IGNITING THE SUSSEX BEACONS
OF UNITY
THE HISTORY OF THE
SUSSEX BRANCHES OF A.S.L.E.F.
RETIRED DRIVER
HORSHAM
JACK PITT
HAS RECENTLY PASS AWAY
FROM COAL TO CALAIS
by JIM ROWE
I'm very pleased to announce that my book is finally published!
All about my life on the railway from boy to man, with views expressed on asle&f matters.
Available from Amazon at: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1499201664/ref=sr_1_1…
Via Kindle still to be finalised.
More expensive than I wanted but the price is determined by the size – over 340 pages with many photographs.
If you buy it, I hope you like it.
If you arrive early for the A.S.L.E.F. reunion,
the railway club will be open from 13:00
THE BRIGHTON RAILWAY CLUB NOW PROVIDES WHEEL CHAIR ACCESS, WHICH IS TO THE RIGHT OF THE OF THE MAIN ENTRANCE
IF YOU HAVE ANY PHOTOS, SLIDES, NEGATIVES (35mm & 110), NEWSPAPPER/MAGAZINE CUTTINGS OR STORIES THAT YOU WOULD LIKE ME TO ADD TO THE WEB SITE. PLEASE BRING THEM ALONG WITH YOU TO THE NEXT BRANCH REUNION ON TUESDAY 5th MAY 2015
RAMBLING RAILWAYMAN’S RECOLLECTIONS
By Geoff Burch
This book has been written by ex Brighton driver, Tim Wood, and he recalls his days working in the footplate grades at Brighton, from the mid 1990s through until he left the railway in the mid 2000s.
http://www.waterstones.com/waterstonesweb/products/tim+wood/southern+electric+driver/10344988/
THE LATE ERNNIE SKINNER BRIGHTON LOCO MAN AND UNION MAN I have recently been in contact with one of Ernie Skinner’s children, and they are trying to find out more about their father’s working life as a loco-man at Bournemouth & Brighton. If anybody give help please could please get in contact with me via email or phone. Mobile No. 07402478278 |
I have been contact with Simon Jeffs who is looking for railway photos of his brother, Timothy Jeffs, a lifelong ASLEF member who started as a traction trainee at Redhill in 1974, moved on to Horsham EMUT between 1979-1994, and finished his career at Bournemouth in 2010 due to ill-health. Tim has sinced passed away. If anyone can help please can you let me know. |
I have been in contact with retired driver Alan Cook
or as any info about him. We would be very grateful to find out more about him.
Does anybody know any of the Motormen pictured above? I am hoping that there may be a link to Brighton or any of the other Sussex depots.
The only info I have is below curtsey of Steve West (Farnham Branch).
The photo was taken in April 1949 at London Bridge (L.L.) whilst they were on their electric training.
Ron Fulker (middle row 3rd from left) who started at Basingstoke as a cleaner and then Fireman in 1938. He got his drivers job at Addiscombe in 1949 and then moved to Farnham in the late Fifties.
The Traction Inspector S. Bass (in the trilby hat) never worked on the steam. When the L.B.S.C Rly electrified with the overhead wires in 1911. In the early days of electrification a lot of the steam drivers did not want to become motormen owing to the difference in wages, so the railway opened the vacancies to the various traffic grades like Guards and Signalmen and they became Motormen.