HamworthyGoods
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A pleasant and very friendly driver was telling me at Guildford today how a 455 involved in a minor tree strike at Weybridge several weeks back was coincidentally scheduled to go off lease the day after the accident occurred! This means one more has gone. I don’t know which, sorry, but according to him there’s several more 455s which will now need to be withdrawn in the Summer due to recent discoveries with the units. The plan is to short form more mainline 450s to cover on the Guildford New Line, Kingston Loop and Chessington South branch.
There’s no plans to move more 450s into the inner suburban area, indeed plans are currently afoot within the planning team to move a few 450s back onto mainline services to try and tackle some of the current known overcrowding issues.