Slam Door trains VEP CEP 09005 September 2005
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- Опубликовано: 8 фев 2025
- Slam Door trains Filmed on the 1st & 2nd September 2005 at Ashford Int, Hither Green, Metropolitan Junction, London Bridge, London Waterloo East. Traction 423521, 423590, 423474, 423500, 423564,
411698, 09005, 67024 & 67012
BR class 309s clacton express were the best slam door trains! They were much faster than southern 3rd rail.
This bring back a lot of memories catching these slam door train unit from London victoria to maidstone to stay at my girlfriend place, carrying my rack sackon my back i almost fell out the door on my way on the train, if only i took my rack sack off my back would make more sense. Happy days.
Ah, reminder of happy times visiting my aunt and uncle in Kent in the 60s and 70s and going to the footie in the 80s 😊
Great footage and great memories! Of all the slammers, I disliked the VEPs most. They were cold, noisy, draughty and tired. Traveling home on winter evenings in the rush hour, finally finding a seat and then having to move your bag and newspaper at every station because there was a door next to every seat, and invariably it would be opened to let piles more people clamber on, and the icy cold winter air would blow in with them! And those metal luggage racks scared the hell out of me - would hate to have been on one of these in an accident!
Brought back a lot of good memories, thanks for this great video!
Fabulous video, thanks for sharing with us. I loved VEP's. They had so much character and there was nothing more cosy than to find a corner seat and have a quality sleep on route. I never found them uncomfortable. You've got another thumbs up:-)
Good job they terminated at Victoria after I'd been to the footie and had a couple of pints then fell asleep, or god knows where I'd have ended up!
I was the last person to board one, and my god they look so primitive and creepy compared today
QuasarBarkas I think they, in a way, look creepy because of the windows.
amazing memories of catching these trains in my school days, sitting in first class pretending to be German students unable to understand English then jumping off as the train was still moving through a platform to get away. 🤣
Been on this type of train many times including the last one ever in March 2005 as part of my day trip to Bournemouth. There were engineering works that day further down the line to Weymouth so that is why trains terminated at Bournemouth from London Waterloo.
The Last Slam Door Train was withdrawn from the South eastern division on 7th October 2005 and replaced by Class 375 Electrostar
I remember riding on one to Surbiton and back in 2001
Great video - liked. Particularly enjoyed seeing the 09 trying to race the EMU :-)
I thought the VEPs were the most draughty noisy cramped and uncomfortable trains ever but strangely I miss them for some reason, I cannot for the life of me think why! Nice vid Mr A.
Great video ! Lots of memories there ! 👍
Excellent footage. Thanks.
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8:55 You're not meant to open the door until the train has stopped completely.
But idiots still opened the doors before the train came to a stop in the station platform
Thank goodness for the latest German Siemens air condition trains nowadays. Would find these trains unpleasant commuting into work. Looks like a third world carriage to me… why on earth would one design trains with slam doors!
why have I never heard of metropolitan junction
There are a dozen or more very good videos of those wonderful nostalgic 'slam-door' trains, but what a shame that, as far as I can tell, there is not even the sound of a single door slamming. Surely this was what made them so distinctive ... A stranger to these parts wouldn't know why they had that name! Someone must have some video to fill this void?
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Ahh connex colours too . The rail company that was so bad they had to rename the whole lot to that of the parent company . Miss the trains though 😀
Ah, those were the days...