SWT Class 455 conversion to ac traction.

[Snapper]

New blog & pics.

"Yesterday I visited South West Trains Wimbledon Park depot to see the second of their Class 455 fleet being converted to AC traction & hear Christian Roth, Engineering Director for South West Trains, who was on hand to talk about the programme."...

More here:

https://paulbigland.wordpress.com/2015/05/21/swt-convert-their-class-455-fleet-to-ac-traction/

 

[Juniper Driver]

Thanks for the blog,interesting reading.Amazing that they are updating the 30 year old trains like this but they have had so many upgrades already.Pretty good stuff.

 

[antharro]

Thanks for posting this. Does anyone have any idea when the first unit will be running between Bournemouth and Weymouth? I'm down that way this weekend so might be interesting to see if the timings work out.

 

[Snapper]

I was told the testing is at night, so you're not likely to see much I'm afraid.