List of British Rail classes

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A wide variety of locomotives and multiple units have operated on Great Britain's railway network. This page lists every locomotive and multiple unit allocated a TOPS classification and all modern traction (e.g. diesel, electric, gas, petrol) stock used on the mainline network since 1948 (i.e British Railways and post-privatisation). It excludes coaching stock, modern traction used prior to 1948 and steam locomotives used prior to 1968. Links to lists of these types can be found at the bottom of the page.

British Locomotive and Multiple Unit Numbering and Classification explains in full the numbering and classification system used on this page. In brief, from 1968 British Rail classified its locomotives and multiple units using the TOPS system. Locomotives were given two-digit class numbers, and Multiple units three-digit numbers. Similar types were allocated blocks within the range, e.g. 01-69 for diesel locomotives, 70-79 for DC electric and electro-diesel locomotives, and 80-96 for AC electric and multi-voltage locomotives.

1 Diesel locomotives
2 Electric locomotives
- 2.1 DC electric locomotives
- 2.2 AC electric locomotives
3 Miscellaneous locomotives
4 Diesel multiple units (DMUs)
5 Electric multiple units (EMUs)
6 Departmental multiple units
7 See also
8 External links

[edit] Diesel locomotives

The 1955 diesel locomotive classes are given in brackets where applicable.

[edit] Shunters

A large number of different shunter types were purchased by British Rail and its predecessors, many of which were withdrawn prior to the introduction of TOPS. The table below attempts to list the different types and the different classifications used to describe them as clearly as possible:

Small shunters under 350 hp (261 kW)

TOPS Class	1948 Class	1955 Class	1962 Class	1948 Numbers	1957 Numbers
		52 hp (39 kW)		11104
	DY1	D1/1	1/15	11500-11502	D2950-D2952
Class 01	DY2	D1/2	1/12	11503-11506	D2953-D2956
	DY5	D1/3	1/16	11507-11508	D2957-D2958
Class 02		D1/4	1/17		D2850-D2869
	DY11	D2/1	2/4A	11700-11707	D2700-D2707
Class 03	DJ15	D2/2	2/1	11187-11211	D2000-D2199, D2370-D2399
Class 04	DJ12	D2/3	2/13A	11100-03, 11105-15	D2200-D2214
	DJ12/1	D2/4	2/13	11121-35, 11149-60, 11212-29	D2215-D2273
	DJ12/2	D2/13	2/13		D2274-D2341
	DJ14	D2/5	2/12A	11177-11186	D2400-D2409
		D2/7	2/14	11116-20, 11144-48	D2500-D2509
Class 05	DJ13	D2/8	2/15A	11136-43, 11161-76	D2550-D2573
Class 05	DJ13/2	D2/9	2/15		D2574-D2618
Class 06		D2/6	2/12		D2410-D2444
	DY11	D2/10	2/4	11708-11719	D2708-D2719
	DY11	D2/10	2/4B		D2720-D2780
		D2/11	2/2		D2999/D9998
		D2/12	2/14A		D2510-D2519
Class 07			2/16		D2985-D2998
		250 hp		13000
		D3/1	3/4		D2900-D2913

Large shunters 350 hp (261 kW) and over

TOPS Class	1948 Class	1955 Class	1962 Class	1948 Numbers	1957 Numbers
Class 08	DEJ4	D3/2	3/1	13000-13366 excl.:	D3000-D4192 excl.:
Class 09	DEJ4	D3/2	3/1		D3665-71, D3719-21, D4099-D4114
		D3/3	3/1B	13117-13126	D3117-D3126
Class 10	DEJ5	D3/4	3/1C	13137-13151	D3137-51, D3439-53, D3473-D3502, D3612-51, D4049-94
	DEJ6	D3/5	3/1D	13152-13166	D3152-D3166
		D3/6		12000-12002
		D3/7	3/8	12003-12032
Class 11	DEJ3	D3/8	3/8A	12033-12138
	DEJ1	D3/9	3/10	15000-15003
		D3/10	3/11A	15100
		D3/11	3/11	15101-15106
		360 hp		15107
		D3/12	3/9A	15201-15203
Class 12		D3/13	3/9	15211-15236
	DEJ2	D3/14	3/2	15004
		500 hp		11001
Class 13			7/1		D4501-D4502
Class 14			6/1		D9500-D9555

[edit] Type 1s

TOPS Classes

Class 15 (D8/1)
Class 16 (D8/2)
Class 17
Class 20 (D10/3)

Pre-1955 Classes

10800

[edit] Type 2s

Class 31 no. 31271 at York. This locomotive is preserved at the Midland Railway Butterley, but is currently on loan to the Nene Valley Railway.

