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Third Rail

Electrified

Stations

Balcombe

View towards London on 12^th March 1961.

Balham

Looking towards Streatham Hill /Streatham Common on 2^nd March 1961.

Sporting headcode 54 (Victoria), a 4 SUB unit is on the Up Slow line.

Banstead

Looking towards Sutton on 2^nd March 1961.

Sporting its oil tail-lamp, the 4 SUB unit (on the Up line) was of
the last batch of units built between January 1951 & January 1952.

Barming

Looking towards Maidstone East 3^rd March 1961.

Barnehurst

Looking towards Darford 3^rd March 1961.

Barnes

Looking towards Waterloo 7^th April 1962.

Barnes Bridge

Looking towards Waterloo 7^th May 1961.

Barnham

Looking towards Havant 2^nd July 1961.

The line to Bognor Regis curves away round to the left.

Battersea Park

View towards Clapham Junction on 2^nd March 1961.

The South London line platforms curve away to the left whilst Battersea Park’s impressive signal box sits above the slow lines and a 4 SUB unit en-route to Victoria.

Beckenham Junction

View towards Bromley South on 2^nd March 1961.

Bedhampton Halt

View towards Portsmouth on 27^th April 1968
(prior to staffing and promotion from ‘Halt’ status in 1969).

Bekesbourne Station

View towards Canterbury East, Faversham, Chatham and London.
( London, Chatham & Dover main line).

Belmont

View towards Sutton on 11^th June 1961.

Belvedere

View towards Dartford on 2^nd March 1961.

Berrylands

View towards Wimbledon on 15^th February 1961.

Bexley

View towards Dartford on 2^nd March 1961.

Bexleyheath

View towards Dartford on 3^rd March 1961.

Bickley

View towards Swanley on 2^nd March 1961.

An unidentified Phase ‘2’ MLV leads a Dover Marine to Victoria headcode ‘74’ Boat Train on the Up Chatham Slow. Note the Phase ‘2’ MLV’s dropped buckeye coupler.

Birkbeck

View towards Beckenham Junction on 2^nd March 1961.

Birchington-on-Sea

View towards Faversham, Chatham and London on 16^th April 1963.
(Electrified 1959).

Blackheath

Looking towards Woolwich.

Blundells and & Crosby

Looking towards Southport on 9^th September 1962.

Ex-L&Y Liverpool (Exchange) - Southport (Chapel St.) electrified line.

Bookham

Looking towards Effingham Junction - 20^th May 1962.

Boxhill & Westhumble

Looking towards Dorking North - 11^th June 1961.

The station was called 'Boxhill & Burford Bridge' until 15^th September 1958.

Bracknell

Looking towards Waterloo - 15^th May 1961.

Brentford Central

Looking towards Waterloo - 7^th May 1961.

Broadstairs

View towards Margate on 16^th April 1963. Ex-London, Chatham & Dover Railway, London - Chatham - Faversham - Margate - Ramsgate main line, electrified east of Gillingham in 1959. Prominent on the left is Crampton Tower.

Bromley North

View towards the ‘stops’ on 2^nd March 1961. Goods yard closed on 20^th May 1968.

Bromley South

Looking towards Victoria – 2^nd March 1961.

The UIC 1^st class yellow cantrail band and air-horns indicate the 4 CEP is a Phase 2 unit leading the ‘headcode 50’ Victoria to Ramsgate (via Herne Hill) service.

Brookwood

Looking towards Waterloo - 14^th May 1962.

Burgess Hill

Looking towards Victoria - 12^th March 1961.

Brighton

Station entrance on 7^th October 1962.

Brighton

Concourse looking towards platform 1 & 2 on 7^th October 1962.

Brighton

Trainshed from platform 1 & 2 on 7^th October 1962.
Outside the locomotive depot is a BR Standard 4MT 2-6-4T and a SR Class N 2-6-0.

Broad Street

View from Liverpool Street of the ex-North London Railway City terminus of the DC-electrified suburban lines from Dalston Junction, Willesden Junction, Watford Junction (etc.), Richmond and (until May 1944) the line from Poplar.

Broad Street Goods station was closed 27^th January 1969/ After the last services had been diverted for a year into adjoining Liverpool St., Broad Street terminus and the lines from Dalston West Junction were closed completely on 30^th June 1986.

Brondesbury

View towards Dalston Junction and Broad Street on Sunday, 19^th February 1961. Although fourth-rail electrified, the ex-North London Railway services from Richmond to Broad Street via Willesden Junction and Dalston Junction used 3^rd rail stock.

Besides being an electrified suburban line, this still remains a major route for cross-London freight. In the distance can be seen the overbridge carrying the Metropolitan and ex-Great Central six tracked line into Baker Street and Marylebone

Victoria

From near to the barrier of Platforms 14 /15, a train from Tunbridge Wells West has just arrived at Victoria (Central Section) Station on Saturday, 13^th May 1961.

Unlike all the other services into Victoria (Central Section) which were electrified before World War 2, the Oxted line trains remained steam-worked into the early sixties, often by 'imported' LMS-type and BR Standard classes. BR Standard 4MT no. 80148 was built at Brighton 29^th November 1956 only to be withdrawn 14th June 1964.

Although outside of Blood and Custard’s usual era, these photographs provide much interesting detail.

Chartham
Sunday, 22^nd July 1984.

View towards Ashford: ex-SER (later SE&CR) Ashford - Canterbury - Ramsgate line.
(Electrified in 1961).

Dover Marine station

Saturday, 12^th May 1990

This ex-SE&CR terminus closed on 19^th November 1994. Behind to the left is Hawkesbury Street Junction and Dover Priory, to the right from Archcliffe Junction and Folkestone etc.; the line crossing in the foreground is leading to Admiralty Pier.

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