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Class 465 Networker
Networker trains, first in passenger service on 13 October 1992. Southeastern is procuring a replacement Metro fleet; meanwhile the 465/0 and 465/1s' bogies are being overhauled.
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Scale
269 ft (81.9 m) (the cars’ lengths added)
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Liveries 2
The same measured train in each livery, each drawn from a cited source. The drawing above shows the largest fleet’s.
Former liveries 2
Network SouthEastFormer1991 to 2007-09Not drawn yet
Connex South EasternFormer1998 to 2003Not drawn yet
- Type
- Electric multiple unit
- Builder
- BREL, York (465/0 and 465/1); GEC-Alsthom, Washwood Heath, Birmingham (465/2 and 465/9)
- Family
- Networker, with Class 165 Networker Turbo, Class 166 Networker Express Turbo, Class 466 Networker
- Built
- 1991–1994
- In service
- since 1992
- Operators
- Southeastern
- Formation
- 4 cars (DMOS-TOS-TOSL-DMOS). Four subclasses: the 465/0 (50 units) and 465/1 (47), built by BREL at York and now with Hitachi traction equipment; the 465/2 (16) and 465/9 (34), built by GEC-Alsthom at Washwood Heath, the 465/9s with a first-class section behind one cab, marked by a yellow band above its windows. The drawing shows a 465/0 or 465/1; the GEC-Alsthom units differ beneath the body
- Fleets
- Southeastern: 4-car: 97 Class 465/0 and 465/1 and about 25 Class 465/9s in use (March 2025); the 465/2s stored and being scrapped
- Top speed
- 75 mph (121 km/h)
- Power
- 750 V DC third rail · how it works
- Bogies
- BREL P3-16 power bogies (Networker); BREL T3-16 trailer bogies (Networker)
- Train length
- 269 ft (81.9 m) (the cars’ lengths added)
- Coupled
- 3 × 4 cars, 806 ft (245.7 m) (over couplers)
- Car height
- 12 ft 5 in (3.777 m)
- Car width
- 9 ft 3 in (2.81 m)
- Profile
- main-line
- Seats per train
- 327
- Total capacity
- 327 seats and 7 tip-up seats on the Class 465/0 and 465/1 (Eversholt Rail); Angel Trains gives no seat count for the 465/2 and 465/9
- Status
- In service on Southeastern's Metro routes: the 97 Class 465/0 and 465/1s and most of the 465/9s. All sixteen 465/2s were stored by March 2025 and are being scrapped, as are some stored 465/9s. A replacement Metro fleet is being procured (five makers shortlisted in May 2024; a preferred maker, not yet named, chosen by August 2026, subject to the business case), but none has been ordered; meanwhile Alstom is overhauling the 465/0 and 465/1s' bogies at Crewe, over two years from 2026.
Car types
| Code | Car | Length | Doors per side |
|---|---|---|---|
| DMOS | Driving motor (DMOS) | 68 ft 6 in20.89 m | 2 double |
| TOS | Trailer (TOS) | 65 ft 10 in20.06 m | 2 double |
| TOSL | Trailer with toilet (TOSL) | 65 ft 10 in20.06 m | 2 double |
Sources
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Show the 26 sources from Wikimedia Commons, RAIL, Southern Electric Group and 9 more
- Class 465 Eversholt Rail465/0 and 465/1: 97 units, BREL, entry into service 1992–94, car lengths, speed, seats (327, and 7 tip-up)
- Class 465 Angel Trains465/2 and 465/9: 50 units, GEC/Metro-Cammell, width; no seat count given
- Networker cull begins as first Southeastern Class 466s go for scrap Rail, 11 March 2025units in use and stored, March 2025: 50 465/0, 47 465/1 and 25 of the 34 465/9s in use; the subclasses' numbers
- Alstom's Crewe Works secures £20 million contract to overhaul Class 465 bogies Alstom, 23 December 2025the bogie overhaul for the 97 465/0 and 465/1s, at Crewe over two years from 2026
- EVL-CO-2004069 Rev C: Class 465/0 and 465/1 DMOS livery drawing Eversholt Rail (released by Southeastern under FOI: 'Livery designs'), Rev C 26 September 2011; released 13 September 2022, pp. views 01, 02, 1:20 cab, notes 12 and 24driving car side elevation, heights, colours (measured); note 12, the dark band's top 1 ft 10 in (560 mm) above the solebar; item Z, the graduated stripe (1:20 view, measured); note 24, Hitachi traction equipment on the 465/0 and 465/1
- 465002 (64760, 72030, 72031 and 64810) (32388088742).jpg (photograph, CC BY-SA 2.0) Train Photos, via Wikimedia Commons (Flickr), 24 January 2017layout of the underframe equipment (every car's cases, their divisions and tones; layout only); the band heights, rectified on a door's leaves; the lower band's colour, which matches the printed RAL Design 290 20 10; the trailers' panes in order
- ATC-CO-2204240 Rev G: Class 465/2 DMOS, TOS and TOSL livery drawing Angel Trains (released by Southeastern under FOI: 'Livery designs'), Rev G April 2016; released 13 September 2022, p. trailer viewtrailer side elevation (measured, rescaled)
- 'Networker detail.jpg' (photograph: two Class 465/2 cars, 65743 and 72805, and their bogies; CC BY 2.0) Wikimedia Commons (Elsie esq., from Flickr)the bogie's likeness to the shared Sprinter style (layout only)
- 465178 (65827, 72954, 72955 and 65874) (32416746001).jpg (photograph, CC BY-SA 2.0) Train Photos (Flickr), via Wikimedia Commons, 24 January 2017the band heights, rectified on a door's leaves (the dark band's top, the window band's foot and top); the cab side dark below the crease; the graduated stripe's extent along the car (photograph; layout and measurement)
