Overview

BR’s Southern Region witnessed huge changes in the 1960s. At the beginning of the decade steam operation could be seen on many branch lines and byways but by the end steam had disappeared and many of the lines which served quiet or rural locations were destined to close through the Beeching axe. With an array of superb colour photographs ranging across the counties of southern England from Dorset and Hampshire to Sussex and Kent, in this book railway photographer Laurie Golden presents a fascinating portrait of the last years of steam on the branch lines and by-ways of the Southern Region in the 1960s.

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9781398112575

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'The pictures, mostly around postcard size, are well reproduced and Laurie's choice of film always seems to produce a softer, lighter green tone than we are accustomed to seeing with Kodachrome originals. Most of the locations are places that I never got to visit, so this is one album that I shall be very happy to add to my overloaded bookshelves.' -- Model Railway Magazine, October 2024

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Laurie Golden is a railway photographer and historian who has been photographing Britain’s railways since the 1960s. His previous publications were Vectis Steam: The Last Years of Steam on the Isle of Wight, Along the Route of the ACE and Southern By-Ways.

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