Class 153 Super Sprinter
A single-car regional diesel. ScotRail's five were converted by Brodie Engineering in Kilmarnock to carry up to 20 bikes, skis and large luggage on the West Highland line, running attached to another train.
- Type
- Diesel multiple unit (single car)
- Builder
- Leyland Bus
- Operators
- ScotRail
- Formation
- 1 car, 23.21 m long, run attached to another unit
- Fleets
- ScotRail: 5
- Top speed
- 75 mph (121 km/h)
- Power
- Diesel
- Car width
- 2.70 m
- Profile
- main-line
- Status
- In service with ScotRail: five cycle carriages, the first delivered in 2020.
Car types
| Code | Car | Length | Doors per side |
|---|---|---|---|
| DMSL | Driving motor standard with lavatory (DMSL), cabs at both ends: the No. 1 end (left) is the Class 155's, the No. 2 end the one added in 1991-92 | 23.21 m | 2 single |
Sources
- Class 153, Angel Trains (Leyland Bus; length 23.21 m; width 2.70 m; 75 mph; single car attached to another unit; five in ScotRail operation converted for bikes and luggage)
- Cycle carriages for Scotland's scenic railway (archived), ScotRail, 23 October 2019 (five converted by Brodie Engineering, Kilmarnock, for up to 20 bikes on the West Highland line; first due in 2020)
- Identity Guidelines for Scotland's Railway, version 1.1: Rolling stock (pp. 14-36), with ScotRail's train outlines (livery sheets) and decals, Transport Scotland, 2023, pp. 29-32 (the drawing: the Class 153 Highland Explorer outline (both sides and ends), measured; the livery, the wrap's published colours and the 150 mm margins round the doorways)
- British Rail Class 153, Wikipedia, accessed 5 October 2026 (check of the drawing: bogie centres 16.0 m, height 3.746 m; the No. 2 end's cab added in the conversion, shorter than the No. 1 end's)
unverified the drawing's scale: Angel Trains' 23.21 m taken over the body, without the gangway surrounds, which makes the width agree (2.71 m against 2.70 m); taken over the surrounds instead, the drawing would be 1.7% smaller, the drawing: measured off raster images about 23 mm to the pixel, so its figures are good to about 25 mm, the drawing's wheels: 970 mm across as the outline draws them; no published wheel diameter was found, the drawing's windows: the bays fitted to one pitch; the window behind the cycle symbol drawn as one long window, as the outline draws it on both sides (it may be two under the vinyl); the outline draws two window positions near the No. 2 door under the wrap on this side, and the other side differs (a window under the artwork and one under the wrap), the drawing's livery: the wrap's artwork simplified to its main colour masses; outlines smoothed from a raster image, and six of the colours sampled from it rather than published, the drawing's underframe: the outline draws no equipment between the bogies, so none is drawn; its bogies are the outline's simplified pattern, and the dark greys are chosen to match the other Sprinter drawings