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Floor taken
I start in Elephant and Castle, cross the river, then go to one London termini formerly served by Networkers, and then head towards a site were there was a protest against capitalism. I then cross the ancient boundry of London, before serving another main London station. I then...
455918 ran as 3-car in 2000 and 2001
http://www.southernelectric.org.uk/features/71731.html
Also, in my opinion the 455/7s look missformed with the 508 TSO, although they were designated to the subclass in the first place
Correct!
Currently operate for First Capital Connect
Used to be operated by WAGN (now part of it is part of FCC) and Connex South Eastern (now southeastern), which uses 465s (practically the same, and share the same bodyshell)
We are a EMU
We are one of the last classes ordered by BR
We operate for one TOC, but we intinally had two, the second TOC doesn't exist anymore, but it used, and it's sucessor continues to use units which are very similar.
Correct.
Most trains outside London and South East are 2-3 cars long (as far as I know-Saw a two-car EMT 156 today in contrast to an 8-car 455 on Shepperton branch line yesterday)
Similar to Heathrow Express Class 332, operating in London.
Your floor
It's been over a month, so I am going to take the floor. Here goes:
We're a EMU
We are long (in terms of carriages) by the standards of our operating area
We are very similar to another class which operates in a completely different are of the country
Just been looking at Southeastern's website, and saw that some Hayes services are 3-car. As there are no 508s left there, then I'd assume that they're 375/3s.
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