3) EMU's in the Snow in Kent Sun 18 Jan 87
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- Опубліковано 16 січ 2014
- Conditions had not improved much as daylight broke on Sunday 18th January 1987 but BR had got the measure of the poor weather and just about everything was running as booked with no diesel assistance. Local news reports indicated snow was particularly bad on the Isle of Grain so we headed in that direction and found a location adjacent to the Ridham Dock branch. A 4-Vep calls briefly at Swale Halt then heads out over the Kingsferry bridge on it's way to Sheerness. We managed to ground the car - a Mk2 VW Scirocco 'Storm' - in the snow at Queenborough and miss the return working but it provided a laugh as the snow mats that had always got in the way in the boot finally had a use! After that we went in search of something more interesting and just grabbed a shot of EPB's at Teynham, before setting off to Faversham for a while where we see several services coming and going. Diesel locomotives had helped out the DEMU's on the Ashford - Hastings line when snow first fell so we concluded the day by calling in at Ham St only to find things running fine and the DEMU's coping well.
Proper snow
Great short film thanks!! I was 15 at the time. Apart from a lot of extra third rail arcing (and who doesn't like that?!) I always thought these EMU's were pretty unbothered by bad weather! Love all that track noise - so familiar. Doubtless BR had stuff running through the night to keep the track clear(ish)?
Brilliant footage of a different era in snow. EMUs are crap now. I remember a 450s 3rd rail shoe got frozen to the 3rd rail a few yrs ago on a cold day . These units somehow carried on working . I miss these old school units. Grand footage
Great stuff, I was quite possibly driving the DEMU you filmed. Miss those days. Don't miss the crap that Connex and SET brought.
I was on loan from kings cross depot to Norwood jct digging out cromptons ready to go out on the snow plough brilliant time I had
Omg I was going to work from Faversham to Canterbury
that was a 4CAP at Teynham