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InterCity 225
🇬🇧 United Kingdom ·built by British Rail Engineering Limited· High speed train in UK
2 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. 91111 at Kings Cross 1: Oxyman· CC BY 2.5
- 2. InterCity 225 Trainset - 54793799906: Samson Ng . D201@EAL· CC BY-SA 4.0
what is it?
The InterCity 225 is an electric push-pull high speed train in Great Britain, each originally comprising a Class 91 electric locomotive, nine Mark 4 coaches and a Driving Van Trailer (DVT). The Class 91 locomotives were built by British Rail Engineering Limited's Crewe Works as a spin-off from the Advanced Passenger Train (APT) project, which was abandoned during the 1980s, whilst the coaches and DVT were constructed by Metro-Cammell in Birmingham and Breda (under sub-contract) in Italy, again borrowing heavily from the APT. The trains were designed to operate at up to 140 mph (225 km/h) in regular service, but are limited to 125 mph (200 km/h) principally due to a lack of cab signalling and the limitations of the current overhead line equipment. They were introduced into service between 1989 and 1991 for inter-city services on the East Coast Main Line (ECML) from London King's Cross to
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
- Top speed is 1.7× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- At full speed it would cover Amsterdam–Utrecht (≈ 40 km) in 11 minutes.
high-speed train: Built for 200–350 km/h on dedicated lines, like the TGV, ICE or Shinkansen.
spec sheet
- built
- —
- number built
- 31
- kind
- high-speed train
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
- builders
- British Rail Engineering Limited, Alstom, Metro-Cammell
- operators
- London North Eastern Railway
- top speed
- 225 km/h
- power
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From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q942987, Wikipedia: InterCity 225 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.