The class 156 super sprinter, is a 2 car dmu operated by scotrail, northern trains and east midland railway. The 156 has a top speed of 75 miles per hour The 156 entered service in 1998 The 156 would be a unique train in tsw2, simply for being a train with 2 coaches. 156 in scotrail saltire livery 156 in northern livery 156 in east midland railway livery
101? 483? Those are 2 car. Nothing unique here. Also, what route do you want for the 156? What do you think it would bring to the game? (other than being awesome )
I personally would like to see the stranraer-glasgow central via ayr and kilmarnock since its my local route, i think that would be awesome to see.
Or, an earlier era it could be glasgow-stranraer via ayr on the ayrshire coastline, without the Kilmarnock branch, could also make a good opportunity to add the class 380 in
Both the 150 and 156 are part of the Sprinter family of trains. The Class 150 Sprinter is based on Mk 3 coaching stock and built by BREL whilst the Class 156 Super Sprinter is not based on the Mk 3 coaching stock and is built by Met-Cam. The two were built for different purposes with the 150 designed for frequent stopping whilst the 156 is designed for longer distances between stops and so the two have a different door arrangement. Both were designed to replace first-generation DMUs (like the 101 in-game) but the 156 was also intended to replace a number of loco-hauled services. The 156 is also longer with more space for passengers and has 2+2 seating rather than the 3+2 of the 150. The cab of the 156 is deliberately built similarly to the 150. The 156s are often found on cross country stopping services such as the Liverpool Lime St to Norwich service operated today by East Midlands Railway, though there used to be many more of these kinds of services under British Rail. Today 150s are in service with Northern Trains, Transport for Wales and Great Western Railway whilst 156s are in service with Northern Trains, Scotrail and East Midlands Railway. Both, until recently, were in service with Greater Anglia until they were replaced by the Class 755, the 156s transferred to EMR and the 150s to TfW. In short, they are part of the same family of trains and both are Second Generation DMUs however they are built by different manufacturers for a slightly different purpose. The two would be almost identical to drive though the 156 is slightly heavier so has slightly worse performance. I'm sure there are others who can offer better explanations but that's a fairly brief overview of the two.
Newcastle to Carlisle would be a cool route for the 156 along the Tyne Valley line, a 58 mile line which has 2/3 passenger services TPH in each direction 14 intermidate stations,listed viaducts, semaphore signals and this cool signal box at Hexham. An added bonus is this line would also allow for Freight services as well, so busy busy.
West Highland Line Extension almost exclusively uses the Class 156 (for the last ~30 years) so if we ever get that route, seeing a Class 156 would be fairly likely.
We've known the 150/2 will be one of the units in the West Cornwall route for a while now, it's on the roadmap.
