Southern Railway

 

SR Page 2: Newhaven Services

 

 

This page is devoted to postcards and photographs of the services of the Southern Railway (SR). An alphabetical list of ships shown on this page is shown below. The Table beneath gives links to complete history pages on selected individual ships. Below the table is a Fleet List in chronological order.

 

 

Ships on This Page:-

Arromanches 1947-1965
Brighton (1) 1933-1940

Londres 1939-1963
Worthing 1928-1955

Southern Railway Pages:-

British Railways - Header page for all UK railway-owned Services

London & South Western Railway - LSWR Southampton Services

London Brighton & South Coast Railway - LBSC Newhaven-Dieppe Services

South Eastern & Chatham Railway - SECR Dover/Folkestone Services

Southern Railway - Page 1 - Dover/Folkestone Services

Southern Railway - Page 2 - Newhaven Services - this page!

Southern Railway - Page 3 - Southampton Services

Southern Railway - Page 4 - Isle of Wight Services

 

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References:-

Merchant Fleets No.25 - Britain's Railway Steamers by Duncan Haws (1993)

Railway & Other Steamers by Duckworth & Langmuir

 

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Table of Ship Histories

Name	Other names	Built
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SR Fleet List

SR Page 2: Newhaven Services

 

Brighton (1)

 

1933 Newhaven-Dieppe, 1940 bombed and sunk while hospital ship at Dieppe. 2,391

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Worthing

 

1928 Newhaven-Dieppe, 1955 sold to Greece, renamed Phryni. 2,288

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Londres

(Built: 1939 - SNCF: 1945-1963)

 

2434 gross tons - 94 metres long - 1450 passengers - 24 knots

 

Londres was built in 1939. It was intended to name her Dieppe, but she was delivered as Londres. She was taken over by the occupying German forces in June 1940 and renamed Lothringen. After the war, she was handed back to SNCF and renamed Londres. She worked on Newhaven-Dieppe services until withdrawn in 1963. She was sold the following year, becoming the Ionion II of Typaldos Bros, Piraeus. Typaldos failed soon afterwards, and she was sold to the Aegean SN Co as Sofoclis Venizelos for service between Piraeus and Heraklion until 1966.

 

 

Postcard of Londres at

Dieppe.

 

 

 

 

 

Arromanches

(Built: 1940 - SNCF: 1947-1964)

 

2434 gross tons - 94 metres long - 1450 passengers - 24 knots

 

Arromanches was intended to be the Newhaven of the LBSC. Renamed Vichy during the German occupation, she was returned to the SNCF as Arromanches in 1947. Arromanches operated between Newhaven and Dieppe until 1964 when she was sold to Nomikos at the Leto, for the service Piraeus-Tinos-Mykonos. She was scrapped in 1970 folowing a grounding.

 

 

Postcard of Arromanches at Dover.

 

Postcard of Arromanches at Dieppe.

 

Postcard of Arromanches at Dieppe.

 

Postcard of Arromanches at Dieppe.

 

Postcard of Arromanches at Newhaven.

 

Postcard of Arromanches at Newhaven.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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