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<p>On the 3 September 2014, the Government and Stagecoach South Western Trains (SSWT)
announced a £210 million deal for a fleet of new trains to increase capacity on some
of the UK’s busiest commuter routes.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The order for 150
new train carriages will provide capacity for 24,000 additional peak-time passengers
every day travelling into London Waterloo by May 2018.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>These
new trains will be deployed on suburban routes and will allow a further cascade of
rolling stock enabling SSWT to deliver two new peak mainline services from May 2018;
one from Woking and one from Basingstoke.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>These carriages
are in-addition to the 108 additional carriages secured in 2011/12, which have begun
to arrive and are being used to lengthen suburban services trains from 8 to 10-cars.</p><p>
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