British Rail Class 482

The British Rail Class 482 electric multiple units were built by ABB in 1992 for the Waterloo and City line in London, as direct replacements for the elderly Class 487 units dating from 1940. Ten two-car units were built, each with a type E driving motor and a type F non-driving motor, and two units ran coupled with the driving motors outermost. The trains are almost identical to the 1992 tube stock built for the Central line, which is why they were tested as eight-car trains over most of that line before being delivered by road to the Waterloo and City in May and June 1993. They entered service on 19 July 1993 in Network SouthEast livery, and on 1 April 1994 operational control of the line passed to London Underground, which added its roundels and Central line diagrams.