Class 334
Alstom's three-car electric train, in service since 2001. It runs the Airdrie–Bathgate line between Edinburgh and Glasgow and other services around Glasgow.
- Type
- Electric multiple unit
- Builder
- Alstom
- In service
- since 2001
- Operators
- ScotRail
- Formation
- 3 cars (DMS-PTS-DMS): driving cars 21.01 m, middle car 19.94 m
- Fleets
- ScotRail: 40
- Top speed
- 90 mph (145 km/h)
- Power
- 25 kV AC overhead
- Profile
- main-line
- Seats per train
- 178
- Total capacity
- 178 seats and 5 tip-up
- Status
- In service: 40 three-car units.
Car types
| Code | Car | Length | Doors per side |
|---|---|---|---|
| DMS | Driving motor standard (DMS) | 21.01 m | 2 double |
| PTS | Pantograph trailer standard (PTS) | 19.94 m | 2 double |
Sources
- Class 334, Eversholt Rail (40 three-car units; Alstom; in service 2001; formation; car lengths; seats; 90 mph; 25 kV AC; routes)
- 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, 20 (the drawing: the Class 334 livery sheet (a three-car unit in side elevation), measured; the livery colours)
unverified the drawing's source sheet: ScotRail's livery template of March 2010 (unit number '334000'); changes to the trains since then, such as for the accessible toilet Eversholt now lists, may not be shown, the drawing's driving cars: the sheet draws them 0.2-0.3% long against the PTS (38 to 66 mm); each car is scaled by its own printed length, the drawing's couplings: taken at the nose foot and mid-way between bodies, which the sheet doesn't mark, the drawing's wheels (889 mm) and bogie frames: as drawn on a livery sheet, not from a bogie drawing