British Rail Network SouthEast 1994-Great Eastern Class 309 Clacton Express Farewell
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- Опубликовано: 9 июн 2024
- It's January 1994 and it's the end of the class 309 Clacton Express EMU's on the Great Eastern Lines. We see them on their last weekday (Friday) night and again the next day when a 12 car set ran all day, complete with headboard. We see them at London Liverpool Street, Colchester, Wivenhoe, Ilford and Chelmsford. We finish with a shot of a railtour leaving Waterloo the same evening with a class 73 & 33 combo. If you liked the video please subscribe to my channel, there are lots more transport & quirky vids to upload!
Lovely to see the Clacton’s doing their Stirling work, especially liked the one at Ilford where they were at a good speed!
The 309s were originally ordered as part of the modernisation plan for Kings Cross York, however when the ECML electrification was shelved BR put them on the Clacton services.
The mighty Clactons. To me, these were the Bentley of the unit world. They rode like a cruiser and were so comfortable, and looked like they meant business. They were always a welcome sight and boy could they shift! Great video Soi, as usual. Some very happy memories. Thanks for sharing it.
Absolutely! Beautiful units ❤
Did these have compartments?
@@s125ish not in the suburban sense of the word. They were different layouts before refurbishment and only had open plan for standard class. Hope this explains it. The 302 - 308 classes originally had compartments.
@@s125ish If I remember yes, 1st class and one standard??
They lasted a lot longer than today's bedpans. 😅
I remember these well
I saw one of these units being scrapped in Glasgow. It looked in a lot better condition than the old EMU's we were sent to work trains in the WYPTE area.
Love ur channel....the nostalgia of my child hood growing up in london through the 80s/90s
Thank you..... there is still more to come.....
Good old reliable BR DC based stock - except these units seemed to have been built with that little bit extra over their Southern Region equivelant…
I used to travel on these regularly from Shenfield to Walton on the Naze, they were split at Colchester where half of the set would continue to Clacton, It was in Jaffa cake livery and called 'Essex Coast Express'. You see the driving cab on the left hand side as you walked through the connecting unit and the speedo was often reading 100mph. They were so comfortable, not like todays EMU's with their rock hard uncomfortable seats which have your backside aching after a few miles, I think rail travel has gone backwards when it comes to comfort😩
I have a feeling that the whole train would continue from Colchester to Thorpe-le-Soken and split there, with one part continuing to Walton and Frinton and the other taking the Clacton branch.
And they were replaced by Class 321s. The start of the pattern of replacement trains not really being an improvement on their predecessors - though yoo could say that started with the Pacers
Pacers were important because they kept open lines threatened with closure. However, some of their predecessors had proper traction hauled coaching stock, including buffet, so Pacers were a come down from everything that came before.
They were then replaced with 720’s
309 -> 321 -> 720
Anglia can only get worse again…
I would prefer 309 or 321, probs 309 though as comfort…
I’m pretty sure the 309s were immediately followed by the Class 312s, which were four-car outer-suburban EMUs. They were slam-door units from the 70s and were nicely fitted-out internally with classy wood panelling. Nowhere near as cool as the 309, of course.
Correct!.....
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The 309s were originally ordered as part of the modernisation plan for Kings Cross York, however when the ECML electrification was shelved BR put them on the Clacton services.