Class 21 (D10/1 & D11/2)
Class 21 (Vossloh) (Second use of this class designation)
Class 22 (D10/2 & D11/5)
Class 23 (D11/1)
Class 24 (D11/3)
Class 25 (D12/1)
Class 26 (D11/4)
Class 27 (D12/3)
Class 28 (D12/2)
Class 29
Class 30 (D13/1)
Class 31 (D14/1 & D14/2)

[edit] Type 3s

TOPS classes

Class 33 (Crompton) (D15/1 & D15/2)
Class 35 (Hymek) (D17/1)
Class 37 (D17/2)

Pre-TOPS Classes

Class D16/1 (10000-10001)
Class D16/2 (10201-10203)

[edit] Type 4s

Fragonset Class 47 no. 47709 at Virginia Water.

TOPS Classes

Pre-1955 Classes

10100

Freightliner Class 66 no. 66534 at Virginia Water.

[edit] Type 5s

[edit] Electric locomotives

Gatwick Express Class 73 no. 73201 at Clapham Junction.

Freightliner Class 86 nos. 86613 and 86610 at Ipswich.

[edit] DC electric locomotives

TOPS Classes

Class 70
Class 71 HA
Class 73 JA or JB
Class 74 HB
Class 76 EM1
Class 77 EM2

Pre-TOPS Classes

Class EB1 (26502-26511)
Class EE1 (26600)
Class ES1 (26500-26501)

[edit] AC electric locomotives

[edit] Miscellaneous locomotives

[edit] Departmental

[edit] Builders' demonstrators

These were locomotives built and owned by private firms, but used by British Rail to test them.

[edit] Diesel multiple units (DMUs)

[edit] 1st generation "heritage" DMUs

Preserved Class 108 DMU nos. 56208 and 51935 on the Severn Valley Railway.

Chiltern Railways Class 121 "Bubble Car" no. 121020 at Bewdley.

TOPS classes

Class 100 (Gloucester)
Class 101 (Met-Camm)
Class 102 (Met-Camm)
Class 103 (Park Royal)
Class 104 (BRCW)
Class 105 (Cravens)
Class 106 (Cravens)
Class 107 (Derby Heavyweight)
Class 108 (Derby Lightweight)
Class 109 (Wickham)
Class 110 (Calder Valley)
Class 111 (Met-Camm)
Class 112 (Great Northern Suburban)
Class 113 (Great Northern Suburban)
Class 114 (Derby Heavyweight)
Class 115 (Derby Suburban)
Class 116 (Derby Suburban)
Class 117 (Pressed Steel Suburban)
Class 118 (BRCW Suburban)
Class 119 (Gloucester Cross-Country)
Class 120 (Swindon Cross-Country)
Class 121 (Pressed Steel Bubble Car)
Class 122 (Gloucester Bubble Car)
Class 123 (Trans-Pennine)
Class 124 (Trans-Pennine)
Class 125 (Lea Valley)
Class 126 (Swindon InterCity)
Class 127 (Bed-Pan)
Class 128 (Gloucester Parcels)
Class 129 (Cravens Parcels)
Class 130 (Parcels, ex-Class 116)
Class 131 (Parcels, ex-Class 122)

Pre-TOPS Classes

[edit] 2nd generation DMUs

Wessex Trains Class 158 no. 158869 at Truro.

'one' Class 170 no. 170202 at Cambridge.

[edit] Pacers

[edit] Sprinters

Class 150 (Sprinter)
Class 151 (Prototype)
Class 152 (Proposed rebuild of Class 151)
Class 153 (Super-Sprinter, ex-Class 155)
Class 154 (Prototype Super-Sprinter)
Class 155 (Super-Sprinter)
Class 156 (Super-Sprinter)
Class 157 (Proposed Super-Sprinter)
Class 158 (Express-Sprinter)
Class 159 (Express-Sprinter)

[edit] Turbos

Class 165 (Network Turbo)
Class 166 (Network Express Turbo)
Class 168 (Clubman)
Class 170 (Turbostar)
Class 171 (Turbostar)

[edit] Coradias

Class 175 (Coradia)
Class 180 (Adelante)

[edit] Diesel Desiro

Class 185 (Desiro)

[edit] Diesel-electric multiple units (DEMUs)

Main article: Diesel-electric multiple unit

Southern Class 205 unit no. 205032 at London Bridge.

