Taken 27/01/11: If you Google ‘Class 458, Juniper units’ various web-sites will comment on their early years being beset by anything from ‘teething problems’ to ‘major technical problems’. Suffice to say the units have had a chequered history but now seem to have found a niche on the South West Trains Waterloo to Reading line. Unit No. 8007 is seen about to leave Waterloo’s Platform 19 with the 15:20 to Reading.
Tags: Waterloo Class 458
Taken 07/01/11: A shot taken on a rare trip to London (for a meeting at Gresham Street) on a very wet morning.
Tags: Waterloo South West Trains Class 444
Taken 27/01/11: The Class 450/5 sub-class were converted from 450/0s at Bournemouth in 2008 primarily by the first class accommodation being removed. I assume therefore that the HC prefix indicates ‘higher capacity’. The 450/5s are mainly used on Windsor and Hounslow Loop services.
Tags: Waterloo Class 450
Taken 07/01/11: A shot taken on a rare trip to London (for a meeting at Gresham Street) on a very wet morning.
Tags: Waterloo South West Trains Class 450
Taken 26/04/11: The triangular field between the railway embankment, Sainsburys and Roeshot Hill is currently a wide expanse of yellow rape flowers.
Tags: Class 450 Christchurch South West Trains