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The PBR and EMUPS
What all
this then? It’s a rather odd initiative
from the PBR to accommodate a group and their train, which, in essence, and
through no fault of their own (more on that below), had been given their
marching orders from their previous home on the Dartmoor Railway. This happened at just the same time that the
PBR had decided to ‘cash-in’ on some of the spare siding capacity that it had
at its disposal. PBR are proud to serve
as hosts to another group of committed preservationists, and hopes for a long
and successful association.
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3-CEP 1198 rolls gently into Platform 1 at Furnace
Sidings Freshly
painted in Rail Blue, it was taking part in PBR’s
first ‘Southern with Altitude’ event, a largely unadvertised, ad hoc, event
held over the weekend 14 and Here, on the Sunday, the unit is being driven
using ‘through control’ in order to ‘drive’ the class 73 locomotive at the
back of the train (photo Alistair Grieve) |
About EMUPS
The Electric Multiple Unit Preservation Society Ltd, (EMUPS) is a
registered company and limited by guarantee.
Its members are all committed volunteers, anxious to preserve a wide
cross-section of Electric Multiple Units
(EMUs).
Our aim, eventually, is to gain charitable status and benefit from gift
aid and other advantages afforded to such groups.
EMUPS saved, owns, and
maintains a three-coach third-rail Electric Multiple Unit (EMU), Unit
No.1198. A four-car unit was built in
1960 as a so-called 4-Cep class for BR(Southern
Region) for the
The
Unit’s previous home, the Dartmoor Railway was owned by Ealing Community
Transport (ECT). Around January 2008 ECT
abruptly announced that they were going to close the
EMUPS has a few rules, one of
which is that if the line on which our unit resides requires our help, we drop tools
and help the host railway. Thus the host
railway does not just gain a working unit, but also expertise from our members
who can be called upon to provide skilled assistance. Our unit, 1198, was purchased as a working
train straight from the main line. We are therefore keen for it to operate on a
regular basis. Of course, currently, no
conventional heritage railway is electrified with the third rail (or overhead
for that matter), so the best we can do for the present is to haul the unit
with a suitable locomotive, such as a class 73 electro-diesel.
About us:
Who we are - what we do – special responsibilities
Chairman - planning and
direction - Philip Roy
Liaison with other
preservation societies - Albert Mutton
Administration work and
organisation - Robert Burch
Treasurer Chris Newbury
Electrical engineer – ETH
work - Martyn Hewitson-Griffiths
Fitters – maintenance and
exams – Darren Franklin
Membership Secretary – Chris
Newbury (tel:07961 990344)
Find out More
We have a Yahoo! Group, which you can join immediately if you are
registered with Yahoo.
http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/EMUPreservationSociety/
If you are not registered
with Yahoo!, then click the button above to begin the registration process
-we post events and so on, on the
group’s pages, so please feel free to join up.
How
you can help
Like all railway preservation
groups there is a perennial shortage of both funding and volunteers.
Insofar as funding is concerned,
donations of any amount will be gratefully received. If you want to volunteer then please contact
anyone on this website by either phone or email , If you can help in any other
way, please let us know.
Life membership of the EMU Preservation Society is £350, donate that,
and you are in for life.
If you cannot afford £350, then whatever you can manage will be
calculated in membership at £15.00 per year.
We now have 1198 at a line where it will be cared for, looked after
along with other EMUs – 1198 was 2314 before it
became a 3-car unit and went to the Lymington Line -
and most importantly – run in service!
Send
donations and membership orders to
Chris
Newbury
EMUPS c/o Hilary Press,
75,
Hendon,
Our Plans:
Once we have paid the transport costs we can return to our plans which are:
[1] Light and heat. Thanks to Martyn Hewitson-Griffiths, 1198 already has ETH fitted to the DMSA
end, and we hope to add this to the other end as well.
[2] Disability access. We are in the process of fitting a disabled
door, similar to that used in 1699 to allow a wheelchair passenger to sit in a
proper compartment with friends, family or carers.
[3] Safety features. 1198 is electrically complete, and we are willing
to consider the fitting of Secondary Door Locking and make other changes in
time to allow a return to the mainline. These fittings should also permit over
25mph running on other lines, thus making the unit of use to community-based as
well as conventional preserved lines.
