EMUPS PRESS RELEASE February 1^st, 2008

90 days to move 1198

 

The storage agreement for 1198 with the Dartmoor Railway expires soon. We have been given until the first week in May 2008 to move 1198 to another home.

 

The Eden Valley Railway, home to the MLVs 9003 and 9005 plus the CEPs 2311 and 2315 has offered it a home.

 

The best price we have found for low loader transport is £5,800

 

We need to raise this money as a matter of urgency.

 

Donations of any amount will be gratefully received, If you can help in any other way, please let us know.

 

Life membership of the EMU Preservation Society is £500, donate that, and you are in for life.

 

If you cannot afford £500, then whatever you can manage will be calculated in membership at £17.50 per year.

 

With all of us pulling together we can move 1198 to a line where it will be cared for, looked after along with its fellow units – 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

Don Evans, Membership Secretary.

11 South Mead, Redhill, Surrey, RH1 2EL

 

Another way to help us while you save money….

 

Join up to Utility Warehouse. This is a great way of reducing your bills on phone and other utilities as well as giving 5% commission on all UW bills payments to EMUPS.

Anyone joining up with Utility Warehouse will generate long term funds for EMUPS while saving on their bills.

Ring 0800 1313000 for details and quote EMUPS reference - B36820 already set up to channel money to EMUPS.

 

 

 

About EMUPS

 

EMUPS is the Electric Multiple Unit Preservation Society Ltd. Owners of 1198, it is a company set up at Companies House and limited by guarantee. Our aim, eventually, is to gain charitable status and benefit from gift aid and other advantages afforded to such groups.

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; this rule applies at Dartmoor, and will continue to apply wherever 1198 goes. Thus the host line 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 go to a line where it can be operational on a regular basis.
Our Plans:

 

[1] Light and heat. Thanks to Martyn, 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 plan to use a ‘disabled’ door from 1699 in the TBC coach to allow a wheelchair passenger to sit in a proper compartment with friends, family or carers. This will also benefit the line accepting 1198.

[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 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.

 

 

About us:

 

 Who we are and what we do – special responsibilities

 

Chairman - planning and direction

Philip Roy

 

Vice Chairman - Liaison with other preservation societies

Albert Mutton

 

Director - Administration work and organisation

Robert Burch

 

Company Secretary - Financial management and planning

Chris da Silva-Skinner

 

Electrical engineer – ETH work (chairman of Eden Valley Railway)

Martyn Hewitson-Griffiths

 

Fitters – maintenance and exams

Darren and Julian

 

Membership Secretary

Don Evans

 

Magazine editor

Norman Worsfold

 

Find out More

We have a Yahoo! Group http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/EMUPreservationSociety/ we post events and so on here, please feel free to join up.

Our website www.emups.org.uk is down for maintenance but should be back up soon.

 

 

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 Victoria, Charing Cross, Blackfriars and Cannon Street.

 

It went for refurbishment at Swindon and lost its TSK (Trailer second Corridor) carriage for a buffet car, and emerged as a BEP [Buffet Electro-Pneumatic] unit, numbered 2304, allocated to the South Western division working mainline services from Waterloo.

 

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.

 

It was then required to run on the Lymington Line, and lost the TSO it had for a few months, becoming a 3CEP, numbered 1198 with the unofficial name of  ‘Linda’  the Lymington Flyer.

The table – timeline below shows the dates, liveries formations and events in its mainline life.

 

Dates	Liveries	Unit	Carriages	Major events
24/11/60	Green	7175	61736, 70573, 70524, 61737	Phase 2 4CEP unit new from Eastleigh, sent to Ardingly for store
June 61	Green	7175	61736, 70573, 70524, 61737	Unit moved to Ramsgate, enters service
May 67	Blue with full yellow ends*	7175	61736, 70573, 70524, 61737	Re-livery, few CEPs were to carry this version
May 70	Blue/grey	7175	61736, 70573, 70524, 61737	Re-livery
05/05/83	Blue/grey	7175	61736, 70573, 70524, 61737	Sent to Swindon for refurbishment
May-Oct 83	Blue/Grey	7175 – 2304	1st remarshalling: 61736, 70573 stay, 70524 out, 69344 in, 61737 stays	TSK 70524 lost to unit 1621. Buffet 69344 gained from unit 7013, interior modernised, hopper windows fitted, guards brake now in TBC 70573, unit now a 4BEP
03/11/83	Blue/grey	2304	61736, 70573, 69344, 61737	Unit moved to Fratton, enters service
1988	Blue/grey	2304	61736, 70573, 69344, 61737	Rebogied, Mk6 motor and Mk5 trailer bogies, Greyhound mod
Apr 89	NSE	2304	61736, 70573, 69344, 61737	Relivery
02/06/96	NSE	2304	61736, 70573, 69344, 61737	Buffet cars decommissioned across SWT
Dec 97	SWT	2304	61736, 70573, 69344, 61737	Overhaul and relivery
20/09/02	SWT	2304 – 2314	2nd remarshalling: 61736, 70573 stay, 69344 out, 70517 in, 61737 stays	Buffet car 69344 lost to 1566 [which became 2324] TSO 70517 gained from 1566/2324, our unit now a 4CEP again
29/05/04	SWT	2314 – 1198	3rd remarshalling: 61736, 70573 stay, 70517 out, 61737 stays	TS 70517 removed for scrap, 3CEP unit allocated to Lymington line, dubbed ‘Linda’
24/12/04	SWT	1198	61736, 70573, 61737	Last run in SWT service
30/12/04	SWT	1198	61736, 70573, 61737	Unit off lease, to Porterbrook
30/12/04	SWT	1198	61736, 70573, 61737	Unit purchased from Porterbrook by EMUPS
12/01/05	SWT	1198	61736, 70573, 61737	Unit hauled to Meldon for works in preservation

*some units appeared with yellow panels within the corridor connector.

 

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 Dartmoor  and initially we wanted 2315, as this unit has the TSO 70229, which really belongs in the East Kent unit 2325 AKA 7105 which we had helped to save earlier.

The plan was to convert 2315 into a 3 Car unit [The Dartmoor Railway 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 runs out in April and so we must find a new home for 1198.

 

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 1^st 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.

 

Works already completed.

 

On arrival at Meldon, work got underway to repaint 1198. We were told it had to be in Atlantic Coast Green, and we were able to get it into the correct undercoat in time for the 2006 diesel Gala. The railway has since asked that the top coat be blue as ‘blue is nicer’.

We are not greatly concerned about the colour scheme, so long as it runs in service; one more coat of paint is, after all, more protection.

 

Electric Train Heating (ETH) was fitted to the DMSO (A) end and provides light to the whole unit and heat to the DMSO (A) and TBC; it was fitted by Martyn who made several runs from the north of England to meet the deadline before the 2006 Gala. Plans to extend ETH to the third (DMSO (B)) carriage are now on hold until the unit is at its new home.

 

A lot of work has been done to improve flooring and window frames, repair lavatory valves, fix loose fittings etc. These works, although minor, all add up to make 1198 a pleasant, comfortable and safe unit.

 

Future Plans.

We plan to cut a doorway from the goods area to the standard compartment to allow a wheelchair user to enter by the double doors in the goods area and access the standard compartment by way of the new door. Plans are also being made to fit removable tables; these would fit over the existing trinket trays and have a fold-back leg, to allow the unit to work as a dining train, or as it was built, or as a combination of both., these works will continue at the unit’s new home