Southern To The Coast
I’VE donnedmyincreasingly-used rose-coloured spectacles, writesGeoff Courtney, and all I can seewhen recalling coastal holidays in the south is constant sunshine, ice creams that tasted like nowhereelse, and the absenceof theword‘stress’inanyone’s lexicon. And, until July9, 1967, steam, if youwere luckyand in the rightplace.
Itwasonthat summer Sunday that the SouthernRegion ran its last-ever steamtrain,amixed vanworking out of Bournemouth hauledbyStandard Class3MT2-6-0No. 77014 of Guildford (70C), while earlier thatdayMerchant NavyNo. 35030 ElderDempster Lines had drawn intoWaterloo from Weymouth with the region’s last steam-hauledpassenger train.
HolidayHaunts
Devonresident Jeffery Grayer has trawled through theTransport Treasuryarchive toproduceawealth of black-and-white images in Kent, East andWest Sussex, Hampshire, Dorset,Devon andCornwall, depicting motivepower fromWest Country, Battle of Britain andMerchantNavy Pacifics to 0-6-0 and 0-4-4 tank engines.
There’salso sea, of course, and one appealing image is ofahandsome StandardVanguardestatecar towing
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