#4270· BR Class 313
British Rail Class 313
🇬🇧 United Kingdom ·built by British Rail Engineering Limited· from 1976· class of 64 three-car electric multiple units
10 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. 20220806 GTR 313205 Barnham: Alex Noble· CC0
- 2. 313203 at Brighton: L1v3rp00l· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 3. A class 313 EMU approaches Newhaven: Elsie esq.· CC BY 2.0
- 4. Class 313 In the country: Elsie esq.· CC BY 2.0
- 5. Class 313 unit: Elsie esq.· CC BY 2.0
- 6. 36 years ago at Welwyn Garden City station. - panoramio: Roger Carvell· CC BY 3.0
- 7. 313057 AAP: SavageKieran· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 8. 14338416102 5472b1f5c9 o Hugh Llewellyn: Hugh Llewellyn· CC BY-SA 2.0
- 9. 313 Original NSE livery: Spsmiler· Public domain
- 10. Primrose Hill Railway Station: Stephen Craven· CC BY-SA 2.0
what is it?
The British Rail Class 313 is a class of dual-voltage electric multiple units (EMU) suburban and regional passenger trains. Built by British Rail Engineering Limited at Holgate Road carriage works between February 1976 and April 1977, they were the first production units that were derived from British Rail's 1971 prototype suburban EMU design which, as the BREL 1972 family, eventually encompassed 755 vehicles over five production classes (313, 314, 315, 507 and 508). They were the first second-generation EMUs to be constructed for British Rail and the first British Rail units with both a pantograph for 25 kV 50 Hz AC overhead lines and contact shoe equipment for 750 V DC third rail supply.
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 50 years ago, in 1976.
- Served for 47 years (1976–2023).
multiple unit: A self-propelled train: motors are spread under the passenger cars, so no separate locomotive.
spec sheet
- built
- 1976
- in service from
- 1976
- retired
- 2023
- status
- retired
- number built
- 64
- kind
- multiple unit
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
- builders
- British Rail Engineering Limited, Holgate Road carriage works
- operators
- First Capital Connect, London Overground, Southern, West Anglia Great Northern, Eastern Region of British Railways, Silverlink, Govia Thameslink Railway
- top speed
- 121 km/h
- power
- —
- Dutch name
- BR Class 313
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q751896, Wikipedia: British Rail Class 313 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.