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Second Worthing Cl.313 fire incident.


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55 minutes ago, corneliuslundie said:

What are they doing to them? I don't remember any problems when they ran on the GN main line.

Jonathan

It's almost eleven years since they landed here for use on the Brighton services to Seaford, Littlehampton and Portsmouth and the class is 45 years-old. Their bus seats are more comfortable than the 700s' and their windows open - letting in fresh air .............and noise.

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Southern 313201 in BR blue Tidemills 3 1 2018.jpg

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3 minutes ago, Nearholmer said:

Do these fires occur around the shoe-gear?

 

Anyway, I never did like 313s, awful plasticky things, not a patch on a 2-BIL.

Do I recall these have double shoes/slippers? They always seemed to make a big splash at Camden Road. 

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5 minutes ago, Nearholmer said:

Anyway, I never did like 313s, awful plasticky things, not a patch on a 2-BIL.

Anyway, I never did like 313s, awful plasticky things, not a patch on a Cravens 105 :)

 

(Actually, I got quite fond of 313's, more so when Cl 717 arrived.)

 

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9 minutes ago, Nearholmer said:

........... for unpleasant rasping noises, filling-rattling vibration, and dense clouds of acrid blue smoke. 

But still accelerating faster up through Copenhagen Tunnel than the Deltic running alongside and headed for The North. 

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1 minute ago, Nearholmer said:

 

Indeed, but would you have wanted to go to Edinburgh on one?

Probably not! Euston - Watford Junction and Finsbury Park - Hertford North in the course of my paid duties were quite far enough. 

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1 hour ago, Oldddudders said:

Probably not! Euston - Watford Junction and Finsbury Park - Hertford North in the course of my paid duties were quite far enough. 

Hitchin-Moorgate (via Hertford) was worse, a journey I often had to make.  When a 313 came in (whether via the loop or via Welwyn) it was invariably faster to wait on the platform for the next train (a 312 originally) and change at Finsbury Park. 

Not to mention the possibility that even if you did go via Hertford the unit might fail the tripcock tester at Finsbury Park and therefore be diverted to Kings Cross anyway.

Going the other way, I generally went via the widened lines to Kings Cross, because at least it was easier to work out what disruption the various services were suffering - and by boarding there rather than Finsbury Park, you stood a much better chance of finding a seat in the rush hour.

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7 hours ago, roythebus1 said:

Try Pompey Harbour to Brighton all stops to Brighton on a 313!

 

Been there, done that, now learning to drive the things!!!

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10 hours ago, Nearholmer said:

 

Indeed, but would you have wanted to go to Edinburgh on one?

I wonder why none of the cranks have done a non-stop 313 KX to Edinburgh? LOL.

 

But then during 1975 there was a fitter's strike on the WCML and they uses AM4s on fast Euston-Liverpool/Manchester services!

 

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8 hours ago, roythebus1 said:

I wonder why none of the cranks have done a non-stop 313 KX to Edinburgh? LOL.

 

But then during 1975 there was a fitter's strike on the WCML and they uses AM4s on fast Euston-Liverpool/Manchester services!

 

 

 

9 minutes ago, Wickham Green too said:

At least some of the AM4 passengers had access to the necessary facilities !

 

Pity they could not have borrowed some 309's, they could have had a griddle car too!

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On 15/03/2021 at 15:00, roythebus1 said:

Try Pompey Harbour to Brighton all stops to Brighton on a 313!

...or the other way. I am sure I have uploaded this before, but can't find it, but then there has been at least one previous 313 thread. (1hr 20 was not an all stops.0

It's good to get to Pompey.jpg

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