Class 360

The class 360 is a Siemens built four or five car EMU dating from 2002-2005. They are currently employed by two operators namely National Express East Anglia and Heathrow Connect.

National Express East Anglia inherited 21 sets of 360/1's from 'One' also previously 'First Great Eastern'. These units are the batch that have First Class available in a 2+2 seating arrangement in the front part of one of the Driving Cars and 3+2 Standard Class seating in the rest of the train. There is a toilet in one of the intermediate cars. They are used mainly on services from London Liverpool Street to Chelmsford/Witham/Colchester/Colchester Town/Clacton/Walton/Harwich and Ipswich.

Heathrow Connect have only 5 sets of 360/2's which they use for stopping services from London Paddington to Heathrow Airport stopping at West London stations such as Ealing Broadway. Four sets were initally delivered in 2004 as four car sets. In 2005 the fifth set followed also with a fifth coach and one by one the original four sets returned to Germany to have there fifth carriage inserted. These sets have not got First Class provision available.