Logo
Unionpedia
Communication
Get it on Google Play
New! Download Unionpedia on your Android™ device!
Free
Faster access than browser!
 

British Rail Class 455

Index British Rail Class 455

The British Rail Class 455 is an electric multiple-unit passenger train built by BREL York in the early to mid 1980s. [1]

65 relations: Alstom, Alternating current, Aluminium alloy, Ashford, Kent, Aventra, Beckenham Junction station, Bombardier Transportation, British Rail, British Rail Class 317, British Rail Class 405, British Rail Class 508, British Rail Class 707, British Rail Classes 445 and 446, British Rail Engineering Limited, British Rail Mark 3, Camshaft, Capacitor, Chopper (electronics), Clapham Junction railway station, Connex South Central, Crystal Palace line, Direct current, Disability Discrimination Act 2005, Eastleigh Works, Electric multiple unit, Eversholt Rail Group, Guildford railway station, Holgate Road carriage works, York, Insulated-gate bipolar transistor, International Railway Journal, IXYS Corporation, Kiepe Electric, London Bridge station, London Waterloo station, Merseyrail, Merseyside, Network SouthCentral, Network SouthEast, North London line, Oxshott railway station, Oxted line, Porterbrook, Privatisation of British Rail, Rail (magazine), Rail Accident Investigation Branch, Railway air brake, Railway Gazette International, Railways Illustrated, Selhurst railway station, South East England, ..., South West Trains, South Western franchise, South Western Railway (train operating company), Southern (Govia Thameslink Railway), Southern Region of British Railways, Stagecoach Group, Stewarts Lane, Strawberry Hill, London, Sydenham railway station (London), The Railway Magazine, Third rail, Today's Railways, Volt, Wimbledon Traincare depot, Wolverton railway works. Expand index (15 more) »

Alstom

Alstom is a French multinational company operating worldwide in rail transport markets, active in the fields of passenger transportation, signalling and locomotives, with products including the AGV, TGV, Eurostar, and Pendolino high-speed trains, in addition to suburban, regional and metro trains, and Citadis trams.

New!!: British Rail Class 455 and Alstom · See more »

Alternating current

Alternating current (AC) is an electric current which periodically reverses direction, in contrast to direct current (DC) which flows only in one direction.

New!!: British Rail Class 455 and Alternating current · See more »

Aluminium alloy

Aluminium alloys (or aluminum alloys; see spelling differences) are alloys in which aluminium (Al) is the predominant metal.

New!!: British Rail Class 455 and Aluminium alloy · See more »

Ashford, Kent

Ashford is a town in the county of Kent, England.

New!!: British Rail Class 455 and Ashford, Kent · See more »

Aventra

The Aventra is a British family of electric multiple unit (EMU) passenger trains designed by Bombardier Transportation, as a successor to the Electrostar.

New!!: British Rail Class 455 and Aventra · See more »

Beckenham Junction station

Beckenham Junction is the main railway and tram station in Beckenham in the London Borough of Bromley, south London.

New!!: British Rail Class 455 and Beckenham Junction station · See more »

Bombardier Transportation

Bombardier Transportation is the rail equipment division of the Canadian firm Bombardier Inc. Bombardier Transportation is one of the world's largest companies in the rail vehicle and equipment manufacturing and servicing industry.

New!!: British Rail Class 455 and Bombardier Transportation · See more »

British Rail

British Railways (BR), which from 1965 traded as British Rail, was the state-owned company that operated most of the rail transport in Great Britain between 1948 and 1997.

New!!: British Rail Class 455 and British Rail · See more »

British Rail Class 317

The British Rail Class 317 alternating current electric multiple units (EMUs) were built by British Rail Engineering Limited's Holgate Road carriage works in two batches, from 1981–82 and 1985-87.

New!!: British Rail Class 455 and British Rail Class 317 · See more »

British Rail Class 405

Under the British Rail TOPS computer system, Class 405 was allocated to surviving examples of the Southern Railway (United Kingdom) 4-Sub Class electric multiple units built between 1941 and 1951.

