Southern Railway electrification : Southern Electric - Kent lines : Railway Gazette : 1939
The cover to the Electric Railway Traction Supplement of the Railway Gazette for 30 June 1939 and that was one of a series of the Supplements that looked at the progress of the various Southen Railway electrification schemes and used Southern poster artwork for the covers. This striking cover uses the Southern Electric poster for the north Kent lines electrification that opened in 1939 serving Rochester, Chatham, Gillingham and Maidstone. The original poster was by the well-known railway artist Leslie Carr.
The Southern's electrification scheme was a huge and bold programme of works that saw the core of the current 3rd rail system still in use on Britain's railways in southern England converted. This, the scheme to electrify lines in North Kent was, because of the outbreak of war, prove to be the last carried out by the Southern; the later Kent Coast electrification that extended this scheme was to eventually be undertaken by the nationalised British Railways, forming part of the 1955 Modernisation Plan and that delivered in two phases that were completed by 1962.
Southern Railway electrification : Southern Electric - Kent lines : Railway Gazette : 1939
The cover to the Electric Railway Traction Supplement of the Railway Gazette for 30 June 1939 and that was one of a series of the Supplements that looked at the progress of the various Southen Railway electrification schemes and used Southern poster artwork for the covers. This striking cover uses the Southern Electric poster for the north Kent lines electrification that opened in 1939 serving Rochester, Chatham, Gillingham and Maidstone. The original poster was by the well-known railway artist Leslie Carr.
The Southern's electrification scheme was a huge and bold programme of works that saw the core of the current 3rd rail system still in use on Britain's railways in southern England converted. This, the scheme to electrify lines in North Kent was, because of the outbreak of war, prove to be the last carried out by the Southern; the later Kent Coast electrification that extended this scheme was to eventually be undertaken by the nationalised British Railways, forming part of the 1955 Modernisation Plan and that delivered in two phases that were completed by 1962.