eastwestdivide Posted February 1, 2020 Share Posted February 1, 2020 Back to Higham today. A couple of Thameslinks: And from the undergrowth visible above the chalk in the picture above, a Javelin heads towards London: Don't think the last photo would be possible in the summer due to vegetation. 19 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Northmoor Posted February 7, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 7, 2020 I've been looking through my negs - going back almost 25 years - and found a few interesting 3rd rail EMU shots including some "historic" events: This was the last service train operated by a "Wessie", dashing through Brookwood. Something strange happened with the lens because there are blurred patches that don't occur on any other images. I was down in Dorset for work one day and took a detour on my way back home to see the "Slammer" in its last week on the Lymington branch. This explains why on a normal operating day at Brockenhurst, I wasn't the only photographer. 19 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post Northmoor Posted February 7, 2020 RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted February 7, 2020 A few more images of routine EMU operations when slam-door trains were the norm. First, Ash Vale after a light snowfall in early 1996: Around that time I somtimes used to pop into London on a Saturday to roam around on a Travelcard for the day. This was not long after SWT acquired the 4-CEPs and it's hard to believe now that weekend traffic only used to require 4-car units.... Anyway, here no.1563 sparks its way through Earlsfield. 24 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Welly Posted February 8, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 8, 2020 ^^^ I remember hanging around Ash Vale station with my friend to photograph a passing de-icing train way back in 2000. We saw a poster on the Up platform there advising passengers for Ascot via Frimley to look out for the feather indicator on the junction signal to confirm that it is their train! Probably the only place in the UK where signalling apparatus is also used for public information! 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Northmoor Posted February 8, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 8, 2020 One more that took me ages to find. This was a Sunday evening 4-VEP arriving at Farnborough. I really need to clean up my negatives and start learning to use Photoshop. 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mpb56125 Posted February 25, 2020 Share Posted February 25, 2020 Some Merseyrail 507 & 508 units taken today. https://mark5812.smugmug.com/Trains-2020/February-2020/i-L9JpwKb/A 508143 at Birkenhead North https://mark5812.smugmug.com/Trains-2020/February-2020/i-qLgvSPG/A 507015 at Bidston https://mark5812.smugmug.com/Trains-2020/February-2020/i-CWV8pwt/A Withdrawn 508134 on Kirkdale Depot https://mark5812.smugmug.com/Trains-2020/February-2020/i-FLfbjmT/A 508141 at Bank Hall Mark 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Northmoor Posted February 25, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 25, 2020 21 minutes ago, mpb56125 said: Some Merseyrail 507 & 508 units taken today. https://mark5812.smugmug.com/Trains-2020/February-2020/i-L9JpwKb/A 508143 at Birkenhead North https://mark5812.smugmug.com/Trains-2020/February-2020/i-qLgvSPG/A 507015 at Bidston https://mark5812.smugmug.com/Trains-2020/February-2020/i-CWV8pwt/A Withdrawn 508134 on Kirkdale Depot https://mark5812.smugmug.com/Trains-2020/February-2020/i-FLfbjmT/A 508141 at Bank Hall Mark Thank you for posting those memory triggers. I need to get to Liverpool this year for a last ride on the 507s/508s; I was a student in Liverpool in the early '90s. In my 1st year used to get the bus to Poly past Kirkdale Depot and in my final year commuted by train from Waterloo to Moorfields. A basic design in and out but the units have survived well for over 40 years, even longer than the LMS-design units they replaced. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post 4630 Posted March 23, 2020 RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted March 23, 2020 A bit of nostalgia this morning whilst searching for something else in my archives, 4-Vep 3417 in heritage blue livery at Brockenhurst on 6th December 2004 with a stopping service for Bournemouth. 20 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold 4630 Posted March 26, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 26, 2020 More delving into my archives has yielded.. 4-Rep, by then re-numbered as 2001, at Bournemouth somewhen around 1987/88... and two class 442s at Walkford and judging by their condition pretty new into traffic, so probably around 1988/89. 