#4887
British Rail Class 482
🇬🇧 United Kingdom ·built by ABB Group· from 1993· British electric multiple unit train type
3 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. 65507 at Bank LUL station: Phil Scott ( Our Phellap )· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 2. Class-482-NSE-Bank2: No machine-readable author provided. Spsmiler assumed (based on copyright claims).· Public domain
- 3. Class-482-NSE-Bank3: No machine-readable author provided. Spsmiler assumed (based on copyright claims).· Public domain
what is it?
The British Rail Class 482 electric multiple units were built by ABB in 1992, for use on the Waterloo & City line. The units are almost identical to the 1992 tube stock built for the Central line. Ten 2-car units were built, numbered 482501–510.
who runs it
base stats
Bars compare against all trains: 600 km/h (maglev), 1,700 seats; power, weight and number built on a log scale up to 20 MW, 1,000 t and 20,000 built.
fun facts
- First built 33 years ago, in 1993.
- Still in service after 33 years.
multiple unit: A self-propelled train: motors are spread under the passenger cars, so no separate locomotive.
spec sheet
- built
- 1993
- in service from
- 1993
- status
- in service
- number built
- 10
- kind
- multiple unit
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
- builders
- ABB Group
- operators
- British Rail, Network SouthEast
- top speed
- 97 km/h
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- electric system
- 750 V DC fourth rail
- formation
- 2 cars per unit, 2 units per train
- capacity
- 72 passengers
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q3303868, Wikipedia: British Rail Class 482 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.