The British Rail Class 87 is a type of electric locomotive designed and built by British Rail Engineering Limited (BREL) between 1973 and 1975. A total of thirty-six locomotives were constructed, to work passenger and freight services over the West Coast Main Line (WCML).
A Class 87 at Kenton in 1979
87024 Lord of the Isles at Coventry in 1986
The unique Class 87/1, no. 87101 Stephenson, in blue livery at Birmingham International in 1988
The Class 90s were a modernised derivative of the Class 87s, built in the late-1980s. They were originally designated as the Class 87/2
An electric locomotive is a locomotive powered by electricity from overhead lines, a third rail or on-board energy storage such as a battery or a supercapacitor. Locomotives with on-board fuelled prime movers, such as diesel engines or gas turbines, are classed as diesel-electric or gas turbine-electric and not as electric locomotives, because the electric generator/motor combination serves only as a power transmission system.
Electric locomotive Škoda ChS4-109. The Moscow–Odesa train in Vinnytsia railway station.
The ČSD Class E 499.3
The Siemens ES64U4 is the current confirmed holder as the fastest electric locomotive at 357 km/h (222 mph) in 2006.
A British Rail Class 91 at London King's Cross station.
