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InterCity 250
🇬🇧 United Kingdom ·built by Unknown builder· from 1992· Cancelled electric railway project
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4 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. IC 250 nose Midland Railway - Butterley: Phil_Parker· CC BY 2.0
- 2. IC225 - Midland Railway Centre (12407894865): Jim· CC BY 2.0
- 3. InterCity Mk5 Coach: Mog2015· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 4. MK5 Coach Intercity 225: Oliverfrom1993· CC BY 4.0
what is it?
The InterCity 250 was an electric railway project undertaken by British Rail in the late 1980s. The InterCity 250 train would have consisted of a Class 93 electric locomotive, nine Mark 5 coaches and a Mark 5 Driving Van Trailer operating in a push-pull formation. The British Rail project was cancelled in July 1992.
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 34 years ago, in 1992.
- Top speed is 1.9× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- At full speed it would cover Amsterdam–Utrecht (≈ 40 km) in 10 minutes.
- 5.5 MW is about 65 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
multiple unit: A self-propelled train: motors are spread under the passenger cars, so no separate locomotive.
spec sheet
- built
- 1992–1995
- number built
- 30
- kind
- Electric
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
- builders
- Unknown builder
- operators
- InterCity
- top speed
- 249 km/h
- power
- 5.5 MW
- wheel arrangement
- Bo′Bo′+2′2′+...+2′2′+2′2′
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q6044837, Wikipedia: InterCity 250 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.