Shortlands in 1988

SHORTLANDS

(All 9.8.1988 copyright Steve Sainsbury/Rail Thing)

SOUTHERN REGION SCENE - 1980s

After many years of what seemed, at the time, a dull procession of blue and blue and grey, with little new on the scene, the end of the 80s saw big changes on the old Southern Region as it morphed into Network SouthEast.

Liveries began to change and new trains started to appear.

An hour or so at Shortlands in 1988 caught this process under way as Network SouthEast livery started appearing, along with class 319 units amongst the old slam door stock. In fact from these pics blue and grey may never have existed!

Upper Warlingham 16.8.1988

UPPER WARLINGHAM

(All 16.8.1988 copyright Steve Sainsbury/Rail Thing)

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Three snatched shots at Upper Warlingham on 16 August 1988 showing the station and an NSE liveried unit number 1266 on an East Grinstead train. 

Upper Warlingham Station

Upper Warlingham station is on the Oxted line and is one of three stations that serve Whyeleafe, as well as serving Warlingham. In fact it is only 150 metres (geographically) from Whyteleafe station on the parallel Caterham branch.

The 'Upper' prefix was added in 1956 to distinguish the station from Warlingham station on the Caterham line, renamed Whyteleafe South at the same time.

The "Upper" prefix originated because what is now Whyteleafe South station on the Caterham line, approximately 600 yards to the south west, was previously (until 1956) called Warlingham station and the prefix was originally necessary to differentiate them, Whyteleafe South station being lower down in the valley. Somehow the prefix survived the change in 1956.

Typically (2016) the station sees 2 trains per hour to London and East Grinstead.

The station was opened on 10 March 1884 and has seen passenger traffic almost double over the last 10 years, from 533,000 in 2004/05 to 976,000 in 2014/15.

Dunton Green 1986 part 3

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5121 Dunton Green 28.5.1986

 1594 Dunton Green 28.5.1986

1524 Dunton Green 28.5.1986

(All copyright Steve Sainsbury/Rail Thing)

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The third and last instalment of photos from what was becoming an increasingly wet and dull Dunton Green! It looked like the Jaffa Cakes were taking over at this point, but sadly it was not to be and soon the blander and less classy red white and blue livery would dominate! All these shots are historic now of course.