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Visit to the Former South Western Hotel, Southampton, - 30th June 2025

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Terminus House, the original station entrance, is now a casino. We bet that our members didn't go inside. (South Western House is off right.)<br>[&copy; Adam Turner 2025]

The platform entrance to south Western House The glass roof was over Southampton Terminus concourse.<br>[&copy; Adam Turner 2025]

The entrance lounge that passengers would have used straight from the Southampton Terminus platforms.<br>[&copy; Adam Turner 2025]

The ornate lift floor indicator. <br>[&copy; Adam Turner 2025]

Detail on the grand main staircase.<br>[&copy; Adam Turner 2025]

A 'Titanic bell' mounted next to one of the doors to an apartment.<br>[© Adam Turner 2025]

The spiral staircase with the early 20th Century hand wound lift passenger compartment.<br>[&copy; Adam Turner 2025]

The lift shaft.<br>[&copy; Adam Turner 2025]

The girl from New York.<br>[&copy; Adam Turner 2025]

'The Grand', originally the Wedgewood Ballroom<br>[&copy; Adam Turner 2025]

The apex of the 'V' shaped South Western House; Southampton Terminus station was to the rear, Canute Road Level Crossing is far right.<br>[&copy; Adam Turner 2025]

The Canute Road aspect of South Western House - that level crossing is off right.<br>[&copy; Adam Turner 2025]

The entrance to the station was left. This is the north face of South Western House.<br>[&copy; Adam Turner 2025]

Inside the restored Grade II listed LSWR Southampton goods shed dating from the late 1880s which is now a car park for student accommodation.<br>[&copy; Adam Turner 2025]

The restored Grade II listed LSWR Southampton goods shed.<br>[&copy; Adam Turner 2025]

Another internal view of the restored Grade II listed LSWR Southampton goods shed.<br>[&copy; Adam Turner 2025]

Central Bridge (which once had tram tracks over it) where it passes over Royal Crescent Rd, the section above the railway is the same design.<br>[&copy; Adam Turner 2025]

Central Bridge over Royal Crescent Rd.<br>[© Adam Turner 2025]


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