The component recovery includes EP brake equipment, electrical equipment traction motors and bogies. This unit is effectively being scrapped by Harry Needle Railroad Co at Barrow Hill on behalf of the 5-BEL trust for component recovery. The onlt coach they are hoping to save from the unit is the open second which they hope will go to the Dean Forest for their 3-CIG. This vid is sadly the last time you will see 1881 intact!
Although I'm old enough to have done so.. I never went on the Brighton Belle, and in a way it's a shame that we might be losing a perfectly good CIG too!
.. Ah I've just found out it would appear 1881 has been sold and is being stripped/scrapped for the 5-BEL (Brighton Belle) Project. How true it is i don't know but it's possible this 4-CIG has been sacrificed for an even older and more famous EMU
Thanks if i had taken the day off work i had worked out that i could have got it a Basingstoke and Derby, but i would have only arrived at Derby 6 mins infront of it and thought it was a bit tight so did not go and looks like it was just as well i did'nt.
A very enjoyable video
The component recovery includes EP brake equipment, electrical equipment traction motors and bogies. This unit is effectively being scrapped by Harry Needle Railroad Co at Barrow Hill on behalf of the 5-BEL trust for component recovery. The onlt coach they are hoping to save from the unit is the open second which they hope will go to the Dean Forest for their 3-CIG. This vid is sadly the last time you will see 1881 intact!
Amazing Mr Ashmole!
thanks for the info, never been on a 5 BEL, so would be nice to have a trip on that.
Although I'm old enough to have done so.. I never went on the Brighton Belle, and in a way it's a shame that we might be losing a perfectly good CIG too!
RIP end of the slammer, stupid eastleigh having to sell it, one was hoping for a mainline return. still great video
.. Ah I've just found out it would appear 1881 has been sold and is being stripped/scrapped for the 5-BEL (Brighton Belle) Project. How true it is i don't know but it's possible this 4-CIG has been sacrificed for an even older and more famous EMU
So is that it then... Knights rail are not going to restore it and is it going for scrap?
Thanks
Thanks
if i had taken the day off work i had worked out that i could have got it a Basingstoke and Derby, but i would have only arrived at Derby 6 mins infront of it and thought it was a bit tight so did not go and looks like it was just as well i did'nt.
@metadyneman It is exactly like that. it has been sold off to raise funds for the Brighton belle project by Bruce Knights.
Thanks, i'm not sure, would be nice if they could use it for that.
oh thats not good, i did not know that he had sold it, yeah a mainline railtour would have been good.
for scrap?
no did not go that way