These units had electric transmission (as opposed to mechanical or hydraulic).

[edit] Southern Region DEMUs

The Southern Region of British Rail, used single letter codes to classify their DEMU classes.

Class 201 (6S)
Class 202 (6L)
Class 203 (6B)
Class 204 (3T)
Class 205 (3H)
Class 206 (3R)
Class 207 (3D)

[edit] Western Region Prototype DEMU

Class 210

[edit] Voyager-style Express DEMUs

A Midland Mainline Class 222 DEMU at Nottingham station

Class 220 (Voyager)
Class 221 (Super Voyager)
Class 222 (Meridian/Pioneer)

[edit] High speed trains

Class 251 (Blue Pullman)
Class 252 (Prototype High Speed Train)
Class 253 (Western Region InterCity 125 - originally classified as a multiple unit and later reclassified locomotive and rolling stock)
Class 254 (Eastern Region InterCity 125 - originally classified as a multiple unit and later reclassified locomotive and rolling stock)
Class 255 (Virgin 'Challenger' High Speed Train)

[edit] Electric multiple units (EMUs)

British Rail operated a wide variety of electric multiple units.

AC units operated off 25 kV AC from overhead wires. Where clearances for the overhead wires on the Great Eastern and London, Tilbury & Southend routes were below standard, a reduced voltage of 6.25 kV AC was used. The Midland Railway units used 6.6 kV AC. Under the computer numbering, AC units (including mixed-voltage units that can also work off a DC supply) were given a class in the range 300-399.

DC units operated off 650-850 V DC from a third rail on the Southern Region and North London, Merseyside and Tyneside networks. The Manchester-Bury line used 1200 V DC from a side-contact third rail. The Manchester South Junction & Altrincham and "Woodhead" and initially the Great Eastern and London , Tilbury & Southend routes used 1500 V DC from overhead wires. Under the computer numbering, DC units were given a class in the range 400-599.

[edit] AC EMUs and dual-voltage EMUs

[edit] First generation

First Great Eastern Class 312 units nos. 312718 and 312721 at Kirby Cross.

Ex-MR units (Lancaster-Morecambe-Heysham)
Class 300 (Proposed Parcels units)
Class AM1 (25kV AC prototype units)
Class 302 AM2 (London-Tilbury-Southend)
Class 303 AM3 (Strathclyde)
Class 304 AM4 (Greater Manchester, Liverpool, Birmingham)
Class 305 AM5 (Chingford, Enfield)
Class 306 AM6 (Shenfield inner-surburban)
Class 307 AM7 (Southend outer-suburban)
Class 308 AM8 (Eastern Region lines)
Class 309 AM9 (Clacton Express)
Class 310 AM10 (Euston outer-suburban)
Class 311 AM11 (Strathclyde)
Class 312 (Great Northern and Great Eastern)

[edit] Second generation

Silverlink Metro Class 313 no. 313114 arriving at Clapham Junction.

c2c Class 357 no. 357036 at Southend Central.

Class 313 (Great Northern and North London)
Class 314 (Strathclyde)
Class 315 (Shenfield inner-suburban)
Class 316 (Prototype units)
Class 317 (Bed-Pan and Great Northern)
Class 318 (Strathclyde)
Class 319 (First Capital Connect)
Class 320 (Strathclyde)
Class 321 (Great Eastern, Euston & W Yorks Metro outer-suburban)
Class 322 (Stansted Express)
Class 323 (West Midlands & Greater Manchester)
Class 325 (Parcels)
Class 332 (Heathrow Express)
Class 333 (West Yorkshire)
Class 334 (Juniper - Strathclyde)
Class 350 (Desiro - West Coast)
Class 357 (Electrostar - London-Tilbury-Southend)
Class 360 (Desiro - Great Eastern)
Class 365 (Networker Express)
Class 375 (Electrostar)
Class 376 (Electrostar Metro)
Class 377 (Electrostar)

[edit] Supertrains

[edit] DC EMUs

[edit] Southern Region Units

The Southern Railway and its successor, the Southern Region of British Rail, used three letter codes to classify their DC EMU fleets, as shown after the TOPS class numbers.

