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4294 4-SUB in the scrapline at Hither Green Continental Sidings,
My bashing friends and I spent some time clearing all the passenger routes on the Southern Region when we were at Kingston Polytechnic back in 1982-1985. During this period, we had many a ride on the old 4-SUB units which were finally withdrawn from service in 1983. , , On Sunday 23rd October 1983, my friends and I noticed a collection of the units withdrawn in the old Hither Green Continental Sidings, and managed to gain entrance for an initial 'recce' - and this is the list from that visit: TBC, , A couple of weeks later, on Sunday 6th November, we made another visit, this time armed with screwdrivers and spanners!!! This was the complete list from that visit: TBC, , When the class 405 4-SUB EMU's were replaced by new class 455 EMU's during 1983 on the South Central suburban network the withdrawn sets were towed to the disused Hither Green Continental Sidings for storage before tripping to breakers yards. The sets arrived during October after the final units were taken out of service. Over the Christmas period 1983-84 vandals got into the sidings and set fire to the trains although it has also been said the damage had been caused by tramps sleeping rough lighting fires to keep warm. The upshot was a massive blaze which wrecked many of the units where they stood as there was no road access to the yard for the fire brigade to tackle the inferno. Sadly 4754 the last set to work in normal service was one of the casualties. It had run with set 4279 on 6/9/1983 on the 10.21 East Croydon to London Victoria and then ECS to Selhurst depot where both sets were withdrawn thus ending an era. (Info courtesy of Adrian Nicholls, whose photo appears below :), , Unit history, Built 6/49 at Eastleigh formed 10884+10161+10138+10883 on new frames from Lancing Works., TS 10161 was exchanged with TSO 9007 from wdn 4727 at Selhurst 5/76., Wdn 5/83 & stored at Fratton moving to HG 9/83., Between 12/83 & 3/84 it was used in 3 emergency services accident exercises & returned to HG where 10138 was badly fire damaged 7/84., The unit was moved to ZG Eastleigh for stripping 12/84 & then stored in the marshalling yd until it was sent to Vic Berry 10/85. Info courtesy of blindpugh09 , , More information on the old 4-SUB units here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SR_Class_4Sub, , Taken with a Soviet made Zenith TTL SLR camera. Scanned from the original negative., , You can see a random selection of my railway photos here on Flickriver: www.flickriver.com/photos/themightyhood/random/
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