New!!: British Rail Class 455 and British Rail Class 405 · See more »

British Rail Class 508

British Rail Class 508 (or 4PER) electric multiple units (EMUs) were built by BREL York works in 1979-80.

New!!: British Rail Class 455 and British Rail Class 508 · See more »

British Rail Class 707

The British Rail Class 707 is an electric multiple unit built by Siemens, currently operated by South Western Railway (SWR).

New!!: British Rail Class 455 and British Rail Class 707 · See more »

British Rail Classes 445 and 446

The PEP Stock were prototype electric multiple units used on British Rail's Southern and Scottish Regions during the 1970s and early 1980s.

New!!: British Rail Class 455 and British Rail Classes 445 and 446 · See more »

British Rail Engineering Limited

British Rail Engineering Limited (BREL), incorporated on 31 October 1969, was the railway systems engineering subsidiary of British Rail until the design and building of trains in the UK was privatised in 1989.

New!!: British Rail Class 455 and British Rail Engineering Limited · See more »

British Rail Mark 3

The British Rail Mark 3 is a type of passenger carriage developed in response to growing competition from airlines and the car in the 1960s.

New!!: British Rail Class 455 and British Rail Mark 3 · See more »

Camshaft

A camshaft is a shaft to which a cam is fastened or of which a cam forms an integral part.

New!!: British Rail Class 455 and Camshaft · See more »

Capacitor

A capacitor is a passive two-terminal electrical component that stores potential energy in an electric field.

New!!: British Rail Class 455 and Capacitor · See more »

Chopper (electronics)

In electronics, a chopper circuit is used to refer to numerous types of electronic switching devices and circuits used in power control and signal applications.

New!!: British Rail Class 455 and Chopper (electronics) · See more »

Clapham Junction railway station

Clapham Junction railway station is a major railway station and transport hub near St John's Hill in south-west Battersea in the London Borough of Wandsworth.

New!!: British Rail Class 455 and Clapham Junction railway station · See more »

Connex South Central

Connex South Central was a train operating company in the United Kingdom owned by Connex that operated the Network SouthCentral franchise from May 1996 until August 2001.

New!!: British Rail Class 455 and Connex South Central · See more »

Crystal Palace line

The Crystal Palace Line is a railway line in London which runs from Balham Junction to.

New!!: British Rail Class 455 and Crystal Palace line · See more »

Direct current

Direct current (DC) is the unidirectional flow of electric charge.

New!!: British Rail Class 455 and Direct current · See more »

Disability Discrimination Act 2005

The Disability Discrimination Act 2005 (c 13) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

New!!: British Rail Class 455 and Disability Discrimination Act 2005 · See more »

Eastleigh Works

Eastleigh Works is a locomotive, carriage and wagon building and repair facility in the town of Eastleigh, in the county of Hampshire in England.

New!!: British Rail Class 455 and Eastleigh Works · See more »

Electric multiple unit

An electric multiple unit or EMU is a multiple-unit train consisting of self-propelled carriages, using electricity as the motive power.

New!!: British Rail Class 455 and Electric multiple unit · See more »

Eversholt Rail Group

Eversholt Rail Group (formerly HSBC Rail (UK) Limited) is one of the three major ROSCOs (rolling stock operating company) in the United Kingdom.

New!!: British Rail Class 455 and Eversholt Rail Group · See more »

Guildford railway station

Guildford railway station is at one of three main railway junctions on the Portsmouth Direct Line and serves the town of Guildford in Surrey, England.

New!!: British Rail Class 455 and Guildford railway station · See more »

Holgate Road carriage works, York

The Holgate Road carriage works was a railway carriage manufacturing factory in the Holgate area of York, England.

New!!: British Rail Class 455 and Holgate Road carriage works, York · See more »

Insulated-gate bipolar transistor

An insulated-gate bipolar transistor (IGBT) is a three-terminal power semiconductor device primarily used as an electronic switch which, as it was developed, came to combine high efficiency and fast switching.

