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4CIG units 421857 and 421832 heading South past Stoat's Nest Jn in South London with a coastbound rush hour service. June 16, 2003. Photo and copyright Wayland Smith (wa231_2000@yahoo.co.uk)

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421908 approaches Arundel with a coastbound service in the aftermath of recent flooding in the Arun Valley. An even more recent sno shower has blanketed the distant hilltops. 4 January, 2003. Photo and copyright Wayland Smith (wa231_2000@yahoo.co.uk)

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Farewell to slam-door stock... Cab/First/Standard-class trailer of a Class 421 of South Central Trains, seen at London-Bridge (Lower Tracks), awaiting departure to Bognor Regis. These units run on fast and semi-fast services between London and Sussex. While these are under withdrawal, quite many of them have been reliveried to SCT coulours since Connex lost this franchise in 2001. 6th December 2003. P.L.Guillemin (plguillemin@yahoo.fr)

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Farewell to slam-door stock... Standard-class intermediate trailer of a Class 421 of South Central Trains, seen at London-Bridge (Lower Tracks), awaiting departure to Bognor Regis. These units run on fast and semi-fast services between London and Sussex. While these are under withdrawal, quite many of them have been reliveried to SCT coulours since Connex lost this franchise in 2001. 6th December 2003. P.L.Guillemin (plguillemin@yahoo.fr)

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4VEP unti seen at Southampton Central in the new GoVia South Central livery. The livery is based upon the old Southern Railway livery in the 1930's - interestingley this livery as applied to the 4-VEP units seems to contravene the code of practice introduced to ensure that access points (doors) are marked clearly. This is why all of the new liveries highlight the door access points in a highly contrasting colour. In the livery applied to the Class 455 units the doors are marked out in green in a grey background. [according to the set number this is a class 421/4 "4 Cig" (MvU)] All pictures taken on Kodak DC260 digital camera with copyright being retained by author who can be contacted via ecml@yahoo.co.uk

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Class 411 in the new GoVia livery -a classic! Copyright belongs to Andrew Ducker who can be contacted at ecml@yahoo.co.uk. All photographs taken on Nikon M5000 at maximum and files converted from TIFF files to JPEG using Photo Shop Paint V7. All photographs taken on 22 February 2003.

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Green is the traditional 'Southern Region' colour and this modern version is seen on unit 1908 at Portslade on the 2nd April 2004. Photo from James & Martin's Picture Collection Copyright 'Jampics' m.hawkes7@ntlworld.com British and Foreign Railway Pictures Jampics Fotopic.

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Although a number of slam door units are likely to remain in service until the end of 2005 the sight of this distinctive look will soon be no more. Here we see Southern's 1861 departing Coulsdon South for London on the 23rd April 2005. Photo from James & Martin's Picture Collection Copyright 'Jampics' m.hawkes7@ntlworld.com British and Foreign Railway Pictures Jampics Fotopic.