British Rail Class 416

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Class 416 train in British Railways blue/grey livery calls at Dalston Kingsland Station, on a North London Line working. The NLL is both 25kV overhead AC and 750V third-rail DC electrified at this point.

Class 416 train in Network SouthEast livery calls at Dalston Kingsland Station, on a North London Line working. The NLL is both 25kV overhead AC and 750V third-rail DC electrified at this point.

The British Rail Class 416 (or 2EPB) electric multiple units were built between 1953 and 1956.

They were intended for inner suburban passenger services on London's Southern Electric network, although 12 units (which were built in 1955) originally saw service on the third rail electrified Tyneside Electrics, being reallocated to the London area when the services on the southern side of the River Tyne were de-electrified in 1963

In the 1980s some units were also used on the North London Line services between Richmond and North Woolwich.

The final units were withdrawn in 1995. Three units have been preserved.

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