INTRODUCTION Today I will be suggesting the West Coastway operated by Southern Railway (owned by Govia Thameslink Railway). This route will have 43 stations in total and will be 62 miles (99.8 km) long. THE ROUTE The route starts at Brighton, located in East Sussex, ending at Littlehampton, Bognor regis,Portsmouth Harbour. And Southampton Central -Brighton -Hove Aldrington Portslade Fishersgate Southwick Shoreham‑by‑Sea Lancing East Worthing Worthing West Worthing Durrington‑on‑Sea Goring‑by‑Sea Angmering -Littlehampton Ford Barnham -Bognor Regis Chichester Bosham Fishbourne Nutbourne Southbourne Emsworth Warblington -Havant Bedhampton Hilsea Fratton -Portsmouth & Southsea (⛴) -Portsmouth Harbour (⛴). Cosham Portchester Fareham Swanwick Woolston St Denys -Southampton Central ROLLING STOCK 377/1 377/2 377/3 377/4 377/6 377/7 The class 377 manufactured by Bombardier Transportation at Derby Litchurch Lane Works as part of the Electrostar family from 2003 239 of these 3-4-5 car units were built with 64 377/1s, 15 377/2s, 28 377/3s, 75 377/4s, 26 377/6s and 8 377/7s this train has a maximum operating speed of 100 mph (161 km/h) mph [121 km/h] the safety systems used are TPWS/AWS. -377/1 (4 car, single voltage, used for BML,ECW,WCW) 377/2 (4 car, dual voltage) 377/3 ( 3 car, single voltage) 377/4 (4 car, single voltag) 377/6 (5 car, single voltage) 377/7 (5 car, dual voltage) Services: Brighton – Southampton Central Brighton – Portsmouth & Southsea Brighton - Chichester via Littlehampton Barnham – Bognor Regis Portsmouth Harbour- Chichester Portsmouth Harbour- Brighton Portsmouth Harbour - Littlehampton Littlehampton- Brighton Bognor Regis - Brighton 700/0 Desiro City The class 700 manufactured by Siemens Mobility from 2014 - 2018 115 eight and twelve car units were built with the maximum speed of 100 mph (161 km/h) and the safety systems used are TPWS/AWS and ETCS. 700/0 - 427 seats 719 standees Services : Littlehampton - Hove Hove - Littlehampton 387/2 Brighton- Southampton The class 387, manufactured by Bombardier Transportation at Derby Litchurch Lane Works as part of the Electrostar family from 2014, 107 of these four car units were built with 74 387/1s and 5 of them operating for Southern. This train has a maximum operating speed of 110 mph [177 km/h]. The safety systems used are TPWS/AWS and ETCS 387/2 (4 car,dual voltage used on third rail routes) 387/2 - 234 seats 110 mph (177 km/h) Services : Southampton Central - Brighton Brighton - Southampton Central 313/2 The class 313 manufactured by British Rail Engineering Limited at York Holgate Road Works as part of the BR second generation family built from 1976 –1977 18 of these 4 car trains were used by Southern these trains have a maximum operating speed of 75 mph (120 km/h) and have TPWS/AWS implemented 313/2- 202 seats 75 mph (120 km/h) Services: Brighton – Southampton Central Brighton – Portsmouth & Southsea Brighton - Chichester via Littlehampton Barnham – Bognor Regis Portsmouth Harbour- Chichester Portsmouth Harbour- Brighton Portsmouth Harbour - Littlehampton Littlehampton- Brighton Bognor Regis - Brighton AI -166/165 at Portsmouth & Southampton Central - 158 at Portsmouth & Southampton Central -220 at Southampton Central - 700/0 at Brighton -171/ 7 & 8 at Brighton CONCLUSION Thanks for reading my suggestion
Ideally it should come with a class 450 as well since otherwise there wouldn't be anything new with just Southern services on the route. I also wouldn't mind seeing an updated 165/166 since the version from Great Western Express is quite old.
This would be perfect I do think GWR operate between Southampton and Portsmouth so it would be good to see GWR in this south and southern and the thing is we are lacking SER in the game but we really need the licensing for this
