Class 455 units, SouthWest Trains, 2013-2022


David Bosher

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<h4><a href='/locations/S/Surbiton'>Surbiton</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/L/London_and_Southampton_Railway'>London and Southampton Railway</a></small></p><p>455 5701 from rear with a Hampton Court to London Waterloo service calling at Surbiton on 4th May 2013. Nearly ten years on from this image the first 455s are now being withdrawn. 1/16</p><p>04/05/2013<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/T/Thames_Ditton'>Thames Ditton</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/H/Hampton_Court_Branch_London_and_South_Western_Railway'>Hampton Court Branch (London and South Western Railway)</a></small></p><p>4555750, departing from Thames Ditton in Surrey, with a service from Hampton Court to Waterloo, on 4th May 2013. Withdrawal of the Class 455s commenced in 2022, the 40th anniversary of their introduction into service. 2/16</p><p>04/05/2013<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/P/Purley'>Purley</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/L/London_and_Brighton_Railway'>London and Brighton Railway</a></small></p><p>455 825 to London Bridge at Purley station, Surrey, on 18th May 2013. 3/16</p><p>18/05/2013<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/P/Purley_Oaks'>Purley Oaks</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/L/London_and_Brighton_Railway'>London and Brighton Railway</a></small></p><p>455 827 from London Bridge to Caterham arriving at Purley Oaks station in Surrey on 18th May 2013. 4/16</p><p>18/05/2013<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/K/Kew_Bridge'>Kew Bridge</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/H/Hounslow_Loop_Windsor,_Staines_and_South_Western_Richmond_to_Windsor_Railway'>Hounslow Loop (Windsor, Staines and South Western (Richmond to Windsor) Railway)</a></small></p><p>455 5859 with a London Waterloo to London Waterloo, anti-clockwise service via the Hounslow Loop, departing from Kew Bridge station, on 25th January 2014. 5/16</p><p>25/01/2014<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/K/Kew_Bridge'>Kew Bridge</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/H/Hounslow_Loop_Windsor,_Staines_and_South_Western_Richmond_to_Windsor_Railway'>Hounslow Loop (Windsor, Staines and South Western (Richmond to Windsor) Railway)</a></small></p><p>455 5849 with a London Waterloo to London Waterloo service, clockwise via the Hounslow Loop, arriving at Kew Bridge station on 25th January 2014. 6/16</p><p>25/01/2014<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/H/Hampton_Court'>Hampton Court</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/H/Hampton_Court_Branch_London_and_South_Western_Railway'>Hampton Court Branch (London and South Western Railway)</a></small></p><p>455919 from Waterloo, just arrived at Hampton Court, on 23rd February 2019. This terminus station on a branch from the LSWR main line west of Surbiton, opened on 1st February 1849 and is in the village of East Molesey on the south side of the bridge over the Thames, Hampton Court Palace being on the north. In 2022, as they approach forty years of service, South Western Railway has begun to withdraw the Class 455 EMUs, replacing them with new Class 701s as they are delivered. 7/16</p><p>23/02/2019<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/R/Raynes_Park'>Raynes Park</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/L/London_and_Southampton_Railway'>London and Southampton Railway</a></small></p><p>455 5706 and a classmate calling at Raynes Park with the ex-13.42 South West Trains service from Waterloo to Shepperton via Kingston, on the afternoon of Saturday, 22nd October 2022. The train will head away from the camera when it departs. 8/16</p><p>22/10/2022<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/R/Raynes_Park'>Raynes Park</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/L/London_and_Southampton_Railway'>London and Southampton Railway</a></small></p><p>The London & Southampton Railway had opened in 1838 but Raynes Park station was not opened until 30th October 1871 by the London & South Western Railway and sited where the 1859 line to Epsom via Ewell diverged. The layout was altered in 1884 when the station was given staggered island platforms on both sets of lines with a new flyunder below the main line tracks from the Epsom line, taking those trains into the outer edge of the up main platform, behind where this Woking to Waterloo service calls on the afternoon of Saturday, 22nd October 2022. The down Epsom line was also given its own platform to the south of the down main from which this scene was taken. 9/16</p><p>22/10/2022<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/R/Raynes_Park'>Raynes Park</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/W/Wimbledon_and_Dorking_Railway'>Wimbledon and Dorking Railway</a></small></p><p>455s 5718 and 5872, with the ex-13.47 South West Trains service from Waterloo to Chessington South, arriving at Raynes Park on Saturday, 22nd October 2022. The down main platform is to the left while the up line from the Epsom direction passes under all four main line tracks to come up into the north side of the up island platform, staggered from the south. (See my photo image no. 83083, taken same day, for further brief details of this station's history.) 