Fastest Accelerating MUs in the UK

[Bevan Price]

Posted on here in July 2020 (Message #12) - see the pdf files attached to the post. Hope the link works:

Power output request - newish EMUs and DMUs

Cannot find this info. on the forum, or anywhere else via several web searches, so - please can anyone help ? What is the power output (Kw or h.p.) of the Class 397 emus. I know that 3 of the 5 coaches are motor coaches; I can find their lengths, weights, seating, etc. but nothing about power...

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[SolomonSouth]

I'm told 0-60mph is usually 70 secs on level track for a 465/9.

Ok, I swear I've been on some much faster ones, imma go and try that out sometime myself
Besides, here you can see the 465/0 and /1 I timed get 0-60 in about 66-67 seconds:

And it is widely known /2s and /9s are faster than them at getting to speed. So 70 secs seems quite a bit too slow but with everyone saying different figures its impossible to say exactly.

Ah, of course. I always forget the 185s are not DEMUs. Interesting that the 22xs are still faster with slightly derated engines.

The engines were derated?