South West Trains is re-launching a train that was severely damaged in an incident in 2010, following a posh £1.6million rebuild project. The train operator’s Class 455 train suffered significant damage after a cement mixer lorry fell directly to it from a bridge in Oxshott in November 2010.  As a result of incident, the train suffered severe interior and exterior damage to its four carriages and a comprehensive and challenging rebuild was required to be able to bring it back into service.  That work has since been finished at Railcare in Wolverton and the train has now been completely repaired. image[1] align=’right’ border=’0′ style=’padding-left:10px;’ alt=” border=0 > Structural engineers from Railcare and Atkins discovered early on that the project was more complicated than first thought, having found a serious diagonal...
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