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Bombardier Electrostar

🇬🇧 United Kingdom ·built by Adtranz· Family of British electric multiple units passenger trains

6 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences

1. 357036 at Southend Central: Wikimedia Commons· CC BY-SA 3.0
2. Hugh Llewellyn 20870385584 electrostar sunny: Hugh Llewellyn· CC BY-SA 2.0
3. British Rail Class 376: Foulger Rail Photos from Basingstoke, UK· CC BY-SA 4.0
4. British Rail Class 375: Hugh Llewelyn· CC BY-SA 2.0
5. 2016-09-02 GWR Electrostar 387132, 387131 - London Paddington by Luke Deaves: Luke Deaves ( Rhyfeddod )· CC BY 4.0
6. Southeastern Railway Class 375 Electrostar at Birchington-on-Sea June 2019: Scully Hitchcock· CC BY-SA 4.0

what is it?

The Bombardier Electrostar (sold as the ADtranz Electrostar until 2001) is a group of electric multiple unit (EMU) passenger trains manufactured by Bombardier Transportation (formerly Adtranz) at their Derby Litchurch Lane Works, in England, between 1999 and 2017. It has become the most common EMU type in Great Britain since the privatisation of British Rail, with a number of variants. Electrostar trains are most common on high-volume suburban commuter routes around London and on main line services from London to Surrey and the south coast, east to Essex, and north to Cambridge and Stansted Airport.

who runs it

Greater Anglia

spec sheet

built: —
number built: —
kind: multiple unit
traction: electric
origin: 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
builders: Adtranz, ALSTOM Transportation Germany, Bombardier
operators: Greater Anglia
top speed: —
power: —

From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.

family

Sources: Wikidata Q841722, Wikipedia: Bombardier Electrostar (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.