The L&NER Delivers the Goods Volume Three: Southern Area concludes Peter Tatlow’s pioneering trilogy on the goods business of the L&NER. During its existence (1923-1949), the conveyance of mundane goods traffic was the source of almost two-thirds of its total income, around twice that of the more exciting job of carrying passengers and their luggage.
Peter Tatlow describes how the L&NER served the nation by delivering the goods and minerals entrusted to it and, in this final volume, his gives his attention to the goods activities in the L&NER’s Southern Area. The L&NER operated in an era prior to motorways, HGVs loaded with ISO containers or centrally generated electricity – a time before oil and gas from the North Sea resulted in the demise of the numerous humble steam-hauled goods trains.
The photographs are all accompanied by captions, and the text is enhanced by the addition of miscellaneous items including track layouts, marshalling yard diagrams, wagon labels, pages from booklets and maps illustrating the railway lines to Millwall docks in 1930 and the GER track to North Woolwich.
2 colour and 242 black & white photographs. Hardback. 184 pages