Millbrook 1984

MILLBROOK

33 XXX

47 XXX

73 130

73 XXX

1126

6072

(All 24.5.1984 copyright Steve Sainsbury/Rail Thing)

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An hour or so at Millbrook back in 1984 produced plenty of variety with classes 33, 47 and 73 on various trains and light engine, plus some older slam door units on stopping trains. I've never been a big fan of island platforms for photography, although their reduced cost appeals to the economist in me!

More info (from Wikipedia)

Millbrook railway station is a small station in the Millbrook area of Southampton, England.

The station is served mainly by the Salisbury to Romsey stopping service. This service runs once per hour in each direction. The station is run by South West Trains. The platforms face the slow lines only, there are no platforms for the fast lines.

Millbrook Freightliner Terminal is located next to the station on the up side. A car terminal and rail access to Southampton's Western Docks can be seen from the down side of the station.

Services

• 1 train per hour (tph) to Salisbury via Romsey
• 1 tph to Romsey via Chandler's Ford
• 2 tpd to Weymouth via all stations(mon-fri only)

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Southampton Central		South West Trains		Redbridge
	Historical railways
Southampton		London & South Western Railway Andover and Redbridge railway		Redbridge

Passing trains and freight traffic

The Freightliner Terminal at Millbrook

It is popular with railway enthusiasts due to the wide array of freight and passenger trains which stop and pass through. Services into Southampton Central which pass through Millbrook include: the Weymouth - London Waterloo services normally Class 444s, the Southampton Central - Wareham services, normally Class 450s, the First Great Western Cardiff Central - Portsmouth Harbour service normally a Class 158 but often a 150, the Westbury - Southampton shorts either a 150 or 153, the SWT local service to/from Salisbury to Romsey with a Class 158 and also the CrossCountry service to/from Bournemouth to Birmingham and beyond which are operated by the Voyager fleet.

The freight traffic is also frequent as the Millbrook Freightliner Terminal is behind the station, with frequent Freightliner Class 66s hauling containers to Leeds and Cardiff. More freight services withEWS operate daily intermodal trains into the docks and also a car/van train which operates most days. Passing though the station as well are Freightliner Class 66s on intermodal or heavy haul, EWS 66s on intermodal, petroleum or engineers; Mendip Rail's Class 59s operating stone trains and GBRf's daily gypsum service into the docks. The future of the freight looks promising with EWS and Freightliner continually increasing the freight traffic into Southampton. Soon. DRS traction may also pass through, if they win the MoD contract operating out of Marchwood.

Heritage traction are also frequent visitors to the South with occasional DRS Class 37s running on Serco test trains, and in the summer seasons diesel and steam tours pass though. Steam trains include: Tangmere, Clan Line and Lord Nelson. The latest diesel traction includes Riviera Class 47s and EWS Class 37s on Pathfinder Tours.

Annual rail passenger usage*
2004/05	20,937
2005/06	21,122
2006/07	21,992
2007/08	29,265
2008/09	27,422
2009/10	29,936
2010/11	33,418
2011/12	31,362
2012/13	31,850
2013/14	39,340

Eastleigh Works

1121 Eastleigh 13.5.1973

1127 Eastleigh 13.5.1973

1129 Eastleigh 13.5.1973

1121 (ex Fareham) Eastleigh 13.5.1973

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Back in May 1973 I was just sixteen and armed with the ubiquitous Zenith Russian-made camera that most of us had (and a few frames of film) I made my way over to Eastleigh for the Works Open Day. This was never really my thing, I've always been far more interested in the lines themselves rather than what ran over them, but it was fun to get close to stuff for a change! Back then I was still sulking that I'd just missed real steam (which had ended less than 6 years at Eastleigh) so the presence of a steam loco caught my interest.

The few random shots of the station ooze atmosphere now, being 42 years old! For some reason I only seem to have taken pics of rail blue Thumpers, but having been brought up slap bang in the middle of Southern Electric territory diesels in any form were VERY exotic, which probably expalins it!

At Eastleigh there was an interesting combination that was working the shuttle into the works itself - Class 33 6535 and 4-TC 418.

 6535 Eastleigh (Works Open Day shuttle) 13.5.1973

 4-TC 418 Eastleigh (Works Open Day shuttle) 13.5.1973

6535 propels 418 Eastleigh Works Open Day shuttle 13.5.1973

It was a quick trip into the Works! (The Ford Anglia wasn't one of the displays by the way!)

6535 Eastleigh Works Open Day 13.5.1973

Over at the works I was able to roam around and get a few more pics on my rapidly filling roll of film - with a glimpse at the past and the space age vision of loveliness below -

4001 Eastleigh Works Open Day 13.5.1973

4001 Eastleigh Works Open Day 13.5.1973

Also on display was this nice pre-TOPS class 73 and School Class 'Stowe'.

