RMweb Premium John M Upton Posted June 13, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 13, 2017 They did operate without the branding and grey lines for a short while if that makes doing this livery a little less daunting. Watch out for the variations though, some have different application of the ends of the dark green behind the cab doors, indeed on one unit (313204 I think) it is different at each end!! My steed for most of this morning was 313201: Southern Class 313/2 313201 Brighton 13/6/17 by John Upton, on Flickr I think I am right in saying that this is now the oldest EMU in passenger service on the mainland!! 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colin parks Posted June 14, 2017 Share Posted June 14, 2017 Have you seen the sides of the Coastway 313s? Coastway branding on 313 Seaford 8 2 2011.jpg That is livery beyond me unless desktop Tampo printers become available! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colin parks Posted June 14, 2017 Share Posted June 14, 2017 They did operate without the branding and grey lines for a short while if that makes doing this livery a little less daunting. Watch out for the variations though, some have different application of the ends of the dark green behind the cab doors, indeed on one unit (313204 I think) it is different at each end!! My steed for most of this morning was 313201: Southern Class 313/2 313201 Brighton 13/6/17 by John Upton, on Flickr I think I am right in saying that this is now the oldest EMU in passenger service on the mainland!! Just how old is it John!?Colin 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium John M Upton Posted June 14, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 14, 2017 1976, forty one years old and currently going through a programme of updates so they can continue to be used until at least 2021. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
roythebus Posted June 14, 2017 Share Posted June 14, 2017 I used to fire on the 313s when they were new! As a 2nd man at Kings Cross we'd sometimes be rostered for a loo-hauled turn on the suburbans only to find it was replaced with a 313! Only for a limited period though, during driver training and test running. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SRman Posted June 14, 2017 Share Posted June 14, 2017 I used to fire on the 313s when they were new! As a 2nd man at Kings Cross we'd sometimes be rostered for a loo-hauled turn on the suburbans only to find it was replaced with a 313! Only for a limited period though, during driver training and test running. Was that a fROYdian slip, there, Roy? A loo-hauled train?? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Budgie Posted June 14, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 14, 2017 Was that a fROYdian slip, there, Roy? A loo-hauled train?? Maybe the locos were s*it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
anroar53 Posted June 14, 2017 Share Posted June 14, 2017 I used to fire on the 313s when they were new! As a 2nd man at Kings Cross we'd sometimes be rostered for a loo-hauled turn on the suburbans only to find it was replaced with a 313! Only for a limited period though, during driver training and test running. I can remember 1978-80 when availability of the 313s wasn't brilliant. Numerous occasions would see some of the peak hour Moorgate workings substituted for a 312 having to run via Kings Cross. Andy. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bingley hall Posted June 14, 2017 Share Posted June 14, 2017 (edited) D-stock and others Wimbledon - 6 March 2013 Richmond - 14 March 2013 Richmond - 14 March 2013 Edited June 14, 2017 by bingley hall 15 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bingley hall Posted June 15, 2017 Share Posted June 15, 2017 Not a particularly great shot, but included for posterity's sake. One of the former Tyneside two car units that became 2-EPBs on the Southern, and which (in this case 5791) were often regulars on the West Croydon to Wimbledon 'cross-country' service - now of course part of the Croydon Tramlink. Taken at West Croydon circa 1972 from a moving train heading home to Sutton. 14 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold phil_sutters Posted June 15, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 15, 2017 Another one I came across sorting through my files 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Claude_Dreyfus Posted June 17, 2017 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted June 17, 2017 (edited) A few pictures taken at and around my local station - Pulborough. Back from the recent past when we still had semaphores. 377124 377408 377132 Edited June 17, 2017 by Claude_Dreyfus 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium John M Upton Posted June 17, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 17, 2017 (edited) And more semaphores just down the line at Amberley: Southern Class 377/4 377406 Amberley 8/7/06 by John Upton, on Flickr Edited June 17, 2017 by John M Upton 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colin parks Posted June 17, 2017 Share Posted June 17, 2017 And more semaphores just down the line at Amberley: Southern Class 377/4 377406 Amberley 8/7/06 by John Upton, on Flickr Is that an LSWR lattice post signal? It seems to be very old. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium John M Upton Posted June 17, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 17, 2017 It is indeed a LSWR lattice post, sources suggest it appeared in the 1970's presumably secondhand from somewhere else as all else in the area were rail built ones, maybe a replacement when the yard and sidings were decommissioned perhaps? What happened to it when the new signalling went in is sadly unknown as I am sure a heritage line would have happily taken it off Network Rail's hands. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
