Class 385
Hitachi's AT200 commuter electric train, the first of its kind, ordered for the newly electrified lines between Edinburgh and Glasgow. ScotRail's 70 first carried passengers in July 2018 and run across the central belt.
- Type
- Electric multiple unit
- Builder
- Hitachi Rail (Kasado, Japan, and Newton Aycliffe)
- In service
- since 2018
- Operators
- ScotRail
- Formation
- 3 cars (385/0) or 4 cars (385/1): driving cars 23.18 m and intermediate cars 22.08 m long over the body; up to four units run together as 12 cars
- Fleets
- ScotRail: 70
- Top speed
- 100 mph (161 km/h)
- Power
- 25 kV AC overhead
- Profile
- main-line
- Total capacity
- 479 seats in a seven-car train of a four-car and a three-car unit
- Status
- In service: 46 three-car and 24 four-car units.
Car types
| Code | Car | Length | Doors per side |
|---|---|---|---|
| DMC | Driving motor composite (DMC) | 23.64 m | 2 double |
| TPS | Trailer, pantograph, standard class (TPS) | 23.00 m | 2 double |
| TS | Trailer, standard class (TS) | 23.00 m | 2 double |
| DMS | Driving motor standard (DMS) | 23.64 m | 2 double |
Sources
- Development of Class 385 semi-customised/standard commuter rolling stock for global markets (Hitachi Review vol. 66 no. 2, archived), Hitachi, 2017 (234 cars: 46 three-car and 24 four-car sets; AT200; built at Kasado and Newton Aycliffe; car lengths (Fig. 2); 161 km/h; 25 kV AC; up to 12 cars)
- Hitachi's Class 385 enters service, Rail Engineer, 24 July 2018 (first passenger service 24 July 2018; built at Newton Aycliffe; 479 seats in a seven-car train)
- Maintaining the 385s, Rail Engineer, 3 April 2020 (ordered April 2015; last accepted December 2019; 46 three-car and 24 four-car; maintained by Hitachi at Craigentinny)
- Table 6314: rolling stock vehicles by traction type and operator, Office of Rail and Road, 20 November 2025 (ScotRail's 649 electric vehicles, March 2025 (with the 380, 334, 320 and 318))
- 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, 22 (the drawing: the Class 385 livery sheets (DMC, intermediate car, three-car composite), measured; the livery colours and where they go)
unverified seats per unit: Hitachi's 2017 design figures (190 standard in a three-car unit; 20 first and 237 standard in a four-car) add up to less than the 479 Rail Engineer gives for a pair in service, the drawing's TPS and DMS: no drawing of either car was found, so the TPS is drawn as the intermediate car the guidelines show and the DMS as the DMC's second side, the drawing's driving car: the livery sheets draw it 0.2-0.3% shorter, against the intermediate car, than Hitachi's printed lengths (42 to 77 mm); each car is scaled by its own printed length, the drawing's wheels: 870 mm as drawn under the intermediate car; the driving-car sheets draw them larger (895 and 963 mm), so the heights may be out by up to about 45 mm, the three-car line-up row: the 385/0's driving cars (DMS2 and DTMS1) are drawn as the 385/1's standard-class driving car, as the guidelines' three-car example draws them, the drawing's bogie frames and underframe equipment: a plain schematic, not drawn from a source (the livery sheets draw only the wheels and valances)