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unusual facts about Southern Railway


Thiruvananthapuram Central railway station

It is the largest and busiest railway station in Kerala in terms of passenger movement and an important rail hub in Southern Railway.


Alabama and Gulf Coast Railway

Almost immediately following the completion of this line, another, much longer line was begun, this one from Cantonment north via Atmore and Frisco City, Alabama to an interchange with the Southern Railway at Kimbrough, Alabama.

Allhallows, Kent

In the 1930s, the Southern Railway, in an attempt to develop the area around the estuary as a holiday resort, opened a short branch from the Hundred of Hoo Railway branch line to Grain.

Chennai Port

The port is served by the Chennai Beach railway terminus in the Chennai Suburban Railway Network of the Southern Railway, chiefly handling suburban trains on the Chennai Beach-Tambaram section of the Chennai Suburban Railway Network.

Francis Lynde Stetson

He became general counsel of the International Mercantile Marine Company, the Northern Pacific Railway, the Southern Railway, and the United States Rubber Company; also director in several railway companies and other corporations.

Grand Duchy of Oldenburg State Railways

The Grand Duchy of Oldenburg gained an important link to the south in 1876 with the so-called Southern Railway from Oldenburg via Quakenbrück as far as Eversburg on the Osnabrück–Rheine line.

Harry A. deButts

Harry Ashby deButts (died August 27, 1983 in Upperville, Virginia) was a former president of Southern Railway in the United States.

High Rocks

The Spa Valley Railway, a heritage railway, now connects the High Rocks pub beyond the High Rocks turnstiles to Tunbridge Wells, Groombridge and Eridge (on the London-Uckfield line of Southern Railway).

James H. Dooley

In 1880, Dooley joined the board of directors of the Richmond and Danville Railroad, which soon expanded into a multi state system of over 3,000 miles and in 1894, became the basis of the Southern Railway.

Leopard of the Yellagiri Hills

The Leopard of the Yellagiri Hills was a man eating Indian Leopard which claimed three victims in the vicinity of the Yellagiris, a crescent formation of hills east of the Jalarpet Junction railway on the Southern Railway.

New Orleans and Northeastern Railroad

In 1916 the Southern Railway acquired the NO&NE, which eventually formed part of the Queen and Crescent Route.

Night Ferry

It was operated by the SNCF and the Southern Railway then, following nationalisation on 1 January 1948, the Southern Region of British Railways.

North Arcot

Advantage has been taken of this gap by the north-west line of the Southern Railway which passes up in through the ghats on its way to Mumbai.

Powhatan Arrow

They were the pride of the N&W, pulling crack passenger trains such as the Cavalier, the Pocahontas, and the Powhatan Arrow, as well as ferrying the Southern Railway's Tennessean and Pelican between Monroe, Virginia and Bristol, Tennessee.

Railway Air Services

The railways were the "big four": London Midland & Scottish, London & North Eastern, Great Western Railway and Southern Railway.

Robert B. Claytor

One of his brothers, W. Graham Claytor Jr. (1912-1994), was president of the Southern Railway from 1967-1977, a United States Deputy Secretary of Defense and Secretary of the Navy from 1977-1979 under President Jimmy Carter, an acting U.S. Secretary of Transportation in the cabinet of President Carter in 1979, and president of Amtrak from 1982 until 1993.

Rolling stock of the Bluebell Railway

The 1940s Southern Railway designs of Oliver Bulleid produced a very clean, modern-looking carriage, many of the features of which were perpetuated in the BR standard (Mk. I) designs.

SR West Country and Battle of Britain classes

The SR West Country and Battle of Britain classes, collectively known as Light Pacifics or informally as Spam Cans, are air-smoothed 4-6-2 Pacific steam locomotives designed for the Southern Railway by its Chief Mechanical Engineer Oliver Bulleid.

Tamsweg

It can also be reached by the terminal station of the Murtalbahn narrow gauge railway to the Austrian Southern Railway (Südbahn) at Unzmarkt-Frauenburg.

Western Region of British Railways

The Region consisted principally of ex-Great Western Railway lines, minus certain lines west of Birmingham, which were transferred to the London Midland Region in 1963 and with the addition of all former Southern Railway routes west of Exeter, which were subsequently rationalised.

Yazoo Delta Railroad

Big Bill Broonzys Southern Blues contains the line where the Southern crosses the Dog, referring to Moorhead where the line crossed the Southern Railway.


see also

Austrian Southern Railway

Today the term "Austrian Southern Railway" is sometimes also applied today to the railway line from Bruck an der Mur via Klagenfurt and Villach to Italy (Tarvisio), but that is historically incorrect.

Bagrationovsky District

Another line, the former East Prussian Southern Railway, connects Kaliningrad with Polish Bartoszyce via Bagrationovsk; however, passenger service was discontinued in 2011.

Guiyang

This main southern railway station is being rebuilt in 2008.

LSWR suburban lines

The stations on the line were of concrete in an Art Deco style, typical of the Southern Railway's design style of the period.

Maunsell

Richard Maunsell, Chief Mechanical Engineer of the South Eastern and Chatham Railway and Southern Railway

Pallavan Express

Due to persistent demands for a day train from the elected representatives and people of Pudukkottai and Sivaganga districts, Southern Railway decided to extend Pallavan Superfast Express till Karaikudi through Pudukkottai.

Papakura North

The previous area was referred to as a small area of greater Papakura, but has now developed into a single suburban area, stretching south of the Addison complex, west of the Southern Railway Line (parallel to Porchester Road), down to Old Wairoa Road, and right to the western border of the Papakura Military Camp.

Quebec Southern Railway

Quebec Southern Railway (1900–1906), predecessor of the Delaware and Hudson Company subsidiary Quebec, Montreal and Southern Railway, which later became part of the Canadian National Railway

Slade Green F.C.

Prior to World War II, Slade Green was represented by three clubs: The Wasps, St Augustines and Southern Railway Sports.

Södertörn

The railway runs between Nynäshamn in the south and Älvsjö in the north, where it joins to the main southern railway.

South Gippsland railway line

Just after the withdrawal of all rail service beyond Koala Siding, the section from Nyora to Leongatha was transferred to the South Gippsland Railway in 1994, in which were originally founded as the 'Great Southern Railway Society' based in Nyora in 1990 with the intention to preserve the line in case of closure.

Transport in Tamil Nadu

Despite of full technical and logical separation from the Chennai Suburban Railway, the MRTS is operated by the state-owned Southern Railway (SR), a zone of Indian Railways.

Transportation in Metro Manila

Railways extend from this terminal north to San Fernando in Pampanga and south to Legazpi in Albay, though only the southern railway is currently in operation.

U class

SR U class, 2-6-0 steam locomotives built for the Southern Railway