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Post by spsmiler on Nov 25, 2018 15:53:19 GMT
I accept that this is not LU but might still be of interest.
A short film of British Rail Class 309 trains, mostly at London's Liverpool Street station but also in Ilford and Thorpe-Le-Soken.
The 'most recent' footage from 1986, the rest is older - 1982 and possibly even the late 1970s! (just before the buffet cars were withdrawn) and I was still a schoolboy! This includes what was probably my first railway filming with a super 8 film camera.
Footage comprises grainy silent super 8 ciné film and still image photographs.
In December I will make a similar film for Class 306 trains.
Simon
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Post by peterc on Nov 26, 2018 15:55:31 GMT
These were brand new when I started commuting to grammar school by train and they seemed so exotic compared with the workaday 306s that I travelled on. Well before your pictures of course with the 10 coach formations dividing for Clacton and Walton. I never knew what distinguished the griddle cars from buffets, all I ever got to buy was the occasional beer between Shenfield and LST after they were down graded.
Still my favourite EMUs though.
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Post by norbitonflyer on Nov 26, 2018 17:09:32 GMT
I never knew what distinguished the griddle cars from buffets, . Griddle cars had a hot plate (griddle) for providing hot food, but not a full at-seat service like a restaurant car. (Nowadays the same service could be provided by a microwave oven, but they were still very new - and expensive - in 1962). One unit had its griddle car replaced with a surplus buffet car from a class 123 diesel unit. |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 26, 2018 17:58:59 GMT
Didn’t some end up in Manchester area?
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Post by Tom on Nov 26, 2018 20:22:37 GMT
They did indeed. Ended up with First North Western working Birmingham - Manchester/Liverpool from memory.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 1, 2018 2:46:18 GMT
The 309s started to be removed from service on the Great Eastern in the summer of 1993 as a result of the cascade of Class 321s from WCML and West Anglia outer suburban services to the Great Eastern. At the same time the last of Clactons 312/1s were transferred to the LTS to replace their 305s and 308s. A handful of 309s continued on a few peak Clacton - Liverpool Street workings until January 1994. They were fine units, probably a bit too good for the services they ran.
10 units escaped the scrapyard and were allocated to Longsight Depot for Manchester - Crewe - Stoke services, their numbers gradually diminished until final withdrawal in 2000.
This has reminded me of that stock cascades back in NSE days were often lengthy and complex affairs.
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Post by spsmiler on Dec 3, 2018 2:11:34 GMT
These were brand new when I started commuting to grammar school by train and they seemed so exotic compared with the workaday 306s that I travelled on. Well before your pictures of course with the 10 coach formations dividing for Clacton and Walton. I never knew what distinguished the griddle cars from buffets, all I ever got to buy was the occasional beer between Shenfield and LST after they were down graded. Still my favourite EMUs though. As it happens, these were favourite emu's too!
I often saw them at Stratford when on my way to school. I noted the destination plates on their sides - which few other trains had. Far better design than the trains which serve their routes nowadays.
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Post by arun on Dec 10, 2018 23:51:19 GMT
A couple of three car units still exist - one set being on the Lavender Line at Isfield. This was one of the sets that was at the Coventry Electric Museum before it closed.
I have pretty much just about completed a cast resin and etched nickel-silver kit/model in 0gauge of a two car 309/1 sets which can be found on RM Web as I seem to have forgotten how to attach images to posts at present!
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Post by rincew1nd on Dec 11, 2018 0:24:16 GMT
We don't support attaching files to posts, however you can embed an image hosted elsewhere.
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Post by arun on Dec 11, 2018 0:30:51 GMT
Thank you - Now that Photobucket has effectively stopped free hosting, that makes inserting images into posts rather more problematical.
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Post by whistlekiller2000 on Dec 11, 2018 0:36:29 GMT
Thank you - Now that Photobucket has effectively stopped free hosting, that makes inserting images into posts rather more problematical. If you have a mobile device available use Tapatalk. Makes the process simple. |
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Post by arun on Dec 11, 2018 11:13:19 GMT
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Post by spsmiler on Dec 11, 2018 17:04:14 GMT
sorry but I was told that I need to be logged in to access the file
Simon
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Post by arun on Dec 11, 2018 20:18:59 GMT
Thanks Simon Try this one:  It isn't very big perhaps but the idea is there. |
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Post by whistlekiller2000 on Dec 11, 2018 21:30:17 GMT
Thanks Simon Try this one: It isn't very big perhaps but the idea is there. There you go Arun, I've embedded it for you. If you want to do it for yourself just add the image tags as I've done. Have a look at the code in the BBCode Editor to see what I did.  |
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Post by arun on Dec 11, 2018 22:22:56 GMT
Thank you Whistlekiller2000, This one comes from a free account at Flickr. I only opened the Flickr account today so I don't know whether the pics can be enlarged somewhat. However this thumbnail hopefully gets over the general appearance of the model.
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Post by fish7373 on Dec 16, 2018 1:54:08 GMT
Clacton flyers one of the first 100 MPH EMU units and only EMU with commonwealth motor bogies they were good the 309`s
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