Class 156 Super Sprinter
Metro-Cammell's two-car regional diesel of the late 1980s. ScotRail runs 42, on routes such as the West Highland lines, where the Class 153 cycle carriages run attached to them.
- Type
- Diesel multiple unit
- Builder
- Metro-Cammell
- In service
- since 1987
- Operators
- ScotRail
- Formation
- 2 cars (DMSL-DMS), each 23.03 m long
- Fleets
- ScotRail: 42
- Top speed
- 75 mph (121 km/h)
- Power
- Diesel
- Car width
- 2.73 m
- Profile
- main-line
- Status
- In service: 42 two-car units.
Car types
| Code | Car | Length | Doors per side |
|---|---|---|---|
| DMSL | Driving motor standard with lavatory (DMSL) | 23.03 m | 2 single |
| DMS | Driving motor standard (DMS) | 23.03 m | 2 single |
Sources
- Class 156, Angel Trains (Metro-Cammell; length 23.03 m; width 2.73 m; 75 mph; two-car formation; ScotRail's units)
- ScotRail, Wikipedia, accessed 5 October 2026 (42 units; introduced 1987; routes; 153s attached to 156s)
- 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. 15-17, 19 (the drawing: ScotRail's Class 156 livery sheet (a two-car unit and both end views), measured; the livery colours)
- British Rail Class 156, Wikipedia, accessed 5 October 2026 (check of the drawing: bogie centres 16.0 m, wheelbase 2.6 m, height 3.805 m (BR's 1987 diagram book, as cited there))
unverified ScotRail's fleet of 42 and the year of introduction (Wikipedia), the 153s running with 156s (Wikipedia; Angel Trains says only that they run attached to another unit), the drawing: measured off a livery sheet, not an engineering drawing; scaled to Angel Trains' 23.03 m over the gangways (the width then agrees to 0.1%), its bogie centres (15.86 m) and roof (3.77 m) come out 0.9% and 0.8% under BR's figures as Wikipedia gives them, the drawing's wheels: 955 mm across as the sheet draws them; no published wheel diameter was found, the drawing's DMS: drawn as the DMSL turned round, as the sheet draws both cars; the toilet's window isn't distinguished, and the underframe equipment (traced from one car) is the same on both, the drawing's underframe colours: dark greys chosen to match the other Sprinter drawings; the sheet draws the underframe in flat grey and no paint reference was found, the drawing's sheet dates from ScotRail's 2010 guidelines (as the placed page says); later refurbishments aren't shown