British Rail Class 455
Electric multiple-unit passenger train built by BREL York between 1982 and 1985
British Rail Class 455
The British Rail Class 455 are Mark 3-based electric multiple unit (EMU) passenger trains built by BREL between 1982 and 1985. Upon their introduction, they replaced Class 508s as well as aging Southern Railway slam-door stock on commuter services out of London Waterloo. Whilst the trains were originally built utilising recycled DC traction equipment from Southern Railway 4Sub rolling stock from the 1940s, South West Trains refitted their units with AC traction equipment provided by Vossloh in 2017; despite this change however the trains retained their original gearboxes. The units were last operated on suburban services in Greater London and Surrey by Southern in May 2022, and by South Western Railway in March 2026. They were replaced by the Class 701 EMU on the South Western Railway network.
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