455 803 Final day in passenger service

[Trainguy34]

(Mod note - move thread if needed!)

When was this fine unit last in passenger service, could only find scrap dates. Thanks for any help!

 

[JonathanH]

The part time spotter blog appears to last report it allocated for service on 12 April 2022.
https://partimespotter.wordpress.com/2022/04/12/class-455-allocations-sn-only-12-04-2022/

Class 455 Allocations (SN only) 12/04/2022
12/04/2022 by Part Time Spotter

Ddiagrams can be found here – Disclaimer.

Allocations
455801 – SL512
455802 – Not allocated
455803 – SL510
455804 – Not allocated
455805 – SL508
455806 – Not allocated
455807 – SL514
455808 – Not allocated
455809 – Not allocated
455810 – Not allocated
455811 – SL509
455812 – SL524
455813 – SL504
455814 – SL528
455815 – SL519
455816 – Not allocated
455817 – SL523
455818 – SL520
455819 – SL525
455820 – SL517
455821 – SL526
455822 – SL513
455823 – SL502
455824 – Not allocated
455825 – Not allocated
455826 – Not allocated
455827 – Not allocated
455828 – Not allocated
455829 – Not allocated
455830 – SL506
455831 – Not allocated
455832 – SL518
455833 – SL522
455834 – SL503
455835 – Not allocated
455836 – Not allocated
455837 – SL501
455838 – Not allocated
455839 – Not allocated
455840 – SL527
455841 – Not allocated
455842 – SL505
455843 – SL507
455844 – SL511
455845 – SL521
455846 – Not allocated

Later reports here https://partimespotter.wordpress.com/tag/455-allocations/

 

[Trainguy34]

That's annoying, was hoping I saw it on its last day on a trip to London but unfortunately not.

 

[Mike1]

I travelled on it from London Bridge to Brockley on the 23/3/2022.

I’d be interested in hearing what’s your attachment to this specific unit?

 

[Trainguy34]

I travelled on it from London Bridge to Brockley on the 23/3/2022. Id be interested in hearing what’s your attachment to this specific unit?

The only 455 I saw in the Southern livery (The best livery IMO) due to only starting spotting in COVID and just generally loving the 455s.

 

[Mike1]

The only 455 I saw in the Southern livery (The best livery IMO) due to only starting spotting in COVID and just generally loving the 455s.

I do love that livery. I started recording the numbers of the trains I travelled on in Covid times to see if I could get through the whole Southeastern fleet but it then has become fun to travel on different types of unit including a few 455s!

 

[Trainguy34]

If you look at the Non-Urgent TOPS Requests thread, you will see that I have *finally!* saw 2 more 455s. Now just (insert large number of SWR 455s -2 here) to go?