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British Rail Class 165

🇬🇧 United Kingdom ·built by British Rail Engineering Limited· British diesel multiple-unit passenger trains

🚆 multiple unit diesel ✓ in service
British Rail Class 165, photo 1 of 3
1/3 Peter Skuce· Public domain

what is it?

The British Rail Class 165 Networker Turbo is a fleet of suburban diesel-hydraulic multiple unit passenger trains (DMUs), originally specified by and built for the British Rail Thames and Chiltern Division of Network SouthEast. They were built by BREL York Works between 1990 and 1992. An express version was subsequently built in the form of the Class 166 Networker Turbo Express trains.

who runs it

spec sheet

built
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status
in service
number built
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kind
multiple unit
traction
diesel
origin
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
builders
British Rail Engineering Limited, Holgate Road carriage works
operators
Chiltern Railways, Great Western Railway
top speed
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power
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From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.

family

Sources: Wikidata Q3303631, Wikipedia: British Rail Class 165 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.

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