anroar53 Posted June 17, 2017 Share Posted June 17, 2017 A few pictures taken at and around my local station - Pulborough. Back from the recent past when we still had semaphores. 377124.jpg 377124 377408.jpg 377408 377132.jpg 377132 One of the last Semaphore Distants, now sadly gone, anyone for a guess where? Andy. 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium John M Upton Posted June 17, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 17, 2017 Somewhere between Eastbourne and Hastings? There was one on the up on the Bognor Branch until recently too. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
anroar53 Posted June 17, 2017 Share Posted June 17, 2017 Somewhere between Eastbourne and Hastings? There was one on the up on the Bognor Branch until recently too. Getting warmer as they say. This signal spent a lot of its time permanently 'off' as until the last part of its life the Box was 'switched out' more than it was 'in'. Andy. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
anroar53 Posted June 18, 2017 Share Posted June 18, 2017 A few more of my photos, some being a bit grainy as they are older scans of the originals. DSCF3539.JPG Old meets new. Waterloo July 2013 SR90004 Full House.jpg Full House. Engineering works blockade, Late 1980s SR90005.jpg Water shortages late 1980s. Several sets of stock were loco hauled over the Marshes to St. Leonards to be put through the washer. To be honest, without 'hand bashing' first it was a bit of a waste of time. SR90008 2PB St. Leonards.jpg 'I wandered lonely as a 2EPB'. On Saturdays in the late 1980s Several EPBs worked down to Hastings on Mail Workings. On this occasion one ended up at St. Leonards. SR90016.jpg Another grubby 8CEP arrives for a wash and brush up (without the brush up unfortunately) SR90019.jpg A Jaffa CEP waits to leave St. Leonards on a Saturday afternoon in the late 1980s SR90020C.jpg Push-Pull VEP between Doleham and Winchelsea for 'Ashford 150' SR90072.jpg A 4 CIG rattles by on the Main towards Eastbourne while another loco hauled EMU arrives on the Reception Road. Andy. Few more from my archive. Seaside VEP CEP 1593 weeks away from being withdrawn Hastings 2008. Maidstone West 2007. Andy. 14 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Metr0Land Posted June 18, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 18, 2017 Easily overlooked in discussions of 3rd rail EMU's are the Class 325 units which could operate self-powered on DC. 325.004 heads for Tonbridge at Wandsworth Road 13June 2003. 13 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Claude_Dreyfus Posted June 18, 2017 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted June 18, 2017 Interesting.I did not realise the 325s were dual-voltage; although I suppose it was logical for them to be so. Are they still in use? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Metr0Land Posted June 18, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 18, 2017 Interesting.I did not realise the 325s were dual-voltage; although I suppose it was logical for them to be so. Are they still in use? Yes, but not on the Southern. They can still be seen on the WCML both loco-hauled and 25kv on their own, on the Glasgow/Warrington/Willesden corridor. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonny777 Posted June 18, 2017 Share Posted June 18, 2017 (edited) Here is one (OK two) of those awful looking 458 jobbies at Clapham Junction in June 2005. I could never understand it when, after the decent styling of the 442s, the design team came up with this monstrosity. Their rebuilt version is not that much of an improvement either. Edited June 18, 2017 by jonny777 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cornish trains jez Posted June 18, 2017 Share Posted June 18, 2017 Easily overlooked in discussions of 3rd rail EMU's are the Class 325 units which could operate self-powered on DC. 325.004 heads for Tonbridge at Wandsworth Road 13June 2003. I never realised these had third rail capabilities! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold phil_sutters Posted June 18, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 18, 2017 (edited) An interesting image of an emu by a school close to North Dulwich Station in South London. It was installed in one of the arched recesses, in the retaining wall of the cutting, in which the station is located. I have just used it in one of the photo challenge threads, but thought that it was appropriate to put it with its inspiration! Edited June 19, 2017 by phil_sutters 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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