Hampshire Chronicle by the daughter of a former correspondent of this newspaper. They capture the autumn of days for steam travel in Hampshire in the 1950s. Within ten years steam had been replaced by diesel and electric. The photographs were sent to us by Di Jeans and were taken by her father, Dr. J.L. Farmer who was a railway enthusiast. He wrote articles ‘Railway Notes’ for the
Hampshire Chronicle under the initials T.J. during the 1950s, before he died aged 46, in February 1960 when Di was 10 years old and her sister aged 15. Di told the Chronicle: “I do remember spending much time alongside railway lines and viewing locomotives! As medical officer of health for Winchester Rural District and responsible for organising mental health facilities in Hampshire he managed to combine his travels around the county visiting patients and training centres with viewing railways pre-Beeching.