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Class 466 Networker
Two-car Networkers, built by GEC-Alsthom Metro-Cammell in Birmingham in 1993–94 to run with the four-car Class 465s.
Scale
Class 466 Networker · indicative drawing GB Trains · gbtrains.uk/stock/466/ · CC BY 4.0
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- Type
- Electric multiple unit
- Builder
- GEC-Alsthom Metro-Cammell, Birmingham
- Family
- Networker, with Class 165 Networker Turbo, Class 166 Networker Express Turbo, Class 465 Networker
- Built
- 1993–1994
- In service
- since 1993
- Operators
- Southeastern
- Formation
- 2 cars (DMOS-DTOSL)
- Fleets
- Southeastern: 2-car: about 16 in service in March 2026 (23 scrapped), being withdrawn
- Top speed
- 75 mph (121 km/h)
- Power
- 750 V DC third rail; four 280 kW GEC-Alsthom G352BY traction motors on the driving motor (1,120 kW a unit) · how it works
- Bogies
- Sprinter and Networker family bogies, outside-framed and air-sprung, drawn from the Class 150's BP38/BT38 · drawn with the same bogie component as Class 150 Sprinter, Class 153 Super Sprinter, Class 155 Super Sprinter, Class 156 Super Sprinter, Class 158 Express Sprinter, Class 159 South Western Turbo
- Car width
- 9 ft 2 in (2.80 m)
- Profile
- main-line
- Status
- Being withdrawn: 23 of the 43 had been scrapped by March 2026, and 466043 has been saved for the East Kent Railway; about 16 remain in service (worked out from Rail's March 2025 count and the scrap moves since).
Car types
| Code | Car | Length | Doors per side |
|---|---|---|---|
| DMOS | Driving motor | 68 ft 3 in20.80 m | 2 double |
| DTOSL | Driving trailer with toilet | 68 ft 3 in20.80 m | 2 double |
Sources
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Show the 19 sources from Southern Electric Group, Wikimedia Commons, Angel Trains and 4 more
- Class 466 Angel Trainsbuilder (GEC/Metro-Cammell), formation (DMOS-DTOSL, one toilet, in the DTOSL), length, width, speed, motors (four 280 kW GEC-Alsthom G352BY)
- Networker cull begins as first Southeastern Class 466s go for scrap Rail, 11 March 202543 built in 1993–94, 29 in use, 4 scrapped (March 2025)
- 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 cabthe indicative drawing: both cars, as the Class 465/0 driving car (measured)
- 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. DMOS viewthe 466's cars were on this drawing until alteration C (October 2002) deleted them; the 466's own differences from the 465/0, from the 465/2 (the same builder): the band starting at the first window, the door leaves (5 ft 0 in (1,516 mm)) and their windows, the driving motor's roof boxes, the valance's foot (294 mm), the graduated stripe's front edge (measured)
- 466008 (64867 and 78319) (32373608712).jpg: 466 008, both cars side-on (stitched photograph, CC BY-SA 2.0) Train Photos (Flickr), via Wikimedia Commons, 24 January 2017the indicative drawing: the driving trailer's inner end and body length (measured off the photograph); the band's start, the door leaves, the roof boxes, the graduated stripe, the valance and both bogies, checked (photograph; layout and measurement); doors per car
- '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)
- Classes 465 and 466 (Networker) Southern Electric Group (sremg.org.uk), read 19 October 2026GEC-Alsthom, built 1993–1994, an option on the 465 order taken as two-car units; four 280 kW motors a power car
- Class 466 'Networker' saved Rail Express, May 2026466043 saved: given by Angel Trains to the East Kent Railway Trust (May 2026)
- Regional Review: March 2025 (stock notes) Southern Electric Group, March 2025466037 (6 March 2025), 466007, 466014 and 466025 (13 March) hauled to Kingsbury for scrap
- Regional Review: June 2025 (stock notes) Southern Electric Group, June 2025466033 to Newport for scrap, 12 June 2025
- Regional Review: August 2025 (stock notes) Southern Electric Group, August 2025466029 and 466031 (14 August 2025) to Newport, 466017 and 466030 (19 August) to Kingsbury, for scrap
- Regional Review: September 2025 (stock notes) Southern Electric Group, September 2025466015 and 466028 to Newport for scrap, 11 September 2025
- Regional Review: October 2025 (stock notes) Southern Electric Group, October 2025466024 to Kingsbury for scrap, 16 October 2025
- Regional Review: November 2025 (stock notes) Southern Electric Group, November 2025466002 and 466036 from Gillingham to Kingsbury for scrap, 13 November 2025
- Regional Review: December 2025 (stock notes) Southern Electric Group, December 2025466010 from Ely to Kingsbury for scrap, 10 December 2025
- Regional Review: February 2026 (stock notes) Southern Electric Group, February 2026466012 and 466020 (31 January 2026) and 466041 (12 February) to Kingsbury for scrap; 466006 at work, 11 February 2026
- Regional Review: March 2026 (stock notes) Southern Electric Group, March 2026466001 to Booths, Rotherham, for scrap, 18 March 2026
- Class 466 Networker EMU.jpg (photograph, CC BY-SA 4.0) Wikimedia Commons (Samson Ng . D201@EAL), 27 April 2025the cab coupler: its kind, heads and heights (set BC4, 20 October 2026; layout only for photographs)
- 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)
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- The drawing: the Class 465/0 driving car (BREL), checked against Angel's 465/2 sheet (GEC-Alsthom Metro-Cammell, the 466's builder) and photographs of 466 008: the same layout within 0.1 m
- The drawing's driving-trailer inner end and its 66 ft 11 in (20.39 m) body: estimated from one photograph, to about 0.1 m; re-read on the DTOSL's own doors: 66 ft 10 in (20.36 m), within 0.05 m
- The bogies: the shared Sprinter style; a 466's own bogies (466 008, 2017) have the same outside-framed, swan-necked layout with a central air spring (layout only)
- The roof boxes: the driving motor's from Angel's 465/2 sheet, the driving trailer's from 466 008, to about 0.3 m
- The 466's own first passenger service: no date found (1993 is when the first were built)
- The 750 V DC supply: not given by Angel Trains' or the Southern Electric Group's 466 notes
- 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
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