TOPS Classes

South Eastern Trains Class 411 unit no. 1586 at London Victoria.

Gatwick Express Class 489 unit no. 489110 at London Victoria.

Class 401 2Bil
Class 402 2Hal or 2Pan
Class 403 5Bel
Class 404 4Cor
Class 405 4Sub
Class 410 4Bep
Class 411 4Cep
Class 412 4Bep
Class 413 4Cap
Class 414 2Hap
Class 415 4EPB
Class 416 2EPB
Class 418 2Sap
Class 419 MLV
Class 420 4Big
Class 421 4Cig or 3Cop
Class 422 4Big or 8Dig
Class 423 4Vep or 4Vop
Class 424 (Networker Classic Prototype)
Class 427 4Veg
Class 430 4Rep
Class 431 6Rep
Class 432 4Rep
Class 438 4TC
Class 442 5Wes (Wessex Express)
Class 444 5Des (Desiro)
Class 445 4Pep
Class 446 2Pep
Class 447 (Proposed Battersea Bullet)
Class 450 4Des (Desiro)
Class 455
Class 456
Class 457 (Networker Prototype)
Class 458 4Jop (Juniper)
Class 460 8Gat (Gatwick Express)
Class 465 (Networker)
Class 466 (Networker)
Class 480 8Vab
Class 482 (Waterloo & City Line)
Class 483 (Isle of Wight)
Class 485 4Vec
Class 486 3Tis
Class 487 (Waterloo & City Line)
Class 488 (Gatwick Express Trailers)
Class 489 GLV
Class 491 4TC
Class 492 3TC
Class 499 TLV

Pre-TOPS classes

[edit] Other DC units

The 500 series classes were reserved for DC EMUs not from the Southern Region. This included the DC lines in North London, Merseyside and Greater Manchester. The DC electric network around Tyneside had been de-electrified by the time TOPS was introduced, and the stock withdrawn or transferred to the Southern Region.

Merseyrail Class 507 unit no. 507026 at Liverpool Central.

TOPS classes

Class 501 (North London stock)
Class 502 (Liverpool-Southport stock)
Class 503 (Mersey-Wirral stock)
Class 504 (Manchester-Bury stock)
Class 505 (Manchester-Altrincham stock)
Class 506 (Manchester-Hadfield/Glossop stock)
Class 507 (Merseyside stock)
Class 508 (Merseyside stock)

Pre-TOPS classes

Ex-LNER Units (Tyneside stock)
Ex-LNWR Units (North London stock)
Ex-LYR Units (Manchester-Bury stock)

[edit] Battery electric multiple unit

This was a one-off unit, withdrawn before the introduction of TOPS.

79998/79999

[edit] Departmental multiple units

The 900 series classes were reserved for multiple units in departmental stock, most of which were converted from old passenger units. In broad terms, classes 930-935 were allocated to Southern Region multiple units (ex-200 and 400 series), 936 & 937 to other EMUs (ex-300 and 500 series) and 960 to other DMUs (ex-100 series). In recent years, this has been less rigidly adhered to.

[edit] Diesel multiple units

Class 901 (Test units, ex-Class 101)
Class 930 (Departmental SR DEMUs)
Class 950 (Purpose-built test unit, similar to Class 150)
Class 951 (Sandite/De-icer units, ex-Classes 201, 203, 205, and 207)
Class 960 (Departmental DMUs)

Multi-Purpose Vehicle (Purpose-built departmental vehicles)

[edit] Gas turbine multiple unit

APT-E (Experimental Advanced Passenger Train unit)

[edit] Electric Multiple Units

The original use for the Southern Region (SR) classes are included in brackets; these designations have been less rigidly applied in recent years.

