Over the Points; a quarterly review of matters concerning the Southern Railway ; E P Leigh-Bennett ; July 1933 : Adding to England - extensions to Southampton Docks : Southern Railway : London : 1933 : W H Smith advert

            "Over the Points" was the Southern Railway's quarterly magazine, editied until his death by the travel writer E.P. Leigh-Bennett. Each issue, mailed to First Class season ticket holders, looked at a series of pertinent topics dealing with the Southern's services, organisation or investment and this, from July 1933, looks at the huge works connected with the coampny's docks and harbours at Southampton. Not only was Southampton Docks hugely valuable to the Southern it was one of tha nation's premier ports, particularly as the origin or destination of many trans-Atalntic steam ships in the days when ocean travel was really the only way to go.

The Docks Extension was as massive project designed to enclose the large area of marshland to the west of the city centre and existing docks by the construction of a coffer dam to provide the new quay walls and jetties and then back filling with chalk from the company's Micheldever Quarries to provide sites for new facilities. The works, that required much dredging of new deep water channels, also included what was at the time the world's largest graving or dry dock, designed to take the largest vessels such as the Cunard 'Queens' then coming into service. As well as descriptive text there are a series of watercolour drawings by the well known artist and book illustrator Donald Maxwell.

The quarterly was always printed by the exemplary Curwen Press at Plaistow in London and always shows their attention to design detail and typography; many of the adverts are set in interesting Curwen typefaces. 

A rather clever photographic advert for the well knwon chain of booksellers and stationers who, for many decades, had a close relationship with railway companies and stations - W H Smith. The concourse looks like the Southern's major terminus of Waterloo station in London.

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