History
The first certain example of this practice being carried out was at Haywards Heath on the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway in May 1858. Improvements in the acceleration of trains, the introduction of fixed multiple unit trains, and the high cost per passenger of operating slip coaches, meant that the operation had mostly died out by the mid-20th century.
The Southern Railway abolished the practice in April 1932 with the electrification of the Brighton Main Line. The last two slip coach operations on the London and North Eastern Railway were out of Liverpool Street railway station in 1936. These were the 6 p.m. which slipped coaches for Waltham Cross using old GER 6 wheeled slip coaches and the 4.57 express to Clacton on Sea which slipped a couple of coaches at Marks Tey railway station for Bury St Edmunds railway station using a bogie corridor slip coach of modern design, with a corridor "trailer".
The very last slip of all was on the Western Region of British Railways at Bicester North on 10 September 1960.
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