1001 with DMBSO 60000 Hastings leading passes through Cowden station with the 08:34 Oxted to Uckfield service on Sunday 25 May 1997, during the Connex South Central's Uckfield Line Gala weekend. Note the long disused up platform, now virtually covered by grass and bushes. It was not far from here that a Class 205 ran past a red signal in 1994 and collided with a train on the single track section. Prior to the advent of radios in the cabs there was no means for the signalman (who was obviously aware of what was happening) to notify either driver.

1001 has traveled widely in its new role and it seen here at the unlikely location of Great Yarmouth. It is arriving with the 13:35 Norwich to Great Yarmouth service on 31 August 1998, during its period on hire to Anglia Railways. After spending thirty years shuttling backwards and forwards between London and Hastings, since being acquired by Hastings Diesels Ltd the unit has often broken free of the former Southern Region. Great Yarmouth is a shadow of its former self, note the grass grown carriage sidings in the background.

1001 passes slowly through Castle Bar Park with the Branch Line Society 'Western Essex Express' railtour on 20 April 2002. At this point it was running 30 minutes late as the 1Z67 11:50 Royal Oak Headshunt to Chelmsford. This mammoth tour started from Hastings at 06:07 and visited numerous sections of rare track around the London and Essex areas before finally arriving back at Hastings at 23:58! It managed to regain all of its lost time, despite being hampered here by being directly behind the 13:32 Greenford to Paddington train.