Hopper and Fonda later tried to downplay Southern's input, claiming that many sections of the film ( such as the graveyard scene ) had been improvised, whereas others involved in the production ( including Southern himself ) have asserted that most of these scenes were fully scripted and primarily written by him.

Delays in the construction of the Class 377 / 5s for First Capital Connect saw the temporary transfer of eight of Southern's Class 377 / 2s to FCC to enable them to implement the planned timetable changes on 22 March 2009 ; the loss of these units until September 2009 was covered by the temporary cascade of a number of Class 350 / 1s to Southern from London Midland, which operated services between East Croydon and Milton Keynes.

It was hoped that further service could be obtained from these locomotives on the Southern's Western Section, sharing the duties of the N15 class locomotives.

Green's writing exerted a strong influence on Southern's early work, and Green became one of Southern's most ardent early supporters.

* Note: Southern's coverage area coincided only partly with that of the present-day South East England government region, as it did not include the Oxford transmitter region ( Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire ), which was instead covered by the ITV Midlands licensee.

By the mid-1970s Southern's route system had expanded to St. Louis, Detroit, Ft. Lauderdale and Grand Cayman, Southern's only international destination.

Georgia Southern's Department of Writing and Linguistics is the only freestanding writing department in the State of Georgia.

A new spur, called the Cross-County Segment, would split off at Port Kennedy ( near Valley Forge ), and would allow SVM trains to access King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, and the Great Valley Corporate Center in Malvern, Pennsylvania, using the former PRR / Penn Central Trenton Cut-Off ( now Norfolk Southern's Morrisville Line ) used by the former PRR as a freight-only bypass around Philadelphia, although an alternative would be to have the Cross-County segment serve only King of Prussia with SEPTA extending the existing Norristown High-Speed Line to King of Prussia, via the Trenton Cut-Off.

Southern's dark and often absurdist style of satire helped to define the sensibilities of several generations of writers, readers, directors and film goers.

The archive of networked programmes made by Southern Television, for example, is now owned by the Australian media company Southern Star Group ( no connection ) – but Southern's regional output is in the hands of ITV plc, whilst the few surviving tapes of Associated-Rediffusion belong to many different organisations ( the majority of Associated-Rediffusion's tapes were recorded in monochrome and therefore deemed of no use upon the arrival of colour broadcasting ; as such they were disposed of by their successor Thames Television ), although in recent years there have been occasional discoveries such as a 1959 episode of Double Your Money and the remaining missing episode of Around the World with Orson Welles, found by Ray Langstone in 2011.

Southern interviewed Algren for the Paris Review in the autumn of 1955 and they became good friends ; they remained in touch after the interview and Algren became another of Southern's early champions.

Southern covered the Rolling Stones 1972 American Tour, where he met and began a collaboration with Peter Beard, and they would work sporadically on the never-filmed screenplay The End of the Game until Southern's death.

The Class 171 units are fitted with Dellner couplers rather than BSI ( Bergische Stahl Industrie ) couplers, which means that they can operate in multiple with Southern's Class 377 Electrostar EMUs.

Some of Montana Rail Link's and Norfolk Southern's new SD70ACe locomotives were tested in Albia before they were put into regular service.

First Capital Connect have leased all Southern's Class 319s and have stated it will be a permanent move meaning they will not return to Southern.

The reception given by footplate crews was such that more of the class were constructed for other parts of the network, although the electrification of the Southern's Eastern Section meant that they were dispersed from their original stamping grounds.

Southern's area also included large swathes of Dorset and southern Wiltshire.

Notable programmes produced by Southern Television over the years included the flagship regional news magazine Day by Day presented by an able team of presenters including Barry Westwood, Peter Clark, and long-serving weatherman Trevor Baker ; Out of Town, a countryside programme introduced by Jack Hargreaves, who would later join Southern's board of directors ; How, a children's science programme also featuring Hargreaves along with Fred Dinenage, Bunty James ( later replaced by Marian Davies ) and Jon Miller ; Freewheelers, a children's spy series ; Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years and Worzel Gummidge, starring Jon Pertwee as the eponymous walking scarecrow.

This was the official line given by the IBA, but it was also considered that Southern's non-local ownership ( the majority shareholders were companies based in London and Dundee ) and their very conservative nature led to it being dropped in favour the more interesting proposals made by TVS in their franchise application.

The Southern's decision to electrify its routes into London with a third rail system also made the installation of water troughs impractical.

While the Southern's most famous passenger trains included the Crescent and the Southerner, it also rostered an entire fleet of named trains.

SSW also operated a yard and locomotive servicing facility in East St. Louis, just east of Valley Junction, and south of Alton and Southern Railroad's Gateway Yard, and north of Kansas City Southern's East St. Louis Yard.

