Class 230
Trains converted from London Underground D78 Stock cars. GWR runs a battery version on Saturdays between West Ealing and Greenford, and it set a world distance record for a battery train on one charge. London Northwestern Railway ran three on the Marston Vale line from April 2019 until December 2022.
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- Type
- Battery multiple unit
- Builder
- Vivarail, from former London Underground D78 Stock
- In service
- since 2019
- Operators
- GWR
- Formation
- 2 cars
- Fleets
- Great Western Railway: 1
- Power
- Batteries (GWR's 230001); diesel and battery (LNR's units)
- Profile
- main-line
- Status
- In service with GWR (one unit, on Saturdays).
Sources
- Great Western Railway introduces record-breaking battery train into passenger service, FirstGroup, 31 January 2026 (GWR: into passenger service 31 January 2026, Saturdays West Ealing to Greenford, 200.5-mile record)
- First Class 230 begins passenger services between Bletchley and Bedford (archived), London Northwestern Railway, 23 April 2019 (LNR: first passenger service 23 April 2019)
- Marston Vale Line: buses replace trains until further notice (archived), London Northwestern Railway, December 2022 (LNR: buses replace trains from December 2022)
- Class 150 units back on the Marston Vale line, Rail Engineer, 19 December 2023 (why LNR's 230s weren't brought back)
unverified LNR's units as diesel-battery hybrids (general description), converted from D78 Stock (Wikipedia and enthusiast sources; the press releases don't say)