CHR Branch Meeting
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"The North London Railway began as little more than an attenuated siding giving the London & Birmingham Railway access to the East End's docks, then developed into one of Britain's busiest steam-operated commuter routes. After the LNWR took over operation it was one of the first to be electrified, but succumbed to road competition and…
Ian Wright's presentation will consist of a slide show of two charters that he took part in - to Russia and Belarus in 1992 and the Ukraine in 2003.
The talk covers the development of the Diesel Electric Multiple Unit (DEMU) by the Southern Region, the link between them and the Mid Hants route (1957 to 1973), and the history of our (Watercress Line) own unit 1125 which worked some of the services on the last day of BR operation.