New!!: British Rail Class 455 and Insulated-gate bipolar transistor · See more »

International Railway Journal

The International Railway Journal is a monthly international trade magazine published by Simmons-Boardman Publishing Corporation (Falmouth, Cornwall, United Kingdom).

New!!: British Rail Class 455 and International Railway Journal · See more »

IXYS Corporation

IXYS Corporation, (NASDAQ) is an American company based in Milpitas, California.

New!!: British Rail Class 455 and IXYS Corporation · See more »

Kiepe Electric

Kiepe Electric GmbH (formerly Vossloh Kiepe) is a German manufacturer of electrical traction equipment for trams, trolleybuses other road and rail transport vehicles, as well as air-conditioning and heating systems, and conveyor device components.

New!!: British Rail Class 455 and Kiepe Electric · See more »

London Bridge station

London Bridge is a central London railway terminus and connected London Underground station in Southwark, south-east London.

New!!: British Rail Class 455 and London Bridge station · See more »

London Waterloo station

Waterloo station, also known as London Waterloo, is a central London terminus on the National Rail network in the United Kingdom, located in the Waterloo area of the London Borough of Lambeth.

New!!: British Rail Class 455 and London Waterloo station · See more »

Merseyrail

Merseyrail is both a train operating company (TOC) and a commuter rail network in and around Liverpool City Region, England.

New!!: British Rail Class 455 and Merseyrail · See more »

Merseyside

Merseyside is a metropolitan county in North West England, with a population of 1.38 million.

New!!: British Rail Class 455 and Merseyside · See more »

Network SouthCentral

Network SouthCentral (NSC) was a shadow franchise that existed from 4 February 1994 to 13 October 1996, when Connex South Central took over the running of the franchise.

New!!: British Rail Class 455 and Network SouthCentral · See more »

Network SouthEast

Network SouthEast (NSE) was one of the three passenger sectors of British Rail formed in 1982.

New!!: British Rail Class 455 and Network SouthEast · See more »

North London line

The North London line is a railway line of the London Overground, which passes through the inner suburbs of north London, England.

New!!: British Rail Class 455 and North London line · See more »

Oxshott railway station

Oxshott railway station serves the village of Oxshott, in Surrey, England.

New!!: British Rail Class 455 and Oxshott railway station · See more »

Oxted line

The Oxted line is a railway in southern England and part of the Southern franchise.

New!!: British Rail Class 455 and Oxted line · See more »

Porterbrook

Porterbrook is one of the three major rolling stock operating companies (ROSCO) in the United Kingdom (the other two being Angel Trains and Eversholt Rail Group).

New!!: British Rail Class 455 and Porterbrook · See more »

Privatisation of British Rail

The Privatisation of British Rail was the process by which ownership and operation of the railways of Great Britain passed from government control into private hands.

New!!: British Rail Class 455 and Privatisation of British Rail · See more »

Rail (magazine)

Rail is a British magazine on the subject of current rail transport in Great Britain.

New!!: British Rail Class 455 and Rail (magazine) · See more »

Rail Accident Investigation Branch

The Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB) is a British government agency that investigates rail accidents in the United Kingdom and the Channel Tunnel in order to find a cause, not to lay blame.

New!!: British Rail Class 455 and Rail Accident Investigation Branch · See more »

Railway air brake

A railway air brake is a railway brake power braking system with compressed air as the operating medium.

New!!: British Rail Class 455 and Railway air brake · See more »

Railway Gazette International

Railway Gazette International is a monthly business journal covering the railway, metro, light rail and tram industries worldwide.

New!!: British Rail Class 455 and Railway Gazette International · See more »

Railways Illustrated

Railways Illustrated is a British monthly railway magazine that is published by Key Publishing.

New!!: British Rail Class 455 and Railways Illustrated · See more »

Selhurst railway station

Selhurst railway station is in the London Borough of Croydon in south London, down the line from.

