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And a huge pain in the backside, time consuming and often dangerous to deploy / un-deploy. The best thing we did to those units was change the nose end gangways.

To make room at Bournemouth for 8401.

It is indeed.

Strawberry Hill, the rest at Wimbledon. 1783461469 Very well said. I’ve had Wimbledon depot completely full on a night shift in the past and you’re snookered. You can’t move anything.

There aren’t currently any plans to store 458’s at Eastleigh.

Bournemouth is full.

Indeed, it’s a warranty paint repair. It’s planned to move from Eastleigh to Bournemouth on 14th July.

It’s on its way, 8405 on its own. It’s also self powered, not a drag.

Yes they did. We type tested them at 100mph when they were new.

The 458/0’s were geared exactly the same as the 458/4’s are.

They were all stripped for spares prior to disposal.

They’re restricted in platform 10/11 at Clapham.

They are cleared to Shepperton, just not via the main.

The risk is that the signaller could inadvertently route them via the slow lines at Clapham in times of disruption, where they have gauging restrictions. It was agreed with NR that they wouldn’t be used in passenger service on the main line to remove that risk.

Indeed and the gauging standards have changed since they were 458/0’s too.