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Encyclopedia > British Rail Class 487
Class 487 train leaving Bank station

The British Rail Class 487 electric multiple units were built by English Electric in 1940, for use on the Waterloo & City Line. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... 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. ... Trains of the Singapore MRT. EMUs are often used for rapid transit lines. ... English Electric logo English Electric was a 20th-century British industrial manufacturer, initially of electric motors, and expanding to include railway locomotives and aviation, before becoming part of GEC. // 1917: Dick, Kerr & Co. ... The Waterloo & City Line is a short underground metro line in London, formally opened on 11 July 1898. ...


Twelve motor carriages (DMBSO), numbered 51-62, and sixteen trailers (TSO), numbered 71-86, were built. Trains were formed of various formations, from a single motor carriage, to pairs of motor cars with up to three intermediate trailers. The London, Midland and Scottish Railway and the London and North Eastern Railway both developed a system of identifying carriages by means of alphabetic codes. ...


They were originally classified Class 453 under TOPS but were later reclassified Class 487. The Total Operations Processing System, better known by its initials TOPS, is a computer system for managing the locomotives and rolling stock (railroad cars) owned by a rail system. ...


The Waterloo & City Line was operated as part of the BR Southern Region. Stock was painted in British Railways green livery, which was replaced by BR Blue in the 1970s. In 1986, the line came under the ownership of Network SouthEast, and their blue, red and white livery was applied. British Railways Southern Region totem station sign for Hither Green. ... A train in NSE livery Network SouthEast (NSE) was a sector of British Rail that principally operated commuter trains in the London area, and was formed in 1986 when BR was sectorised. ...


By the 1990s the units were urgently in need of replacing. This came in the form of new Class 482 two-car units, which were delivered to traffic in 1992/93. The final Class 487 vehicles were taken by road to Glasgow for scrap, which was their single longest journey above ground. A newly-refurbished unit in London Underground livery at Doncaster Works in 2006 The British Rail Class 482 electrical multiple units were built by Adtranz in 1992, for use on the Waterloo & City Line. ... For other uses, see Glasgow (disambiguation). ...


One vehicle, DMBSO no. 61, has been preserved by the London Transport Museum and stored in the Museum Depot at Acton Town. Londons Transport Museum, formerly known as the London Transport Museum, is a museum which seeks to conserve and explain the transport heritage of London, the capital city of the United Kingdom. ...


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External links

  • A YouTube video of these trains, made by citytransportinfo.

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