RMweb Premium Northmoor Posted May 18, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 18, 2019 While waiting for the HST's GWML curtain call at Royal Oak: 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
talisman56 Posted May 19, 2019 Share Posted May 19, 2019 11 hours ago, Northmoor said: While waiting for the HST's GWML curtain call at Royal Oak: Nice, but is it a third rail EMU? 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
grahame Posted May 19, 2019 Share Posted May 19, 2019 Isn't it one of these overhead things? . . . . 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
woodenhead Posted May 19, 2019 Share Posted May 19, 2019 1 hour ago, talisman56 said: Nice, but is it a third rail EMU? 5 minutes ago, grahame said: Isn't it one of these overhead things? . . . . It's the future of third rail, maybe in 2050 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Northmoor Posted May 19, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 19, 2019 Oops - wrong thread. It's err, a very narrow 3-rail, suspended above the train..... 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium John M Upton Posted May 21, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 21, 2019 (edited) My office this evening: Southern Class 313/2 313201 Portsmouth & Southsea 21/5/19 by John Upton, on Flickr Parked nose to nose with: South Western Railway Class 450/5 450553 Portsmouth & Southsea 21/5/19 by John Upton, on Flickr Edited May 21, 2019 by John M Upton 12 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post C126 Posted May 23, 2019 RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted May 23, 2019 (edited) Sorry to lurch back in time, and with shots not nearly as good, but please may I share my E.M.U. archive, before it turns to dust... 1702, January 1988, Lewes, up to London. 1280, Brighton, May, 1988. S76667 nearest camera. 6311, May 1988, Southover nr Lewes (ex-Brighton). 1271, 2106, 1817, 1F29, Lewes, 2nd June, 1988. Princess Di's visit (she had the back unit, I think, locked out for her use). I was hoping for the Royal Train, I admit... Bits of 8104 (right) and 8024, dumped at Newhaven sidings, 3rd June, 1988. Full details available if wished. 2204, S76564, Lewes ex-London Victoria, 20th December, 1988, 12.53. 1803, Lewes, 20th December, 1988. 13.10 ex-Brighton. 1719 (ex-Seaford?) joining the London Victoria service, Lewes, Summer (August?) 1989. Ditto, thought I ought to add for completion. 1281, Down boat-train, Lewes, August 1989. 1204 approaching Lewes, 18th August, 1989, 17.17. Edited May 23, 2019 by C126 Remove duplicate picture. 24 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post C126 Posted May 23, 2019 RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted May 23, 2019 Sorry; thought I had removed the ultimate, duplicate, picture in my previous post. Anyway, herewith my last seven shots. 9010 MLV, Southover nr Lewes (ex-Brighton), 23rd August, 1989, 14.54. 9006, Lewes, 8th September, 1989. 6328, Lewes, 13th September, 1989. 16.29. 6308, Lewes, 5th April, 1990. 009, Lewes, 5th April, 1990. 1123+2252 joining (ex-Eastbourne and Seaford), Lewes, 21st August, 1990. 08.58. Gone were the days of waving different coloured flags, and much shouting. 4-CIGs, Lewes, September, 1990. 29 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Claude_Dreyfus Posted May 23, 2019 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted May 23, 2019 Some really interesting pictures there. Don't worry about quality...prints in particular fade and don't always scan brilliantly. What is more important is the subject; day-to-day normality...plus some Jaffa cake livery 4 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold C126 Posted May 23, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 23, 2019 (edited) Cher M. Claude, Thank you for your kind reassurances. Hoped you liked the E.M.U. shots. I am never quite sure what I am doing, but glad the info. is of interest to others. Classes 33, 47, and 73 to follow as time allows. Best wishes to you all. Edited May 23, 2019 by C126 I think I used wrong gender for title. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
eastwestdivide Posted May 23, 2019 Share Posted May 23, 2019 (edited) 5 hours ago, C126 said: 1280, Brighton, May, 1988. S76667 nearest camera Nicely caught 1280, appears to be an odd VEP-CIG hybrid unit, with the VEP coach in blue-grey and the rest in Network SE toothpaste colours. Various online sources have 1280 as being involved in the Purley crash in 1989 - is it possible your photo is later than 1988, i.e. reformed from non-crash-damaged vehicles? Edited May 23, 2019 by eastwestdivide Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post John M Upton Posted May 23, 2019 RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted May 23, 2019 Sunset, semaphores and 313220 in Littlehampton this evening. 