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British Rail Class 413
🇬🇧 United Kingdom ·built by Eastleigh Locomotive, Carriage and Wagon Works· from 1982· class of British 4-car electric multiple units formed by permanently coupling two Class 414 (2-HAP) units together
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. BR 4-CEP 413207: Murgatroyd49· CC BY-SA 4.0
what is it?
The British Rail Class 413 (or 4-CAP) units were formed from 1982 by permanently coupling two Class 414 2-HAP units together.
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 44 years ago, in 1982.
- Top speed is 1.1× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- Weighs about as much as 24 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 19.5 m long: about 4 cars parked nose to tail.
- Served for 13 years (1982–1995).
multiple unit: A self-propelled train: motors are spread under the passenger cars, so no separate locomotive.
spec sheet
- built
- 1982
- in service from
- 1982
- retired
- 1995
- status
- retired
- number built
- 29
- kind
- multiple unit
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
- builders
- Eastleigh Locomotive, Carriage and Wagon Works
- operators
- British Rail
- top speed
- 145 km/h
- power
- —
- formation
- DTCsoL - DMBSO - DMLSO - DTCsoL
- length
- 19.5 m
- weight
- 144 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q4970795, Wikipedia: British Rail Class 413 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.