Talk:British Rail Class 456

Although introduced on the former South Central division of Network SouthEast, the Class 456s had been ordered for use on the South West Division for services out of London Waterloo. Failure to introduce DOO (Driver Only Operation) meant they were redeployed upon service entry.

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I am not sufficiently confident of my facts to edit the page itself - but re the livery of the trains, aside from Sir Cosmo Bonsor, I have not seen any one of these trains in anything other than Network South East livery.


 * There no pictures readily accessible on Commons, google images or railfaneurope.net that show anything other than Sir Cosmo Bonsor in Connex and the rest in NSE - as the article says. The article says "from summer 2006" and an undated page on Porterbrook's (the ROSCO that owns the trains) website also say that they will be reliveried. I think it is safe to leave it as is for now, it might be that the first unit is away being painted as we speak. Certainly if there is no change in a few months then we should change it. Thryduulf 14:01, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

New Image
I change the image as the last one did not show the current livery. Likelife (talk) 14:10, 22 July 2009 (UTC)

New Page Pic?
Time for a new pic to headline this page, in South West Trains colours?Kaiwhara (talk) 23:28, 9 March 2015 (UTC)

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Withdrawal details
I feel that the Class 456's withdrawal details should be included. The My London article that is frequently being cited doesn't necessarily imply that the 456 fleet will be withdrawn on 17 January 2022, but it does read:
 * "'The introduction of this new timetable, lower passenger numbers and a host of measures that we’ve taken mean that our Class 456 units are surplus to requirement and are being withdrawn from service imminently.'"

I originally misinterpreted the article, and I wouldn't be too surprised if other people misinterpreted it as well. However, I still think they should be included, as the excerpt I provided appears to be from a South Western Railway spokesperson. XtraJovial (talk) 00:18, 18 January 2022 (UTC)


 * I feel it should not be included as it written pre 17 January 2022 date and thus can’t back events that happened on 17 January 2022. There was a similar issue with the British Rail Class 332 they were ment to be withdrawn on 12 December 2020 and they ended up staying in service until 28 December 2020. In that instance we just removed the information that said the Class 332 was to be withdrawn in December 2020. Until we have a source written post 17 January 2022 that confirms that the Class 456 has been withdrawn we should leave this page as it is and the My London article should not be re-added. Maurice Oly (talk) 17:31, 18 January 2022 (UTC)