Southern Vectis is a bus operator on the Isle of Wight. The company was founded in 1921 as "Dodson and Campbell" and became the "Vectis Bus Company" in 1923. The company was purchased by the Southern Railway before being nationalised in 1969. In 1987, the company was re-privatised. In July 2005, it became a subsidiary of Go-Ahead Group.
A Southern Vectis Alexander Dennis Enviro400 MMC in Shanklin in January 2018
Double-deckers at Ryde depot in 1979
Eastern Coach Works bodied Bristol RE in post 1995 cream, red and green livery, June 2008
'Needles Breezer' open-top bus at The Needles (2018)
The Southern Railway (SR), sometimes shortened to 'Southern', was a British railway company established in the 1923 Grouping. It linked London with the Channel ports, South West England, South coast resorts and Kent. The railway was formed by the amalgamation of several smaller railway companies, the largest of which were the London and South Western Railway (LSWR), the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway (LB&SCR) and the South Eastern and Chatham Railway (SE&CR). The construction of what was to become the Southern Railway began in 1838 with the opening of the London and Southampton Railway, which was renamed the London & South Western Railway.
1933 poster for the Southern Railway's newly electrified suburban services
1945 poster ('Shabby?') by L. A. Webb promising post-war refurbishment on the Southern Railway, showing Malachite Green and Sunshine Yellow livery
Sign in Norbiton Station's underpass on the Kingston Loop Line
Edmondson ticket for travel between Beltring and Branbridges Halt and Maidstone West.