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Networker
🇬🇧 United Kingdom ·built by British Rail Engineering Limited· from 1989· passenger train family built for British Rail
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6 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. FGW at Guildford p8: The original uploader was Vermatt at English Wikipedia .· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 2. Reading - GWR 165102 Basingstoke service: Geof Sheppard ( talk )· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 3. British Rail Class 365: Hugh Llewelyn· CC BY-SA 2.0
- 4. British Rail Class 465: Goonerlewis465· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 5. British Rail Class 165: Peter Skuce· Public domain
- 6. British Rail Class 166: Chris Warman from UK· CC BY 2.0
what is it?
The Networker is a family of multiple-unit passenger trains which operate on the British railway system. They were built in the late 1980s and early 1990s by British Rail Engineering Limited (which became part of ABB in September 1992) and Metro Cammell. The trains were built for the Network SouthEast (NSE) sector of British Rail, which is where their name comes from.
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 37 years ago, in 1989.
- Still in service after 37 years.
multiple unit: A self-propelled train: motors are spread under the passenger cars, so no separate locomotive.
spec sheet
- built
- 1989
- in service from
- 1989
- status
- in service
- number built
- 344
- kind
- multiple unit
- origin
- 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
- builders
- British Rail Engineering Limited, ABB Group, Metro-Cammell, Alstom
- operators
- Chiltern Railways, SE Trains
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
family
Sources: Wikidata Q7001262, Wikipedia: Networker (train) (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.