In September 2014 South West Trains announced plans to procure a total of 30 five-car trains as a means of expanding the fleet used to operate services out of London Waterloo. As a result of significant infrastructure improvements to allow the operation of 10-car trains across large parts of the SWT network, the operator procured significant amounts of additional rolling stock to allow for this. SWT's fleet is largely up of Desiro units built by Siemens, and the Class 707 will be a follow on of this, as the second product purchased for use on the British network from the Desiro City range (following the purchase of the Class 700 for Thameslink).
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