.Terry Gough's series of illustrated books on the lines of the old Southern Railway in the 1950s and 1960s, the twilight years of steam, are justly regarded as classics. They have been out of print for too long, so The NOSTALGIA Collection is proud to be reissuing them in paperback format. This volume focuses on steam at work on the network in Kent and Sussex.

In the 1920s and 1930s the Southern Railway was one of the pioneers of electrification, and the Southern Region, its BR successor, continued the process. Inevitably, steam locomotion was thrown onto the defensive. In the early 1950s Terry Gough realised that steam would soon just be a memory, and he spent the best part of twenty years photographing live steam on the old Southern network. He thus went on to create a superb archive which formed the basis for his renowned series of books devoted to the lines of the old Southern Railway, first published by Oxford Publishing Co in the late 1980s.

The NOSTALGIA Collection is proud to be reissuing these volumes in paperback format as part of the 'Southern Railway Collection' series. This volume focuses on steam at work on the Southern system in Kent and Sussex. Locations featured include: • Gillingham • Ramsgate • East Kent Railway • Tonbridge • Dover • Maidstone • Ashford • Hastings • New Romney • Kent & East Sussex Railway • Redhill • Brighton • Paddock Wood • Hawkhurst • Gravesend • Allhallows-on-Sea • Dunton Green • Westerham • Sevenoaks • Oxted • Tunbridge Wells • Eastbourne • East Grinstead • Lewes • Three Bridges • Midhurst • Pulborough • Chichester


Terry Gough is well known as a railway writer and photographer. He lives near Sherborne in Dorset.