Last EPB from Victoria 31-3-1995

The last passenger EPB service from Victoria on 31st March 1995.

Category:

Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• Railway
• EPB
• slam
• door
• train
• Victoria
• final
• British
• Rail

[ElectricTraction]

For those that are interested the headboard on the front is the coat of arms of the British Transport Commission (and later British Railways). No transfer was ever made of it and the version here was handpainted by me. Only 5001 ever carried it. (It's currently in my garage). I also organised the last day's EPB runs. They may have been old fashioned but they were good reliable old workhorses.

Gordon Mackley, former SE Performance Manager.

[BRsignalman]

Well done Gordon for what you did, the board was excellent, and as you say these units done the job they were designed to do very well.

Funny I was not planning to film this last run, I was at Victoria for the Skirl of the Bagpipes railtour which I went on(video will follow soon).

[BRsignalman]

Thanks everyone for the kind comments, yes it was a shame when they went.

[RobinYorks]

As far as I'm concerned, it's not a proper train unless it goes "Uuuum -mum-mum-mum-mum-mum-mum-mum" when you're sitting on it waiting to leave :)

[bluedoris88]

my cousin got his finger slammed in the door o n his way to school!

lost a fingernail. but it grew back, it hurt like hell. I travelled to London

Bridge on these trains back when u could smoke, absolutely disgusting... those

were the days.

[class37100]

i was there

[mvjedforest]

I have fond memories of how comfortable were the seats in the Southern electric trains. Often used to go trainspotting at Victoria in my distant youth, with an occasional trip to Battersea Park. Pity about the noisy idiot in the last coach, but otherwise a very enjoyable video of a very capable train.

[bwarrrrk]

i like the "this is your last taste of luxury" so true :/

[TheBottledair]

I'm no train spotter but those were by far the most cosy trains I been in back in early nineties I would say?

[regregex]

@stevepoop1 And it gets noticed at 0:26!

[regregex]

The other things I remember are the smell of the brakes and having two dim light bulbs between ten passengers. Last time I travelled on a slam-door was in 2005. I got off at St Mary Cray and jogged the length of the train to close a door that had been left open...

[regregex]

At various times I've: opened the door from the inside while moving, aged 6; travelled alone in a 'murder carriage'; stuck my head out the window for the first and last time only to look straight into some poor driver's eyes. They were the staple of my childhood and half my school days. These are the trains that still fill my dreams. The chance to say goodbye, if I'd known, would have been nice. Even so by 1995 they were everything wrong with rolling stock design and they needed to go.

[stevepoop1]

its at 13second u can here her fart lol