19 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Kazmierczak Posted May 23, 2019 Share Posted May 23, 2019 Eastleigh this afternoon, as a pair of Class 444s head north. A selection of motive power sits in the yard, including examples of Class 60, 66 and 70. 12 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold C126 Posted May 24, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 24, 2019 17 hours ago, eastwestdivide said: Nicely caught 1280, appears to be an odd VEP-CIG hybrid unit, with the VEP coach in blue-grey and the rest in Network SE toothpaste colours. Various online sources have 1280 as being involved in the Purley crash in 1989 - is it possible your photo is later than 1988, i.e. reformed from non-crash-damaged vehicles? Dear eastwestdivide and colleagues, Thanks for your query, and sorry to cause confusion. I have just checked the print and negs, and am pretty confident it was taken between 6th and 16th May, 1988. The film envelope tendering date is 31st May, and there are two definitively dated pictures either side of this neg. I did make notes of the composition and liveries at the time: S76667, "1280", "4-VEP". Blue/grey. Small NSE sticker on 1st class section of coach, presumably at waist height. 62368, New NSE livery. Guard's compartment nearest centre of formation. 71048, New NSE livery. TSO (Is this the correct designation? Hope it makes sense.) 76801, New NSE livery, "4-CIG". Big NSE sticker on Std class section of coach. 1st class compartments behind Std class compartment behind cab. Hope this helps. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
eastwestdivide Posted May 24, 2019 Share Posted May 24, 2019 Ah, fair enough. There goes that theory down the drain. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
grahame Posted May 24, 2019 Share Posted May 24, 2019 11 hours ago, Peter Kazmierczak said: Eastleigh this afternoon, as a pair of Class 444s head north. A selection of motive power sits in the yard, including examples of Class 60, 66 and 70. Who says there's no interest and variety in todays railway? This pic has it all; junctions, yards, freight stock, engineering stock, locos, units, track maintenance vehicles and infrastructure. Great pic. G 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
EmporiaSub Posted May 24, 2019 Share Posted May 24, 2019 (edited) 313's at Lewes, showing the signalling alterations. Edited May 24, 2019 by EmporiaSub Photos reversed! 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Storey Posted May 24, 2019 Share Posted May 24, 2019 On 23/05/2019 at 12:02, C126 said: Cher M. Claude, Thank you for your kind reassurances. Hoped you liked the E.M.U. shots. I am never quite sure what I am doing, but glad the info. is of interest to others. Classes 33, 47, and 73 to follow as time allows. Best wishes to you all. Thanks for these excellent pictures, especially the one of 009 the De-Icer unit. Pictures of these are relatively rare and this contains some useful detail, so thanks again. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Kazmierczak Posted June 7, 2019 Share Posted June 7, 2019 Thameslink heaven on the Brighton line, between Coulsdon and Hooley. 13 3 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Storey Posted June 7, 2019 Share Posted June 7, 2019 Looks more like the DLR every day....... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
eastwestdivide Posted June 7, 2019 Share Posted June 7, 2019 Networker heaven (?) at Strood. In 2009, passing the site of the goods yard on the left, and about to enter the former canal tunnel and 2011, the Maidstone train's about to depart as the Gillingham-Charing Cross comes in - the connection from Gillingham isn't timetabled, as there will have been a Javelin a few mins before the Charing Cross. The station's been rebuilt since then, with a footbridge over the far end of the platforms, and the Gillingham-Charing Cross service is now replaced by a Thameslink between Rainham and mostly Luton. 16 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Claude_Dreyfus Posted June 7, 2019 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted June 7, 2019 26 minutes ago, Peter Kazmierczak said: Thameslink heaven on the Brighton line, between Coulsdon and Hooley. Wow...what are the chances of getting four in the same photo out on the 'open rails'?! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Kazmierczak Posted June 7, 2019 Share Posted June 7, 2019 And it wasn't "Photoshopped" either. You can sometimes get four trains together at South Croydon. Haven't achieved five there yet though..... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium John M Upton Posted June 7, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 7, 2019 Thameslink and heaven in the same sentence. That's a new one... :-D 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Storey Posted June 8, 2019 Share Posted June 8, 2019 It is incredible how much Strood has changed (and now changed since) - many thanks for those two photos EWDivide. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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