- 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
Ten Car Class 458/5 Press Launch
On Friday 7th March 2014 South West Trains launched its "new" Class 458/5 trains to the press with a non-stop run between Waterloo and Windsor and Eton Riverside (which is expected to be the first route these units will work). The train, reporting number 1Z21, departed Waterloo Platform 20 - the former Waterloo International platform now available for "domestic" use and can easily take 10 car trains - at 13:05 and was due at its destination at 13:59.
458531 and 458534 approaching Clapham Junction.
photograph by Ian Buck
This shot usefully shows the revised cab front corridor connections and also the long overhang beyond the front bogie that always was there, but the structural members were partially obscured by the side of the former front fairing.
photograph by Ian Buck
A comparison of original and revised cab fronts. 8005 is the unit in Clapham Yard.
photograph by Ian Buck
458531 and 458534 are seen above slowly approaching Richmond three minutes early and closing up on the preceding down Windsor & Eton Riverside service train.
photograph by Colin Duff
A pair of 458/5s entered passenger service on Monday 10th March on Waterloo to Windsor & Eton Riverside services, for more please click here.