- First Class 707 unit delivered
- Class 450 Advertising Vinyls
- Class 456 in Quantity Off Peak
- Class 458/5 Stately Progress
- New Power Car for 5913
- Refurbished Class 456 units in service
- Class 458/5 Out and About
- Class 456 at Waterloo
- Class 456 Enters Service
- Class 458/5 Interiors
- Class 458/5 Enters Service
- Class 458/5 Press Launch
- SWT Class 456 Driver Training
- Class 458/5 Early Days
- Juniper Movember
- Class 159 to Swanage
- Junipers in New Platforms at Reading
- 159/1 Livery Variation
- Diversions via Wimbledon Park
- Cigs To Leave Lymington
- Desiro Day!
- First Refurbished 455/8s
- Regenerative Brake Testing
- Desiro Derailment Waterloo
- Lymington 150
- 1498 Carries Passengers on Mainline
- Swanage Beer & Diesel Gala
- 458 Refresh at Bournemouth
- 455 to Chart Leacon
- Early Refurbished 455s Get More Attention
- Maroon Isle of Wight Units
- High Capacity Desiros
- SWT Livery in Far North
- Thunderbird is Go!
- Two Slammers at Wimbledon
- SWT Ends 170 Operations
- Lymington Cigs Turned
- Gordon Returns to Bournemouth
- Gordon Moves to Wimbledon
- First Refurbished 158 Arrives
- Gordon Outing to Swanage
- 444 Most Reliable Train
- Juniper Diversions
- First 159/1 Enters Service
- SWT Gain Another 17 350s
- Desiro on Lymington Branch
- Mixed 455 Formations
- 450101 Finally Enters Service
- 34th Refurbished 455
- SWT 159/1 Preview
- Engineering Work at Woking
- Arrivals and Departures
Desiro 450101 finally in service
The last of original batch of class 450 Desiro units has finally entered service. Unit 450101 was derailed and damaged on the 4th February 2005 at Lüttich-Kinkempois in Belgium whilst on its delivery run to the UK. The unit was returned to Germany for repair and was then used at the Siemens Wildenwrath test facility for software development. 450101 arrived in the country on May 24th 2006 and was delivered to Bournemouth T&RMSD on May 30th via Willesden and a sojourn in Eastleigh yard. The unit entered service briefly on Monday June 5th 2006 with an early morning working from Southampton Central to Waterloo and then a Woking -Waterloo service.
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It commenced working for a full day
the following day on the NT444 diagram (Haslemere/Alton/Basingstoke to Waterloo services)
and then on Wednesday June 7th the NT 411 diagram between Waterloo and Windsor & Eton
Riverside where it is seen above departing Clapham Junction for Windsor for the third time
that day. photograph by Colin Duff |
