- 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
SWT mixed 455 formations on the increase?
When first introduced their refurbished class 455s they endeavoured to run them only with other refurbished units. Though this was thought to be only for "image" purposes (and if running with a unit in original condition to prevent overcrowding in one unit due to passengers preferring the accommodation in one over the other) as there is no technical nor operation reason why a refurbished 455 cannot run with an original unit. However, pairings of refurbished and original units happened and observers have noticed an increase in the number of such pairings during mid 2006.
On Monday 19th June 2006 four pairings were observed (refurbished/original): 5716+5910, 5719+5866, 5739+5854 and 5734+5860.
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5739+5854 approaching Clapham Junction on the Windsor lines photograph by Colin Duff |
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5734+5860 at Waterloo having worked the 08.58 service from Guildford via Epsom photograph by Ian Docwra |
