205025 Oxted 14th November 2000
With its 600hp English Electric turbo charged 4SRKT engine thumping loudly 205025 leaves Oxted with the 15:04 to Uckfield in the last rays of sunshine on 14th November 2000. Originally numbered as 1125 it was built as a three car unit at Eastleigh works entering service in December 1959. Known as 3h or "Hampshire" it was allocated to Eastleigh and would have spent a lot of its early years on the Southampton to Alton line before it closed in early 1973. It was also regular around Salisbury and spent a number of years on the Portsmouth to Bristol services in the mid 1970. In June 1986 the unit was renumbered as 205025 and by April 1998 had been reduced to a two coach unit with the removal and withdrawl of its centre coach. Privatisation saw it ending up based off Selhurst and painted in Connex yellow and white livery as seen in the photograph. Its days on the mainline came to a close in 2003 when new Class 170 units took over Oxted – Uckfield services and was lucky enough to enter preservation on the The Mid Hants Railway based at Alton, its former regular haunt. The owning group took delivered of the unit on 18 May 2004 and have since overhauled it and painted it back to its original green livery.
Mamiya 645 Scan
205025 Oxted 14th November 2000
With its 600hp English Electric turbo charged 4SRKT engine thumping loudly 205025 leaves Oxted with the 15:04 to Uckfield in the last rays of sunshine on 14th November 2000. Originally numbered as 1125 it was built as a three car unit at Eastleigh works entering service in December 1959. Known as 3h or "Hampshire" it was allocated to Eastleigh and would have spent a lot of its early years on the Southampton to Alton line before it closed in early 1973. It was also regular around Salisbury and spent a number of years on the Portsmouth to Bristol services in the mid 1970. In June 1986 the unit was renumbered as 205025 and by April 1998 had been reduced to a two coach unit with the removal and withdrawl of its centre coach. Privatisation saw it ending up based off Selhurst and painted in Connex yellow and white livery as seen in the photograph. Its days on the mainline came to a close in 2003 when new Class 170 units took over Oxted – Uckfield services and was lucky enough to enter preservation on the The Mid Hants Railway based at Alton, its former regular haunt. The owning group took delivered of the unit on 18 May 2004 and have since overhauled it and painted it back to its original green livery.
Mamiya 645 Scan