Southeastern signs deal to lease unwanted Class 707s

摘要

NEW trains made redundant before they even entered traffic are set for a new home, with Southeastern signing a deal to lease the 30 five-car Class 707s. The trains had been ordered by South West Trains in 2014, as part of a Government-led High Level Output Specification (HLOS) capacity improvement programme on routes from London Waterloo. They were built by Siemens in Krefeld (Germany) in 2015-17. When FirstGroup/MTR was awarded the South Western franchise in 2017, it was announced that the entire HLOS rolling stock (including the '707s') would be replaced by 90 Bombardier Class 701s. At that point, the '707s' had not entered traffic (RAIL 824).