- 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
Fresh Water and Farringford to leave us
Lymington Flyer 3 CIG units 1497 ‘Fresh Water’ and 1498 ‘Farringford’ will run their last public service on 22nd May 2010. This will mark the final end of an era where all slam-door trains are removed from public service.
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1497 travelling back from Lymington with headboard on 10th April 2010 Photograph by Stuart Hicks |
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1498 awiating to leave Lymington pier on 4th May 2007 Photograph by Brian King |
Despite being given exemption from the regulation that "prohibits the operation on or after 1 January 2003 of Mark 1 rolling stock." until 2013, when expected the units to become life expired, the units are being withdrawn early due to the lack of parts readily available and the additional cost involved in maintaining these units due to the fact there is only two of them.
On the final day, both units are expected to run with a change over in the afternoon; giving everyone a chance to ride on both units on the final day. This means that the units are not expected to run in 6-car formation as they did on their first day, back in May 2005.
A feature of the last day can be found here.
