Third-Rail EMU Photos

[John M Upton]

Arty 313 at sunset shot before I headed to Fratton (terminated short)

Southern Class 313/2 313212 Littlehampton 27/3/19 by John Upton, on Flickr

 

[Darius43]

EMUs at West Worthing this morning.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hopefully the Thameslinks in the sidings are free of graffiti.

 

Edit.  Not Thameslinks - they are Great Northern Class 717s.

 

Cheers

 

Darius

 

 

Edited April 18, 2019 by Darius43

[Darius43]

Old and new liveries at Havant.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cheers

 

Darius

Edited April 18, 2019 by Darius43

[Peter Kazmierczak]

442418 outside the cleaning shed at Bournemouth Depot, enjoying the Spring sunshine.

[John M Upton]

Actually saw a pair of SWR's 442's moving yesterday!

 

 

[Peter Kazmierczak]

2404 + 2423 were also out yesterday on 5Q92 1112 BM Depot - EH Arlington (both units in full SWR livery).

[lmsforever]

That livery suits the stock well clean crisp glad they have survived ,would you like to drive them John?

[Joseph_Pestell]

SWR seems to be having a sudden push with the new livery. I was at Salisbury this morning briefly and all the trains I saw seemed to be in the new livery.

[Peter Kazmierczak]

SWR appears to be having a good crack at getting their diesel units in the new livery, but very few electric units (Class 442 excepted - and they're not in service yet) are in the new colours.

[zarniwhoop]

On 19/04/2019 at 09:59, John M Upton said:

Actually saw a pair of SWR's 442's moving yesterday!

Cool, but am I the only obsessive who thought the brickwork of the platform edge (flush, then inset in what is presumably an extension) was more interesting than the EMU ?  Yes, I suppose I probably am - sad, isn't it ? ;-)

 

 

[John M Upton]

Reasonably arty shot taken during my rather tedious two hours of Brighton/Hove shuttles on Bank Holiday Monday afternoon...

Southern Class 313/3 313205 Hove 22/4/19 by John Upton, on Flickr

[grahame]

Here's a few pics at Cla'am Junct from a couple of years ago (3rd May 2017):

 

 

[grahame]

And a couple more including obligatory bus on bridge . . .

 

 

 

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[grahame]

Today at Weybridge . .  . .

 

 

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[The Evil Bus Driver]

On 11/03/2019 at 19:01, jonny777 said:

Taken on the same day as the 4-LAV photo, the Brighton Belle approaches the station. 

 

 

There's an ex-GWR Toad in the background there

[John M Upton]

If you ever wondered what the 23:43 Portsmouth Harbour to Bognor Regis via Barnham end of the night empties looks like, here you go:

 

[talisman56]

6 hours ago, The Evil Bus Driver said:

There's an ex-GWR Toad in the background there

 

Actually, two. Is that another one at the other end of the departmental coach?

[The Evil Bus Driver]

1 minute ago, talisman56 said:

 

Actually, two. Is that another one at the other end of the departmental coach?

You're right yes there are two. Nice to see :)

[SWT442]

Here's a couple of shots of 442's on shed, with bonus ED! A week to go now until the first few are in service, might pop out to catch one even though I'm surounded by them, be nice to see one moving at more than 10mph!

 

 

[Gwiwer]

On 19/04/2019 at 20:40, Peter Kazmierczak said:

SWR appears to be having a good crack at getting their diesel units in the new livery, but very few electric units (Class 442 excepted - and they're not in service yet) are in the new colours.

SWR has just two electric units in the new livery namely 444040 and 450111.  The 442s are yet to re-enter service though should start to do so from next weekend's timetable change.

 

The diesel units are steadily being repainted but with a great many differences between them.  To be fair Stagecoach ended up with at least four variations of livery on those same diesel units namely standard with the stripes in one or other of two slightly different positions, then the "jagged edges" or "flame" effect version and finally a paler interpretation of the standard scheme with new shades.

