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List of constituents of the Southern Railway

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TheSouthern Railway in theUnited Kingdom was one of the "Big Four" railway companies set up after the1923 Grouping. This list sets out the constituents of the Company.

TheLondon and South Western Railway (LSWR) route mileage 1,020 miles (1,642 km)
TheLondon, Brighton and South Coast Railway (LBSCR)457+1⁄4 miles (736 km)
The combined systems of theSouth Eastern Railway and theLondon, Chatham and Dover Railway, under theSouth Eastern & Chatham Railways' Managing Committee (SECR)637+3⁄4 miles (1026 km). These concerns had formed a working union to operate their services under a Managing Committee on 1 January 1899.^[1]^[2]

Originally leased to or worked by LSWR
- Bridgewater Railway7+1⁄4 miles (12 km)
- Lee-on-the-Solent Railway 3 miles (5 km)
- North Cornwall Railway52+1⁄2 miles (84 km)
- Plymouth and Dartmoor Railway (portion used by LSWR)2+1⁄4 miles (4 km)
- Plymouth, Devonport and South Western Junction Railway (except Bere Alston and Callington section as above)19+1⁄2 miles (31 km)
- Sidmouth Railway8+1⁄4 miles (13 km)
Originally leased to or worked by LBSCR
- Brighton and Dyke Railway4+3⁄4 miles (8 km)
- Hayling Railway 5 miles (8 km)
Originally leased to or worked by SER or LCDR
- Cranbrook and Paddock Wood Railway 11 miles 24 chains (18.19 km)
- Crowhurst, Sidley and Bexhill Railway 4 miles 40 chains (7.24 km)
- London and Greenwich Railway3+3⁄4 miles (6 km)
- Mid Kent Railway (Bromley to St Mary Cray)2+1⁄2 miles (4 km)

Victoria Station and Pimlico Railway (in which theGreat Western Railway and theLondon and North Western Railway were also parties)
Lynton and Barnstaple Railway: not covered by the Railways Act 1921, but absorbed by the LSWR. Narrow gauge (1 ft 11+1⁄2 in (597 mm))19+1⁄4 miles (31 km)
Severallight railways, including theBasingstoke and Alton Light Railway, though other candidate lines remained independent, such as theKent and East Sussex Railway

The information in this article taken from theRailway Magazine for February 1923, except as follows:

^Dendy Marshall, C.F.; Kidner, R.W. (1963) [1937].History of the Southern Railway (2nd ed.). Shepperton:Ian Allan. pp. 314, 345, 355.ISBN 0-7110-0059-X.{{cite book}}:ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)
^Nock, O.S. (1971) [1961].The South Eastern and Chatham Railway. Shepperton:Ian Allan. p. 125.ISBN 0-7110-0268-1.

v t e The "Big Four" pre-nationalisation British railway companies
Great Western London & North Eastern London, Midland & Scottish Southern
GWR constituents	Alexandra Docks Barry Cambrian Cardiff Great Western Rhymney Taff Vale Full list
LNER constituents	Great Central Great Eastern Great Northern Great North of Scotland Hull & Barnsley North British North Eastern Full list
LMS constituents	Caledonian Furness Glasgow & South Western Highland Lancashire & Yorkshire London & North Western Midland North Staffordshire Full list
SR constituents	London & South Western London, Brighton & South Coast London, Chatham and Dover Railway South Eastern and Chatham Railway South Eastern Railway Full list
See also History of rail transport in Great Britain 1923–1947 List of companies involved in the grouping

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