Hi Soi. Fantastic classic stock 👍🏻 It made me laugh when I saw that EMU Royal Mail train lol 😂 Now GB rail freight have converted a 319 EMU unit for carrying parcels back into London again as if it's never been done before haha 😂 Thanks Stevie 😎

Always a bonus to see the Tilbury "EPB" in action. Back when we lived in Gravesend, my ol' mum working in the newspapers often had to take the alternative route of Tilbury ferry and then down the ramp to pick up the 302 to Fenchurch St. Sadly, the poor old things were a lot dirtier inside and out than their SR brothers but they were quicker on the pullaway than the third rail units. I was so saddened when they removed the Tilbury pier station making a commute just that bit more difficult for so many. The thing about it though, whilst Kent trains in to London during rush hour were packed to the nines, the Tilbury trains you could get a seat no probs or not have to stand with some blokes stinking armpit in your face.

Really good emu fest, remember seeing cl309's @harwich parkeston quay,on the boat train for Liverpool st,around 89'!!

That was fantastic once again Soi Thank you so much for this classic compilation. But i have to ask imagine if trains could talk and had personalities in the case of The 313's and 315's they'd say "why did the builders build me with a frown on my face?"

Brings back some great memories riding to Southend on the old slam door stock

Another great video from the happy days of the late 80s and early 90s railways. I remember visiting Stratford on a Saturday and taking photos of trains passing whilst on platform 8. Happy memories. Almost all the trains in the film have now gone to the scrapyard of the skies and only the 315s 317s 319s and 321s still running today but on borrowed time now as they due to be replaced by new trains within couple of years. Thanks for sharing ☺👍

Manor Park was my local station - grew up in the 80's and have good memories of the 315's and 321's (new back then!) I remember the Royal mail 302's on depot as I regularly used to go to ilford depot and look out from the footbridge. I seem to recall around that time there were a lot of 305's or similar stored at Stratford - maybe they were being overhauled, but distinctly remember being able to see rows of them in sidings on Stratford depot, from the main-line travelling towards Liverpool Street from Stratford. Looking back, we had some interesting traffic along that line back then. My best memory was one Sunday seeing a Class 37 on an Engineers train parked in the slow passing loop behind platform 1 at Manor Park. Probably around 1990! Thanks for sharing!

I remember when the Enfield line was electrified in Nov 1960 and the N7s and quinarts before them. The electrics were good. Pity I can't remember the old 1500DC electrics. Wish they had kept the old pantographs on the converted DC stock, very classic. There really is no reason for the old pans to be replaced, the French used them on 25kv and even the Germans still have them on 15kv locos. I loved the sound of the DC traction motors on the new electric stock and the Gresley bogies. Also the old air compressor sound, BRILLIANT

ScotRail had the 305s on the North Berwick-upon-Tweed line.

Super video. Nice footage of upminster

I get always so despondent whenever I see old Stratford, to think of the many livelihoods snuffed out so the ponces could build a useless bloody stadium. Back in the late eighties I used to commute from my part of South London to the hospital in Brentwood where I worked, it was lucky in Brentwood was just outside the Capitalcard zones so each week I would buy one Capitalcard and one weeks season ticket between Harold Hill and Brentwood, often sharing a train with Alan Sugar at odd hours (I cannot recount here what an obnoxious individual he is either). I do remember the slidey doors rubbish, you could never get your head down comfy on them things so I always caught the old slamdoors at every opportunity :)

Good memories and very clear. Sad of old EMUs going vanishing soon.

I am fully aware that class 309 fleet had their pantograph in an end trailer on certain units, but at about 07:05, another unit went through at bethnal green but couldn't identify it, but have a feeling it was a 307?

Tube goes up tube goes down lol

Wow, absolutely awesome footage. The trains of yesterday were just fantastic when you compare them to the replacements of today. They ALL had character. Sadly it's very much lacking on today's so called trains !!

Nice

Absolutely loved the sounds of those slamdoor EMUs!

I used to travel on class 309 units when I was coming back from boarding school -- I used to get on the slow train from Ipswich so as to be away from the other boys. Horribly rattly things they were, far worse than the slam-door trains on the southern region (I lived south of the Thames).

The video 80s?

MMMM Class 309