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British Rail Class 118
🇬🇧 United Kingdom ·built by Birmingham Railway Carriage and Wagon Company· from 1960· class of 15 three-car suburban diesel multiple units built by BRCW
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. BR Class 118 BRCW DMU WR set no. C465, Swansea, 9 September 1986: michaelday_bath· CC BY 2.0
what is it?
The British Rail Class 118 diesel multiple units were built by the Birmingham Railway Carriage and Wagon Company (BRCW) and introduced from 1960. It was a licence-built version of the British Rail Class 116.
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 66 years ago, in 1960.
- Weighs about as much as 6 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 19.5 m long: about 4 cars parked nose to tail.
- Served for 34 years (1960–1994).
multiple unit: A self-propelled train: motors are spread under the passenger cars, so no separate locomotive.
spec sheet
- built
- 1960
- in service from
- 1960
- retired
- 1994
- status
- retired
- number built
- 15
- kind
- multiple unit
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
- builders
- Birmingham Railway Carriage and Wagon Company
- operators
- British Rail, Western Region of British Railways
- top speed
- 113 km/h
- power
- 112 kW
- formation
- 3-car sets: DMBS, Driving Motor Brake Second-TCL, Trailer Composite with lavatory-DMS, Driving Motor Second
- length
- 19.5 m
- weight
- 36.6 t
- capacity
- 89 passengers
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q4970718, Wikipedia: British Rail Class 118 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.