This article lists the wide variety of locomotives and multiple units that have operated on

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's railway network, since Nationalisation in 1948. British Rail used several numbering schemes for classifying its

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and other rolling stock, before settling on the

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computer system in the late 1960s. TOPS has remained in use ever since.

Steam locomotives

* Steam locomotives in use after 1968: Class 98

Diesel and electric locomotives

* Diesel locomotives: Classes 01–70 * DC electric and electro-diesel locomotives: Classes 70–79 * AC electric locomotives: Classes 80–96 * Departmental locos (those not in revenue-earning use): Class 97 * Miscellaneous locomotives, including builders' demonstrators.

Shipping fleet

British Rail's shipping fleet:

Diesel multiple units

* Units with mechanical or hydraulic transmission: Classes 100-199 * Units with electric transmission: Classes 200–299

Electric multiple units

* Overhead AC units: Classes 300–399 * Southern Region DC third rail EMUs: Classes 400–499 * Other DC EMUs: Classes 500–599

Alternative Fuel multiple units

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* British Rail Class 614

Departmental multiple units

* Classes 900-999