Class 442s finish on Gatwick duties

Sam Hewitt

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31st October 2016

SUFFICIENT Class 387/2s were in service during September to allow the remaining Class 442s to be withdrawn from Gatwick Express duties.

**ROG’s No. 47812 nears its destination hauling ‘Wessex Electric’ No. 442418 as the 5E42/04.15 Eastleigh Works to Ely Papworth for storage on September 28. Peter R Foster**

The final booked ‘GatEx’ working was in the early hours of September 17, when No. 442413 worked the 1D02/00.02 Victoria to Gatwick and 1U07/00.50 return. This leaves just four peak-hour diagrams into and out of London Bridge for the former ‘Wessex Electrics’ from a pool of
Nos. 442402/06/08/10/13/19.

More units have been moved to Ely for storage in recent weeks, No. 442420 being transferred by
No. 47815 as the 5E42/12.45 Eastleigh Works-Ely Papworth on August 31.

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