- 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
Refurbished 456s in service in quantity
By April 2015 South West Trains had sufficient refurbished 456s to deploy them in quantity, initially in the peaks, but then all day service. Whilst initial entry to service had been to make up ten car peak workings, wider deployment saw them in pairs in eight car workings, replacing class 455s away on overhaul. A reminder - as the new "call for aid" system has been activated on the 456s they can only work in multiple with 455s that have also had their system activated, which leads to a small pool of class 455s regularly working with refurbished 456s. On 10th June 2015 Colin Duff ventured to south west London to record mid-morning to lunchtime off peak workings. |
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(above) 456004, with 456017 and 5742 arriving at platform 3 at Waterloo with the 09:32 working from Woking. The formation then worked the 10:33 to Guildford via the Guildford New Line. (below) The same combination departing Clapham Junction towards Waterloo with the 11:58 Guildford to Waterloo via Epsom, this being the return working of the above. |
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(above) 456006, 456015 and 5714 passing West Wimbledon with the 11:06 Waterloo to Hampton Court. (below) The return working, the 11:54 departure from Hampton Court, arriving at Raynes Park. |
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