Blast From The Past
I can't believe it was just over forty years ago when I was working at Waterloo, and took a lunchtime trip to Clapham Junction to travel on one of the brand new British Rail class 455 units in the then standard blue and grey livery.
Now in the twilight of their years, South Western Railway unit 455 568 has emerged in a retro version of that livery, albeit with full grey doors to meet modern requirements.
Here the latest 'celebrity' unit sits at the buffers in platform 3 at Waterloo, having arrived with the 05.25 service from Guildford via Epsom. Internally the unit is the same as all other 455s, but the external colours provide a blast back to the 1980s when I first saw these units enter public service on the former Central and South Western Divisions of the old Southern Region.
Blast From The Past
I can't believe it was just over forty years ago when I was working at Waterloo, and took a lunchtime trip to Clapham Junction to travel on one of the brand new British Rail class 455 units in the then standard blue and grey livery.
Now in the twilight of their years, South Western Railway unit 455 568 has emerged in a retro version of that livery, albeit with full grey doors to meet modern requirements.
Here the latest 'celebrity' unit sits at the buffers in platform 3 at Waterloo, having arrived with the 05.25 service from Guildford via Epsom. Internally the unit is the same as all other 455s, but the external colours provide a blast back to the 1980s when I first saw these units enter public service on the former Central and South Western Divisions of the old Southern Region.