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British Rail Class 350
🇬🇧 United Kingdom ·built by Siemens Mobility· from 2005· Family of electric multiple units
2 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. 350403 - HRW: SmoIchopper· CC BY 2.0
- 2. 20220903 LNR 350114 350124: Alex Noble· CC0
what is it?
The British Rail Class 350 Desiro is a class of electric multiple unit passenger train built by Siemens Mobility to its Desiro design between 2004 and 2014. Fifty are operated by West Midlands Trains, having previously been operated by Central Trains, Silverlink, Southern, London Midland, First TransPennine Express and TransPennine Express. The remaining 37 are in storage and are scheduled to be transferred to Northern Trains between 2028 and 2030.
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 21 years ago, in 2005.
- Top speed is 1.4× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- At full speed it would cover Amsterdam–Utrecht (≈ 40 km) in 13 minutes.
multiple unit: A self-propelled train: motors are spread under the passenger cars, so no separate locomotive.
spec sheet
- built
- 2005
- in service from
- 2005
- number built
- 107
- kind
- multiple unit
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
- builders
- Siemens Mobility
- operators
- London Midland, FirstGroup plc, Southern, First TransPennine Express, Central Trains, Silverlink, TransPennine Express, West Midlands Trains
- top speed
- 180 km/h
- power
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From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q488661, Wikipedia: British Rail Class 350 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.