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Class 444 Desiro

Siemens' five-car Desiro for SWR's long-distance routes from Waterloo to Portsmouth, Poole and Weymouth. Two can run together as ten cars, or one with a four-car 450 as nine.

Class 444 Desiro, indicative only

Class 444 Desiro · indicative drawing GB Trains · gbtrains.uk/stock/444/ · CC BY 4.0

indicative drawing: some dimensions are estimated, from photographs and published figures. No dimensioned drawing of the 444 has been published. The body's heights, roof and cab are the Class 360's, measured from RAIB's Elstow report (both are Siemens Desiros), at Angel Trains' 77 ft 4 in (23.57 m) cars; the bogies are Siemens' published figures. The doors, windows and bogie positions are measured from a photograph of 444027 and are good to about 0.3 m; the cab car's navy and silver, its door details and the window heights from a photograph of 444010, rectified, and the trailer next to it is laid out from SWR's side diagram. One side is drawn. The 444's own front, with its gangway door, isn't drawn: the 360's stands in for it. The pantograph well in that trailer's roof isn't drawn. Branding left out: South Western Railway's SW/R monogram and wordmark, and the numbers. Drawn at 10 px per metre. Download SVG · Use this drawing

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Liveries 1

South Western RailwaySWR navy and silverShown above

Special liveries 1

Former liveries 1

South West Trains (white, blue window band, red/orange cab swishes)Carried from new; repainted into SWR's navy and silver at the 2017-2020 refurbishment, 444040 first (back in service by December 2018; a photograph shows it in SWR's colours in 2017). When the last unit was repainted isn't known.Formerfrom 2004Not drawn yet

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Type
Electric multiple unit
Builder
Siemens Transportation Systems
Family
Desiro UK, with Class 185 Desiro, Class 350 Desiro, Class 360 Desiro, Class 380 Desiro, Class 450 Desiro
In service
since 2004
Operators
South Western Railway
Formation
5 cars
Trains in fleet
45
Fleets
South Western Railway: 45
Top speed
100 mph (161 km/h)
Power
750 V DC third rail · how it works
Bogies
Siemens SF 5000 bogies · drawn with the same bogie component as Class 185 Desiro, Class 350 Desiro, Class 360 Desiro, Class 380 Desiro, Class 450 Desiro
Train length
390 ft (119.00 m)
Car width
9 ft 2 in (2.80 m)
Seats per train
359
Total capacity
SWR: 327 standard and 32 first class. As built, 334 (35 first, 299 standard: Siemens, 2003)
Status
In service with South Western Railway (publicly owned since 25 May 2025): 45 units, leased from Angel Trains. Siemens refurbished them in 2017-2020 and they were repainted in SWR's navy and silver; 444040 was the first, back in service by December 2018.

Car types

CodeCarLengthDoors per side
DMCODriving motor composite open (DMCO): first and standard class77 ft 4 in23.57 m2 single
TSOTrailer standard open (TSO)77 ft 4 in23.57 m2 single
TSORMBTrailer standard open with miniature buffet (TSORMB)77 ft 4 in23.57 m2 single
DMSODriving motor standard open (DMSO)77 ft 4 in23.57 m2 single

Siemens' as-built order is DMOS + TOSLB2 + TOSLB1 + (P)TOSLW + DMOC: the trailer with the wheelchair spaces, built ready for a pantograph, is next to the composite cab car (Siemens, 2003). Angel Trains lists the types as DMCO-TSO-TSO-TSORMB-DMSO. Every car has one single-leaf door a side at each end; on the trailer next to the DMCO the second door is about three windows from the far end.

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