Celebrating our collections dating from 780AD to the present day
By Bill Gage, Guest Speaker My first recollections of Bognor Station go back to the mid 1950s, when my family would travel down by train from Essex for holidays. As our electric train approached the station I would hope to see a steam locomotive on the local goods train, waiting in the sidings. Once on…
Continue reading ➞ Tuesday Talk: The Bognor Branch – 160 years of railways in Bognor
By Bill Gage, Guest Speaker Add Mss 26499 - Poster for the opening of the Chichester and Midhurst Line, 1881 In the 1960s I would always listen to the Saturday morning radio programme “Childrens’ Favourites”. One song, featured regularly, was the “The Runaway Train went over the hill and she blew”. Yet I wonder how…
Continue reading ➞ Tuesday Talk: Rails to Midhurst – A tale of a Wild Iron Horse
Chosen by Bill Gage, member of staff I found this poster whilst I was researching the history of the Selsey Tram which operated from 1897 until its closure in 1935. The Selsey Tram, as it was known locally, was in fact a light railway which ran from Chichester all the way down the Selsey Peninsula.…
Continue reading ➞ Brighton Railway (Selsey Tramway) poster, c.1910 (Add Mss 13773)
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