Hi guys today I will be suggesting Waterloo- Windsor & Eton Riverside. The suggestion will be set in 2014 so this will be South West Trains. The train included is the Class 458. This is the route map of Waterloo to Windsor & Eton Riverside, The color is meant to be Red as SWT used to be branded red but SWR which happened years later rebranded to Grey and Black. SWT or SWR has never came on TSW, SWT and SWR is on Train simulator. Let’s move onto the Class 458. This is the Class 458, As you can see, it is in the SWT livery, These trains have recently been refurbished and most of them now have the SWR brand. Before 2014, this units used to be red and white, but in 2014 all of them were repainted to Blue and Red. The British Rail Class 458 Coradia Juniper (5-JUP) is a class of electric multiple unit passenger trains of the Alstom Coradia Juniper family, built at Washwood Heath between 1998 and 2002 for South West Trains.[6] The order for the original fleet of 30 four-car trains was placed in 1997, and delivery of the first unit followed in October 1998.[7] The fleet entered passenger service between 2000 and 2003 and is maintained at Wimbledon depot. In service 25 February 2000 – present Manufacturer Alstom Built at Washwood Heath, Birmingham Family name Coradia Juniper Replaced Class 411 Class 412 Class 421 Class 423 Class 442 Constructed 1998–2002 Refurbished 2008–2010 (interior refresh) 2013–2016 (5-car rebuild) Number built 36 (Original fleet of 30, plus 6 converted from Cl. 460) Formation 4 cars per 458/0 unit as-built: DMCO-TSO-MSO-DMCO 5 cars per rebuilt 458/5 unit: DMSO-TSO-TSO-MSO-DMSO Fleet numbers 458/0: 458001–458030 458/5: 458501–458536 Capacity 5-car units: 270 seats[1] Owner(s) Porterbrook Operator(s) Current: South Western Railway Former: South West Trains Depot(s) Current: Wimbledon (London) Future: Bournemouth[2] Specifications Car body construction Steel Car length DMSO vehs.: 21.01 m (68 ft 11 in) M/TSO vehs.: 19.94 m (65 ft 5 in) Width 2.80 m (9 ft 2 in) Height 3.77 m (12 ft 4 in) Doors Double-leaf sliding plug (2 per side per car) Maximum speed 458/0: 100 mph (161 km/h) 458/5: 75 mph (121 km/h)[3] Traction system Alstom ONIX 800 IGBT Traction motors 6 × 270 kW (400 hp) (2 per motor car) Power output 1,620 kW (2,000 hp) Electric system(s) 750 V DC third rail Current collector(s) Contact shoe UIC classification 458/0: 2′Bo′+2′2′+Bo′2′+Bo′2′[4] 458/5: 2′Bo′+2′2′+2′2′+Bo′2′+Bo′2′ Bogies Alstom ACR[5] Braking system(s) Electro-pneumatic(disc), and regenerative Safety system(s) AWS TPWS Coupling system 458/0: Tightlock 458/4 and 458/5: Voith Multiple working Within class Track gauge 1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in) standard gauge Between 2013 and 2016, the class was merged with the mechanically similar Class 460 fleet and extensively rebuilt to form a fleet of 36 five-car units—designated Class 458/5—to provide an increase in capacity on services into London Waterloo.[9] The trains are now used by South Western Railway.[10] In March 2021 South Western Railway announced that 28 Class 458 units would be refurbished and redeployed on long-distance services on the Portsmouth Direct line, as a result of the company deciding to abandon their original plan to use upgraded Class 442 units for this purpose.[11] As part of the refurbishment the fifth car will be removed and the passenger saloons will be modified to better meet passenger expectations for longer journeys. This is the passenger interior of the Class 458, the seats have a Red and dark red maquette and abit of white in the middle of the seat. The poles are orange aswell. The door tones are different, instead of 5 repeating door sounds that sound the same, When the door opens it does a high low tone 5 times, when it closes It does 5 high tones. This is the driver cab of the Class 458. It has the power throttle that you push forwards to turn on the breaks and pull it towards you to apply power. This train is actually quite good to come to TSW tho. The stations on the line are: London Waterloo, Vauxhall, Queenstown Road-Dosent stop here, Clapham Junction, Wandsworth Town-Dosent stop here, Putney, Barnes-Dosent stop here, Mortlake- Dosent stop Here, Richmond, St Margaret’s- Dosent stop here, Twickenham, Whitton, Feltham, Ashford(Surrey), Staines, Wraysbury, Sunneymeads, Datchet and Windsor & Eton Riverside. You might be wondering about the stations that say doesn’t stop here, that’s because the Windsor & Eton Riverside service doesn’t actually serve the stations that say that. Let’s move onto the services, in some services you will drive from Waterloo to Windsor & Eton Riverside via Staines, There will be another one, Windsor & Eton Riverside to Waterloo via Staines. Let’s have a look at the scenarios: Scenario 1: A crowded Night, you will drive from a Class 458 from Windsor & Eton Riverside to Waterloo via Staines, a football match has just finished and a lot of football fans are crowding the stations and trying to get the train home, most of them are trying to get to Waterloo to get to Waterloo East and get the Southeastern home. You will be calling at all stations as they are getting over crowded. Scenario 2: Delays on the way, In this one you will drive a 458 from Waterloo to Windsor & Eton Riverside via Staines, there have been delays and cancellations on the line, drive with caution as there will be yellow signals and red signals on the way. Scenario 3: The Guarding Shift, In this scenario, you will be guarding a Class 458 from Windsor & Eton Riverside to Waterloo via Staines, This one will go normal as planned no delays and cancellations. That’s the scenarios concluded. There might be more scenarios in the game but yeah. This is the depot that contains Class 458s, This is Wimbledon Depot.
In the game you will be able to drive one out of the depot to Waterloo not in service. You will go past a station called Earlsfield which you won’t stop at before going to Clapham, then to Vauxhall then to Waterloo. But that’s the suggestion concluded. Reiner to put your thoughts below in the comments.
Looks good, instead of Wimbledon Traincare use Clapham Yard and leave Wimbledon for a future route such as to Portsmouth.
