SG 2-EPB, routes worked?

[TravisM]

I have several Bachmann 2-EPB's in blue and I was wondering, what was their sphere of operation and the routes they usually worked?  Also, when was it they started getting painted into blue and grey?

 

Thanks,

 

Julian Sprott

[bécasse]

Suburban routes from Charing Cross and Cannon Street - used with 2 x 4EPB to form 10-car peak hour trains, occasionally 6-car trains (4EPB + 2EPB) during the day.

 

Routes with shuttle services:

 

Grove Park - Bromley North

Elmers End - Addiscombe

Elmers End - Selsdon/Sanderstead

London Bridge - Battersea Park/Victoria (often 2 x 2EPB during peaks)

West Croydon - Wimbledon

Purley - Tattenham Corner/Caterham

Tonbridge/Paddock Wood - Maidstone West - Strood

Sittingbourne - Sheerness 

 

Very occasionally 2 x 2EPB used instead of 1 x 4EPB

[Karhedron]

They were used with 4-EPBs to create 6 or 10-car rakes when appropriate. IIRC, 10-cars was the maximum on the Dartford routes prior to the introduction of Networkers. They were used singly on some lightly-used suburban services. This is a list of services I know of where they ran on their own but is not definitive by any means.

 

West Croydon - Wimbledon

Sanderstead - Elmers End

Addiscombe - Elmers End

Grove Park - Bromley North

Maidstone West - Strood

 

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[Guest]

Refurbishment began around 1980, so they would have been outshopped in blue/grey after refurbishment.

[eastwestdivide]

To add to some of the above comments.

Even unrefurbished EPBs went blue/grey from around 1980ish.

I think Sittingbourne-Sheerness tended to be 2-HAP in the late 70s blue era, and went over to 4-VEP/4-CEP in the 80s.

If the OP was specifically asking about SG (Slade Green) ones, that rules out some of the routes in post 2 above.

[hobbyhorse]

Don't forget these also ventured to Hastings just after the route was electrified.

 

Simon