Class 910 (Test units, ex-Class 488)
Class 920 (3-Pep Prototype Unit)
Class 930 (SR Sandite and De-icing Units)
Class 931 (SR Route learning and Stores Units)
Class 932 (SR Research and Tractor Units)
Class 933 (SR Mobile Instruction Units)
Class 935 (4Pep Research Units)
Class 936 (Sandite units, ex-Classes 311 and 501)
Class 937 (Sandite units, ex-Classes 302 and 308)
Class 960 (Test units, ex-Classes 309 and 310)

[edit] See also

[edit] External links

British Rail non-steam locomotives
Diesel locomotives - Electric locomotives - DMU - DEMU - AC EMU - DC EMU - Departmental units
	Diesel shunting locomotives
Classes:	01 - 01/5 - 02 - 03 - 04 - 05 - 06 - 07 - 08 - 09 - 10 - 11 - 12 - 13 - 14
Pre-TOPS type:	D1/1 - D1/2 - D1/3 - D1/4 - D2/1 - D2/2 - D2/3 - D2/4 - D2/5 - D2/6 - D2/7 - D2/8 - D2/9 - D2/10 - D2/11 - D2/12 - D3/1 - D3/2 - D3/3 - D3/4 - D3/5 - D3/6 - D3/7 - D3/8 - D3/9 - D3/10 - D3/11 - D3/12 - D3/13 - D3/14
Pre-1955 type:	11001 - 11104 - 15107 - 13000
	Main-line diesel locomotives
Classes:	15 - 16 - 17 - 20 - 21 - 21 (Vossloh) - 22 - 23 - 24 - 25 - 26 - 27 - 28 - 29 - 30 - 31 - 33 - 35 - 37 - 40 - 41 (Warship Class) - 41 (HST) - 42 - 43 (Warship Class) - 43 (HST) - 44 - 45 - 46 47 - 48 - 50 - 52 - 53 - 55 - 56 - 57 - 58 - 59 - 60 - 66 - 67
Pre-TOPS type:	D8/1 - D8/2 - D10/1 - D10/2 - D10/3 - D11/1 - D11/2 - D11/3 - D11/4 - D11/5 - D12/1 - D12/2 - D12/3 - D13/1 - D14/1 - D14/2 - D15/1 - D15/2 - D16/1 - D16/2 - D17/1 - D17/2 - D20/1 - D20/2 - D22/1 - D22/2 - D23/1 - D25/1 - D27/1 - D33/1 - KA - KB
Pre-1955 type:	10000-10001 - 10100 - 10201-10203 - 10800
	Electric locomotives
Classes:	70 - 71 - 73 - 74 - 76 - 77 - 80 - 81 - 82 - 83 - 84 - 85 - 86 - 87 - 89 - 90 - 91 - 92
Pre-TOPS type:	AL1 - AL2 - AL3 - AL4 - AL5 - AL6 - EB1 - EE1 - EM1 - EM2 - ES1 - HA - HB - JA - JB
	Other locomotives
Departmental:	97 - 97/6 - Eastern - Southern - Other Series
Other:	98 - 99 - 15097-15099 - 18000 - 18100
Demonstrators:	D0226/D0227 - D0260 - D0280 - D9998 - DHP1 - DP1 - DP2 - GT3 - HS4000 - Janus/Taurus

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List of British Rail classes

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Contents

[edit] Diesel locomotives

[edit] Shunters

[edit] Type 1s

[edit] Type 2s

[edit] Type 3s

[edit] Type 4s

[edit] Type 5s

[edit] Electric locomotives

[edit] DC electric locomotives

[edit] AC electric locomotives

[edit] Miscellaneous locomotives

[edit] Departmental

[edit] Steam

[edit] Petrol

[edit] Gas turbine

[edit] Builders' demonstrators

[edit] Diesel multiple units (DMUs)

[edit] 1st generation "heritage" DMUs

[edit] 2nd generation DMUs

[edit] Pacers

[edit] Sprinters

[edit] Turbos

[edit] Coradias

[edit] Diesel Desiro

[edit] Diesel-electric multiple units (DEMUs)

[edit] Southern Region DEMUs

[edit] Western Region Prototype DEMU

[edit] Voyager-style Express DEMUs

[edit] High speed trains

[edit] Electric multiple units (EMUs)

[edit] AC EMUs and dual-voltage EMUs

[edit] First generation

[edit] Second generation

[edit] Supertrains

[edit] DC EMUs

[edit] Southern Region Units

[edit] Other DC units

[edit] Battery electric multiple unit

[edit] Departmental multiple units

[edit] Diesel multiple units

[edit] Gas turbine multiple unit

[edit] Electric Multiple Units

[edit] See also

[edit] External links

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