Southern Electric Group

07/09/2026

Nice bit of advertising courtsay of GX06 DYW Preservation Group whilst attending the RHDR Bus Rally with our sales stand

Taken by Richard Pickering (Sales Stand Assistant)

21/08/2026

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/19LJYTwnXw/

30/07/2026

https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/behind-the-scaffolding-taking-a-look-at-the-hungerford-bridge-restoration-project-80436/

Anyone walking or catching the train across the Hungerford Bridge in central London can't have failed to notice that much of it is covered in scaffolding.

30/07/2026

https://www.networkrail.co.uk/our-work/our-routes/kent/kent-and-south-east-london-railway-upgrade-plan/london-charing-cross-and-waterloo-east-closed-for-essential-engineering-works/

From Sunday 26 July to Sunday 16 August 2026, the line and stations between London Charing Cross and Waterloo East, will close for 22 days

04/07/2026

Please can you help restore our Cor?
Rampart Engineering have been engaged to completely restore S11161S as part of a plan to restore our 4Cor 3142.

You donations will help us achive this, large or small donate here: https://www.gofundme.com/f/restore-our-cor
Thank you!

03/07/2026

We are pleased to advise that Live Rail No 320, June 26 is currently landing on members doormats. Apologies for the delay which is partly due to the inclusion of the AGM summary & the appeal for funds to have S11161S sent away to be proffessionally restored.

24/06/2026

https://www.networkrail.co.uk/our-work/our-routes/wessex/portsmouth-direct-upgrade/

The Portsmouth Direct Upgrade sees us upgrading signalling and track from Woking to Portsmouth Harbour to improve services.

24/06/2026

We apologies to members for the delay in publishing your June copy of Live Rail. It will be on your doormat very soon. We can promise it will be a super interesting edition! Meanwhile here is a taster!

16/06/2026

https://youtu.be/TX_cXxp7d6w

Operation ROC is a new campaign to restore our Cor and we need your help.

We have 5 coaches in total, four of which are in need of restoration. Motor coach S11187S is currently available on selected days for service on The East Kent Railway. Our next aim is to restore motor coach S11161S which is also at Shepherdswell. A lot of work needs to be done to get the coach back into passenger service and once in service this will give us a 2Cor train with 2 motor coaches back-to-back. However the campaign cannot be achieved with our current preservation team. This is because with so few of us much of their time is spent keping motor coach S11187S in service.

We are looking for someone or a small team of people who have the time to investigate various funding options for us. This could be through grants, sponsorship or just good old fashioned fund raising. With a fund raising plan in place we could arrange to contract out the restoration in the same way we did with the roofs, that were replaced a couple of years ago to coaches S11161S and S11187S.

This plan would have huge benefits in getting the coach restored. The preservation team may spend one day a fortnight, at best, working on the Cor, a contractor could spend 5 days a week, which means that in one week they can get the work done that would take the preservation team three months or more. Not to mention the contractors specialist skills and tools to complete the job, indoors, without worrying about the weather!

Some heritage railways are promoting the “fuss free” type of restoration where enough money is raised for the coach to be sent away to a specialist firm and it is returned fully restored. This is something we want to do with enough funding, say with £100k as a starting point.

Either way all the time the current preservation team are spending time looking at funding it is taking them away from the physical task of maintaining and restoring our rolling stock. This is where we need someone to join them. Do have the time to spare to help us? WE would expect much of the work to be computer based, researching and applying for grants and sponsorship etc… and providing updates to the Trustees. We would love to hear from you if you are able to help.

Operation Roc, Restore Our Cor. Video walk round of both inside & ...

15/06/2026

Our corresopondent visited Horseshoe Bridge today & captured 387172 in GBR livery takiing the Netley line (or Portsmouth line of you prefer) with 15:20 Southampton - Brighton.