As a kid I used to love looking at the combination of liveries when they were multipled to 6,8,10 car trains. Great video, brought back some good memories 👍👍
Also this probably might sound a bit strange but the fronts of these epb units used to remind of Pacman characters that would chase after you in the computer game lol! 🤣🤣🤣
Enuff respect to the uploader for His/Her forsight.I used to live in Woodside rd n used and watched the Epbs avidly back in the 70/80s.It's as if they've never gone away.A wonderful video..Thank You!!.
An Aunt had a flat near the line and we often crossed the footbridge there. Whilst the line was in use. The footbridge that has now been swallowed by the trees and undergrowth. A marvelous collection of ambient sounds and nostalgic sights. One feels even more ancient when you read that the Networkers that replaced these are now being withdrawn! 🙁
I've waited a long long time for someone to put up a video like this. I thought it probably did'nt exist. I was Addiscombe Station resident train spotter from 1985 to 1993. Spent a lot of the time in the box with Any McHugo , Fluff and others. Doggit was guard , the carriage shed was allegedly haunted by a Ghostly shunter in Road 4 by a Grey intermediate outline with a white face. I visited the site in 1997. The Pigeon shat in roads 1 , 2 and 3 by not 4. I got the Bachman 2 EPB last year.
Great video. Amazing to watch how fast the trains approached the stations back then. No wonder the journey times are slightly longer now even though Networkers can accelerate and brake faster.
fantastic video. I had a similar idea in the early 90s. I fimled various EPBs in different locations on the Mid Kent. Will have to put them on here if I ever work out how. I work on the EPB at the EKR, by the way.
I used to commute on the Mid-Kent line from New Beckenham to London regularly back in the early 1980s. The EPBs used to put up some good performances between Lower Sydenham and Catford Bridge. Even better when 2HAPs would substitute for the non-available EPB.
Great filming, I lived in lower Sydenham often used to visit the box at Addiscombe on Saturday’s done loads of filming there, even a ‘Bouncy’ cab ride from Elmers End to Addiscombe, on an EPB! I also remember the sad day going there when some mindless morons had set fire to the signal box, and burned to the ground, all that history gone in a moment.🤓
As a kid I used to love looking at the combination of liveries when they were multipled to 6,8,10 car trains. Great video, brought back some good memories 👍👍
Also this probably might sound a bit strange but the fronts of these epb units used to remind of Pacman characters that would chase after you in the computer game lol! 🤣🤣🤣
Enuff respect to the uploader for His/Her forsight.I used to live in Woodside rd n used and watched the Epbs avidly back in the 70/80s.It's as if they've never gone away.A wonderful video..Thank You!!.
Superb footage of these old EMUs. Brilliant. Thanks for sharing this great footage
An Aunt had a flat near the line and we often crossed the footbridge there. Whilst the line was in use. The footbridge that has now been swallowed by the trees and undergrowth.
A marvelous collection of ambient sounds and nostalgic sights. One feels even more ancient when you read that the Networkers that replaced these are now being withdrawn! 🙁
Fabulous Video, well done. I have shared this onto The EPB Preservation Group Facebook page.
I've waited a long long time for someone to put up a video like this. I thought it probably did'nt exist. I was Addiscombe Station resident train spotter from 1985 to 1993. Spent a lot of the time in the box with Any McHugo , Fluff and others. Doggit was guard , the carriage shed was allegedly haunted by a Ghostly shunter in Road 4 by a Grey intermediate outline with a white face. I visited the site in 1997. The Pigeon shat in roads 1 , 2 and 3 by not 4. I got the Bachman 2 EPB last year.
Great video. Amazing to watch how fast the trains approached the stations back then. No wonder the journey times are slightly longer now even though Networkers can accelerate and brake faster.
fantastic video. I had a similar idea in the early 90s. I fimled various EPBs in different locations on the Mid Kent. Will have to put them on here if I ever work out how. I work on the EPB at the EKR, by the way.
Great footage and very nostalgic. Thanks for posting this.
Just to think in less than 2 weeks this will be exactly 30 years ago. Mind blown...
I used to commute on the Mid-Kent line from New Beckenham to London regularly back in the early 1980s. The EPBs used to put up some good performances between Lower Sydenham and Catford Bridge. Even better when 2HAPs would substitute for the non-available EPB.
Brings back memories when I worked as a guard only to be made redundant by the sliding door stock that replaced the epb's
thank you for adding this on youtube
great video great memories great units!!
Great filming, I lived in lower Sydenham often used to visit the box at Addiscombe on Saturday’s done loads of filming there, even a ‘Bouncy’ cab ride from Elmers End to Addiscombe, on an EPB! I also remember the sad day going there when some mindless morons had set fire to the signal box, and burned to the ground, all that history gone in a moment.🤓
Wonderful video, thanks for uploading! Liked and favourited!
Can I also recommend "Hayes Branch - A film by Fred Ivey" for more epb action.
The EPB trains smelt of iron, probably the brake block dust, very characteristic aroma, it pervaded the stations as well
How time flys
so, if the districts its routing had plied actually been tonier, then would the likes of CIGs or VEPs have instead serviced it?