 E6012 Eastleigh Works Open Day 13.5.1973

 928 Stowe Eastleigh Works Open Day 13.5.1973

Back to Littlehampton via Fareham, Fratton and Barnham and a last look at the event ...

Eastleigh Works Open Day 13.5.1973

(All pics copyright Steve Sainsbury/Rail Thing)

Eastleigh Works website

More info (via Wikipedia)

Eastleigh Works is a locomotive, carriage and wagon building and repair facility in the town of Eastleigh in the county of Hampshire in England.

History

Eastleigh Works Management Building

LSWR

The London and South Western Railway (LSWR) opened a carriage and wagon works at Eastleigh in 1891. In 1903, the Chief Mechanical Engineer, Dugald Drummond oversaw the construction of a large motive power depot in the town replacing the existing maintenance and repair shops at Northam, Southampton. In January 1910, locomotive building was likewise transferred to the new workshops at Eastleigh from Nine Elms in London.

Among the locomotives produced by the LSWR under Drummond at Eastleigh were the S14 0-4-0 and M7 0-4-4 tank engines, the P14 and T14 4-6-0, and D15 4-4-0, classes. Following the appointment of Robert Urie as Chief Mechanical Engineer in 1912, the works were responsible for the construction of the H15, S15, and N15 (King Arthur) 4-6-0 classes, and the G16 4-8-0, and H16 4-6-0 tank engines.

Southern Railway

The old canteen shown from inside the works November 2014

Following the merger of the LSWR and other railways in southern England to form the Southern Railway, as part of the Railways Act grouping of 1923, Eastleigh was to become the principal works for the new railway. The new Chief Mechanical Engineer, Richard Maunsell re-organised the works and directed the design and construction of various new classes.

Like most of the railway works, Eastleigh was heavily involved in the war effort, producing, in 1938, sets of parts to convert Blenheim bombers so that they could be used as fighters. The works was also part of a joint venture with other workshops, railway and private, to produce Horsa gliders for the D-Day airborne assault. With Lancing works, it turned out 200 tail units. It also produced 1,500 anti-tank gun barrels and, with Brighton railway works, 240 multiple rocket launchers, plus landing craft, fuel tenders and harbour launches.

Under the Southern Railway, the works were responsible for building the Maunsell SR Lord Nelson Class 4-6-0, the Schools 4-4-0, U1 2-6-0, W class 2-6-4 tanks, and Q class 0-6-0 locomotives. Under the regime of Oliver Bulleid, after 1937, Eastleigh works constructed all thirty of the SR Merchant Navy Class and six of the West Country 4-6-2. During the Second World War, Eastleigh works built 23 examples of the London Midland and Scottish Railway designed 8F 2-8-0s. By the end of 1947, the works had built 304 locomotives with a further 16 before steam locomotive building ceased in 1950.

In 1945, the carriage works began constructing all-steel carriages, both electric and steam hauled. It pioneered the use of plastics and glass fibre reinforced resin for doors, seating and roof sections.

B4 0-4-0T 30102 at Eastleigh 1964

British Rail

In 1950, following the nationalisation of the Southern Railway to form the Southern Region of British Railways new steam locomotive building ceased at Eastleigh. However the works were kept fully occupied between 1956 and 1961 in rebuilding over 90 of the Bulleid 4-6-2 classes. Thereafter the works gradually changed over to steam and diesel repairs.

In 1962, the works was again reorganised with the carriage works site being sold, and carriage and electric multiple unit repairs transferred to the main locomotive works.

In 1962, Eastleigh carriage works^{[contradiction]} built the first six electro-diesel locomotives of British Rail Class 73 but the remainder of the class were built at theVulcan Foundry.

Post privatisation

A circular view from a central part of the sheds in November 2014.

The plant was acquired from BREL through a management buyout becomingWessex Traincare Ltd; it was acquired byAlstom and renamed Alstom Wessex Traincare. The site was used for carriage and multiple unit repairs. In 2004 the company announced it was to close the works due to lack of work, work at the site continued until March 2006.

The 42-acre (17 ha) site has been managed since 2002 by St. Modwen Properties in 2007 Knights Rail Services (KRS) began operations on site, using it to store off lease rolling stock, as well as undertake repairs and refurbishments. As of 2010, the site's facilities include overhead cranes, third rail electricity supply, paint facility, and refuelling facility. Additionally Siemens undertook maintenance of Class 444 and Class 450 on site, and Network Rail MPVs were stored on site. Arlington Fleet Services Ltd. (maintenance, heavy repair, painting) performs maintenance from the site.

In 2012 KRS acquired an extended lease on the site to 2016.

Locomotive Depot

Eastleigh Locomotive Depot showing ex-Plymouth, Devonport & SW Junction 0-6-0T No. 756 'A.S. Harris' and C14 class 0-4-0T No. 3744 11 July 1946.

