Southern Deltics

[33011]

How many of you remember the 4 REP EMUs aka Southern Deltics? For anyone who didn't imagine a 4 car slammer capable of hauling two unpowered slammers. The REPS had 3200hp and have been known to moved a broken down freight train plus it's own. The motors from one REP went into two 442s.

[Arthur Maunsell]

my first experiances with them in about 1969/70 were instructive...the driver told us it would do a speed of " One Hundred and screw" (in other words there was a stop on the speedo which prevented it reading any higher but they went like the wind....

[pavorossi]

They sound like excellent units, where any of them preserved?

[33011]

Originally Posted by pavorossi

They sound like excellent units, where any of them preserved?

No as there were 15 REPS and their motors were need for 24 class 442s.There are two former motor coaches used as hauled stock in departmental trains both from 3015 and they were the last mk1s built in the early 70s.

[pavorossi]

Originally Posted by 33011

No as there were 15 REPS and their motors were need for 24 class 442s.There are two former motor coaches used as hauled stock in departmental trains both from 3015 and they were the last mk1s built in the early 70s.

I see. Cheers for the info.

[rogace]

i travelled to B'mth and Weymouth often on REP/TC's

i loved them, they were very bullish... still a proper express after the demise of SR steam...

also they had a restaurant car !

[John Hunt]

Also; the buffet cars all had names. I remember spotting these in the early 80s at Clapham Junction.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Rail_Class_432

[33011]

Originally Posted by John Hunt

Also; the buffet cars all had names. I remember spotting these in the early 80s at Clapham Junction.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Rail_Class_432

All the names were behind the bar if i remember correctly so could not be veiwed from the outside of the unit.