- Class 465/466 Networker (part 2) Kent Rail, read 19 October 2026465001 handed over at York Works and 465201 at Washwood Heath on 19 December 1991
- Class 465/466 Networker (part 3) Kent Rail, read 19 October 202647 more units built by BREL from 1992; 465214 and 465215 first in normal service, 13 October 1992
- More ex-Southeastern Class 465s units among latest to go for scrap RAIL, 16 May 2025465240 and 465248 (1 May 2025), 465243 and 465250 (about a week later) from Ely to Newport for scrap
- Regional Review: November 2025 (stock notes) Southern Electric Group, November 2025465/9s still in traffic in November 2025 (465919)
- Regional Review: December 2025 (stock notes) Southern Electric Group, December 2025465905 hauled from Ely to Kingsbury for scrap, 10 December 2025
- Southeastern announces major step towards multi-million-pound improvement in Metro train fleet Southeastern, 15 May 2024Alstom, CAF, Hitachi, Siemens and Stadler shortlisted for a new Metro fleet, May 2024
- Regional Review: August 2026 (stock notes) Southern Electric Group, August 2026a preferred maker chosen for the Networkers' replacement, not yet named, subject to the business case (August 2026)
- Southeastern 465 925.jpg (Hugh Llewelyn, CC BY-SA 2.0) Wikimedia Commons, 2020-02-19the 465/9's first-class section, marked by a yellow band above its windows (465925, 2020; layout only)
- Networker Tightlock.jpg (photograph, CC BY-SA 4.0) Wikimedia Commons (Ivor the driver), 11 May 2017the cab coupler: its kind, heads and heights (set BC4, 20 October 2026; layout only for photographs)
- Southeastern unveils the Railway 200 Networker - as part of year long celebration of rail's past, present and future Southeastern, 25 February 2025the repaint of 465908 for Railway 200, its unveiling at Charing Cross on 25 February 2025, the name, grey doors
- Southeastern unveils '465' in Network SouthEast livery and names it after sector's founder RAIL (David Stubbings), 26 February 2025465908, the ceremony on 25 February 2025, Angel Trains and Wabtec, grey doors
- Southeastern recalls Network SouthEast for Railway 200 Railnews, 26 February 2025Chris Green, first director of Network SouthEast (launched June 1986)
- King's Birthday Honours: Chris Green amongst rail industry honours RAIL (Rich Wilcock), 16 June 2025Chris Green's OBE, June 2025
- The Greatest Gathering - 1st August 2025 - 101 (465908 at Derby, photograph, CC BY 4.0) Wikimedia Commons (kitmasterbloke), 1 August 2025livery colours and placing
- 9 Networker EMU (465908, photograph, CC BY-SA 4.0) Wikimedia Commons (Samson Ng . D201@EAL), 9 May 2025livery colours and placing
- Network SouthEast 465908 working 2U34 1333 London Victoria to Gravesend passes Wandsworth Road 2025-03-01 (photograph, CC BY-SA 2.0) Wikimedia Commons (Foulger Rail Photos), 1 March 2025livery colours and placing
- British Rail Class 465 Wikipedia, read 13 October 2026the livery's name, who ran it and its years (no colours taken)
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- How many are in service now: Rail counted 122 in use in March 2025 (50 Class 465/0, 47 465/1 and 25 465/9), with all sixteen 465/2s and nine 465/9s stored; at least five stored units have been scrapped since (four 465/2s in May 2025, 465905 in December 2025), and no later count has been read
- Trailers: drawn from Angel Trains' Class 465/2 drawing (the 465/0 trailer drawing wasn't released); 465002's trailers show the same panes in the same order (positions checked only to about 5%)
- The graduated stripe: Eversholt's 1:20 view (from 5 ft 0 in (1,535 mm) at the foot and 2,340 at the band's top, solid by 2,940 and 3,745) moved back 1 ft 5 in (430 mm) as a whole, clear of the cab door, as 466 008 shows it (starting about 1,935 and 2,755); the photographs make it solid later than the sheet does (about 3,175-3,340 at the foot, 4,350-4,540 at the top), and 465178's two lowest rows reach onto the cab door's foot; the dot screen is drawn at 41 mm, the sheet's 39-40 mm stretched to the band's measured height
- The bogies: BREL P3-16 power and T3-16 trailer bogies, drawn from Eversholt's sheet's bogie view and checked on 465002 and 465178; the power bogie's box and bar heights read off photographs taken from above
- The underframe: the cases' heights to about 60 mm (the panorama's vertical scale differs from its horizontal; heights from Eversholt's envelope); drawn from a 465/0, not checked on a 465/2 or 465/9
- Network SouthEast (465908, heritage): colours: sampled from photographs (no paint references published)
- Network SouthEast (465908, heritage): heights and ends of the bands: read off photographs taken at an angle, to within about 50-100 mm
- Network SouthEast (465908, heritage): the nameplate: 'Chris Green' when named in February 2025; photographs from August 2025 show 'Chris Green OBE', but no source records the change
- Network SouthEast (465908, heritage): the underframe and bogies: the BREL-built 465/0's; 465908 is a Metro-Cammell-built 465/9, and no level side-on photograph of a 465/9 has been found to draw its own
- The years of the former liveries come from Wikipedia's class article and the other sources listed, and haven't been checked against a second source.
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