Phil Sutters' photos with the keyword: passenger

It is fairly common for visiting passenger or naval ships to berth alongside H.M.S. Belfast. A naval visitor can be seen at www.ipernity.com/doc/philsutters/25824079

I am not sure whether this scanned & cropped print is from a film or lost digital original. I used to visit Southampton in the early/mid 2000s when my grandson lived there and this dates from that period.

I think that this service originated at Bristol - we got on at Chichester. I always like seeing trains that don't belong to the local train company, but this was better as a South West Trains 159 was providing a First Great Western service on the Southern's territory! I don't know whether this is a regular working or if it had to be borrowed in an emergency.

I can't see the number on the 'thumper' DEMU. These two photos were taken as we sped past St Leonards Railway Engineering in 171 727 - so the quality suffered as even the relatively clean windows caused reflections.

These two photos were taken as we sped past St Leonards Railway Engineering in 171 727 - so the quality suffered as even the relatively clean windows caused reflections.

An interesting layout with four and a half Third class compartments, two First class and a toilet between Third and First. I can't recall where my information came from, but I have noted on the back that it was built in 1904 at Highbridge and withdrawn in 1930, by which time it had been number 5731 in the Southern Railway carriage stock list. The length was shown as 46ft. I have now turned up a drawing in an article by Jem Harrison, that appeared in Model Railways in July 1980, of a '46ft 6 compt. compo luggage lav'.. That looks identical to this coach except that the half compartment at the left is now a luggage compartment with double doors and no windows. So that may be where I got the dimensions from.

This van was fitted with brake pipes and screw couplings and painted in lined blue livery as part of the passenger train rolling stock. The S&D had little or no other stock* with this style of panelling introduced on the Midland Railway around the turn of the century. Perhaps this van was bought in from Derby. I can only remember seeing one other picture of 'square' panelled S&D stock and that was an old workman's train carriage. * I have now spotted a proper scale drawing of this vehicle which was a 5 ton 25 ft Fruit & Milk Van, in Peter Tatlow's Historic Carriage Drawings - Volume Three - Non-passenger Coaching Stock - page 106. It appears that the S&D had 12 - nos. 7 -18. The Midland Railway had approximately 90 virtually identical. Although this looks unlined, looking closely at the original print, it seems likely that the paintwork was well weathered and the lining had dulled down, so as to be inconspicuous against the more obvious light and shade of the panelling. After all the S&DJR and 11 are almost invisible. To see my model of this van in the S&DJR blue livery please go to www.ipernity.com/doc/philsutters/26452597