10/16</p><p>22/10/2022<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/M/Malden_Manor'>Malden Manor</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/C/Chessington_South_Branch_London_Passenger_Transport_Board'>Chessington South Branch (London Passenger Transport Board)</a></small></p><p>Malden Manor, seen from the ex-13.47 service from Waterloo to Chessington South, on the afternoon of Saturday, 22nd October 2022. This is the first station on the Chessington South branch that was opened from Motspur Park on the Wimbledon to Epsom line as far as Tolworth, the next stop along, by the Southern Railway on 29th May 1938 before extension to Chessington South with an intermediate station at Chessington North on 28th May 1939. All the stations are of the same basic design with concrete much in evidence. 11/16</p><p>22/10/2022<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/C/Chessington_South'>Chessington South</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/C/Chessington_South_Branch_London_Passenger_Transport_Board'>Chessington South Branch (London Passenger Transport Board)</a></small></p><p>Chessington South was intended as an intermediate station on a loop line from Motspur Park to Leatherhead but, even though it was reached from Motspur Park in 1939, the line was never completed and the station has always been the terminus. However, before the decision was taken not to proceed, an up platform was constructed but never used and its remains and track are still there today on the right, complete with buildings further down behind the train. The tracks extend beyond the bridge in the background and I am indebted to Simon Neave, who first contacted me through Railscot, that these now go to a stone terminal that stretches some distance south along what would have been the continuation to Leatherhead. Standing at what should have been the down platform, 455s 5872 and 5718 have recently arrived with the ex-13.47 South West Trains service from Waterloo and are waiting time on the 14.36 return on Saturday, 22nd October 2022. (NB: This is not and never has been part of the former LPTB, it was opened by the Post-Grouping Southern Railway.) 12/16</p><p>22/10/2022<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/C/Chessington_South'>Chessington South</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/C/Chessington_South_Branch_London_Passenger_Transport_Board'>Chessington South Branch (London Passenger Transport Board)</a></small></p><p>View from road overbridge at Chessington South with 455s 5718 and 5872 departing with the 14.36 service to Waterloo, on 22nd October 2022. The station, originally to have been called Chessington Grange, was opened on 28th May 1939 and intended as a through station and the never used platform meant for up trains from the uncompleted Leatherhead extension (with never built stations at Malden Rushett and Leatherhead North) is on the left. An intended footbridge was never built. The tracks continue beyond the south side of the road bridge on the projected Leatherhead extension but only a few yards were built. Other stations on this branch are on embankments but the terminus is in a cutting. NB: This is not and never has been part of the LPTB, it was the last line in the UK to be opened by the post-Grouping Southern Railway immediately before the start of World War Two. 13/16</p><p>22/10/2022<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/T/Tolworth'>Tolworth</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/C/Chessington_South_Branch_London_Passenger_Transport_Board'>Chessington South Branch (London Passenger Transport Board)</a></small></p><p>455s 5719 and 5834 to Chessington South arriving at Tolworth on 22nd October 2022. This station was the temporary terminus of the line from Motspur Park that opened on 29th May 1938 before extension to Chessington South one year later on 28th May 1939. The distinctive canopies are a feature of all the stations on the branch. 14/16</p><p>22/10/2022<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/M/Motspur_Park'>Motspur Park</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/W/Wimbledon_and_Dorking_Railway'>Wimbledon and Dorking Railway</a></small></p><p>Motspur Park, on the line between Raynes Park and Epsom and the junction for the Chessington South branch, seen here with 455s 5834 and 5719 departing with a Chessington South to Waterloo service, on the afyernoon of Saturday, 22nd October 2022. On the right, 5857 and 5739 are calling with a service from Waterloo to Dorking via Wimbledon and Epsom. 15/16</p><p>22/10/2022<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/E/Earlsfield'>Earlsfield</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/L/London_and_Southampton_Railway'>London and Southampton Railway</a></small></p><p>Class 455 unit with a South West Trains service from Waterloo to Dorking via Epsom arriving at Earlsfield on the afternoon of Saturday, 19th November 2022. This station, between Clapham Junction and Wimbledon, is well-sited in the midst of this busy south London suburb, making it one of the best-used on the South West Trains network. 16/16</p><p>19/11/2022<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p>
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