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British Rail Class 18
🇬🇧 United Kingdom ·built by Clayton Equipment Company· future locomotive class on British Railways
what is it?
The British Rail Class 18 is a class of hybrid locomotives designed and built by the British railway locomotive manufacturer Clayton Equipment Company in Burton upon Trent, Staffordshire. It has also been referred to as the CBD90 Hybrid+ by Clayton and private railway customers. The Class 18 was first revealed as the CBD90 during mid-2019; initial customers were typically operators of private railways, such as steelworks and nuclear power plants.
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
- 416 kW is about 5 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 15 African elephants (~6 t each).
electric locomotive: Draws power from overhead wires or a third rail and pulls separate carriages.
spec sheet
- built
- —
- number built
- —
- kind
- Diesel-electric, with battery
- traction
- battery
- origin
- 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
- builders
- Clayton Equipment Company
- top speed
- 20 km/h
- power
- 416 kW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- Bo'Bo'
- weight
- 90 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q106009524, Wikipedia: British Rail Class 18 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.