19 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post 4630 Posted March 27, 2020 RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted March 27, 2020 I paid a visit to the Isle of Wight, probably on one of Network SouthEast's promotional network days during 1989 or early 1990, to photograph some of the remaining class 485s as they were due to be replaced by 'new' class 483s. 485041 passing the 'box at Ryde St John's Road with a service from Shanklin to Ryde Pier Head. 485042, unofficially named 'Superb', arrives at Ryde Pier Head, I'm guessing with a service from Shanklin. 485045 at Ryde Pier Head. The train is standing at the now out of use platform 3 which at the time, IIRC, was used for the shuttle service between Ryde Pier Head and Ryde Esplanade. Also seen on that day was the island's shunter 03179 looking very smart in the Network SouthEast livery, which I won't post in this thread. 24 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post Phil Mc Posted March 27, 2020 RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted March 27, 2020 Great set of pics ! ^^ The 'new' units on the Island, as seen in 2008. Including a couple of shots inside the maintenance facility, which I seem to remember the staff were quite happy to let me and my 7 year old Son look around, after he asked very politely if he 'could see the Dinosaur train please?' Happy Days !! Cheers, Phil. 27 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold 4630 Posted March 28, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 28, 2020 After a period of test running between Bournemouth T&RSMD and Weymouth, South West Trains 458534, then newly converted from former Gatwick Express class 460 vehicles, heads back to Wimbledon T&RSMD through Christchurch on 8th October 2013. 16 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post 4630 Posted March 29, 2020 RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted March 29, 2020 (edited) A few more, this time taken at Hinton Admiral station on 3rd September 2004. These show some of the variety of stock that South West Trains were operating at that time along the SWML to Bournemouth. Renumbered former 4 Bep 2317 departing in the direction of Bournemouth with a stopping service. According to the resource that is the blood and custard website, this unit had less than 4 weeks left in service, being withdrawn on 30th September 2004. By this time a mainstay on the Bournemouth line for 37 years, 4 Vep 3520 calls with a stopping service heading towards London Waterloo. 5 Wes 442403 passes through with a fast service for London Waterloo. The new order in the form of 444009, which at that time had only been in service a few months, passes through on a semi-fast working to London Waterloo. Edited March 29, 2020 by 4630 to correct a typo. 24 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold 4630 Posted March 30, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 30, 2020 A few more from Hinton Admiral, this time taken on 7th September 2004. 4-Cig 1316. According to the Southern Electric Group 1316 was one of the final 4-Cig units left in traffic at the end of slam door on the SWML in June 2005. 4-Cig 1885 departing in the direction of Bournemouth with a stopping service. 5 Wes 2415 passing through heading in the direction of Bournemouth. New Siemens Desiro 444031 between barrier wagons for the move to Bournemouth T&RSMD. 19 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Bert Cheese Posted March 30, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted March 30, 2020 A selection of quick scans from prints... *4-PEP Unit 4002...I think this was at Clapham carriage sidings but it may well be Wimbledon...taken by my late father. *Celebrity 4-SUB Unit 4732 taken during the Winchfield 150 celebrations of 1988 from the cab of a 4-VEP. *Unknown Plastic Pig taken from the cab of a class 47 heading out of Bournemouth on cross country duty...IIRC they were still fairly new and so a novelty at the time as I didn't generally "waste" precious film on units...if only we knew what was coming in the next few years... 21 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post 4630 Posted April 1, 2020 RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted April 1, 2020 Before the well known pair of 3 CIGs 1498 and 1499 were formed and used exclusively on the Brockenhurst-Lymington Pier services for several years, South West Trains formed a couple of 3 CEP units for the diagram. Unit 1199 was formed on 27th January 2003 from 4 BEP 2326 with the buffet car removed. The unit lasted in traffic for a little over a year, being withdrawn on 28th May 2004. Here is 1199 on 14th October 2003, near the site of the former Lymington Junction, on the separate line used solely for Lymington services which runs adjacent to the Up and Down main lines to Brockenhurst. This separate line was brought into use when Lymington Junction and its attendant signal box was abolished on 17th October 1978. A replacement 3 CEP numbered 1198 was formed at the beginning of June 2004 from 4 BEP 2314 and remained in traffic for six months until withdrawal at Christmas 2004. Here is 1198 on 19th August 2004 at Setley Plain on the approach to the former Lymington Junction with a service from Lymington Pier. Formation and withdrawal dates for 1198 and 1199 were sourced from the blood and custard website. Also on 19th August 2004 is an unidentified South West Trains 4 CIG on the Bournemouth main line with a stopping service heading in the direction of London Waterloo. The last in this batch is some images of South West Trains 4 VEP 3415 at Hinton Admiral on 24th August 2004 working an Up stopping service. 