About Us

The AC EMU Group, in the form of a loose association of people, has been campaigning to save AC EMU's from the late nineties; this included representations to the Railway Heritage Committee.

In early 2002 it was decided to make the group more formal and invite membership.

The main aims of the Group are to preserve the history of AC EMU's in their use and development, and to foster an appreciation of AC EMU's in the UK.

Since being formed the Group has saved Class 308 BDTSOL number 75881, which is now at the Pump House Museum, Walthamstow. A growing collection of items relating to AC EMU's, telling the story of their use, development and design, have also been obtained.

 

The Group's Aims

• To Restore Class 308 BDTSOL No. 75881 and use it as a museum for AC EMU's.
• To save at least one carriage from a Class 309, if not a unit for use on a preserved line.
• To establish a collection of artefacts that can be used to tell the story of the development and uses of AC EMU's in the UK. (If possible this would include a number of additional carriages to go along with our 308).
• To save such documents and pictorial records as allow this story to be told. These could include driver manuals, instruction booklets, log sheets, posters...
• Foster through its actions a greater appreciation of AC EMU's past, present and future in the UK.