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4636 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 During this period, we had many a ride on the old 4-SUB units which were finally withdrawn from service in 1983. We noticed a collection of the units withdrawn in the old Hither Green Continental Sidings, and managed to gain entrance for a good look around one day in 1983., , When the class 405 4-SUB EMU's were replaced by new class 455 EMU's during 1983 on the South Central suburban network the withdrawn sets were towed to the disused Hither Green Continental Sidings for storage before tripping to breakers yards.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set 4279 on 6/9/1983 on the 10.21 East Croydon to London Victoria and then ECS to Selhurst depot where both sets were withdrawn thus ending an era.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, New 9/49 from Eastleigh formed 11332+8916+12376+11331 with 331/332 on recovered pre war SUB frames & the other 2 on new Lancing frames. Wdn 6/81 & stored at Wimbledon West Yd, It moved to Selhurst 7/81 where TSO 12376 was exchanged with TS 10243 from 4719, It was used for emergency services accident exercise at Newhaven 12/81 after that it was stored at Norwood Yd, It was then moved to Hoo Jn 4/82 for another exercise at Greenhithe Tunnel 5/82 after which it was stored at Hoo until moved to Plumstead Yd 3/83,, Stripped at Selhurst it was sent to HG 9/83 & sent to Vic Berry 7/85. 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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