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They'll be booked on Reading from May.

Shepperton is via Twickenham but not via Kingston/ Wimbledon. There is a gauging issue at Clapham Junction on the down main slow which means they will not be cleared on routes through Wimbledon.

Down to 22 pairs and 1 single 455 from May. 12 pairs of 458/4s diagrammed.

Based on the May 2025 diagrams you would probably need 25 701 diagrams to eliminate the 455s which is the first aim, so only another 19. You would need a lot of crew trained to achieve that probably though as they would be spread across the suburban network.

The 458 PIS is incredibly basic. It doesn't have any idea how many coaches there are. The codes were simply programmed for either 5 or 10 coaches, and to play relevant short platform announcements, and weren't immediately updated to account for the fact they are now 4 or 8 coaches. If the 10 car...

It's not uncommon for SWR to terminate at Leatherhead during engineering works, and they do sometimes then restart towards London from the down platform. It depends on timings though, and they may also shunt to the up platform, or run to Effingham Junction to reverse instead. Of the 3 SWR...

If you terminated trains at Fleet to return back to London, how would the service then be provided for Winchfield and Hook? Or for the Farnborough/ Fleet- Basingstoke flow? Basingstoke is very much the logical end point for the stopping services along there, providing connections onwards...

458405+458408 become the first 458/4s to run in passenger service to Windsor today, starting with 2U09, the 0633 London Waterloo to Windsor & Eton Riverside. https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/service/gb-nr:Y17176/2025-03-29/detailed#allox_id=0

It's booked 455 on Fridays.

Staines crews work Kingston Rounders, Hampton Court and Woking stoppers so 455 traction knowledge shouldn't be an issue really.

It's very odd that the all day diagram hasn't gone over to 8-450. It starts and ends at Wimbledon Park Depot and looks like an easy and obvious one to convert. The peak diagram is a bit more difficult to swap round. 1743105870 0656 off Windsor, 0803 off Waterloo. Repeating every 2.5 hours.

Yes. There already are several diagrams now, but it will increase again. 1743100102 One pair of 450s is needed already to replace one of 458/5 diagrams. This week it's been covered by the Staines-Windsor closure. There is a pair of 458/4s diagrammed on Windsors from Monday.

Any 450 diagrams that can be replaced are useful too, as the 450s can then be used to replace 455s on main suburban services. I'd be surprised if the plan isn't to get the 458/4s fully utilised come May, on a mix of Reading, Weybridge and Windsor.

1D05/1D14 are booked 455 on Friday

I imagine so. I think we're pretty close to 458/4s being cleared for passenger service on more lines now which would give more opportunities to increase the number of diagrams for them.