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Cab/Standard-class car of a Class 450 Desiro of South West Trains, seen at Clapham Junction, leaving towards Basingstoke. These units were introduced on London-Basingstoke suburban services in November 2003. 06th December 2003. P.L.Guillemin (plguillemin@yahoo.fr)

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Class 450 EMUs, like all new third-rail trains built since privatisation have recesses in the roof of one coach to allow fitting of a pantograph and future conversion to OHLE operation. Although I am not aware of any plans to do this, the HSE are noted for being very much less than keen on ground level power supply. Photo by Chris McKenna 4/06/2006. Larger, higher quality copies of my photos are available, click here for details. If you wish to use this, or any other of my photographs, under a different license see my relicensing policy. Feedback on my pictures is always welcome.

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Desiro UK bogie exhibited at the Technical University of Graz, Austria. This bogie is equipped with a contact shoe for the electric side rail of DC lines in southern England. The Desiro UK bogies are built at Siemens SGP Graz. The bogie is standing on a "frame sleeper track" (Rahmenschwellengleis), a new Austrian development which has not yet found a regularly application. 2002-09-17. Photo: tobias b köhler

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Wagen für eine ausländische Bahnverwaltung in der ÖBB Zentralwerkstätte Simmering Photo v. Michael Katai

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Six brand new Desiro-units. They are a part of the monster-order by SouthWestTrains (UK) about 1200 units - the biggest single contract for German rail-vehicle industry of all times. The poor boys in the cold are guards against vandals. Düsseldorf-Derendorf on 13th of October 2003. Photo by Arnim v. Herff (arnimvherff@uni-duisburg.de) 2003

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Photoraphed at Dorchester South on 24 September 2003 this Desiro unit shows the modular construction which means that 25kV O/H equipment can be added at a later date if required. Copyright belongs to author who can be emailed at ecml@yahoo.co.uk. Photograph taken on Canon EOS 10D

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Cars for the UK-Desiro of SWT at TS Wien Simering. 10/10/2003 Photo: Ulf Thousands of full size pictures from the austrian railway pictureteam at www.eisenbahn-bilder.com

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A car for the UK-Desiro of SWT at TS Wien Simering. 10/10/2003 Photo: Ulf Thousands of full size pictures from the austrian railway pictureteam at www.eisenbahn-bilder.com

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A car for the UK-Desiro of SWT at TS Wien Simering. 10/10/2003 Photo: Ulf Thousands of full size pictures from the austrian railway pictureteam at www.eisenbahn-bilder.com

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Two Desiros intended for South West Trains seen coupled together at the Open Day at the Wildenrath Test Centre of Siemens on 25 August 2002. Unlike in other european countries, gangways between the cab ends seem still to be preferred in the UK. This might be useful, but it causes a bad view for the driver. Note the third rail shoes at the bogies for operation with 750 V DC. Digital photo by Christoph Schmitz

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The Wildenrath Test Centre of Siemens seen from the Visitor's Centre on the Open Day on 25 August 2002. On tracks in the picture mainly Desiros for South West Trains are stored, between them are some Combino tramcars and a class 425 EMU. On the left a historic class 221 diesel loco is visible. The smoke in the background is from the steam train of the Selfkantbahn that ran around on the test ring. Digital photo by Christoph Schmitz

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Prototype tramcar 5002, originally intended for the Kölner Verkehrsbetriebe (KVB), seen at the Open Day at the Wildenrath Test Centre of Siemens on 25 August 2002. After the first prototype of this class, tramcar 5001, crashed seriously on 23 August 1999, the project was cancelled. Since then, 5002 is stored. Picture taken from a moving train, sorry for the bad quality. Digital photo by Christoph Schmitz