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4 hours ago, Mike Storey said:

It is incredible how much Strood has changed (and now changed since) - many thanks for those two photos EWDivide.

 

Same everywhere really, but you tend to notice it with familiar places. I was spotting there late 70s-early 80s, and when I go back to visit, I often try and take "after" shots to match my "befores". Now there's an idea for a thread or gallery.

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West Worthing this afternoon.

 

Brighton service passes what I think may be new Great Northern trains in the EMU sidings.

 

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West Worthing stopper from Brighton leaves to enter the reversing siding prior to heading back to Brighton.

 

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Cheers

 

Darius

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Great Northern 717's in warm storage as basically, they have a lot of issues which is seriously delaying their introduction and they were running out of space to park them!

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8 hours ago, Peter Kazmierczak said:

Not sure if interior views are allowed.

 

Anyway, this is the 1st class section of Class 442420 (car 77401) on its second day in passenger service with the SWR.

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Interesting to see that a 2+2 configuration has been adopted rather than the 2+1 of the old 1st Class Mk3s.  The seats look marginally less uncomfortable than the ironing board planks that you get in second class these days but they don’t look a patch as good as the old 1st Class seats.   The seating configuration also looks like it doesn’t line up with the windows so less legroom as well.

 

Consistent with the give you less for more (£) of today’s railway companies.

 

Darius

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6 minutes ago, lmsforever said:

At least its means extra trains in service in service with refurbished interiors ,with the number of passengers wanting to travel a few seats not lined up with windows is worth suffering.

 

For which you have to pay the first class fare is my main point.

 

Darius

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12 hours ago, lmsforever said:

At least its means extra trains in service in service with refurbished interiors ,with the number of passengers wanting to travel a few seats not lined up with windows is worth suffering.

As market research by Virgin (and confirmed by lots of personal observation) showed, almost no-one spends a significant time looking out of the window anyway.  On my regular commute, I'm would guess about 10% are reading a book/magazine/newspaper, 60% are watching/reading/texting on their phones, 10% are working on laptops or paperwork and the rest are asleep (that's often me too).

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30 minutes ago, Siberian Snooper said:

I spend a lot of time looking out of the window,  unless it's dark,  even over routes I have travelled over for years.

 

 

 

Surely looking out of the window is one of the greatest pleasures of train travel ?!

 

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Phil.

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1 hour ago, Siberian Snooper said:

I spend a lot of time looking out of the window,  unless it's dark,  even over routes I have travelled over for years.

 

 

 

1 hour ago, Phil Mc said:

 

Surely looking out of the window is one of the greatest pleasures of train travel ?!

 

Cheers,

Phil.

 

But you and I are "enthusiasts", so aren't the general public as far as this is concerned.

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10 hours ago, Phil Mc said:

 

Surely looking out of the window is one of the greatest pleasures of train travel ?!

 

I agree, but so is reading some of the backlog of books I've built over the years, whilst driving to work. 

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Out of interest, does anyone know what determined the curvature of the yellow wraparound on the 313? (And presumably the other classes of units from that generation?)

 

Why that shape and size, rather than another, or simply squared off, or no wrap at all?

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The chamfer on the corners is to keep the cars within the loading gauge whilst traversing corners.

 

The yellow extent is a stylistic thing I think.  The Southern 313s don’t extend the yellow all the way to the bottom - unlike the BR scheme.

 

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Darius 

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The yellow on the front of a green 313 goes down as far as the top of the front cab windscreen access steps, on the infamous blue one it extends right down to the bottom.

 

Also the bodyside profile bows out towards the bottom which may be the reason for the end champhers compared with later so called MK3 derived stock which have straight vertical bodyside.

 

The contrast is best seen on SWT 455's which have a ex 508 middle trailer.

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53 minutes ago, jonny777 said:

412303 seems to have had a new coat of paint in the works before moving into the station at Eastleigh in the early 1990s

All these years I'd thought the official livery included mucky sections behind the MU and brake pipes.

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On 12/06/2019 at 08:22, DY444 said:

Looks better to me than the 1st class on the 444s and 450s though

 

The 444's are in the process of getting the same 2+2 First Class seats, about half the fleet are done now.

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Desiros internally look quite smart with the new interior, a shame to lose the 2+1 seating in 1st Class though. Externally, they look somewhat unloved... By all accounts, repaints should start this year, whether Bournemouth Depot gets it remains to be seen...

 

Anyway, I found these in some unmarked folders. Shots of the 1497 "Freshwater" working on the Lymington Branch prior to the withdrawal of MK1 units on the line. A real shame to have lost them. I never did any pictures of 1498 "Farringford" on the line unfortunatley.

 

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Lymington Pier - 16.05.2010

 

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Lymington Town - 16.05.2010

 

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Jealous Copse - 21.05.2010

 

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Setley Plain - 21.05.2010

 

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Brockenhurst on the last day of service - 22.05.2010

 

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The rather basic cab of 1497 - 16.05.2010

 

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Headboard - 22.05.2010

 

These are the only two pictures I have of 1498 "Farringford". To even out the flange wear on the wheelsets, the pair of units ran as 5Z98 Bournemouth T&RSMD to Fareham via Netley and then back as 5Z99 to Bournemouth T&RSMD via a reversal at Eastleigh. Both workings are seen at Beaulieu Road on 31.03.2010.

 

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And a pair of pictures of more modern units.

 

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377122 heads onto the Netley line, as 450106 comes off it at St. Denys - 27.02.2015

 

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444002 heads away from a gloomy Southampton with a London bound service - 10.11.2016

 

Andy.

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