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British Rail Class 781
🇬🇧 United Kingdom ·built by Unknown builder· British battery electric train
what is it?
The British Rail Class 781 is a planned fleet of four-car battery electric multiple unit (BEMU) trains to be built for Northern Trains.
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
- 92 m long: about 20 cars parked nose to tail.
- Seats 265: 5 full city buses (~50 seats each).
multiple unit: A self-propelled train: motors are spread under the passenger cars, so no separate locomotive.
spec sheet
- built
- —
- number built
- 8
- kind
- multiple unit
- traction
- battery
- origin
- 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
- builders
- Unknown builder
- operators
- Northern Trains
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- length
- 92 m
- capacity
- 265 passengers
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q136476786, Wikipedia: British Rail Class 781 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.