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Modelling the Southern Electric area in 2mmFS

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EMU

EMU - ex-SECR 4SUB Drawings

Worsley Works is a company which will generally offer to etch anything you've got a drawing for, at any scale. It's a real godsend for people modelling in non-commercial scales, or those who can use these 'scratch-aid' pieces to build slightly more offbeat subjects. While one could hardly call a class of multiple hundreds of EMUs offbeat, there certainly were quite a few variants of them - and given how ephemeral their configuration and deployment was, it's less of a case of picking a specific u
Lacathedrale

Lacathedrale in EMU

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Steam

Holborn Viaduct - Steam Power

While the majority of passenger traffic at Holborn Viaduct was via multiple units, but between 1935 until the finalisation of the Kent Coast electrification scheme and the end of steam a number of semi-fast passenger services to the coast operated. Due to the axle-loading limitations of Holborn Viaduct (not least that the services with the antithesis of prestigious!) the locomotives used on these services and the pure parcels/newspaper traffic were previously top-link SE&CR passenger locos o
Lacathedrale

Lacathedrale in Steam

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EMU

Holborn Viaduct - Early Green Period 1939-54 - EMUs

It seems that trying to find some concrete information around Southern EMUs is very difficult. Not only is the information scant and spread between multiple volumes of out-of-print books, but the actual prototype information is dense with numbers, names, formations and units constantly changing. This page is my attempt to straighten out that information. Before you ask,  the torpedo-nosed LSWR units will not feature on the layout -   3 Car Suburban Electrics It's important to note
Lacathedrale

Lacathedrale in EMU

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HV

Holborn Viaduct - Background - Early Green Period 1939-54

Our story is set around the nationalisation of British Rail at Holborn Viaduct. The kent coast expresses and the continental boat trains have long been diverted to more prestigious terminals, and it is obviously now  an uncomfortable relic of the Southern Railway's quarrelsome pre-grouping past.   Holborn Viaduct in 1920, already well into decline despite the Edwardian splendour in evidence   The station's relatively light service schedule makes it an excellent candidat
Lacathedrale

Lacathedrale in HV

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