Thats them! They must have been refurbished by nse. Love the look of them
There were 7 of them originally,well when I joined the South Western Division in 1989...There were others.I found a pic of 2317...There were others converted from the CEPs but I dont think they had buffets on board.I do remember them also.
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4BEP's, a CEP with a buffet wagon inserted. Never been on one, I only had the bog standard CEP's down on the South Eastern. There was a CIG equivalent on the Brighton lines called a BIG.
Theres a 4BEP (ex-CEP) on the East Kent Railway and in SWT livery, although the only modifications I noticed was the numbering it is now 7105.
Always funny how the 1950s CEPs and BEPs, once refurbished with their white paneling, orange bulkheads, strip lighting, hopper windows and IC70 seats looked more modern than the 60s and 70s CIGs and VEPs. They had that HST era feel to them, unlike the CIGs and VEPs which had almost an end of steam era feel to them.
Almost A greyhound had an extra set of weak field resistances which were brought into use by an extra step on the camshaft/current limit relay after normal weak field. I can't remember the speed this came in at though but I think it was around 50mph(?). Greyhounds had stickers on the drivers desks to remind drivers that the unit was a greyhound as it was quite easy to end up going quite a bit quicker than a normal unit without realising it and, of course, the brakes weren't modified in any way to suit the extra speed. Official top speed was still 90mph though.A Greyhound was a CIG with (I think, not too hot on EMU technicalities) an extra weak field position on the power controller, essentially allowing 100mph running and very rapid acceleration.
When coming into Basingstoke (on the stopping service) from Waterloo the drivers of these units did not apply the brakes till the last bridge before the cross-over. How they swayed n rocked.
They are much better than the boring units we have now.
what are those yellow things for?
Yes, when I travel on that it will be my first time
It's an interesting reversal of the situation in the late 70's/early80's when some of the BEPs had their buffet cars replaced with trailers and became CEP's !
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what was the point of the additional field winding ,if the top speed was still 90
was it to give better acceleration
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very interesting where is it based ?
what livery will it be when done ?and is it planned to do a 4 car unit?
A Greyhound was a CIG with (I think, not too hot on EMU technicalities) an extra weak field position on the power controller, essentially allowing 100mph running and very rapid acceleration.
I think 2317 was a renumbering from 2307 when the buffet cars were switched around near the end of their days?