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British Rail MPV
🇬🇧 United Kingdom ·built by Windhoff Bahn- und Anlagentechnik· from 1999· version of the Windoff MPV used in the United Kingdom
2 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. SwRS100279: Bashereyre at English Wikipedia· Public domain
- 2. DR989854 Windhoff MPV Chester 211025: kitmasterbloke· CC BY 4.0
what is it?
The Multiple-purpose Vehicle or MPV is a purpose-built departmental derivative of a diesel multiple unit. Twenty-five two-car units were ordered by Railtrack to enable it to replace its varied collection of ageing departmental vehicles, many of which were converted from redundant passenger stock. The vehicles were built in Germany by Windhoff.
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 27 years ago, in 1999.
- Still in service after 27 years.
multiple unit: A self-propelled train: motors are spread under the passenger cars, so no separate locomotive.
spec sheet
- built
- 1999
- in service from
- 1999
- status
- in service
- number built
- 18
- kind
- multiple unit
- origin
- 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
- builders
- Windhoff Bahn- und Anlagentechnik
- operators
- Network Rail
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- formation
- 1 or 2 cars
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
family
Sources: Wikidata Q2583580, Wikipedia: British Rail MPV (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.