47739 hauling 4 CIG unit 421881 at Basingstoke 3rd March 2010

[penninefilms]

I tort they where all scraped?

[locogrib22]

A very enjoyable video

[BIGBIRD7172]

Yet another excellent video, does the componment recovery of the CIG mean the unit will not even be able to be push pull or even loco hauled in the future. If so that is a great pitty....

[oashmole]

Thanks, i'm not sure, would be nice if they could use it for that.

[metadyneman]

The component recovery includes EP brake equipment, electrical equipment traction motors and bogies. This unit is effectively being scrapped by Harry Needle Railroad Co at Barrow Hill on behalf of the 5-BEL trust for component recovery. The onlt coach they are hoping to save from the unit is the open second which they hope will go to the Dean Forest for their 3-CIG. This vid is sadly the last time you will see 1881 intact!

[bronzeonion]

dont tell me this went through west ruislip

[oashmole]

no did not go that way

[bronzeonion]

phew! if it did i would actualy punch myself

[metadyneman]

.. Ah I've just found out it would appear 1881 has been sold and is being stripped/scrapped for the 5-BEL (Brighton Belle) Project. How true it is i don't know but it's possible this 4-CIG has been sacrificed for an even older and more famous EMU

[oashmole]

thanks for the info, never been on a 5 BEL, so would be nice to have a trip on that.

[metadyneman]

Although I'm old enough to have done so.. I never went on the Brighton Belle, and in a way it's a shame that we might be losing a perfectly good CIG too!

[456013matt]

@metadyneman It is exactly like that. it has been sold off to raise funds for the Brighton belle project by Bruce Knights.

[metadyneman]

So is that it then... Knights rail are not going to restore it and is it going for scrap?

[justinfoulger]

Excellent video and a nice new angle at Basingstoke it was a shame that I had collage that day or I would have seen it at the car park opposite you. So its nice to see a video of it at Basingstoke :) 5* + Frav

Btw how did you get to film at that location?

[HSTHoward]

RIP end of the slammer, stupid eastleigh having to sell it, one was hoping for a mainline return. still great video

[oashmole]

oh thats not good, i did not know that he had sold it, yeah a mainline railtour would have been good.

[crazymanlargemarge]

@HSTHoward: there actually there selling so that its parts can be used for the brighton belle project! using parts like traction motors and third rail shoe!

[widerrangevideos]

Amazing Mr Ashmole!

[oashmole]

Thanks

[moxon2311]

Hi Oliver,

Excellent Video!!

I was waiting for this movement at Derby, Showing by times to stop but did it stop?

No...Straight down Plat 3 at Derby!!

Richard Moxon

[oashmole]

Thanks

if i had taken the day off work i had worked out that i could have got it a Basingstoke and Derby, but i would have only arrived at Derby 6 mins infront of it and thought it was a bit tight so did not go and looks like it was just as well i did'nt.