Southern Class 455 Withdrawal

[J burge]

Cardiff Queen Street!

Thank you towers I never got a train from there always Cardiff central

 

[warwickshire]

Are GBRf doing all of the 455 scrap moves or will ROG do some too?

GBRF as far as I am currently aware.

 

[Class455]

Anyone know which units are due for scrap next week?

 

[jack31439]

Anyone know which units are due for scrap next week?

828 and 846 Tues
811 and 824 Thurs

 

[3973EXL]

STP 24/05 5Q55 1033 Stewarts Lan - Newport Docks
https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/service/gb-nr:K04434/2022-05-24/detailed

STP 26/05 5Q55 1033 Stewarts Lan - Newport Docks
https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/service/gb-nr:K04434/2022-05-26/detailed

 

[Ewan M]

The guys at Sims Newport are gonna be busy chopping up the 455s since they seem to be heading there a bit rapidly!

 

[TT-ONR-NRN]

The guys at Sims Newport are gonna be busy chopping up the 455s since they seem to be heading there a bit rapidly!

They famously demolish trains at a much faster rate than Booths or Eastleigh

 

[Ewan M]

They famously demolish trains at a much faster rate than Booths or Eastleigh

It would be surprising if some trains lingered on at the Newport site for weeks but a day or so after arrival is when the machines reduce them to nowt! Tbh I find it a bit brutal that Sims use excavators to dismantle rolling stock as does Raxstar at Eastleigh Works

 

[physics34]

Must be one photo of a unit getting scrapped there by now? (455)

 

[PGAT]

I’m seeing some odd formations at Sutton today

 

[HamworthyGoods]

Eversholt are losing lease income unless they are being compensated for early termination of leases which if so doesn't really make sense as I can't see that is saving the operators very much cash as its hardly if they've shut Stewarts Lane and made everyone redundant.

Eversholt are loosing no money here as the lease was due to expire at the end of the GTR contract in May, so they are simply being sent for recycling at the end of that lease.

 

[Class 466]

I’m seeing some odd formations at Sutton today

I’m out on trains today and was surprised to see one Epsom Downs circuit running as a 10 and then the next one a 3 car! Two 6 cars on the 1Ixx’s along with some 5 and 10 cars.

 

[Nicholas Lewis]

Eversholt are loosing no money here as the lease was due to expire at the end of the GTR contract in May, so they are simply being sent for recycling at the end of that lease.

Others were suggesting Eversholt were making money from terminating the leases I was suggesting this was unlikely to be the case and you have confirmed that. I hope Southern came to an accommodation with Eversholt that they didn't waste any money bring them up to a relevant standard before being returned to lessor.

 

[43102EMR]

Others were suggesting Eversholt were making money from terminating the leases I was suggesting this was unlikely to be the case and you have confirmed that. I hope Southern came to an accommodation with Eversholt that they didn't waste any money bring them up to a relevant standard before being returned to lessor.

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[Ewan M]

Must be one photo of a unit getting scrapped there by now? (455)

I heavily doubt it as the Newport site is quite secure

 

[physics34]

I heavily doubt it as the Newport site is quite secure

Someone must have a drone lol

 

[brad465]

I've seen a few photos of 365s sat in Newport waiting to be scrapped, particularly around the preserved carriages leaving, but nothing of the actual scrapping process for anything.

 

[warwickshire]

Someone must have a drone lol

Get one of the auditors of you tube to do it. Ie one of the auditors who do the industrial audits and send up the drone.
So we will all know what Simms looks like.

 

[warwickshire]

Someone must have a drone lol

Also whilst I think on. The said auditor has done one on Leeds Stourton Freightliner terminal. Via the drone. Good to see inside that one also.

 

[Class455]

STP 24/05 5Q55 1033 Stewarts Lan - Newport Docks
https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/service/gb-nr:K04434/2022-05-24/detailed

Today’s loco is 66765

 

[Jturner98]

455828 and 455846 were todays scrap units

 

[warwickshire]

455828 and 455846 were todays scrap units

Yes 66765 and the Arlington vans with 455846 and 455828 through shepherd's Bush on time. APOLOGIES for not posting earlier. But got distracted by 66710 and 73107 on the 6L37 0959 Hoo Junction to Whitemore Gbrf working.
Nice to see a 73 in action.

 

[Class455]

Any idea which units are leaving next week?

 

[Bikeman78]

I heavily doubt it as the Newport site is quite secure

There's an enthusiast involved in shipping that has posted a few photos from passing ships on Facebook. 317709 was one of the units featured recently. I can't remember which group they are posted on, possibly Railways in South Wales.

 

[Ewan M]

There's an enthusiast involved in shipping that has posted a few photos from passing ships on Facebook. 317709 was one of the units featured recently. I can't remember which group they are posted on, possibly Railways in South Wales.

It would be something if the unit was intact at the time! Doubt it will be now sadly

 

[Class455]

66765 is today’s scrap move loco to take 455811 and 455824 to Newport

 

[45076]

66765 is today’s scrap move loco to take 455811 and 455824 to Newport

Is that 4 sets this week that have gone in the bin?

 

[Class455]

Is that 4 sets this week that have gone in the bin?

It is, that now makes 14 sets that have been scrapped. 32 remain

 

[45076]

It is, that now makes 14 sets that have been scrapped. 32 remain

At this rate it won't take long for the old girls to be extinct.

 

[warwickshire]

5Q55 1033 Stewarts Lane to Newport Docks with 66765 and the Arlington barrier vans with 455811 455824 Through Imperial Wharf on time heading for scrap. Only 32 now left. Approximately 33 per cent already gone.