Watched this with tears in my eyes. Now retired myself after travelling most of my life on slammers from Folkestone to Charing X in good times and bad.. Loved everything about these trains and always felt good travelling in them. I wonder if the younger commuter will get as attached to the modern sterile rolling stock? One thing for sure they cant warble as well as these old trains!!
This was years ago I know, but felt like replying anyway. Younger commuter here - much younger (wasn't even 10 when the slam doors were finally retired from the railways) and honestly the 465s/466s I'm most used to are indeed a faithful old friend to me. I love them, right down to their boxy faces and the droning start of their original motors. They're hardly new at this point of course but they are a lot newer than the slam door units still. Even as newer stock comes in to supplement and replace them - 375s, 376s, 707s - I still have quite the fondness for all of these, especially the Electrostars. There's various other trains I've ridden on, mostly from this general time period and I will dearly miss them once they're taken off the railways. Hell, I've experienced this once already - the old 319s Thameslink used to have until the 700s came in late last decade; it was the former that was taking me to and from school the most, and I miss them a lot. All the sounds they make, their styling, the feel of the seats, the lighting, the space inside (or lack thereof), the smells, the sound of the announcements. All part of their distinct character.
Great... at 03:30 I spotted myself on the Platform. I packed my belongings and entered one of the most rememberable train journeys I ever made. Thanks for uploading.
Miss these old girls, used to travel the Ceps and Cigs from Waterloo while bunking off school in the afternoon. Great memories, no trains have quite the same character the the Mark 1s
full of happy memories went down that rout to clapham only yesturday but in a "HIGH TEC TRAIN" and full of green and white instead of the grimmy blue seats on the good old slams, jeez we miss them... its went the days where simple
they are not gone yet i saw one at east croydon this tuesday 22nd june 2010 morning it was green hopefully not the last ive ever saw the last time i saw one was at some point in 2007
Remember this well as I was on it. Unfortunately I also remember the idiot with the air horn who somehow managed to make it all the way to Brighton without requiring surgery to remove said horn from his posterior!! 3490 also managed to do a sneaky all stops to Seaford and back earlier that same day before the London run, the 'normals' on the train really were wondering just what the hell was going on!!!
The true sound of a proper train
I remember these slam doors as a kid getting the train from Coulsdon south to Crawley, miss them.
Watched this with tears in my eyes. Now retired myself after travelling most of my life on slammers from Folkestone to Charing X in good times and bad.. Loved everything about these trains and always felt good travelling in them. I wonder if the younger commuter will get as attached to the modern sterile rolling stock?
One thing for sure they cant warble as well as these old trains!!
This was years ago I know, but felt like replying anyway. Younger commuter here - much younger (wasn't even 10 when the slam doors were finally retired from the railways) and honestly the 465s/466s I'm most used to are indeed a faithful old friend to me. I love them, right down to their boxy faces and the droning start of their original motors. They're hardly new at this point of course but they are a lot newer than the slam door units still. Even as newer stock comes in to supplement and replace them - 375s, 376s, 707s - I still have quite the fondness for all of these, especially the Electrostars. There's various other trains I've ridden on, mostly from this general time period and I will dearly miss them once they're taken off the railways. Hell, I've experienced this once already - the old 319s Thameslink used to have until the 700s came in late last decade; it was the former that was taking me to and from school the most, and I miss them a lot. All the sounds they make, their styling, the feel of the seats, the lighting, the space inside (or lack thereof), the smells, the sound of the announcements. All part of their distinct character.
Great... at 03:30 I spotted myself on the Platform. I packed my belongings and entered one of the most rememberable train journeys I ever made.
Thanks for uploading.
Miss these old girls, used to travel the Ceps and Cigs from Waterloo while bunking off school in the afternoon. Great memories, no trains have quite the same character the the Mark 1s
love this video i wanna ballast my track and this video helps a lot cheers for uploading
Thanks, i miss them too, great units the old slam door trains.
full of happy memories
went down that rout to clapham only yesturday but in a "HIGH TEC TRAIN" and full of green and white instead of the grimmy blue seats on the good old slams, jeez we miss them... its went the days where simple
@FirstGreatWestern43 thanks glad you enjoyed it.
used to love these going to Bexhill sad when they went
@deejayses1 well it was the last booked slam door emu train for Southern trains, the one you saw would have been a charter train.
cool vid they where proper units
,,used to be able to open a window !
5*s
miss CIGs, VEPs, CEPs, EPBs and DEMUs so much ;-(
they are not gone yet i saw one at east croydon this tuesday 22nd june 2010 morning it was green hopefully not the last ive ever saw the last time i saw one was at some point in 2007
battersea looks so different without those stupid unnecessarily glassed flats. What happened to the old days?
The only slam door train that remains on the railways are the 442's (modern slammers I call them).
Except that the 442s have plug doors, rather than the original Mk3 slam doors.
I hope you mean southern region... There are plenty of slam doors still out there in service
they were Originally BR, connex south central was the name of the Franchise not the name of the train.
Get me a railway sleepers
Remember this well as I was on it. Unfortunately I also remember the idiot with the air horn who somehow managed to make it all the way to Brighton without requiring surgery to remove said horn from his posterior!!
3490 also managed to do a sneaky all stops to Seaford and back earlier that same day before the London run, the 'normals' on the train really were wondering just what the hell was going on!!!
@TheClass377 Class 423
thats not a sound your hear nowadays