IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Campbell Road, EASTLEIGH, SO50 5AB

Campbell Road just clips across the north-east corner of this grid square. Please see Image for a brief history of these Edwardian railway workers' "cottages".

Tucked away between two clusters of railway works is the isolated linear Campbell Road, with Edwardian "Cottage" style houses built around 1909 to house workers who moved here when the London & South Western Railway moved their locomotive works to Eastleigh from Nine Elms. The isolation and separation from the earlier Victorian housing on the west side of the main railway meant that the area had an independent character that it still retains, the only access being across the bridge over the Southampton main railway line.

Looking along Campbell Road which surely can't be the most luxurious place to live with a railway station on one side, industrial estate on the other and planes landing nearby at Southampton Airport.

Fresh from repair, ex-LSW Adams G6 0-6-0T No. 275 (built 3/1898) was nevertheless soon withdrawn, in 12/49.

Two of the engines are in ex-works condition, standing in the loco-shed yard awaiting return to their home depots. On the right is an M7 Class 0-4-4T of Bournemouth depot. It was withdrawn in January 1964 and cut up in South Wales in October of that year. In the centre is a K class No.32341 of Brighton shed. Despite being overhauled in 1961, it was withdrawn in December 1962 along with all of the remaining members of the class and was cut-up at Eastleigh in 1963. On the left is an unidentified Lord Nelson class of Southern Railway origin.

Spitfire Railtours charter headed by English Electric Co-Co Class 37 diesel locomotive number 37685 'Loch Arkaig' waits at the signal box to be allowed to proceed into DB Schenker Rail UK's Eastleigh Motive Power Depot.

For railway workers only, this pedestrian level crossing links isolated Campbell Road, Eastleigh to the banks of the River Itchen via an informal footpath. Presumably the man in the signal box is a keen fisherman.

An interesting informal footpath, accessible to railway workers only, goes from Campbell Road, Eastleigh, past a signal box, over the railway line (shown) to end at a fishing hut at the Z-bend in the River Itchen at SU 46615 17582. It crosses the Itchen Way public footpath at SU 46480 17586. There is no public access to/from Campbell Road here - the gate is locked (2020). What's all this then? Do the railway guys do a lot of fishing?

This is one of the five of 71 '0415' class 4-4-2T designed by Adams in the 1880s for London suburban work, which far outlived the others working the unique Axminster - Lyme Regis branch: No. 3520 was built in 12/1885 as No. 520, was later No. 0520, No. 3520 on the SR and withdrawn as BR No. 30584 in 2/61.

Along with some 20 other condemned locomotives, Adams A12 class No. 555 (built 12/1889, withdrawn 3/43) has been dumped at the far end of the Locomotive Yard for months/years, rusting away surrounded by weeds. (See also Image]).