for the traction motors and control gear which, not being life-expired, were re-used. Various solutions to this stock shortage were found. In 1990, the South Hampshire Electrification Project (SHEP) was completed involving the Portsmouth to Eastleigh/Southampton lines. New stock was not allocated due to financial constraints but the service had to be kept running using existing resources. Originally it had been planned to retain three 4-REPs which had earlier been stripped of asbestos, however unit No. 2003 was partially written off following the Clapham Junction rail crash in 1988, so a change of plan was needed. Instead a new formation of four 6-REP units (numbers being 1903 to 1906) was considered and finally implemented on the route. Spare TC trailers were used to form the expanded units. The 432 driving cars were relocated into the middle of the formation and had their leading ends repainted and their driver compartment doors locked out of use. Shoe gear was fitted and all coaches in blue/grey were repainted into NSE colours. The 6-REPs also saw protracted use on the Weymouth line during the testing of Class 442s. In extreme cases, to keep services running, 4-REPs had a motor coach replaced by a Class 73 locomotive. The new stock was to be the Class 442, based on the Mark 3 coach bodyshell. This required REP units to be reformed and withdrawn to allow the equipment to be recovered before new 442s could become available. Reconfigured REPs and TCs soldiered on along the Weymouth line to cover for unavailable 442 units from mid 1988 until 1991. During the run formations changed regularly and renumbering of the units in the 19xx series was common, including the original 1901 and 1902 set numbers. The final use of a REP was in the last week of September 1991, units 1901 and 1904 being the last. Further use 2 driving motors have survived from unit no. 2015 as departmental vehicles, albeit heavily modified, in use for ultrasonic testing of then Railtrack. 62483 became 999602 and ran sandwiched between Class 101 DMU vehicles converted to Class 901 until 2012, when it was considered as scrapped, however there have been sightings of its existence since, and has resumed operations as a locomotive-hauled train in 2021. 62482, since renumbered 999605, was formed in a locomotive-hauled test train usually in the care of two Class 31 locomotives. 62482 and 62483 are the last