 

Currently among the repainted 158/159 units we have:-

1. fully vinylled with grey stripes across both pale and dark areas; first class cantrail line in white; no door-edge markings; skirt band in white

2. fully vinylled with grey stripes across both pale and dark areas; first class cantrail line in white; no door-edge markings; skirt band in yellow

3. fully vinylled with grey stripes across both pale and dark areas; first class cantrail line in yellow; no door-edge markings; skirt band in yellow

4. fully vinylled with grey stripes across both pale and dark areas; first class cantrail line in yellow; first class door edged in yellow; disabled access door edged in sky blue; skirt band in yellow

5.  dark areas vinylled with stripes but pale areas plain paint; first class cantrail line in yellow; no door markings; skirt band in yellow

6. fully painted in two shades of plain grey; first class cantrail line in yellow; no door-edge markings; skirt band in yellow

7. fully painted in two shades of plain grey; first class cantrail line in yellow; first class door edged in yellow; disabled access doorway edged in sky blue; skirt band in yellow

As if that wasn't enough the shades of light and dark grey differ between paint and vinyl, there are different shades of the bluish-grey used for stripes across the vinyl and there are different shades of dark base-colour vinyl with some being described as charcoal and others as steel blue.

 

All that and only around 20 units are so far re-liveried.

 

The 455, 456, 458 and 707 fleets are not expected to receive a new livery being due for early retirement / redeployment when class 701 arrives from early 2020.  The class 444 and 450 units are due to receive two-tone grey eventually but are first going through a re-seating program with some reconfiguring inside to squeeze a few more standard class seats in at the expense of a few first class ones; the 450s are having their first class area moved from amidships to the outer ends.  Many 450s and some 444s now sport very dark blue seats, approximately matching the darker paint livery colour,  which appear black through the windows.

Edited May 11, 2019 by Gwiwer

[Gwiwer]

And some third-rail units because that is what the topic requires

 

 

[SWT442]

40 minutes ago, Gwiwer said:

SWR has just two electric units in the new livery namely 444040 and 450111.  The 442s are yet to re-enter service though should start to do so from next weekend's timetable change.

 

This is not confirmed, but it's hoped that the 444's/450's will go to Bournemouth for repainting once the 442's are all in service. There's not enough pit space at the moment to have 442's being worked on and Desiros split apart for painting.

 

Anyway, here's some more mundane units!

 

Rushing up through Micheldever, 444006 works a London Waterloo bound service - 14.08.2013

 

Just over a month later, 444006 rolls towards Brockenhurst on a miserable day - 28.09.2013

 

444016 leads a 10-car service down through Potbridge - 28.12.2015

 

444021 leads another unit through Worting Junction, near Basingstoke - 24.02.2015

 

444045 rolls past a quiet Millbrook container terminal with a London bound service - 29.11.2012

 

450002 leads an 8-car service through Millbrook station, as a Class 158 on the 'Romsey Rocket' makes a stop - 23.04.2013

 

An unidentified 444 and 450 pass each other on Christchurch bank - 26.02.2013

 

Southerns' 455818 slows for the stop at Clapham Junction - 15.09.2015

 

455913 leads 455859 through Millbrook as they work 5B39 Wimbledon CSD to Bournemouth TCD - 13.05.2014

[Peter Kazmierczak]

Bournemouth depot (very) early doors. A bit like the old days; just some Class 442s around.

 

[Claude_Dreyfus]

377432 heads a fast service towards Portsmouth across the Arun flood plains south of Pulborough - 19 April 2019

 

On the same day, 377411 heads the all stations to Bognor section of the train, just south of Pulborough. 377432 would have formed part of this train as far as Horsham, where it was detached and ran fast to Barnham, before making up a semi-fast along the south coast.

[Phil Mc]

450085, stood in the sunshine at Eastleigh.

 

Cheers,

Phil.