BR Class 313
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**Now with pantographs and Network Rail livery!**
Thank you Der Ruhri for help with both of these additions!
The class 313 is now avaiable on the workshop, in 3, 6, 9 and 12 car formations, and with all the liveries you could ever want, for all your cheap train needs. Capacity, power and weight is all matched identically to real life (capacity is an average of all variants), but the train is slightly longer than realife (1m per set) in-game. Its very cheap in game, but is quite slow and low capacity, but luckily pax dont complain about dirty, outdated trains.
Liveries:
– British Rail
– Network South East
– Silverlink / London Overground
– West Anglia Great Northern
– First Capital Connect / Great Northern
– Southern
– Network Rail
The class 313 was originally developed by BREL (British Rail Engineering Limited) in the ’70s, and it is very similar to many trains at the time, such as the 314 and 315, and the 507 and 508s.
It was originally designed to replace Great Northern 105 and 106 units used on the ECML, but also on the Northern City line, which is a "tube" line that can "fit" full sized trains. Because of this their designed was affected, to meet the requirements of operating on the line, such as seperating power per car, having doors at each end for evacuations, and having trip-♥♥♥♥♥ for emergency braking after a SPAD.
The trains originally supported dual volatage, using 3rd rail (for the Northern City line) and a pantograph for the ECML and other North london lines, but these were removed in later years by certain operators that had no need for the pantograph or 3rd rail.
Weirdly, the doors where originally manually operated, but where sliding doors, a bit like a cross breed between a classic coach but modern doors. However, people realised they could force doors open before the doors where unlocked, so push buttons and electronic operation was introduced. This may not actually be that weird, but i’ve certainly never heard of manually operated sliding doors before.
In the modern day, Southern has 19 of these units used on the Coastway routes which where transferred from TfL after they no longer needed them on the London Overground due to having enough class 378s. This is when Southern refusbished the trains, removing the pantograph and OHLE equipment, and branding it to Southern Coastway with new carpet, seats and livery, starting operation in 2010.
Their introducedtion was very controversial as they are decades older than the 377s that previously worked on the Coastway route, and are of far less comfort and quality. However, the decision was justified with the 377s needed to lengthen trains to 10 cars within London due to over crowding.
Due to being some of the oldest trains in Britain still operating in passenger service, there have been calls to replace them with newer, more comfortable, higher quality and accessible units, but currently, there are no plans to replace the units, meaning they are likely to remain working in Brighton and long the coast for years to come.
Enjoy!
~Skye[skyehaynes.me]
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