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Rolling stock
[edit]South Western Railway inherited a fleet of Class 158, Class 159, Class 444, Class 450, Class 455, Class 456, Class 458, Class 483 and Class 707s from South West Trains. This is as yet unchanged.
Current fleet
[edit]Class | Image | Type | Top speed | Carriages | Number | Routes | Built | |
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mph | km/h | |||||||
Mainland | ||||||||
158 Express Sprinter | DMU | 90 | 145 | 2 | 10 | London Waterloo – Salisbury / Exeter St Davids (Occasionally) / Bristol Temple Meads Exeter St Davids – Honiton / Axminster (Weekday service) Romsey – Salisbury via Southampton Central Brockenhurst – Lymington Pier (Weekday services) |
1989–92 | |
159 South Western Turbo | DMU | 90 | 145 | 3 | 30 | West of England / Heart of Wessex / Wessex Main Lines: London Waterloo – Salisbury / Bristol Temple Meads / Exeter St Davids / Yeovil Pen Mill / Frome Portsmouth Harbour – Basingstoke (Morning Service) Portsmouth Harbour – Southampton Central (Occasionally) |
159/0 1992–3 159/1 Converted 2006–7 | |
442 Wessex Electric | EMU | 108 | 172 | 5 | 18 | London Waterloo – Portsmouth Harbour (from December 2017)[1] | 1988-89 | |
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444 Desiro | EMU | 100 | 160 | 5 | 45 | Main Line Routes: London Waterloo – Poole / Weymouth London Waterloo – Portsmouth Harbour (Shared with Class 450s Weekdays and Sundays) |
2003–4 | |
450 Desiro | EMU | 100 | 160 | 4 | 127 | Main Line Routes: London Waterloo – Portsmouth Harbour (Shared with Class 444s weekdays and Sundays)/ Alton / Basingstoke / Poole (Occasionally) / Reading Southampton Central – Portsmouth & Southsea Brockenhurst – Lymington Pier (Weekend services)
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2002–6 | |
455 | EMU | 75 | 120 | 4 | 91 | Inner Suburban Routes: London Waterloo – Shepperton / Hampton Court / Woking / London Waterloo via Hounslow /London Waterloo via Strawberry Hill / Dorking / Guildford via Oxshott or Epsom / Chessington South / Windsor & Eton Riverside |
1982–5 2004–7 (refurbished) | |
456 | EMU | 75 | 120 | 2 | 24 | Currently used on suburban services in conjunction with services operated by Class 455 units to make 8 & 10 coach trains. | 1990–1 | |
458 Juniper | EMU | 75 | 120 | 5 | 36 | Outer Suburban Services: London Waterloo–Weybridge/Windsor & Eton Riverside via Staines | 2013–6 (1998–2002 as 458/0) (2000–1 as 460) | |
707 Desiro City | 100 | 160 | 30 | 2016-7 | ||||
Isle of Wight | ||||||||
483 | EMU | 45 | 72.5 | 2 | 6 | Ryde Pier Head – Shanklin | 1938 1989–92 (refurbished) |
Future fleet
[edit]The Class 455, 456, 458 and 707 fleets will be replaced by 90 Aventra five and ten carriage sets built by Bombardier's Derby Litchurch Lane Works, for use on Reading, Windsor and south west London services by December 2020.[2][3][4] Eighteen Class 442s will enter service after being overhauled. Two class 442 units will enter service on London to Portsmouth services in December 2017.[5]
Class | Image | Type | Top speed | Carriages | Number | Routes operated | Enter Service | |
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mph | km/h | |||||||
701 Aventra | EMU | 100 | 160 | 5 | 30 | Reading, Windsor & South West London suburban | 2019-2020 | |
10 | 60 |
- ^ http://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/train/W93530/2017/12/11/advanced
- ^ South Western orders new fleet of 90 trains BBC News 20 June 2017
- ^ FirstGroup and MTR order 750 EMU cars for South Western franchise International Railway Journal 20 June 2017
- ^ Bombardier to supply 750 EMU cars for South Western franchise Railway Gazette International 20 June 2017
- ^ South Western rail commuters promised more seats and faster trains to London when Anglo-Hong Kong consortium takes over The Independent 27 March 2017