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The trains you used from East Dulwich would have been what were known as EPB stock (meaning Electro Pneumatic Brake). These became the standard suburban units of the Southern Region of British Railways, and came in two types – the earlier ones based on Mr Bulleid's 1940s bodyshell design and the later ones to BR Mk.I design. The two were completely compatible however, and came in both 2-car and 4-car versions. Within the carriages there were both open saloons and all-compartment types. The compartment carriages became unpopular after some unsavoury incidents in the 1980s and the units were reformed so that some had more compartments and some had none; those with compartment carriages in the make-up were confined to rush-hours only and they became the first to be withdrawn when the new generation of sliding-door trains came in from about 1992. The final EPB trains ran in 1995.
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