Рет қаралды 10,134
Filmed on the Mid Hants Railway on the Diesel Weekend 22nd April 2016. Enjoy a cab ride from Medstead & four marks to Alton and back to Medstead & four marks.
Unit 1125 was ordered as a three car unit and entered service between December 1959 & February 1960. The first recorded working of 1125 on the Mid Hants Line was on 21st April 1960 when it worked 1453 Southampton Terminus to Alton and 1553 Alton to Portsmouth services. Following re-gearing in October 1960 1125 was regularly seen on the line. 1125 suffered an engine room fire whilst at Alton on 30th August 1971 and was recovered back to Eastleigh by a Class 33 locomotive.
1125 was on duty on the Mid Hants line on 4th February 1973, the last day of BR services. On this occasion it was coupled to unit 1121 to make up a five coach train. 1125 left the Mid Hants line on the last day whilst working the 2002 Alton to Southampton service, it would not return again until May 2004. In June 1986 the unit was renumbered in line with the TOPS computer system and became 205025.
In April 1998 205025 was reduced to a two coach unit with the removal of its center coach. In September 1998 205025 was sent to Eastleigh for an overhaul where it received the engine that it uses in preservation. The unit was also painted in Connex yellow and white livery.
In 2003 new Class 170 diesel units started to appear on the Oxted - Uckfield line which started the final decline of the DEMU’s.
205025 was withdrawn at Selhurst depot in February 2004 when it became due for a bogie overhaul. The unit was sold to the Mid Hants Railway in May 2004 and was delivered to Alton by rail and under its own power on 18 May 2004.