24 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unicorn1 Posted April 2, 2020 Share Posted April 2, 2020 Ah, 3 car CEPs. As a regular commuter I remember these on the South Eastern - we had quite a lot (did the open seconds replace buffet cars on the S Western BEPs?) Funny, I never thought I would have quite the affection I do now for the old units - but seeing a single three CEP coming into view on the daily commute was no fun, nor was Conex's habit of putting one on the first off-peak Ramsgate to Charing Cross every morning (including Saturdays) which was standing room only after Minster! (I would attempt to board at Canterbury West). Anyway, great pictures of a railway we took so much for granted, and thought would hardly ever change. Regards Les 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium John M Upton Posted April 3, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 3, 2020 (edited) They made it across to Horsham from Tonbridge at one time: Presumably a South Central Division crew took it to and from south of Redhill? Edited April 3, 2020 by John M Upton 13 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold 4630 Posted April 4, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 4, 2020 (edited) A few more from Hinton Admiral, this time taken on 26th August 2004. Disappearing under the road bridge, South West Trains 2408 heads east with an Up service. The white painted square, partly obscured by ivy, on the road bridge is a sighting aid for drivers to see the now long gone semaphore signal which was originally there. The controlling signal box, which was located on the Up platform towards the west end, closed on 26th February 1967 as part of the Bournemouth line modernisation which including the extension of the third rail. Taken from a nearby footpath overbridge, an unidentified class 442 heads west in the direction of Bournemouth... Also taken from this location, 4 VEP 3434 heads away from Hinton Admiral with an Up stopping service. Back at Hinton Admiral and taken from the footbridge, still looking clean Siemens Desiro 450055 passes through. Looking back along the train the 450 appears to be coupled to a class 444... ...which turns out to be 444011, which is in turn coupled to another class 450 - making an unusual 13 coach working. I suspect this wasn't a passenger working and is more likely to be an ECS to Bournemouth T&RSMD. To round off this batch, a look at 4 CIG 1315 arriving and departing with a Down stopping service. Edited April 4, 2020 by 4630 Typo 19 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium John M Upton Posted June 5, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 5, 2020 I was initially annoyed this evening when I was told my 313 was having an early night before my last Bognor to Littlehampton and I would have a 377 instead. However it turned up as NHS special 377111 so all is forgiven! 18 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Gwiwer Posted June 5, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 5, 2020 That's where it went. It's been on Vic - Reigates most of the week. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post montyburns56 Posted June 6, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted June 6, 2020 Brighton 27 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Northmoor Posted June 6, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 6, 2020 1 hour ago, montyburns56 said: Brighton Hard to believe now but isn't that taken in a changeover period between generations of EMU? The BB unit must have been approaching withdrawal, while the VEP must have been almost new. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Oldddudders Posted June 6, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 6, 2020 6 minutes ago, Northmoor said: Hard to believe now but isn't that taken in a changeover period between generations of EMU? The BB unit must have been approaching withdrawal, while the VEP must have been almost new. That's a Cig, which was by then getting on for 10 years old. The blue Bels were last seen in early 1972. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stewartingram Posted June 6, 2020 Share Posted June 6, 2020 I like the old Southdown bus on the platform. Stewart 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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