Southern Steam: January–July 1967: Countdown to ExtinctionSouthern Steam: JanuaryJuly 1967: Countdown to Extinction RRP is 25. 00 NOW JUST 19. 95 At the beginning of 1967 the writing was clearly on the wall for Southern Steam, with the intention of eliminating it altogether on the 18th June of that year. From the 2nd January, with the Brush type 4s working many main line trains including the Bournemouth Belle, steam was reduced to thirteen departures from Waterloo, three of which were in the early hours.