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Post by Deleted on Oct 20, 2007 14:12:13 GMT
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Post by keelar001 on Oct 24, 2007 7:42:07 GMT
Ah.... Slammers. A higher form of Railway Life.
And I can still drive 'em. Ain't life grand?
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Post by Deleted on Oct 24, 2007 18:54:54 GMT
A very warm welcome, Driver Potter!!! ;D  buzz-buzz-buzz...buzz-buzz-buzz: Yeah, brake test please mate! The good old Loudaphone. |
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Post by keelar001 on Oct 25, 2007 0:06:39 GMT
Ah yes, brakes tests, twelve cars, slamdoors and excessive arcing. All sadly gone... I was lucky - I caught the swan song of a proper railway with proper rolling stock!
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Post by Deleted on Oct 25, 2007 16:49:30 GMT
Indeed, I have used SWT regularly for a long, long time. Saw blue painted 'Gordon Pettit' outside Wimbo Park Depot a few weeks ago.....had no battery on the phone to take a piccy, when I went through there again it had gone!!! Never mind.......
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Post by trainopd78 on Oct 25, 2007 21:29:04 GMT
It was in the shed at Wimbledon Park depot yesterday. I could just see her tucked away at the back. |
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Post by keelar001 on Oct 27, 2007 10:35:05 GMT
3417 - my favourite slammer. We took her to Swanage last year, which was grand and did the old girl a lot of good. The best thing was seeing more people turn out for her than for the Western...
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Post by owen on Feb 20, 2008 2:41:40 GMT
I miss the slammers.There was something about the orange interiors on 411s that made me feel good *drifts off all nostalgic*
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Post by Deleted on Feb 20, 2008 5:42:52 GMT
My favourite SR slammers were the SUBs and EPBs - fabulous trains.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 20, 2008 16:06:02 GMT
I miss the slammers.There was something about the orange interiors on 411s that made me feel good *drifts off all nostalgic* Ahh, Jaffa Cake livery with '1066DC Electric' emblem below the cab windows!!! ;D |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 20, 2008 20:00:41 GMT
Class 411 or 4CEP/BEP units are always 'boat train' units to me. I have fond memories of Folkestone Harbour and these units.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 20, 2008 20:40:33 GMT
2 MLV's and a 12 car CEP, on through roads at Ashford...
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Post by keelar001 on Feb 20, 2008 21:03:40 GMT
2 MLV's and a 12 car CEP, on through roads at Ashford... Notch Four down the Fast with the Two Tones under the Old Booking Office. Happy Days. Hearing a Tonbridge or Ramsgate man giving a 12CEP the gun was always a little pleasure on the South Eastern. Shame we didn't the Greyhounds down there; there'd have been some high-flying on the down from Tonbridge... |
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Post by owen on Feb 20, 2008 21:06:50 GMT
I miss the slammers.There was something about the orange interiors on 411s that made me feel good *drifts off all nostalgic* Ahh, Jaffa Cake livery with '1066DC Electric' emblem below the cab windows!!! ;D Yep thems the ones! |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 23, 2008 21:04:23 GMT
2 MLV's and a 12 car CEP, on through roads at Ashford... Notch Four down the Fast with the Two Tones under the Old Booking Office. Happy Days. Hearing a Tonbridge or Ramsgate man giving a 12CEP the gun was always a little pleasure on the South Eastern. Shame we didn't the Greyhounds down there; there'd have been some high-flying on the down from Tonbridge... And being on the footbridge when a train passed by on the up through; the pressure wave made the floor bounce quite noticably... Sadly, Anti-Channel Tunnel people set fire to it twice.  I spent many a happy weekend doing a photo-diary of the transformation of the station. It's current replacement, little more than portakabins bolted together, is falling apart... |
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Post by keelar001 on Feb 23, 2008 21:20:27 GMT
Notch Four down the Fast with the Two Tones under the Old Booking Office. Happy Days. Hearing a Tonbridge or Ramsgate man giving a 12CEP the gun was always a little pleasure on the South Eastern. Shame we didn't the Greyhounds down there; there'd have been some high-flying on the down from Tonbridge... And being on the footbridge when a train passed by on the up through; the pressure wave made the floor bounce quite noticably... Sadly, Anti-Channel Tunnel people set fire to it twice. I spent many a happy weekend doing a photo-diary of the transformation of the station. It's current replacement, little more than portakabins bolted together, is falling apart... Not what it used to be, is it? When it was a proper station, my old boy was the chief clerk there. All a long time ago now. Ho-Hum. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 24, 2008 21:13:25 GMT
There is a very good chance I may have spoken to him!
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Post by Deleted on Feb 24, 2008 21:38:51 GMT
I'll have to have a rummage around in my slides for some photos of the boat train at Victoria and Folestone.
The second Inter-Rail I did in 1991 we caught the ferry from Newhaven to Dieppe. Annoyingly, I have no recollection of how we got to Newhaven from London - could it have been via Newhaven Marine?
Was the reporting number of the Folkestone boat train 74?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 24, 2008 22:02:57 GMT
Crikey, now yer asking... I think it was either 12 or 14... 74 was Dover West Docks to Victoria fast via Canterbury East and Medway Towns...
Happy memories! I have a pic somewhere of CEP 1537 on the now removed through roads at Folkestone Central, taken on a swelteringly hot day in July 1990!
It was 46!
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Post by keelar001 on Jun 19, 2008 15:04:08 GMT
Chaps, Thought you might like to know that slammers on the Southern Main aren't quite dead yet - 1881 and 1304 have been purchased with mainline running in mind. This is kosher - the money is there and the units have been bought. Expect a stock transfer to Eastleigh within the month and a topped & tailed ED run before the end of the year. The Slammers are Back!! wimbledonparkdepot.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!BDD9587C6E3493EA!3127.entry |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 23, 2008 15:01:04 GMT
Ah, Greyhounds! The black cap of death on the top of the cab front to warn about the perils of using the second stage of weak field! Only got to drive slammers right at the end and 97mph at Fleet was the best I managed before my instructors bottle went!
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I spent many a happy weekend doing a photo-diary of the transformation of the station. It's current replacement, little more than portakabins bolted together, is falling apart... 