New!!: British Rail Class 455 and Selhurst railway station · See more »

South East England

South East England is the most populous of the nine official regions of England at the first level of NUTS for statistical purposes.

New!!: British Rail Class 455 and South East England · See more »

South West Trains

South West Trains (SWT) was an English train operating company owned by Stagecoach, which operated the South Western franchise between 1996 and 2017.

New!!: British Rail Class 455 and South West Trains · See more »

South Western franchise

South Western is a railway franchise for the provision of passenger services from London Waterloo to destinations in Surrey, Hampshire, Dorset, Berkshire and Wiltshire on the South Western, Portsmouth Direct and West of England main lines.

New!!: British Rail Class 455 and South Western franchise · See more »

South Western Railway (train operating company)

South Western Railway (SWR) is an English train operating company owned by FirstGroup (70%) and MTR Corporation (30%) that operates the South Western franchise.

New!!: British Rail Class 455 and South Western Railway (train operating company) · See more »

Southern (Govia Thameslink Railway)

Southern is the brand name used by the Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR) train operating company on the Southern routes of the Thameslink, Southern and Great Northern franchise in England.

New!!: British Rail Class 455 and Southern (Govia Thameslink Railway) · See more »

Southern Region of British Railways

The Southern Region was a region of British Railways from 1948 until 1992 when railways were re-privatised.

New!!: British Rail Class 455 and Southern Region of British Railways · See more »

Stagecoach Group

Stagecoach Group plc is an international transport group operating buses, trains, trams and express coaches.

New!!: British Rail Class 455 and Stagecoach Group · See more »

Stewarts Lane

Stewarts Lane is a large railway servicing facility in Battersea in London, England, founded by the London Chatham and Dover Railway (LCDR) in 1862, to serve London Victoria railway station.

New!!: British Rail Class 455 and Stewarts Lane · See more »

Strawberry Hill, London

Strawberry Hill is an affluent area of the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames in Twickenham.

New!!: British Rail Class 455 and Strawberry Hill, London · See more »

Sydenham railway station (London)

Sydenham (London) is a railway station in Sydenham in the London Borough of Lewisham, South London.

New!!: British Rail Class 455 and Sydenham railway station (London) · See more »

The Railway Magazine

The Railway Magazine is a monthly British railway magazine, aimed at the railway enthusiast market, that has been published in London since July 1897.

New!!: British Rail Class 455 and The Railway Magazine · See more »

Third rail

A third rail is a method of providing electric power to a railway locomotive or train, through a semi-continuous rigid conductor placed alongside or between the rails of a railway track.

New!!: British Rail Class 455 and Third rail · See more »

Today's Railways

Today's Railways UK (TRUK) and Today's Railways Europe (TREU) are railway magazines aimed at the enthusiast and semi-professional market and concentrating on current and heritage events in, respectively, the United Kingdom and mainland Europe.

New!!: British Rail Class 455 and Today's Railways · See more »

Volt

The volt (symbol: V) is the derived unit for electric potential, electric potential difference (voltage), and electromotive force.

New!!: British Rail Class 455 and Volt · See more »

Wimbledon Traincare depot

The Wimbledon Traincare depot is a traction maintenance depot in England, servicing primarily South Western Railway, located between Wimbledon and Earlsfield stations, on the South Western Main Line from Woking to London Waterloo and situated next to the Wimbledon Train Viaduct.

New!!: British Rail Class 455 and Wimbledon Traincare depot · See more »

Wolverton railway works

Wolverton railway works, known locally as Wolverton Works or just The Works, was established in Wolverton, Buckinghamshire, by the London and Birmingham Railway Company in 1838 at the midpoint of the -long route from London to Birmingham.

New!!: British Rail Class 455 and Wolverton railway works · See more »

Redirects here:

BR Class 455, BR Class 510, British Rail Class 510, Class 455.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Rail_Class_455

OutgoingIncoming
Hey! We are on Facebook now! »