Canute Road Quay is on the road again and appearing at two exhibitions the next two consecutive weekends. As part of this year’s Railway 200 celebrations, Alstom’s historic Derby Litchurch Lane Works is ho0sting the largest temporary gathering of trains and rail-related exhibits in a generation – The Greatest Gathering – between Friday 1st and Sunday … Continue reading Happiness is the road, two shows with Canute Road Quay in two weeks…
Tag: Southampton Docks
Picture of the Month – July 2025
This Month's Picture... By July 1969, I was born on the 4th, although the Class 07 diesels have taken over the Southern Region's work, steam is still evident at Canute Road Quay by way of the various industrial users serving their docks and wharfs alongside the River Itchen.
Canute Road Quay to appear at Alstom’s The Greatest Gathering as part of Railway 200 celebrations
The Stockton & Darlington Railway (S&DR) opened on September 27, 1825, connecting places, people, communities and ideas, and ultimately transforming the world. Railway 200 is a year-long nationwide campaign an wide range of events to celebrate 200 years, based whether you agree or or not, on the opening of S&DR being the birth of the … Continue reading Canute Road Quay to appear at Alstom’s The Greatest Gathering as part of Railway 200 celebrations
Daffodils and Easter wishes
The daffodils are in bloom this Easter as LSWR B4 'Guernsey' in early Southampton Docks lined green livery shunts at Canute Road Quay. The budding trees, the new flowers, and birds that sing, whisper to me that it's Easter, and that the supermarkets full of chocolate of all shapes (many irrelevant), sizes and special offers! … Continue reading Daffodils and Easter wishes
Picture of the Month – February 2025
This Month's Picture... To replace the SR USA 0-6-0 tanks, that in turn in 1946 had replaced the Adams B4 0-4-0 tanks, fourteen Ruston Paxman 0-6-0 diesel-electric shunters were purchased by British Railways in 1962 specially for use in the docks (as the Class 08/9 350hp shunters were unable to work on the tight curves … Continue reading Picture of the Month – February 2025
Happy New Year – Picture of the Month – January 2025
Welcome to 2025 - Happy New Year - This Month's Picture... Adams B4 No. 100, not being one of the 14 Docks allocated members of the class must be on loan from Bournemouth shed as she shunts at Canute Road Quay. She has been built from McGowan's kit long before the RTR Dapol B4 was … Continue reading Happy New Year – Picture of the Month – January 2025
Picture of the Month – December 2024
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Picture of the Month – November 2024
This months picture... See Canute Road Quay at the High Wycombe and District MRS MRX24 exhibition on Saturday 9th November.
Picture of the Month – August 2024
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Workbench Witterings #25 Canute for Cantue Road Quay – a PD&SWJR inspired might have been
The Southern Railway inherited a small number of oddity locomotives including three from the Plymouth, Devonport and South Western Junction Railway (PD&SWJR) that were ordered from Hawthorn Leslie and Company . It was these locomotives, especially the 0-6-0T No. 756 "A. S. Harris" that first inspired this, albeit larger, quick win 'might have been' project … Continue reading Workbench Witterings #25 Canute for Cantue Road Quay – a PD&SWJR inspired might have been