EMUs DEMUs & Eurostar Tonbridge Ashford & Rye 6 March 2003

[@wobinidan]

I delayed one of those old slam doors on the way to school once when I accidently closed it on my foot and lost my shoe on the tracks. The guys working at the station were nice enough to hold up the train and retrieve my shoe with a long stick.

[@keelar001]

The centre trailer was knocked out of a few CEPs so that they could maintain 375 timings. They didn't half fly without that extra 30-odd tons in the formation.

[@mattmaz2]

Fantastic! Anyone else remember watching 12car CEPs + MLV racing through Ashford on the boat trains? Happy days :-)

[@slymills]

WOW!! i loved the old slammers!! i reli miss the sound of "thud thud" when 1 was at the platform!! gr8 video by the way!!

[@trainmaniacstudios8216]

1:28 Right..... THERE! My childhood has returned! :D

[@ChrisCooper312]

Funny with the train at 1:10, the CEP on the front, despite being around 20 years older, and still in old Network South East colours, looks much better and cleaner than the Connex Livery VEP at the back.

[@tjfSIM]

god it seems like an age since these units were running - I miss them!

[@Martindyna]

Fantastic reminder of that period and very good quality sound that is so important. Always impressed with the Thumpers lack of smoke - guess they weren't `over fueled' to get more power. Not bad for an engine design with origins going back to the 1930s (I believe).

[@metadyneman]

Excellent Video. Particularly liked the DEMUs at the end. At least with those you could hear them for miles at a level crossing or footpath crossing!

[@ValentaVox]

Look at the size of that nameplate at 5:13 on 207202. Jeezers creepers!!! Bringing back great memories of standing on Ashford station in 1983 aged 11 seeing the CEPs VEPS MLVs HAPs CAPs EPBs 33s 73s 47s 205s 207s 12-CEP & MLV on the boat trains screaming past on the through roads and 50050 in 1985 on the Dungeness Pebbledasher. Wonderful!!

[@21C123]

Nice video. Really liked the Thumpers at the end.

[@djtrainspotter]

Tonbridge, where i used to see-off my loco-driving girlfriend some years ago. A unique experience i tell ya! And where i took 100's of phots years before that.

[@awesometrainsandbuses]

Memories

[@Stirlingshire43110]

Ah the good old days! I miss the good old slammers!

[@Trainspotter722]

I Remember That Time When The Old Commuters Ran To Ashford

[@crompton33022]

Fantastic video once again! loved it!

[@MrFlavioValentino]

It was nice to se the Thumpers

[@thebrummierailenthusiasts5329]

And the demu thumpers are no longer here either because the class 171 southern turbostar units have now took over

[@williamradford9631]

2003 my final season with Combe Haven, Euro star on its way to Waterloo, on pick up rail power.

[@seelking]

great video

[@railwaychannel]

lovely video

[@HSTHoward]

we has them for ages

[@thebrummierailenthusiasts5329]

Eurostar trains are no longer using the south eastern mainline because they’ve been shifted to st Pancras as of 2007

[@lewisculverwellvlogs9789]

I thought the class 421s normally work with South Central trains later Southern are normally painted in Connex livery and southern green livery

[@megatwingo]

Nice video and nice trains. Thumbs up! :)

[@heatherlewis2534]

Bring the slammers back

[@lewisculverwellvlogs9789]

What was the class 465 doing at Tonbridge in 2003? I thought its normally slam doors and class 365s that go to Tonbridge

[@lewisculverwellvlogs9789]

Why was the class 465 at Tonbridge? We normally have slam doors and class 365 going to Tonbridge

[@thebrummierailenthusiasts5329]

The slam door emus are no longer here they’ve been replaced by the electrostar units

[@lewisculverwellvlogs9789]

And networkers

[@Thorpe]

Yeah most of them have been destroyed and lost to time.

[@lewisculverwellvlogs9789]

The 19 Class 365s are in storage and all of the Class 465s and Class 466s are still in service

[@Thorpe]

@@lewisculverwellvlogs9789 No Class 423 anymore. All but a few were scrapped.

[@lewisculverwellvlogs9789]

@@Thorpe Why was there a Class 465 at Tonbridge I thought it's normally Class 365s that go to Tonbridge

[@HSTHoward]

so many memeoirs of tonbridge

[@binweevil1000]

0:27 i seen the eurostar in the backgorund

[@evopunter]

euros go so fast through ashford u have to be there and ull c how fast they go