4Vep/3Vep/4Vop (Class 423)
| 4-Vep unit 7857 (now 3157) at Victoria in April 1986 when it
was allocated to Ramsgate.
photograph by Jeffrey Lynn |
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7841, the rear unit of an 8-car train, stops at Preston Park on a stopping
service to Victoria.
photograph by Glen Woods |
| 4 Vep 7839 is photographed in Network South East livery at
Sheerness-on-Sea in 1987. The train has just arrived with an off-peak shuttle
service from Sittingbourne and the motorman is walking to the southern end of
the unit ready for the return journey. Through services run from Sheerness to
London during peak hours using a spur to the branch from the main North Kent
line.
photograph by Keith Harwood |
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An unidentified 4Vep unit in original Network SouthEast livery and before
the high intensity headlight had been fitted is seen at London Bridge on 28th
August 1988 leading a 4 Cep unit from Hastings.
photograph by Colin Duff |
| Vep 3457 at Alton on 6th April 1991 striking an interesting
contrast between the "toothpaste stripe" Network SoutEast livery and
the traditional Southern Railway colours on the LSWR design footbridge leading
to the Mid-Hants Railway platform.
photograph by Colin Duff |
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Cab side detail illustrated by the side of DTC car 76266 of unit 423419.
photograph by Tony Galiani |
| Another South West Trains 4 Vep, this time 3560, passing
Vauxhall with a down Portsmouth service in January 1999.
photograph by Jonathan Hall |
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Connex 423489 at London Bridge low level in January 1999. Note the window
bars fitted to the doors for working in tunnels of restricted width on the
Hastings line.
photograph by Jonathan Hall |
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