Class 442
Class 442 trains, otherwise known as 5-WES have been serving the Weymouth Waterloo line since the late 1980ies, when they were built. For the people they carry, they provide a comfortable environment... continue reading »
"It is a great train and should be kept! What is wrong with it?"
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"please keep the 442's with swt"
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"The Desiros are un-worthy successors to comfortable,reliable trains.Why get rid of one of the most reliable types of rolling stock?!"
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"Keep the 442s theyre the best"
"I love the 442s and the seats are much better compared to the plastic 444 seats!"
"Keep the 442s - they are much better suited to longer distance travel than the newer replacements, which are relatively uncomfortable. Surely it would be better to provide more rolling stock overall, rather than offer a poorer service?"
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"442 Will Be Back (hopefully) Just like those slab face trains on the Reading Line that stood in the sidings for ages and are back in service. SWT tell lies !"
"Good engineering,good design.Why do we always throw away the best we have!!"
"This ridiculous move is all so that SWT can supposedly save money by re-introducing the notoriously unreliable 458s on the Reading line. Madness!"
"Please keep these trains, for us whom travel so far and so many hours a day, we pay the price to have comfort, not to be bunched up onto a cattle wagon."
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"This is a blatant withdrawal of the best train in your fleet. You are even giving us what are basically glorified outer suburban units!"
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"I have had to give up writing letters as the ride is less smooth!"
"lovely units to drive. No skill in driving other units as all braking the same."
"I like em"
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"Disgusting! I rode on the first ones in service and I've never known a more pleasant unit to ride in."
"These units are my life blood, and cannot leave the South Western - they were heralded as the "flagships" of SWT upon privatisation and are now deemed as old at - they may be old, but at least they are a testament to British engineering! (Well, we're igno"
