page_title: British Rail Class 416
section_title: Electrical equipment
hierarchical_section_title: British Rail Class 416 / Electrical equipment
caption_attribution_description: English: Broad Street station Broad Street had once been a very busy station, with local and suburban services from all over the Greater London area, and some beyond. But by 1985 it was at a very low ebb, with only the half-hourly Richmond service remaining. Complete closure was not very far off. This photograph shows a Richmond train, formed of two Southern Region '2-EPB' units, about to depart. These units had been fitted with window bars for use on this service, because of the very limited clearance in Hampstead Tunnel.
context_page_description: British Rail Class 416 electric multiple units were built between 1953 and 1956. They were intended for inner suburban passenger services on London's Southern Electric network. There were two subclasses of Class 416: Class 416/1 to an SR design on salvaged 2 NOL underframes, and Class 416/2 to BR's Mark I coach design.
  With the introduction of yellow warning panels from late 1963 the motor coaches of all Southern Region 2 and 3-car units were equipped with an inverted black triangle in order to provide an early visual indication to station staff that there was no brake van at the other end of the unit. As units such the 4 EPB stock had a brake van at each end of the unit they were not so equipped.
  In the 1980s some 2 EPB units were used on the North London Line between Richmond and North Woolwich; these units being equipped with window bars.
context_section_description: Each motor car had two 250 horsepower English Electric EE507 traction motors.
caption: Class 416 train at Broad Street station in 1985.
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