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Southern Style, The Southern Railway, by John Harvey, subtitled 'Including the Lynton & Barnstaple Railway from 1898 to 1935 and the Passenger Stock of the Somerset & Dorset Joint Railway from 1923 until 1930'

Book published by the Historical Model Railway Society in 2020, 240 pages. Large A4 size paperback, with seperate card foldout (N7838X1)

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From the rear side cover: The three principal companies which formed the Southern Railway each had a distinctive character and it proved to be no easy task to develop a new corporate identity and management for the Company. The General Manager had a penchant for green and it is not surprising that his view prevailed, and indeed, shades of green became synonymous with the SR, sympathetic to the countryside through which the railway operated. The architecture of new stations and signal boxes was dominated by the Art­ deco style and with the advance of electrification and new steam-hauled passenger stock, a modem and economical railway was developed. Of the 'Big Four' companies, the Southern was arguably the most adept at successfully rising to the challenges of changing transport requirements during its 25 year existence.

This volume takes up the story in 1922 and charts the development of the company's liveries on everything from locomotives to lamp posts, carriages to containers and wagons to signalling equipment. The author has made extensive use of contemporary written sources, the meticulous records kept by several observers, the vast number of photographs taken during the period and also original paint samples from a number of sources. It should prove an invaluable, authoritative source of information for the modeller of the Southern Railway and those restoring the artefacts of that company, as well as a permanent record of the liveries of the Southern Railway. The volume includes details of the Lynton & Barnstaple Railway's liveries from 1898 until closure and the blue Somerset & Dorset carriage livery of the 1920s.

The book is illustrated throughout with photographs and drawings, and includes a card insert containing 17 carefully prepared paint samples covering all the principal paint colours used by the Southern Railway.

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