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British Rail Class 332

Class 332 at Paddington

In service 1998 - Current
Manufacturer Siemens AG and CAF (Spain)
Cars built 14 trainsets
Formation 4-5 cars per trainset
Operator Heathrow Express (BAA)
Maximum speed 100 mph (161 km/h)
Weight 188.4 t (4 cars)
233.6 t (5 cars)
Capacity 175 seats (4 cars)
239 seats (5 cars)
Power output 1.4 MW
Gauge 1,435 mm
Voltage 25 kV AC Overhead
Braking system Regenerative air brake
Safety systems ATP

The British Rail Class 332 (originally Class 331) is the type of electric multiple unit train used on the Heathrow Express between London Paddington station and Heathrow Airport. The fleet was built in 1998 by Siemens and CAF at the latter’s factory in Zaragoza, Spain. There are 14 four-carriage units, although at least one unit is subleased to Heathrow Connect and is painted in ‘Connect’ colours. Heathrow Express Class 332 Siemens Electric Unit No. ... Siemens redirects here. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Heathrow Express is a train service from Heathrow Airport to Paddington in central London operated by the Heathrow Express Operating Authority—a wholly owned subsidiary of BAA. The service is not part of the National Rail system, despite part of its journey sharing track with National Rail trains and terminating... BAA Limited is the owner and operator of seven major United Kingdom airports and operator of several airports worldwide, making the company one of the largest transport companies in the world. ... Miles per hour is a unit of speed, expressing the number of international miles covered per hour. ... A tonne (also called metric ton) is a non-SI unit of mass, accepted for use with SI, defined as: 1 tonne = 103 kg (= 106 g). ... The megawatt (symbol: MW) is a unit for measuring power corresponding to one million (106) watts. ... The dominant rail gauge in each country shown Rail gauge is the distance between the inner sides of the two parallel rails that make up a railway track. ... As railways developed and expanded one of the key issues to be decided was that of the rail gauge (the distance between the two rails of the track) which should be used. ... KV, kV, or kv may refer to: kilovolts, see volt Komi language ((ISO 639 alpha-2) Köchel Verzeichnis, a chronological catalogue of all the compositions of Mozart: see Ludwig von Köchel KV (Egypt), an acronym referring to tombs in the Valley of the Kings in Egypt the IATA... City lights viewed in a motion blurred exposure. ... The overhead lines of a Swiss Federal Railways track. ... Automatic train protection is speed and distance supervision, usually intervening (usually deploying emergency brake, as a last measure) when the driver of a train omits to react on optical signals given from the wayside system. ... Trains of the Singapore MRT. EMUs are often used for rapid transit lines. ... For other uses, see Train (disambiguation). ... Heathrow Express is a train service from Heathrow Airport to Paddington in central London operated by the Heathrow Express Operating Authority—a wholly owned subsidiary of BAA. The service is not part of the National Rail system, despite part of its journey sharing track with National Rail trains and terminating... Paddington Station, March 2005 during rush hour Paddington station or London Paddington station is a major National Rail and London Underground station complex in the Paddington area of London. ... London Heathrow Airport (IATA airport code: LHR, ICAO airport code: EGLL, and often simply Heathrow) is the United Kingdoms busiest and best-connected airport. ... Year 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1998 Gregorian calendar). ... Siemens redirects here. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... For other uses, see Zaragoza (disambiguation). ... Heathrow Connect is a train service in London, connecting Heathrow Airport with Paddington station. ...


The units are equipped with Automatic Train Protection (ATP), one of the few in the UK to do so. This is largely as a consequence of the Paddington-Heathrow route operating (for the most part) on the Great Western Main Line, which had been equipped with ATP in the early 1990s as part of an experimental trial of the system by British Rail. Automatic train protection is speed and distance supervision, usually intervening (usually deploying emergency brake, as a last measure) when the driver of a train omits to react on optical signals given from the wayside system. ... Maidenhead Railway Bridge The Great Western Main Line is a main line railway in England that runs westwards from London Paddington station to Temple Meads station in Bristol. ... Year 1990 (MCMXC) was a common year starting on Monday (link displays the 1990 Gregorian calendar). ... This article is about the defunct entity British Railways, which later traded as British Rail. The History of rail transport in Great Britain is covered in its own article. ...


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