British Rail Network SouthEast 1992-London Bridge & Battersea Park EMU Variety with a class 73

[@zebedep]

Wonderful footage, especially of the green EPB!

[@neilcrawford8303]

Thanks again Soi for taking the time to share your videos. The EPBs, VEPs, CEPs, (plus SUBs) etc were part of my childhood. I could see the likes of SUBs and EPBs on the Chessington branch daily from where we lived at the time. Modern rolling stock doesn't have the character of these old girls.

[@Keithbarber]

That is very true, modern rolling stock is soulless And some of the newest trains aren't that brilliant for comfort either, the 387,700,707,717 in particular

[@zebedep]

I agree, those old units had character.

[@neilcrawford8303]

@@Keithbarber Where I live now we're waiting for the 777s to be introduced. It will be interesting to see how they fair compared to the usual diet of Siemens and Bombardicrap.

[@lamborghinihexagons5502]

Very true. #ScrapTheAventras

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

My pleasure.....still plenty more to come!

[@petersmith4455]

hi great video. love the green epb 5001.of course i can remember when all trains were this colour in the early 60s as a child. todays trains full of plastic and do gooder announcements, back in the day we just got on with it as prince Philip would say

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

Thanks for your comments....i know what you mean about just getting on with life.....too many people today always looking for someone to tell them what to do or to blame.......

[@benGBRf]

Great video. Some brilliant memories there. 👍🏻

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

Thank you......

[@theimperialist2686]

Great railway video again Soi Buakhao

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

Thank you.....more to come!

[@34tohayes]

Great filming as usual.

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

Thank you.....

[@nsholk]

Always a pleasure to see your retro footage. I have many a fond memory of slam doors from a few summers in the UK as a kid. Sure beats the parade of New Jersey Transit stock in my backyard here.

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

Thank you......Plenty of interesting trains running around New Jersey and New York from some of the YT vids i have seen......

[@hellooldchap]

Great as always, but need 7hrs of this!

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

There's quite a bit of NSE unit vids uploaded.....

[@martynthomas7486]

Another great video with those wonderful EPB's just prior to the Networker invasion. Strange to see the Class 319 heading into Victoria as I recall they were still confined to Bedford to Brighton or Sevenoaks back in those days. Some did move to Connex but that was later in the decade, circa 1996?

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

A certain amount of 319s were allocated to Southern only duties by NSE, around 15 units although not by painted number, the fleet was common user worked. Although the later built 319/1s were normally only used on the Brighton line duties as they had 1st class on them, the 319/0s didn't. After privitisation then Connex gained a set fleet and painted them accordingly.

[@geoffbarry9540]

Where's the EPB now? Where, for that matter, are the rest of the preserved third rail units? Is there a site which has an accurate and up to date record of them? I wonder especially about the NRM 2-BIL, probably my favourite type from my childhood in the 1950s (although I'd give big money for the chance to again lean out of the window of the leading motor car on a 6-PUL/PAN unit as it picked up speed on the descent from Selhurst to Thornton Heath, going past my garden fence in the process).

[@robertbutlin3708]

Pretty much ignored. Kettles and Mk1s are the only things that interest many preservation projects (sorry, mobile tourist attractions). Justifiably so perhaps as no preserved line is electrified, but that’s what a national museum collection is for.

[@martynthomas7486]

5001 was a celebrity unit in its final years and was often paired with 5176 which had been repainted into BR blue livery. Together they ran the final railtour of EPB stock in April 1995. It was unofficially known as the 'Bladder Strainer Special' due to neither unit boasting toilets! 5176 is now at the Nottinghamshire Ironstone Railway but 5001 never made it into full preservation after being put into store at M.O.D Kineton, Oxfordshire and cut up on site I believe around 1996.

[@martynthomas7486]

@Geoff Barry, there's a good history of 4-EPB's here: www.bloodandcustard.com/sR-4epb.html

[@uk-martin4905]

​@@martynthomas7486 A tragedy that 5001 was scrapped. A unit of that significance should have had a home in the National Rail Museum. There should have been a place in preservation for 5176 too.

[@going2thedogs]

Wow I remember this..... The signal box at London Bridge is no longer operational as all signalling is managed from the ROC @ Three Bridges now.

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

Yes, funny to think that these "modern" power signal boxes are closing while manual, semaphore & Absolute Block signalling is still around.....

[@markcf83]

This couldn't have been long before the 4EPB units were withdrawn.

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

Yes, the Networkers started to arrive this year.....

[@edwardbarnes2702]

Love the green sub, was it a service train? Didn’t appear to have many people on it

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

Yes, i was in service, on the Victoria to London Bridge run. This was a Saturday afternoon and this route was always a bit quiet in those days.....

[@lamborghinihexagons5502]

I wish I was around at the slamdoors. I’m sure they were better than their Desiro and Electrostar replacements which have hard seats, and in the 450s case, cramped seats. Bombardier clearly doesn’t know how to build proper trains!

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

The seats on these were very cumfy, you sank in to them! And there is a joy in having the door open before the train has come to a stop!

[@lamborghinihexagons5502]

@@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus Yes, because sliding door trains take forever to open!

[@robertbutlin3708]

I think 4VEP as opposed to 4CIG.

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

Could well be, i'm not too well up on Southern EMUs......