Southern Railway in the 1950s and onwards

[Nearholmer]

Zomboid

 

I can't be expected to remember everything! ( as SWMBO says to me frequently)

 

I'd better re-read this before adding anything else.

 

Kevin

[JimC]

If you assume and equivalent of the 30s Loan act then a policy of  "electrify everything you possibly can and flog off everything beyond Exeter to the GWR" makes a good deal of sense. Especially if you can use the money from the GWR for more electrification.

 

That then leaves one with the entertaining prospect of working out what the Swindon CME would have done when, like Jarvis, he had to sort out the Bulleid Pacifics. One may hypothesise that a Swindon CME might have been more inclined to have a go at sorting out the engineering so that the oil bath kept water out and oil in. Whether that was possible at the 1950s state of the art is an interesting question.