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1983 - Clean Cravens, at Silvertown.

BR Cravens - Class 105 - DMU at Silvertown station in March 1983, with a service from North Woolwich to Camden Road.

The line was later electrified - with DC third-rail - and linked up with the North London line, and operated with ex-SR slam-door EMUs, and later with Class 133 dual-voltage EMUs.

The last Class 105 was withdrawn from BR service in 1988, and today (2019) only one two-car unit and a trailer have survived into preservation.

The station closed when passenger services ended in 2006, and today, this is the trackbed of the new 'Elizabeth Line'.

Restored from a faded grainy original..

Original slide - photographer unknown

 

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Uploaded on November 22, 2019
Taken in March 1983