Class 166
The Class 166 is a diesel unit from the UK in Train Sim World. It comes with 1 route, and another DLC brings it to 3 more.
Picture: on Great Western Express, Dovetail Games.
Where you can drive it
Comes with
With another DLC
Own the route and one of the DLCs named after it, and you can drive it there.
In the game
Names in Dovetail's lists: Class 166, Class 166 GWG.
In these DLCs: Great Western Express.
Official manual: Great Western Express.
The real thing
The Networker Turbo Express, a faster, air-conditioned version of the Class 165 built by ABB in York between 1992 and 1993. It was designed for longer-distance services out of London Paddington, and Great Western Railway still runs it.
- Built by: ABB Transportation (Wikipedia)
- Built: 1992–1993 (Wikipedia)
- Operators: Great Western Railway (Wikipedia)
- Top speed: 90 mph (145 km/h) (Wikipedia)
- Power: 350 hp (261 kW) per engine (Wikipedia)
- Wheel arrangement: 2′B′+2′B′+B′2′ (Wikipedia)
- Formation: 3 cars per unit: DMCL-MS-DMSL (Wikipedia)
- Safety systems: AWS, TPWS (Wikipedia)
Photo: Chris Warman, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
From the English Wikipedia article British Rail Class 166 and Wikidata.
Sources. Dovetail's public DLC database and Steam store pages; English Wikipedia and Wikidata for the real train.