The first of two volumes covering the railways of the South East, this
book focuses mainly on Sussex but also includes small sections of Surrey
and Kent. It concentrates on locomotive-hauled traffic and details a
wide range of trains including inter-regional passenger, parcels and
mail, fuel, heavy freight, test trains, engineers traffic, Rail Head
Treatment Trains, Snow and Ice Treatment Trains, railtour excursions and
the luxurious Orient Express. An extensive range of different liveries,
many now consigned to history on the main line, are shown. There is also
a small selection of DEMUs in some of the areas they once operated. Over
180 color photographs, the vast majority of which have never been
published before, serve to illustrate some of the wonderful countryside
to be found in this corner of England as well as the trains that run
through it. They are complemented by informative captions detailing not
only the trains themselves but also some of the infrastructure and
features found along the routes covered.