Hi thanks for looking. As a young boy I remember that if you missed the last train from sheerness on sea, around half hour later a maintenance train would stop at the end of the platform and if you asked nicely the driver would let you hop in the cab and make a unscheduled stop at Queenborough to drop us off. I'm just trying to explain this to my son who in this day and age isn't allowed in the cab of a moving train thanks to health and safety law! Does anybody remember these trains? Was it a 930. Thanks.
Oh I see Class 930 was not a particular class train. Looking through old pictures on the web it looks like it may have been a converted class 416. I remember it looking pretty much the same as the old thumpers i used to catch near my dads place but they were diesels. The maintenance train was electric. https://flic.kr/p/Jyc7BW
The picture you linked is of 930 004, and if you look that up on the page I linked you can see it started life as a class 405 - unit number 4361 the class 405 wiki page is : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Rail_Class_405 you can definitely see the resemblance
Oh yea. I see it also says at the bottom of the image i shared it was converted from a 405. They really did like to get their moneys worth out of them old units.
