In the days of nationalised British Railways most Brighton fast services were 12 car trains; and they didn't stop at Clapham Junction either.

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(Robin9) wrote:

'D A Stocks[_2_ Wrote:
;123973'] Don't Southern run some 12-car trains as 4 x 3-car?

Yes, used to be quite common on Brighton fast services.

In the days of nationalised British Railways most Brighton fast services
were 12 car trains; and they didn't stop at Clapham Junction either.

But how frequent were they?

--
Colin Rosenstiel

On Oct 30, 4:05*pm, wrote:
In article ,

(Robin9) wrote:
'D A Stocks[_2_ Wrote:
;123973'] *Don't Southern run some 12-car trains as 4 x 3-car?

Yes, used to be quite common on Brighton fast services.

In the days of nationalised British Railways most Brighton fast services
were 12 car trains; and they didn't stop at Clapham Junction either.

But how frequent were they?

--
Colin Rosenstiel

London to Brighton in 4 minutes

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7GXWuTwkF8

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(Dr. Sunil) wrote:

On Oct 30, 4:05*pm, wrote:
In article ,

(Robin9) wrote:
'D A Stocks[_2_ Wrote:
;123973'] *Don't Southern run some 12-car trains as 4 x 3-car?

Yes, used to be quite common on Brighton fast services.

In the days of nationalised British Railways most Brighton fast
services were 12 car trains; and they didn't stop at Clapham Junction
either.

But how frequent were they?

London to Brighton in 4 minutes

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7GXWuTwkF8

That's not a frequency!

--
Colin Rosenstiel

"Robin9" wrote in message
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'D A Stocks[_2_ Wrote:
;123973'] Don't Southern run some 12-car trains as 4 x 3-car?

--
Colin Rosenstiel

Yes, used to be quite common on Brighton fast services.

--
DAS
In the days of nationalised British Railways most Brighton fast services
were 12 car trains; and they didn't stop at Clapham Junction either.

But they weren't 4 x 3-car, which was the question I was answering.

There were mixed 2, 3 and 4 car formations of SR slam-door stock, but I
don't know if it was possible to run more than 3 units coupled in service
,,,

--
DAS

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wrote:

"Robin9" wrote in message
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'D A Stocks[_2_ Wrote:
;123973'] Don't Southern run some 12-car trains as 4 x 3-car?

Yes, used to be quite common on Brighton fast services.

In the days of nationalised British Railways most Brighton fast services
were 12 car trains; and they didn't stop at Clapham Junction either.

But they weren't 4 x 3-car, which was the question I was answering.

There were mixed 2, 3 and 4 car formations of SR slam-door stock, but
I don't know if it was possible to run more than 3 units coupled in
service ,,,

3 car SR units had disappeared by the time I was a lad.

--
Colin Rosenstiel

On Oct 30, 8:07*pm, wrote:
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"Robin9" wrote in message
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'D A Stocks[_2_ Wrote:
;123973'] *Don't Southern run some 12-car trains as 4 x 3-car?

Yes, used to be quite common on Brighton fast services.

In the days of nationalised British Railways most Brighton fast services
were 12 car trains; and they didn't stop at Clapham Junction either.

But they weren't 4 x 3-car, which was the question I was answering.

There were mixed 2, 3 and 4 car formations of SR slam-door stock, but
I don't know if it was possible to run more than 3 units coupled in
service ,,,

3 car SR units had disappeared by the time I was a lad.

--
Colin Rosenstiel- Hide quoted text -

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There would have been some SR DEMUs well into the 90s, no? Off the top
of my head, the 204, 205 and 207s were all three-car.

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(Dr. Sunil) wrote:

On Oct 30, 8:07*pm, wrote:
In article , (D A
Stocks) wrote:

"Robin9" wrote in message
...

'D A Stocks[_2_ Wrote:
;123973'] *Don't Southern run some 12-car trains as 4 x 3-car?

Yes, used to be quite common on Brighton fast services.

In the days of nationalised British Railways most Brighton fast
services were 12 car trains; and they didn't stop at Clapham
Junction either.

But they weren't 4 x 3-car, which was the question I was answering.

There were mixed 2, 3 and 4 car formations of SR slam-door stock, but
I don't know if it was possible to run more than 3 units coupled in
service ,,,

3 car SR units had disappeared by the time I was a lad.

There would have been some SR DEMUs well into the 90s, no? Off the top
of my head, the 204, 205 and 207s were all three-car.

And how many of them ran on London-Brighton services?

--
Colin Rosenstiel

On Oct 30, 9:17*pm, wrote:
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(Dr. Sunil) wrote:
On Oct 30, 8:07*pm, wrote:
In article , (D A
Stocks) wrote:

"Robin9" wrote in message
...

'D A Stocks[_2_ Wrote:
;123973'] *Don't Southern run some 12-car trains as 4 x 3-car?

Yes, used to be quite common on Brighton fast services.

In the days of nationalised British Railways most Brighton fast
services were 12 car trains; and they didn't stop at Clapham
Junction either.

But they weren't 4 x 3-car, which was the question I was answering.

There were mixed 2, 3 and 4 car formations of SR slam-door stock, but
I don't know if it was possible to run more than 3 units coupled in
service ,,,

3 car SR units had disappeared by the time I was a lad.

There would have been some SR DEMUs well into the 90s, no? Off the top
of my head, the 204, 205 and 207s were all three-car.

And how many of them ran on London-Brighton services?

--
Colin Rosenstiel- Hide quoted text -

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You just mentioned above "3-car SR units" - you didn't specify which
line!

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In article , (D A
Stocks)
wrote:

"Robin9" wrote in message
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'D A Stocks[_2_ Wrote:
;123973'] Don't Southern run some 12-car trains as 4 x 3-car?

Yes, used to be quite common on Brighton fast services.

In the days of nationalised British Railways most Brighton fast
services
were 12 car trains; and they didn't stop at Clapham Junction either.

But they weren't 4 x 3-car, which was the question I was answering.

There were mixed 2, 3 and 4 car formations of SR slam-door stock, but
I don't know if it was possible to run more than 3 units coupled in
service ,,,

3 car SR units had disappeared by the time I was a lad.

--
Colin Rosenstiel

You're forgetting the 3-COPs.