Catalogue description Eastleigh Works collection of workshop photographs

This collection covers the period when Eastleigh Works built and repaired vehicles for the LSWR and Southern Railway. It includes workshop scenes, showing locomotives, carriages and wagons under construction and on completion. There are also photographs of LBSCR engines in this collection, evidently negatives transferred from Brighton to Eastleigh after grouping in 1923.

The collection is part listed, with reference prints available for consultation in the Reading Room, by special request.

Eastleigh Works

• Transport engineering
• Railway transport

In 1891 the London & South Western Railway moved its Carriage & Wagon Works from Nine Elms in London to a spacious new site at Eastleigh in Hampshire. Locomotive production was also transferred to Eastleigh in 1909, and new company housing built for the 2,600 workers employed in locomotive and rolling stock construction and repair. The works built engines to designs by Drummond and Urie, and following grouping in 1923, Southern Railway locomotives including Maunsell's Schools and Lord Nelson classes and Bulleid's Merchant Navy and West Country Pacifics

In the years following the war the Carriage Works produced diesel-electric multiple units, but was closed in 1962 when the locomotive works took over responsibility for repair work for the whole of the Southern Region. Eastleigh became part of British Rail Engineering Ltd in 1987, and is now owned and operated by Wessex Traincare.