British Rail Class 423
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The British Rail Class 423, electric multiple unit passenger trains were mostly built by British Rail at York Works from 1967 to 1974, although the MBSOs and TSOs of the first 20, 7701-7720, were buil
Class 423/1 4 VEP 3427 at Eastleigh in 2001
Class 423/1, No. 3810 arriving at London Waterloo in 2003. This unit was one of the last to carry Network SouthEast livery. It was nicknamed the "Great Escape" after it was exported to Germany for a while for testing. After a failed attempt to preserve it, the unit was scrapped.
Class 423/1, no. 3445 at Waterloo East in 2003, with a service to Charing Cross. This unit is painted in Connex South Eastern livery.
Class 423/1, no. 3514 at London Victoria in 2003. This was the only unit to be painted in Southern's green livery and was one of the last units still in traffic with Southern.
British Rail Class 377
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The British Rail Class 377 Electrostar is a British dual-voltage electric multiple unit passenger train built by Bombardier Transportation on its Electrostar platform at Derby Litchurch Lane Works fro
British Rail Class 423
…diagramming of units easier. But in the event only eight units were reformed, namely nos. 3813/14/21/22/41-44. By 2004 Southern had started to introduce Class 377 "Electrostar" units into service. Although first introduced in 2002, this did not initially affect the Class 423 as the older 'Phase 1' Class 421 4 CIG…
A Southern Class 377/1 at Hastings
The interior of a Southern Class 377/4