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I catalogued this as a "class 302 coach on display". Was it a refurbished coach being shown to the BR Board (the HQ was nearby)? Seems it was, see below. The number doesn't make much sense! March 1980.
BR AM2 - Class 302 - EMUs at Fenchurch Street station, in the mid-1970s.
The station was refurbished in the 1980s, and rebuilt in the 1990s, and only the original street frontage remains. Today (2020) these canopies have gone, and part of the station has been built over.
Restored from an under-exposed grainy original..
Original slide - photographer unknown
Having been introduced into service between 1958 and 1960 these class 302 units certainly looked their age when I took this image in 1985. I believe that a these units continued in service until 1990. Like the class 302's Fenchurch Street station has always been one of the least well known rail termini in London. Frequent services run today to destinations like Southend, Shoeburyness and Grays.
One of the class 302s converted for parcels use on the Great Eastern routes after being released from their LT&S duties, 302993 passes through Stratford on 11th March 1993.
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Res Royal Mail class 302 emu no. 302993 stands at Norwich on 5th July 1993.
Photo: Richard Braybrook
Class 302 unit 302204 at Southend Central on 10 July 1997. The 302s were built in 1958-1960 for service on former LTSR lines - 30 units, including 302204 were refurbished in 1982-1984. The 302s were finally withdrawn by 1998.
BR AM2 - Class 302 - EMUs approaching Barking station on a cold day in January 1982, with a Tilbury Line service to Fenchurch Street. Unit 289 is nearest the camera, and the LT District Line depot is on the left.
The units were later refurbished, and a few were converted for parcels use, but all had been withdrawn by 1999. Today (2019) two driving trailers have survived, at the Mangapps Railway Museum, where they are used for loco-hauled passenger services.
Restored from a misaligned faded grainy original..
Original slide - photographer unknown
302258 at Cambridge working 1505 to Liverpool Street on 31 May 1988. Various types of emu worked on the West Anglia side in the early days of electrification, but this I think is the only decent picture I have. Even more annoyingly I did this and some class 86s that afternoon and didn't take any class 86 pictures either.
A line up of EMU's stabled on Ilford EMU depot. Car E75037, a Driving Trailer Second of Class 302 unit 302205, nearest. Photo taken sometime during week ending 13th January 1990.
Best viewed Original size.
37019 (SF) runs through Stratford staion hauling a down CM&EE train, 5E20 09:26 WO Eastleigh Works to Ilford CS (consisting of newly-outshopped EMU 302279) - 22/12/1982 (12:47).
© 2018 - 53A Models of Hull Collection. Scanned from the original 35mm colour transparency; photograph by Garry Cartwright.
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On 16 September 1985, 302246 arrives at Rainham on an up train. The station had hardly changed since electrification, with the Midland signal box contrasting with the 25 kV OLE, but resignalling, rolling stock replacement and the construction of HS1 would change this scene forever. The open space to the right is now occupied by HS1.
302 226 one of the original 112 4-car dual voltage AC EMU's built for the LT&S (London Tilbury & Southend) 6.25kV electrification is seen at Upminster forming train 2U11 the 13.26 Shoeburyness to London Fenchurch Street. The LT&S was electrified from 1959 onwards at 6.25kv AC rather than 25kV in an effort to reduce costs with expensive infrastructure alterations but the units were designed to run into London Liverpool Street on the GE lines as well as Fenchurch Street. The former GE (Great Eastern) terminus was still using the older 6.25kv AC supply on the inner suburban routes but further out supply was already at 25kV AC so any new EMU's had to be dual power. Reliability problems with the voltage changeover equipment and inadequacy of the weaker supply eventually saw BR convert the remaining 6.25kv lines to 25kv AC as standard from 1975 onward but parts of the LT&S were the last to change. This is why the newer class 312's were delivered as two sub classes 312/0 (sets 701-726) for the GN (25kv only) and 312/1 (sets 781-799) for the GE (6.25/25kv dual). The 315 EMU's built in 1980 were the first new trains to run on the GE that were specified as 25kv AC only.
A very shabby 03 020 is seen coupled to class 302 EMU trailer 75225 outside the coaching stock crematorium otherwise known as Snailwell's fire tunnel. This facility reduced interior fittings to ash and sped up the process of dealing with scrap coaching stock.
03 020 had lead a chequered existence here having been withdrawn by BR on 03/12/75 from Norwich Thorpe Depot it was sold to A. King & Sons Ltd the then owners of Snailwell Scrapyard in July 1976. It had left BR in a run down condition and in need of overhaul and within a year it was out of use at the scrapyard with mechanical failure. Unlike most scrapyard shunters that fail and end up on the scrap heap 03 020 was put to one side and infact remained stored here for 10 years before sister 03 012 expired and became a parts donor to reactivate 03 020. It retured to operational use in November 1987 and worked a further 8 years at the scrapyard before being sold into preservation with the SYRPS at Meadowhall on 09/11/95. It is now to be found at Mangapps Rauilway Museum, Burnham-on-Crouch where it arrived on 13th December 2010.
Class 302 parcels unit number 302991 heads away from London Liverpool Street and passes through Stratford on the evening of the 4th July 1991.
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Freshly painted Class 302 EMU 226 in Network SouthEast livery at Wolverton works in the late 1980s, with the traverser behind, and a Class 317 beyond that.
The Class 302s were originally BR AM2, and had been refurbished earlier in the 1980s. They were withdrawn from service by the end of the 1990s, but two driving trailers have been preserved, at the Mangapps Farm Railway Museum.
Wolverton had remained in use in recent years, for repairs and overhauls, but today (2018) faces an uncertain future, with the site planned for 'redevelopment'.
Restored from a grainy, faded original..
Original negative - photographer unknown