Photo Silverlink EMU Train Class 321422 Wolverton 1990s

'Silverlink Trains' Class 321422 Electric Multiple Unit, Wolverton

Photo:  Charles Moorhen

Photo of UK 'Silverlink Trains' electric multiple unit, (EMU), Class 321 321422 entering Wolverton station in Buckinghamshire whilst operating a service from London Euston to Northampton.

Owned by National Express, 'Silverlink Trains' passenger trains operated passenger services on various lines between March 1997 and November 2007, taking over from the 'boxy-shaped' Network South East Class 317s.

The Class 321 electric multiple units consisted of 117 4-car units drawing from power from overhead lines.  The trains were built between 1988 and 1991 at British Rail Engineering Limited's York Works in three batches.

The Silverlink Class 321 units on the Northampton Line were superseded the Class 350 emu's when London Midland Trains took over the franchise, and then again by West Midlands Trains. 


Wolverton railway station historical note:
It was at Wolverton railway station in Buckinghamshire, on the 9th September 1845, that bare-knuckle fighter, Bendigo, stepped from a carriage of a London & Birmingham Railway train surrounded by a horde of his supporters.

His destination was the nearby town of Newport Pagnell where it was arranged that he would take part in an illegal fight with Ben Court.

At the last possible moment, for various reasons, the venue was switched to the village of Lillington Lovell, 4 miles north of Buckingham.


The match went ahead with Bendigo being heralded the winner after 96 gruelling rounds.

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