Class 101
The Class 101 is a diesel unit from the UK in Train Sim World. It comes with 3 routes, and another DLC brings it to 7 more.
Picture: on Northern Trans-Pennine: Manchester - Leeds, Dovetail Games.
Where you can drive it
Comes with
- Northern Trans-Pennine: Manchester - Leeds
- Tees Valley Line: Darlington – Saltburn-by-the-Sea
- WCML: Preston - Carlisle
With another DLC
Own the route and one of the DLCs named after it, and you can drive it there.
- Blackpool Branches: Preston - Blackpool & Ormskirk: with WCML: Preston - Carlisle or Tees Valley Line: Darlington – Saltburn-by-the-Sea
- Cardiff City Network: Radur & Coryton to Penarth & Bae Caerdydd: with Diesel Legends of the Great Western
- Great Western Express: with Diesel Legends of the Great Western
- Riviera Line: Exeter - Plymouth & Paignton: with Diesel Legends of the Great Western
- West Coast Main Line: Crewe - Preston: with WCML: Preston - Carlisle
- West Cornwall Local: Penzance - St Austell & St Ives: with Diesel Legends of the Great Western or Northern Trans-Pennine: Manchester - Leeds
- West Somerset Railway: with Tees Valley Line: Darlington – Saltburn-by-the-Sea
In the game
Names in Dovetail's lists: Class 101, BR Class 101, Class 101 BLG.
In these DLCs: Northern Trans-Pennine: Manchester - Leeds, Tees Valley Line: Darlington – Saltburn-by-the-Sea, WCML: Preston - Carlisle, Diesel Legends of the Great Western.
Official manual: Northern Trans-Pennine: Manchester - Leeds, Tees Valley Line: Darlington – Saltburn-by-the-Sea, WCML: Preston - Carlisle.
The real thing
A first-generation diesel multiple unit built by Metro-Cammell in Birmingham from 1956 to 1959. It was one of the most successful and longest-lived of British Rail's early DMUs. The last five units were withdrawn on 24 December 2003.
- Built by: Metropolitan Cammell (Wikipedia)
- Built: 1956–1960 (Wikipedia)
- Number built: 620 vehicles (DMCL(AEC engines): 97, DMCL(Leyland engines): 53, DMBS(AEC engines): 164, DMBS(Leyland engines): 53, DTCL: 123, TCL: 71, TSL: 31, TBSL: 28) (Wikipedia)
- In service: 1956 (Wikipedia)
- Operators: British Rail, Network SouthEast, ScotRail, First North Western (Wikipedia)
- Top speed: 70 mph (113 km/h) (Wikipedia)
- Power: 150 bhp (112 kW) each engine (Wikipedia)
- Formation: 2-, 3-, or 4-car sets (Wikipedia)
Photo: Alunn60163, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
From the English Wikipedia article British Rail Classes 101 and 102 and Wikidata.
Sources. Dovetail's public DLC database and Steam store pages; English Wikipedia and Wikidata for the real train.