[4] Educational value. As a CEP, 1198 will provide a contrast with the
other three surviving CEP units; one of which is to be retro-fitted and two are
to remain post-Swindon (BR modifications 1970’s) but with earlier liveries.
1198 will be taking things forward – how would the CEPs
have had to change had they been allowed to continue on the mainline?
[5] Flexibility of use. We are working on detachable tables that can
fit over the trinket trays to allow buffet operations using the unit.
[6] Traction. We are looking into ways of fitting batteries to the unit
to allow limited amount of traction for running, shunting, etc., thus saving on
diesel propulsion and its fuel.
1198 on the mainline.
1198 started off as a Phase 2 Kent Coast Electrification 4CEP [Corridored Electro-Pneumatic] unit, number 7175; it saw
regular use on Boat trains and other services from
It went for refurbishment at
It remained there until retirement; in its last years it lost its
buffet car and gained a TSO, (Trailer Second Open)
reverting to a 4CEP, numbered 2314.
From June 2004, it was transferred to run on the Lymington
Line till December of that year, and lost the TSO it had for a few months,
becoming a 3CEP, and numbered 1198.
Staff on the Lymigton branch unofficially
named 1198 ‘Linda’. Another 3CEP, 1199,
worked the branch before Linda and was dubbed ‘Lucy’, whilst ‘Lisa’, a 3CIG
(Class 421) came later and worked the branch.
Collectively they were called ’The Lymington
Flyers’. 1198 was secured for
preservation in January 2005 when it went to the Dartmoor Railway
1198 since preservation
The start of 1198`s life after the mainline.
1198 nearly wasn’t saved; EMUPS had an agreement to bring a FOUR car
unit to
The plan was to convert 2315 into a 3 Car unit [The Railway
Inspectorate does not permit propelling of 4 or more vehicles so a 3 car was
needed anyway] and use the TSO for stores, eventually donating it to the EPBPG
who own 2325/7105, thus giving them the complete original unit.
However a short-lived HSE restriction meant we could only have 1198,
but after the restriction lifted, we helped negotiate for both 2315 and 2311 to
be saved at the Eden Valley Railway. In this way the only four complete CEP
units were saved; 2325, 1198, 2311 and 2315.
There have been a number of
setbacks, after arrival we were told the airbraked
steam locomotive 1198 was to have worked with had a damaged boiler and was
unable to enter service; the replacement was vacuum braked, and thus
incompatible with our unit.
In autumn 2007 the unit was passed fit to run, and the unit was used
for several driver training runs at line speed to and from Coleford
with a class 73 loco working in multiple. The unit was popular with the drivers
and other operational staff at the line.
Unfortunately, later in 2007 a
change of stock policy by the railway rendered the unit surplus to their
requirements. The storage agreement ran out in April 2008 and so we had to find
a new home for 1198 – and here we are at Blaenavon.
The Unit.
1198 is a highly versatile unit;
it consists of two Driving Motor Second Open (DMSO) vehicles with 64 standard
seats per carriage, with a centre Trailer Brake Composite (TBC) vehicle with
two toilets, four 1st class compartments with 6 seats each, a guards brake, a
goods area next to a standard class compartment of 6 seats.
The unit is gangwayed throughout, making for
easy access for passengers and train crew to any part of the train.
Work on the unit
Past,
current and future work on the unit is described HERE
There are a number of files
relating to EMUPS activities linked to this page. They are listed below:
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HERE for a brief history of ‘CEPs, CIGs and the rest’, by
Albert Mutton (added Click
HERE for a selection of flyers, produced when
3 Cep unit 1198 was at Click
HERE for some more pictures
the move from Click
HERE for a debate on ‘in what livery should
1198 appear’ Click
HERE-to find out just what CEPs (and BEPs) are left Click
HERE to find the salient details
on 1198. Click HERE to find preserved EMU running dates
for 2011 NEW! Uploaded Click
HERE -to view or download that
all-important resource – the ‘Preserved EMU’ Excel
spreadsheet. Please use your browser’s
‘back arrow’ to return to this page.
The current version is January 2010 |
