The British Rail Class 508 electric multiple unit (EMU) passenger trains were built by British Rail Engineering Limited, at Holgate Road carriage works, York, in 1979 and 1980. They were a variant of British Rail's standard 1972 design for suburban EMUs, eventually encompassing 755 vehicles and five classes (313/314/315/507/508). [10]

The British Rail Class 508 electric multiple units ("EMUs") were built by BREL at York works in 1979-80. They were the fourth variety of BR's then-standard 1972 design for suburban EMUs, eventually encompassing 755 vehicles and five classes (313 / 314 / 315 / 507 /508).

The British Rail Class 508 was a class of electric multiple unit train built by BREL, as part of their PEP family. These trains were in use on Waterline and cost 2,000 points. In Version 2.0, this train was replaced with the Class 313.

The British Rail Class 508 (4PER) was a type of electric multiple unit (EMU) passenger train built by British Rail Engineering Limited, at Holgate Road carriage works, York, in 1979 and 1980. They were a variant of British Rail's standard 1972 design for suburban EMUs, eventually encompassing 755 vehicles and five classes (313/314/315/507/508).

Of similar body style and construction to contemporary class 313, 315 and 507 units forty three class 508 units were introduced in 1979 and 1980 for inner suburban services from Waterloo. Excepting the experimental 2/4 Pep units used between 1971 and 1976, from which their design originates, they were the first above ground EMUs on the Southern ...

The Class 508 is an electric multiple unit, operating for Regional and Commuter. The Class 508 was the first electric train operating under Regional. It is part of the BREL 1972 family of EMUs (313, 314, 315, 507 & 508), based on the prototype PEP units (British Rail Classes 445 and 446)

On Tuesday 23rd January 2024, the final operational Merseyrail Class 508, 508104, leaves Merseyside along with its class 507 fleetmate, 507004. Although the units departed Birkenhead North...

The Class 508, part of the 1972 Standard PEP family like the Class 313 and 507, was built for the Merseyrail DC third rail network. However, as there was a desperate need for new stock on Southern Region in the late 1970s they served there initially until the new Class 455 could be built

Class 508 In response to the construction of the Merseyrail underground network in the mid-1970s, a procurement of new rolling stock began on the Wirral Lines. Eventually to become ''Class 508'', the four-car units incorporated a third rail pick-up shoe for operating off of 750 Volts DC (usually associated with the Southern Region) on ...

Class 508. Here’s a selection of shots of the Class 508s on Merseyside, in store and working elsewhere.