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so good to hear those doors slamming 7:55!

I rode this line first with 45 104 "Royal Warwickshire Fusiliers" from PADDINGTON platform 0 (Royal Mail platform) to Uckfield, and beyond ! Then with 205 / 207s. Then with 171s. Bashing went steadily downhill....

Good evening, it is not yet entirely clear to me whether those old electric block systems (Absolute block system, if I am not mistaken) with a wooden case were or were not influenced by the passage of trains for the purpose of occupying and freeing the section (block) towards to which and from which the train was respectively headed or from which the train came. Furthermore, it is not clear whether there is an electrical connection between the lever that controls the opening of the starting signal and the apparatus with wooden case. In other words, was it possible to pull the lever that activated the starting signal towards you without first having received electrical consent from the next station? However, it is common ground that where there is a token block it is possible to activate the lever that opens the starting signal even before having handed over the token to the driver, unless there is an error on my part. Thank you very much for your availability and collaboration

Well done for capturing this Demu Thumper action for posterity.👏🏾👏🏾😊

I could watch this sort of thing all day.

I've been to Horsham county while I was working for BT.

Excellent video

I needed to know why don’t dig a tunnel and do an extension for the main line Train so that they can extend the unused abandoned underground stations. Why couldn’t they use the part D78 Stock train doors on the sides and also restructure the front face of the A60 and A62 stock and that includes the class 313, class 314 and class 315 remix and make them all together and also redesign them an overhead line and also make them into Five cars per units and also having three Disabled Toilets on those Five cars per units A60 and A62 stock trains and also convert the A60 and A62 stock trains into a Scania N112, Volvo TD102KF, Volvo B10M, Gardner 6LXB, Gardner 6LXC and Gardner 8LXB Diesel Engines and also put the Loud 7-Speed Voith Gearboxes even Loud 8-Speed Leyland Hydra cyclic Gearboxes in the A60 and A62 stock, class 313, class 314, and class 315 and also modernise the A60 and A62 stock and make it into an 11 car per unit so it could have fewer doors, more tables, computers and mobile phone chargers. A Stock Train and 8 Disabled Toilets on those A stock trains. why couldn’t we refurbish and modernise the waterloo and city line Triple-Track train tunnel and make it bigger and extend it to the bank station, making it into a Triple-Track Railway Line so those 4 European countries such as Germany, Italy, Poland And Sweden to convert the waterloo and city line Triple-Track Train tunnel into a High-Speed train? The Third Euro tunnel Triple-Track Train line to make it 11 times better for passengers so they could go from A to B. then put the modernised 11 car per unit A Stock and put them on a bigger modernised waterloo and city line Triple-Track train tunnel so it could go to bank station to those 4 European countries such as Germany, Italy, Poland And Sweden. The modernised refurbished 11 cars per unit A stock could be a High Speed The Third Triple-Track Euro Tunnel Train So it is promising and 37 times a lot more possible to do this kind of project that is OK for London Germany, Italy, Poland And Sweden? oh by the way, could they also tunnel the Triple-Track Railway Line so it will stop from Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire and Essex so that the Passengers will go to Germany, Italy, Poland and Sweden and also extend the Triple-Track Railway Line from Bank to Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire and Essex Stations so that more people from there could go to Germany, Italy, Poland And Sweden Easily. Why couldn't they extend the Piccadilly line and also build brand-new underground train stations so it could go even further right up to Clapton, Wood Street and also make another brand new tunnel train station in Chingford and could they extend the DLR? All of the classes 150, 155, 154, 117, 114, 105, and 106, will be replaced by all of the Scania N112, Volvo TD102KF, Volvo B10M, Gardner 6LXB, Gardner 6LXC and Gardner 8LXB Diesel Five carriages three disabled toilets are air conditioning trains including Highams Park for extended roots which is the Piccadilly line and the DLR trains. Could you also convert all of the 1973 stock trains into an air-conditioned maximum speed 78 km/hours (48 MPH) re-refurbished and make it into a 8 cars per unit if that will be alright, and also extend all of the Piccadilly train stations to make more space for all of the extended 8 car per unit 1973 stock air condition trains and can you also build another Mayflower and Tornado Steam Locomotive Companies and they can order Every 17 Octagon and Hexagon shape LNER diagram unique small no.13 and unique minor no.11 Boilers from those Countries such as Greece, Italy, Poland, and Sweden, can they make Mayflower and Tornado Steam Locomotive speeds by up to 117MPH so you can try and test it on the Original Mainline so it will be much more safer for the Passengers to enjoy the 117MPH speed Limit only for HS2 and Channel Tunnel mainline services, if they needed 16 Carriages Per units can they use those class 55’s, class 44’s, class 40’s and class 43HST Diesel Locomotive’s right at the Back of those 18 Carriages Per Units so they can take over at the Back to let those Mayflower and Tornado Steam Locomotive’s have a rest for those interesting Journeys Please!!!!!!!, oh can you make all of those Coal Boxes’s 16 Tonnes for all of the 117MPH Mayflower and Tornado Steam Locomotive’s so the Companies will Understand us PASSENGER’S!!! so please make sure that the Builders can do as they are Told!! And please do something about these very important Professional ideas Please Prime Minister of England, the Prime Minister of Sweden, the Prime Minister of Germany, the Prime Minister of Italy, the Prime Minister of Poland and that Includes the Mayor of London.

