-0 tanks built by Maunsell for the Southern in 1929, seen at Exmouth Junction shed.

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