Adjacent to the locomotive works was a very large 15-road engine shed which was opened in 1903 and closed in 1967.^[10] This depot was one of the largest on the SR: in 1946 its allocation was 131 engines of extraordinary variety in age and origin:- 17 4-6-0, 31 4-4-0, 7 2-6-0, 19 0-6-0, 15 0-4-2, 1 0-8-0T, 13 0-6-0T, 23 0-4-4T and 5 0-4-0T. Although closed as a TMD, the site was used for scrapping engines as late as 2003.

horsham 1977

73 001 passes through this Sussex station on an engineering train.

Rail blue EMUs (4 SUBs) wait in the sidings. These were used on the Dorking line.

Overall shot of this classic Southern station.

Exterior, nicely dated by the cars!

(All pics 3.8.1977 © Steve Sainsbury/Rail Thing)

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At the end of the classic Sussex film 'The Moon and the Sledgehammer' the final shot shows traction engine passing the exterior of Horsham station. This is the same scene as the final shot above, taken just a few years later.

Back on 3 August 1977 I had an hour or so at the station and took these four shots, capturing the station in everyday mood, though just by luck I did catch a class 73 come through. The station was fairly substantial reflecting its previous importance as a junction for three other lines, two of which closed in 1965 and 1966, the routes to Guildford and Shoreham.

More info (from Wikipedia)

Horsham railway station serves the town of Horsham in West Sussex, England. It is on the Arun Valley Line 38 miles (61 km) south of London Victoria and the Sutton & Mole Valley Lines, and train services are provided by Southern. Services on the Sutton & Mole Valley Line from London Victoria via Dorking terminate here, the others continue into the Arun Valley: a half hourly service from London Victoria to Southampton Central or Portsmouth Harbour (alternating) and Bognor Regis. These trains usually divide here with the front (Southampton/Portsmouth) portion travelling fast (next stop Barnham) and the rear (Bognor Regis) half providing stopping services.

History

Horsham would have been an important midway point in two of the original proposals for a London to Brighton railway via the Adur valley but in the event Sir John Rennie's proposed direct line through Three Bridges and Haywards Heath was given parliamentary approval. As a result, the original Horsham station was the terminus of a single track branch line from Three Bridges opened by the London Brighton and South Coast Railway (LBSCR) in February 1848.

The down line from Horsham railway station.

Between 1859 and 1867 the station was enlarged on several occasions to coincide with the doubling of the branch line from Three Bridges; the extension of the railway from Horsham along the Arun Valley Line; the opening of new lines from Horsham to Shoreham via Steyning and from Christ's Hospital to Guildford. Finally, in 1867 a new route to Dorking, Leatherhead and thence to London, was opened.^[1] The station was again partially rebuilt and resignalled, with three signal boxes, in 1875.^[2]

RCTS Sussex Rail Tour in 1962

The present station was built by the Southern Railway in the International Modern Style in 1938 to coincide with the electrification of the line. The building is grade II listed, see external links below. The lines to Guildford and Shoreham both fell victim to the Beeching Axe in the mid 1960s, the former being closed to passengers on 14 June 1965 and the latter on 7 March 1966.

In September 2011 the station frontage was closed to undergo extensive refurbishment work to the main ticket hall. It reopened late in 2012 with a new side entrance, internal lift access, relocated barriers and stairway, a new ticket office, and new information screens. The platforms received a rebuild of the roofing and refurbished waiting rooms. Previously, the building was shared with a business, who vacated in order to give the floor space needed to create the new features and new ceiling and lights and so completing a complete reconfiguration of the layout.

Accidents and incidents

• On 9 January 1972, an engineers train overran signals and was in a rear-end collision with an electric multiple unit at the station. Fifteen people were injured. The crew of the engineers train had failed to check their brakes on departure from Three Bridges and thus failed to discover that the isolation cock between the two locomotives had not been opened.

Services

Off-peak frequencies on Mondays to Fridays: (As of Feb 2009)

• 2 trains per hour to London Victoria via Gatwick Airport
• 1 train per hour to London Victoria via Dorking, Epsom and Sutton.
• 2 trains per hour to London Bridge via Gatwick Airport
• 1 train per hour to Southampton Central, running fast to Barnham
• 1 train per hour to Portsmouth Harbour, running fast to Barnham
• 2 trains per hour to Bognor Regis, 1 stopping at all stations and 1 running semi-fast to Barnham.

From 10 December 2007, the service towards Portsmouth Harbour/Southampton Central and Bognor Regis now divides at this station and attaches here towards London Victoria via Gatwick Airport and East Croydon during off-peak hours, as part of the new West Coastway timetable.

Annual rail passenger usage*
2004/05	2.033 million
2005/06	2.067 million
2006/07	2.203 million
2007/08	2.382 million
2008/09	2.444 million
2009/10	2.361 million
2010/11	2.515 million
2011/12	2.579 million
2012/13	2.628 million