Third-Rail EMU Photos

[John M Upton]

Littlehampton's twice daily visit from the red ones...

 

[StuAllen]

I had the day off work today, so planned a rail trip on local lines that I hadn't travelled on before using a Southern DaySaver ticket - Bargain at £23!

 

So I started at my home station - Wivelsfield. 

 

 

A few trains went past, while waiting for my train to Hampden Park. 

 

 

 

Here's the one I caught

 

 

Made it Hampden Park on time to catch my next train to Rye

 

My train to Rye - yes I know its a DMU but I couldn't leave it out, and I do have more pictures of EMU's.

 

 

Rye station where I had lunch and waited for the DMU to come back from Ashford International. 

 

 

 

 

I did manage to see some South Eastern EMU as we went through Hastings

 

I caught the DMU Back to Eastbourne but only had a few minutes to catch my train to Brighton. Only one photo there - bit of and odd Livery a lost Gatwick Express...

 

Brighton was busy, lots of revenue agents and BTP with sniffer dogs. But lots of EMUs 

My next train coming in on the right 

 

 

 

Next stop Ford 

 

 

Where my plan started to unravel thanks to a UXB

 

So got on the next train back to Three Bridges

 

 

 

 

And back home to Wivelsfield

 

First time using Flickr so hope the links work!

 

Edited August 25, 2023 by StuAllen
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[Peter Kazmierczak]

Stoats Nest Junction.

A down Southern train is held, awaiting an up Thameslink service to cross its path.

[Welly]

^

I love that one of the busiest junctions in the South has a bucolic and sleepy sounding name of "Stoats Nest"!

[John M Upton]

The "Unexploded Wartime Bomb" turned out to be a hand grenade apparently, and a old dummy army training one at that.

 

Meanwhile, I was one of three Southern 377's that wound up being stranded in Portsmouth & Southsea Lower Level:

 

301 was on the blocks having just been stopped from leaving on the all sheds to Littlehampton, I was supposed to be going back up to Horsham with 435 then 442 (note the missing First Class yellow stripe from its three car 377342 days) turned up, turned back off a Southampton to Brighton at Havant.

 

Two more were parked in the middle platform at Fareham. 

[Claude_Dreyfus]

That's where it is! I've been keeping an eye out for the illusive 377442 as it is the last 377/4 I do not have a decent photo of although I do have one from its 377/3 days). It seems to have kept itself mainly to the London suburban areas recently, I sometimes catch a quick glace of it on my commute.

[Peter Kazmierczak]

Stoats Nest is quiet as a London Bridge to Tattenham Corner train ambles along between Reedham and Coulsdon Town.

[Peter Kazmierczak]

This is more like it at Stoats Nest; up and down Thameslink services, plus a bonus freight.

[John M Upton]

52 minutes ago, Claude_Dreyfus said:

That's where it is! I've been keeping an eye out for the illusive 377442 as it is the last 377/4 I do not have a decent photo of although I do have one from its 377/3 days). It seems to have kept itself mainly to the London suburban areas recently, I sometimes catch a quick glace of it on my commute.

 

It's doing Barnham/Three Bridges shuttles today with 377208:

 

[Claude_Dreyfus]

Funnily enough, just after I posted my comment I saw it leaving Pulborough. The hastily grabbed photo was blurred however! 🤬

[phil_sutters]

A quick grab shot or two as I was passing Seaford station. Match day 4+4 combo. Brighton went down 1-3 to West Ham.

Edit - photo wrongly captioned as a 9 car train. Apologies!

 

Edited August 27, 2023 by phil_sutters
photo wrongly captioned as a 9 car train.

[Peter Kazmierczak]

140mph seems a tad over-optimistic on the speedo of this Class 450...

[Gilbert]

Quick photo while speeding through Chester yesterday - a disappearing 508

[Gwiwer]

12 hours ago, phil_sutters said:

A quick grab shot or two as I was passing Seaford station. Match day 5+4 combo. Brighton went down 1-3 to West Ham.

Those both appear to be 4-car units as 377/4s should be. 

[Peter Kazmierczak]

South Eastern "City Beam" unit at Cannon St, awaiting departure for Orpington.

[phil_sutters]

6 hours ago, Gwiwer said:

Those both appear to be 4-car units as 377/4s should be. 

You are of course quite right. The caption has been amended and uploaded. Thanks for pointing out my error. The join between the units was in the least visible location, but it was still a daft mistake.

[Gwiwer]

4 hours ago, phil_sutters said:

You are of course quite right. The caption has been amended and uploaded. Thanks for pointing out my error. The join between the units was in the least visible location, but it was still a daft mistake.

5+4 is extremely rare in traffic and very uncommon even on empty car moves. 
 

I noted 377/4 plus 377/7 the other day on a a Sutton - Victoria working which is the only time I have ever seen a five-car unit in multiple with anything shorter on a service run.  
 

About once a year I see a five-car unit formed in a mix of units which has so far always been on a Selhurst Depot - Victoria ecs move. 
 

Equally rare is the coupling of green 377 and red 387 units which cannot be done in traffic because their door systems don’t play nicely with each other.  A 377+387 combination appeared a couple of weeks back on a Selhurst - Stewarts Lane ecs working. 

[Claude_Dreyfus]

377204 heads south towards Pulborough with the 1C32 13:05 Victoria - Portsmouth & Southsea - 28 August 2023

[phil_sutters]

Another 377 -  this time under two bridges.

[John M Upton]

The only '313' you will find on the Coastway West now...

2S18 11:55 Littlehampton to Portsmouth & Southsea at Southbourne this lunchtime. 

[roythebus1]

One from the archives..

[roythebus1]

Shanklin.

[roythebus1]

And in the fiddle yard at Waterloo, me changing ends for another trip to Bank.

[Rich_F]

On 08/09/2023 at 15:44, John M Upton said:

The only '313' you will find on the Coastway West now...

2S18 11:55 Littlehampton to Portsmouth & Southsea at Southbourne this lunchtime. 

 

Fond memories of that regularly turning up on the 07:36 East Grinstead - Victoria (when it used to be diagrammed for 4 x 377/3).

[Claude_Dreyfus]

Had a day out to visit the Isle of Wight - although to be honest the main purposes was to have a play with the hovercrafts...

 

It was the first time I had been there since the upgrade of the railway, so took the opportunity to get a few pictures of the indigenous rolling stock. 

 

 

 

484004 was doing the honours along with 484002, which I did not get a picture of.

 

The hovercraft was definitely the highlight of the trip. It is the first time I have ever travelled on one - I have seen them on a regualr basis on my travels to the island.  

 

 

 

Back at Portsmouth I managed to grab a couple of snaps of some Desiros.

 

444045 passes Gunwharf Keys on the approach to the Harbour.

 

450049 and 444045 rest at the stops.