I don't get how I've missed it reallyIf that's the diagram that includes the 23.09 Waterloo - Dorking and ecs back to Wimbledon, it was certainly a pair of 450s last night. In the past month or so I've only seen it running as 455s once and that was on a heavily disrupted day.
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As of this week there seem to be 10 diagrammed for service. However, there still appear to be only 4 Reading diagrams which have been replaced by 450s (in addition to the two that were always there), the same position as for the past few months. By my calculations this leaves 18 458/0s required for service out of the 18 still at Wimbledon!
Little wonder then that there are daily short-forms on Reading services. I wonder why more 450s have not gone over. What are the units working on that have been replaced by 458/5 diagrams?
Assuming there weren't others there previously as well, it used to be just a single return journey for 450+450 to Reading in that diagram which visited loads of places:
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<previous services>
1W61 1005 London Waterloo to Weymouth due 1300 (full 8 to Weymouth as well)
1W62 1320 Weymouth to London Waterloo due 1620
2C91 1635 London Waterloo to Reading via Richmond due 1756
2C60 1812 Reading to London Waterloo via Richmond due 1934
2S63 1952 London Waterloo to Weybridge via Brentford due 2107
2S72 2133 Weybridge to London Waterloo via Brentford due 2257
2P77 2315 London Waterloo to Portsmouth Harbour via Guildford due 0054
Because of the inter-peak stabler 458/5, a set of 450s start to/from Reading, switch to Hounslow/Weybridge when the 458/5 has a nap in the afternoon (
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<previous services to/from Reading>
2C92 0925 Reading to London Waterloo via Richmond due 1053
2V25 1107 London Waterloo to London Waterloo due 1232
<more services via Hounslow>
2S50 1603 Weybridge to London Waterloo via Brentford due 1726
2C93 1735 London Waterloo to Reading via Richmond due 1855
<remaining services to/from Reading>
2C12 0612 Reading to London Waterloo via Richmond due 0735
Edit: Determined to be the same as above.
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