Also nice to hear the EE507s traction motors at it at full power.

Nice to see more DEMU Thumpers thumping at speed!!. 🙂👍🏽👍🏽

The blue lever, hmmm

I toured the england in 2013. Best day was spent in the signal box on Severn Valley watching the new guy and the old guard do their thing. Tea biscuits lots of trains. Nicest people in the world.

I use to love working Horsham box one of my favourites

Mooi landschap. Mooi geluid. Mooi gefilmd. Met de fiets. De zang van een merel.

Such a shame the whole lot's been turned into a computer clerk controlled abomination with the end goal of one signalling centre in Euston controlling the whole network and the end of the signalman. Closest me father worked to Horsham was Purley/Purley Oaks when he was reliefing out of Norwood or Gloucs Rd Jnc, he left BR in the 90's attaining the most passes out on the SR ending his journey at London Bridge PB and started his journey down the line at North Kent East Jnc... all gone, even LB has gone superceded by computers and I remember Tooley Street box as a nipper but the old man wasn't grade enough to work there.

Always such a little recording of the touring years damn

There are several very good Beatle tribute bands, and this is one of them. Enjoyed the video, wish I could have been at the concert. Peace and love from the US.

This was a great show and a totally different set and costume changes to their show in Portsmouth at the start of the year. Absolutely perfect recreations of tracks that the Beatles only recorded in the studio. I had a lump in my throat during 'Tomorrow never knows' amazing to hear a live rendition. Thanks for sharing.

Happy days. 😁

I had a stop there for a few mins a week ago interesting place.

I hadn't realised that the 3D units gave way to 2H and 3H before the end. I'm one of those annoying people who cannot see why an Uckfield - Lewes connection can't be reinstated. Should never have been truncated in the first place! Harrumph.

Nice film I remember those old diesels I also remember as a young boy standing next to the East Grinsted service waiting on platform 6 at East Croydon station ,in the early 1960s , When the diesel engine fired up , it scared the life out of me

what grade was the box ?3 4 5 etc ?

Westinghouse A2 frame. 😀

Great film, lovely shots of a very pretty line. The tragic Cowden crash wouldnt have happened if the line had not been singled.

Looks even worse than when I was a kid thrashing through on Class 50's, back in the 80's there wasn't so many trees and the down platform was more visible. I understand the platform bridge has been demolished due to it being dangerous. also nobody lives or works from the station building anymore, as recent as the early 1990's there was somebody living there, but I see the platform has been cleaned since those days.

Very well filmed, captures the full sounds of these superb workhorses. well done.

Can I ask what you were tapping on the computer keyboard?

I've heard they might reopen these lines that beeching closed.

How did u get on the platform i was told it was trespassing

Enjoyed watching that. Sounds like some sections were welded rail as opposed to fishplated. I guess it’s all welded rail now. Seem to think unit 1118 is preserved at the Lavender Line at Isfield, East Sussex.

what was the purpose of the rag in one hand of the signal operator ? thanks in advance .

This line was the Southern equivalent of my local line back in the late '70s and '80's. My local line at the time was the Chiltern line. The sense of abandonment on this line is just like the Marylebone lines before privatisation.

They look a lot cleaner then when we had them as tools. Sadly, underinvestment meant I saw the worst years of these wonderful units. Great to see them still working.

Just found this wonderful collection of memories. I was a driver at Norwood MT and drove these units on the East Grinstead/ Uckfield branches until they "juiced" the Grinstead line. Thanks for sharing these images. Cheers!

No, Horsham shut in '05. Dorking is tcb to Three Bridges p7 now.

Slam-door stock, yay! (Must upload my video of a Horsham-Dorking cab ride from 1994).

Nice shot. Increasingly rare to see the single line Tokens and working signal boxes in todays technology.