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Class 488/3 TSOLH - Trailer Standard Open Lavatory, Handbrake fitted. 72609 & 72724 (a TSOL - Trailer Standard Open Lavatory) fron Gatwick Express unit 8305, are seen within this unit while forming part of a Gatwick Express trainset an Gatwick Airport on Thursday 16th April 1998 at 19:26. The livery carried by these vehicles here is the new advertising livery. Photo and scan: Ross Aitken (aos@cableinet.co.uk).

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Class 448/3 TSOLH - Trailer Standard Open Lavatory & Handbrake Fitted. No: 72624 from Gatwick Express unit 8313, is seen within this unit while in the consist of a Gatwick Express trainset at Gatwick Airport on Wednesday 15th April 1998 at 11:27. This vehicle was converted from a MK 2 AC2F/TSO (Gangwayed Open Standard, 2+2 seating) No: 5972. Photo and scan: Ross Aitken (aos@cableinet.co.uk).

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Gatwick Express Class 488/2, 2-car unit. No: 8206 (72505+72629) is seen at Gatwick Airport while in the consist of a Gatwick Express trainset on Wednesday 15th April 1998 at 11:35. Photo and scan: Ross Aitken (aos@cableinet.co.uk).

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Gatwick Express Class 489 DMLV - Driving Motor Luggage Van. No: 9110 (68509) is seen at Gatwick Airport while in the consist of a Gatwick Express trainset on Wednesday 15th April 1998 at 11:33. This vehicle was converted from a Class 414 DMBSO (Driving Motor Brake Second Open) No: 61280. Photo and scan: Ross Aitken (aos@cableinet.co.uk).

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Driving/luggage-trailer, seen on a Gatwick Express service. There is only 1 such Mk2 push-pull set still running on Victoria-Gatwick, primarily as a back-up for 460s. This is actually a former Driving/Motor car of a slam-door commuter EMU (413, 414 or 416). When Gatwick Express was upgraded to Mk2 cars (1984), those Mk1 trailers lost their motors. They were also remodelled into a large (restricted) luggage-van, so as to attend the needs of a newly-available advance check-in service from Victoria. In the aftermath of 9/11, Victoria check-in counters closed down, sadly... London-Victoria. 18th August 2004. P.L.Guillemin (plguillemin@yahoo.fr)

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Driving Trailert 9109 on the rear of a Gatwick-bound Gatwick Express passes through Clapham Junction on 28 May 1996. [actually, it's a driving motor car class 489, DR/MAvU] Photo and scan copyright Pat & David Othen, Dartmouth, NS Canada (dothen@ra.isisnet.com)