Stagecoach South Western Trains Limited, trading as South West Trains, was a British train operating company owned by Stagecoach, which operated the South Western franchise between February 1996 and A
Class 444 Desiro at Clapham Junction in 2011
A Class 444 Desiro unit used on longer-distance services on the electrified railway lines.
A Class 455 suburban unit at Wimbledon. These were used on inner suburban services.
A Class 159 South Western Turbo unit at Clapham Junction. These were used for long distance West of England Mainline services to Salisbury and Exeter St Davids.
The British Rail Class 444 Desiro is a third-rail electric multiple-unit passenger train built by Siemens Transportation Systems in Austria between 2002 and 2004. The Class 444 currently operate on ex
South West Trains
…The Desiro stock comes in two variants – Class 450 units which have four 20 m cars and are mainly used on suburban and outer-suburban services, and Class 444 units which have five 23 m cars as well as intercity-style door layouts and are used on longer-distance services to Weymouth and Portsmouth Harbour…
A pair of South Western Railway Class 444s near Southampton Airport Parkway in 2021
Refurbished standard-class saloon
Class 444 unit at the Siemens Wildenrath test centre in 2004.
Two Class 444s of South West Trains at Eastleigh in 2010