Rail Express – September 2019

The first Class 04

builtwas

No. DS1173 in

1948 as a

departmental

shunterforHither

Greendepot,South

East London, which

wasfollowedby

141similar locos

and then alsothe

basisforthe larger

Class 03 fleet.

No. DS1173

became

No.D2341 under

BritishRailways

renumbering,and

is picturedat

Stewarts Lane

depot,South

London,int he

1960s.

EditorPaul Bickerdyke

DesignerTim Pipes

ReprographicsJonathan Schofield

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PublisherTim Hartley

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Welcome

HEREwe present theresult sofanother trawl

through theRail Expressmodern traction

archi ves, this time withaselection of images

from British Railways’ SouthernRegionint he

1950s, 60s and 70s (theWesternRegionwas

coveredint he September 2016 issue, and the

EasternRegionint he April2019 issue).

The SouthernRegionhas been increasingly

dominatedby elec tric multiple unitsoverthe

last century,but locomotive-hauled trains

remained–particularly on freight (as today)

andalsoonthe moreprestigious passenger

workings.

Amongst the highlights on thefollowing

pages arethe WesternRegionhydraulics that

coveredSouthernRegionturns, plusaBRCW

Type 2(later Class 27) onacross-London inter-

regionalworkin g, as well as some lines and

classes nowsadly long gone.

We hopeyouenjoy this look back in time.

Paul Bickerdyke, editor

FRONTCOVER: The ‘Bournemouth Belle’ Pullman

service finished with the end of steam on the Southern

Region in July1967, but beforethat diesel substitutes

were not unknown–such as on June 5, 1966, when

No. D6503 (later 33003) heads the train at Itchen

Abbas, diverted from its normalroute via Basingstoke

to run via Alton and Alresford.

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