British Rail Class 332
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The British Rail Class 332 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.
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.
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