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The tide is in as a London, Tilbury & Southend 12-car class 302 formation headed by 302203 is seen leaving Chalkwell on the Thames Estuary with a Shoeburyness - London Fenchurch St. service in July 1993.
Stars of the show - after former Network Rail 31233 didn't run on the August Bank Holiday gala, the Mangapps Railway Museum advertised an end-of-season special event with both Class 31s and a range of shunters in operation. The Brush Type 2 sits outside the museum, top and tailing a pair of Class 302 EMU vehicles, with rail blue 31105 Radio Caroline on the rear.
Tilbury Riverside, one time "Gateway to the Orient" but by the 1980's little more than a run down oversized terminus used to berth commuter stock for the "Misery Line" during the off peak.
The main station building is grade II listed having been built by architect Sir Edward Cooper in 1930 for the LMSR (London, Midland & Scottish Railway) and the PLA (Port of London Authority). Boat trains from London St.Pancras once ran to here connecting with P&O sailings to the far East, even after World War II there were still ferry crossings to Rotterdam (Holland) and Göteborg (Sweden) However its final years as a rail connected ferry terminal were less grand catering for the Gravesend ferry across the River Thames.
The large station succumbed to the inevitable on 30/11/1992 when passenger services were withdrawn and the station closed. The west facing curve onto the LT&S line was retained and part of the vast station approach became Tilbury International Railfreight Terminal but much of the station area is now just a car park.
On this date 302 303 is berthed between duties in the platform while set 302 262 sits in the sidings.
London Transport 'D stock' District line set 7054 waits departure time in platform 6 at Barking station with a Wimbledon service. On the right is "Misery line" (LT&S) 302 284 calling with the 13.45 London Fenchurch Street to Southend Central via Tilbury.
In 1985 BR started out on the refurbishment of 30 class 302 suburban EMU's to give them a life extension with major improvements to the coach interiors for use on GE and LT&S lines. At the end of this process in 1988-89 four unrefurbished 3-car units were assembled from suitable redundant class 302 vehicles for conversion to EPU's (Electric Parcels Units). This conversion work was carried out at Ilford Depot with the interiors stripped out and new roller shutter doors cut into the body sides. Three units entered traffic in March-April 1989 and saw use on the London- Southend and London-Norwich routes. There new life was fairly short lived though as set 302 992 was withdrawn in November 1993 and 302 990 & 991 came out of traffic in October 1995 leaving just 302 993 to see in 1996 being withdrawn in March 1996. 302 993 was also a later conversion entering traffic a year after the initial three sets in March 1990.
302 992 the first to go after just 4 years service is seen stabled on the middle siding at Norwich Thorpe station. The unit would have arrived with 3P08 the 04.15 London Liverpool Street to Norwich mail & parcels.
Vehicles 75263 and 70206 from London, Tilbury & Southend line class 302 unit no.302 290 are seen inside the carriage workshops at Wolverton BREL Works. The unit would be in for a general overhaul on the bogies, electrics and brake system along with re-upholstery of the seating. This set lasted another four years in service before being Withdrawn from East Ham Depot in September 1989 and was disposed of at Vic Berry's scrapyard in Leicester in April 1990.
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Two four-car Class 302 LT&SR EMUs, unit 251 (DTSO E75299 nearest camera) at un unknown BR(ER) location - c.1959.
© 2017 - 53A Models of Hull Collection. Scanned from the original 35mm colour transparency.
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Converted former London, Tilbury & Southend Line Class 302, now working for Royal Mail as Class 302/9 No. 302993, is about to depart from Ipswich on 2nd July 1993 with a mid-day Norwich - London Liverpool Street mail service. Not the inclusion of shutter doors as part of the change from passenger to mail use. Copyright Photograph John Whitehouse - all rights reserved
BR AM2 Fenchurch Street - Shoeburyness EMU 300 (BR/1958-60) leaving Upminster.
These later became class 302 and all were withdrawn in 1999.
11/04/1964 [GB 1710].
Great Eastern electric AM2 type, 302207 was restored to original(ish) livery towards the end of its working life. Here it enters Grays with an Upminster to Tilbury Riverside service.
24 October 1987
If my record keeping is correct the old station of Stepney East is now known as Limehouse. I believe that there was a name change in 1987. At the time of my photo in 1985 and until 1992 services through the station were operated by Network Southeast. Today both National Rail and Docklands Light Railways services share the passenger trade.
Class 302 237 at Eastleigh works for attention on 3rd November 1983. The entire class had been withdrawn from service by late 1999.
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Class 302 mail unit number 302990 heads south along the Great Eastern main line at Manningtree. 15th June 1993.
New on my YouTube channel SE UK Rail 41 featuring a variety of workings from the end of November and start of December 2017. Including class 56s and 47s on the Barrington spoil trains and class 66s, 67s and 73s on RHTT duties.
A picture from 1983 of emus awaiting overhaul at the rear of the works. 302 248, 4-VEPs 7811 and 7749.
BR AM2 EMUs at Fenchurch Street station, in 1968, with unit 272 - in early BR blue, with small yellow warning panels - on the left.
These units were first introduced in 1958, and later became Class 302, and were withdrawn from passenger service by 1999. Some were converted for parcels service, and painted in 'Royal Mail' red livery. These were later scrapped, but two driving trailers have survived, at the Mangapps Railway Museum.
Today (2019) these canopies have gone, and this part of the station has been built over.
Restored from a grainy original..
Original slide - photographer unknown
A line up of Class 302 EMU's at East Ham depot, on the 14th May 1983, with units 294, 237 & 257 readily identifiable.
A pair of Class 302 emus, 302201/302226, at Upminster on 10 July 1997 with a service for Fenchurch Street. At the adjacent platform is one of the Class 310 emus that replaced the 302s.
The 302s were built in 1958-1960 for service on former LTSR lines - 30 units, including 302201/302226 were refurbished in 1982-1984. The 302s were finally withdrawn by 1998.
On 16 September 1985, 302209 awaits departure from Southend Central on the 1350 to Fenchurch Street.
A delayed Choo Choo Tuesday sees an old BR Class 302 unit sitting at the Essex town of Walton-on-the-Naze, waiting for the 13.37 trip to Thorpe-le-Soken.
This connection surely has the most hypens in all of Britain!
Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex
21st June 1986
Pentax MX, Kodachrome
19860621 27528 302205
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Working a Shoeburyness to Fenchurch Street service is 1959 built AM2 (Class 302) EMU No 264, pictured at Leigh-on-Sea - c.1964.
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© 2021 - 53A Models of Hull Collection. Scanned from the original 35mm colour transparency; photograph by Ken Larwood.
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