Southern Region Diesel & Electric

Two Programmes looking at Diesel & Electric power in the last days of British Railways in the late 1980s & early 1990s

Video Profile The Southern Region
Diesel Power - Class 33s in Kent on freight and passenger.
Electro Diesels - Class 73 on a wide range of traffic.
Diesel Multiple Units - ‘Hastings Units’ and Class 205 DEMUs.
Electric Multiple Units - The Southerns Class 415, 416, 405, 2 BIL, 411, 423, 421, 455 and 442.

Video Profile - The Class 33s
The ‘Cromptons’ from the 1960s to the early 1990s.
The class are shown at work at London Bridge, Eridge, Southampton and the Waterloo Main Line.
Push-Pull services to Weymouth just prior to electrification of the line in May 1988.
Class 33s on the scenic cross country Portsmouth to Bristol line.

85 mins approx