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    Class 701 'Aventra' trains for South Western Railway

    Tomorrow will be the start of the ELEVENTH WEEK of this charade of two synthetic revenue service diagrams every weekday. As far as I can see we are still no closer to learning when the “real” suburban services will start to receive these units. Meanwhile class 455s continue to fall apart and...
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    Class 701 'Aventra' trains for South Western Railway

    That is good news. At the current rate all 90 units will be in service for Summer. (Summer 2031)
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    Class 701 'Aventra' trains for South Western Railway

    Any news on when these “proper” diagrams will start to appear on the Windsor line?
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    Class 701 'Aventra' trains for South Western Railway

    Any idea when these units will start to work regular scheduled passenger services? And have any more been commissioned for passenger service yet?
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    Class 701 'Aventra' trains for South Western Railway

    What’s the plan tomorrow? Are two Waterloo to Windsor ER round trip services running as intended?
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    Class 701 'Aventra' trains for South Western Railway

    Once all units are rolled out, will there be a need for any class 450s on the suburban, Windsor and Reading lines?
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    Class 701 'Aventra' trains for South Western Railway

    What was activated today?
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    Class 701 'Aventra' trains for South Western Railway

    So after all this time, there are only four units ready for revenue service?
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    Class 701 'Aventra' trains for South Western Railway

    These are all the ones that I can find that have made it down south so far….. 701002 delivered to Eastleigh on 10 June 2020; testing under way; returned to Worksop for completion on 10 November 2020 701004 delivered to Wimbledon on 30 June 2020 701005 delivered to Eastleigh on 20 July 2020...
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    Class 701 'Aventra' trains for South Western Railway

    Seems to have gone quiet on the delivery front…..
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    Class 701 'Aventra' trains for South Western Railway

    Is there a forum chat thread on the redeployment of the 458s? Can’t find it if so......
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    Class 701 'Aventra' trains for South Western Railway

    Does anyone know where 701017 ended up after this video was filmed on 15 Jan? 1614200355 Here’s 701020 going for storage at Worksop 1614200483 And 701022 on the move too
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    Class 701 'Aventra' trains for South Western Railway

    Deliveries seem to have all but dried up. Nothing for over a month now. 1613458892 The first post on this topic has an updated list of deliveries made to Eastleigh and Wimbledon. I don’t have any info on deliveries made to Worksop, unfortunatel.

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