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British Rail Class 600
🇬🇧 United Kingdom ·built by British Rail Engineering Limited· class of hydrogen-powered multiple unit train
what is it?
The British Rail Class 600 Breeze was a proposed class of hydrogen fuel cell-powered multiple units that was to have been converted from existing BREL Class 321 electric multiple units. The project commenced in 2018, but was cancelled in 2022 before any conversions took place.
who runs it
fun facts
- 20 m long: about 4 cars parked nose to tail.
multiple unit: A self-propelled train: motors are spread under the passenger cars, so no separate locomotive.
spec sheet
- built
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- number built
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- kind
- multiple unit
- traction
- hydrogen
- origin
- 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
- builders
- British Rail Engineering Limited, Alstom
- operators
- Eversholt Rail Group
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- length
- 20 m
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q97657078, Wikipedia: British Rail Class 600 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.