Southern Region
Matters of Detail
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Topic 1 |
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Overhead Electrification Flashes on
Southern Region locomotives |
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Information
here is sketchy and contributions are welcome. It
appears the both 73A (Stewarts Lane) and 73B (Bricklayers Arms) might have
been the first depot on the Southern to start applying electrification
flashes during the summer of 1960. The
Southern already had 750v DC overhead electrification in a number of depots
and sidings (mainly on the South Eastern Division as part of the Kent Coast
Electrification scheme) including Ashford, Balcombe (Central Division), Faversham,
Hither Green, Hoo Junction, Snowdown, & Tonbridge. Amongst
the first locomotives reported as having flashes applied around June 1960
were Bulleid pacific locomotives nos.34003 /34005 /34016
/34017 /34021 /34022 & 34025. |
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