page_title: Push–pull train
section_title: Driving van trailers (DVTs)
hierarchical_section_title: Push–pull train / History / Britain / Driving van trailers (DVTs)
caption_attribution_description: A GNER InterCity 225 set arrives at Alnmouth railway station with a southbound service.
context_page_description: Push–pull is a configuration for locomotive-hauled trains, allowing them to be driven from either end of the train, whether having a locomotive at each end or not.
  A push–pull train has a locomotive at one end of the train, connected via some form of remote control, such as multiple-unit train control, to a vehicle equipped with a control cab at the other end of the train. This second vehicle may be another locomotive, or an unpowered control car.
  In the UK and some other parts of Europe, the control car is referred to as a driving trailer; in the USA and Canada, they are called cab cars.
context_section_description: In 1988, 52 Mark 3 Driving Van Trailers were built by British Rail Engineering Limited to allow it to replace life expired electric locomotives on the West Coast Main Line. These operated with Mark 2 and Mark 3 sets.
  As part of the electrification of the East Coast Main Line, 31 Mark 4 Driving Van Trailers were built in by Metro-Cammell to operate with Mark 4s as part InterCity 225 sets. Some of these will pass to Grand Central and Transport for Wales Rail in 2020.
  In the 2000s, some Mark 3s have been modified to operate with Class 67 locomotives with Arriva Trains Wales, Chiltern Railways and Wrexham & Shropshire.
  In 2019 new Mark 5 carriages, one of which has a cab, entered service with Class 68 locomotives for TransPennine Express, in a push-pull configuration.
caption: A GNER Mark 4 Driving Van Trailer at Alnmouth in June 2005
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