page_title: British Rail Engineering Limited
section_title: Other products
hierarchical_section_title: British Rail Engineering Limited / Products / Other products
caption_attribution_description: English: British Rail Class 210 diesel-electric multiple unit at Reading station on 30 May 1982 for the type's first passenger service
context_page_description: British Rail Engineering Limited, incorporated on 31 October 1969, was the railway systems engineering subsidiary of British Rail until the design and building of trains in the UK was privatised in 1989. BREL was purchased by the Swiss-Swedish conglomerate ABB Asea Brown Boveri, Trafalgar House and a management-employee buy-out. It has since become part of Bombardier Transportation.
context_section_description: BREL built prototypes such as the Class 210 DEMU and the experimental high-speed Advanced Passenger Train (APT) tilting train during the 1970s and early 1980s. The Class 210 were externally very similar to the first batch of Class 317 EMUs, but half of the forward carriage was taken up by the engine room, where an above-floor diesel engine drove a generator to power traction motors on the axles.
caption: A Class 210 diesel-electric multiple unit at Reading on 30 May 1982 on the type's first passenger service.
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