12th Sept 1994

At 10.57 an unidentified Wessex Electric, the Class 442, heads away past the terminal with a London Waterloo to Weymouth service. These sharp-looking units, built on the Mark 3 coach platform and reusing traction equipment from 4-REP EMUs, were considered the best EMUs on the rails at the time, and although they have long-since moved away from this route, they are back in favour and look set to establish themselves on trains to Portsmouth. The First Class section included compartments, the last such trains to be built for British Rail, although I think I am correct in saying that they have been remodelled and the compartments removed.