Southern's old friend Ted Kotcheff was then approached, but at this point the project stalled-under the British censorship regulations of the time, the treatment had to be submitted to the Lord Chamberlain, who returned it, unread, with a note attached that said: " I know this book and there is no way you can make a movie of it.

Moberly is home to one of Norfolk Southern's many rail yards.

The success of Dr Strangelove and the re-published version of Candy was the turning point in Southern's career, making him one of the most celebrated writers of his day.

The pioneering South Carolina Canal and Rail Road Company, Southern's earliest predecessor line and one of the first railroads in the United States, was chartered in December 1827 and ran the nation's first regularly scheduled steam-powered passenger train – the wood-burning Best Friend of Charleston – over a six-mile section out of Charleston, South Carolina, on December 25, 1830.

Roger Ebert wrote, " Candy caroms from one man to another like a nympho in a pinball machine, and the characters she encounters are improbable enough to establish Terry Southern's boredom with the conventions of pornography.

By 1968 Southern's route system extended from its most northerly stop at the Tri-Cities regional airport in Tennessee south to New Orleans and Jacksonville.

The site is currently the Network Rail's ECR and infrastructure maintenance depot, and Southern's Lovers Walk Depot, used for servicing most of Southern's single voltage Class 377 Electrostar fleet and their newly acquired Class 442s and Class 313s.

In a review representative of most professional reviewers at the time, Roger Ebert found it " a lot better than you might expect " but missed the " anarchy, the abandon, of Terry Southern's novel ".

Cooden Beach is a penalty fare station with most trains operating Southern's strict Penalty Fares policy.

For its 2011 and 2012 rankings, The Princeton Review selected Florida Southern's campus as the most beautiful in the country.

Florida Southern's most recent championship came in May 2010 when the men's golf team won their 12th NCAA national title.

According to Terry Southern's biographer, Lee Hill, the part of George Hanson had been written for Southern's friend, actor Rip Torn.

Another factor may have been the company's very conservative ( and possibly dull ) nature and that, with a new decade just dawned, the south of England would be a radically different area ; it was felt that Southern's application was, understandably, more of the same tried and tested formula, which in time would not have reflected the possibilities for the area.

In Southern's final programme, And It's Goodbye From Us, a song was featured, composed and performed by Richard Stilgoe, deriding the incoming TVS as Portakabin TV and mocking TVS for choosing Maidstone as a production base in the newly-enlarged dual region despite the fact that Southern itself had already purchased the site in Vinters Park, Maidstone, for a planned studio complex which Southern would have built had it retained its franchise.

During Southern's tenure as the ITV franchise broadcaster, the company strived to produce dedicated opt outs for the East of the region-the first British television service of its kind.

Southern's South East news team in Dover produced separate bulletins for the area as an opt-out into the Day by Day programme each weeknight.

Improved highways and an increasing willingness among passengers to drive to airports farther away for more convenient flights made many of Southern's routes obsolete.

It was at the suggestion of Elliot that the Southern's express passenger locomotives should be named, representing positive publicity for the railway, whilst distinctive locomotive liveries and well-known posters were created under his direction.

The part of lawyer George Hanson in the Peter Fonda – Dennis Hopper road movie Easy Rider was written for Torn by Terry Southern ( who was a close friend ), but according to Southern's biographer Lee Hill, Torn withdrew from the project after he and co-director Dennis Hopper got into a bitter argument in a New York restaurant.

On the basis of Southern's treatment, Raybert Productions, which had produced the TV series The Monkees and the Monkees movie Head, agreed to finance the film with a budget of US $ 350, 000 ( in return for one-third of the profits ), with Columbia Pictures agreeing to distribute the film.

Southern's other unrealised projects during this period included an adaptation of Nathanael West's A Cool Million, and a screenplay called Merlin, based on Arthurian legend, which was written with Mick Jagger in mind for the lead role.

Terry Southern's Grooving in Chi documented the 1968 Chicago National Democratic Convention for Esquire in new journalism manner.

Southern's sports teams participate in Division I ( FCS for football ) in the Southwestern Athletic Conference.

Robert Bartlett and R. I. Moore, for example, share Southern's interest in the development of Europe in the High Middle Ages, and Valerie Flint had some of Southern's tendencies towards iconoclasm.

Southern's monographic studies of St Anselm and Robert Grosseteste, for example, have had significant influences on their historiography.

In 1992 Norfolk Southern's trucking operations, including NAVL, recorded a loss of close to $ 40 million, and Norfolk Southern Corp. decided to sell off two of its trucking divisions in 1993, although it retained NAVL for another five years.

After the line from Meridian, Mississippi, to New Orleans, Louisiana was acquired in 1916 under Southern's president Fairfax Harrison, the railroad had assembled the 8, 000-mile, 13-state system that lasted for almost half a century.