- 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
South West Trains ends operation of Class 170
In order to increase capacity on its diesel services has expanded its diesel unit fleet by exchanging with its eight class 170 two car units, introduced to service in December 2000, for two and three car class 158 units at least eight years older. These class 158 units have been extensively refurbished as the two car 15888x series (eleven units) and the three car 159/1 series (nine units). This is a net gain of 22 cars.
170308 in platform 5 at Waterloo on 28th July awaiting its 21.20 departure to Salisbury, the last working of a Class 170 unit for . photograph by Lawe |
The last class 170 working for was the 1L69 21.20 Waterloo to Yeovil Junction service on Saturday 28th July, 170308 working with 159007 as far as Salisbury where it was detached and run into Salisbury depot. 170308 is also the last of its class with and was transferred to Clacton EMU depot as a staging post for on 2nd August.