Class 171
The Class 171 is a diesel unit from the UK in Train Sim World. Another DLC brings it to 1 route.
Picture: Southern BR Class 171 & BR Class 377/3, Dovetail Games.
Where you can drive it
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 171.
In these DLCs: Southern BR Class 171 & BR Class 377/3.
The real thing
A Turbostar diesel multiple unit, the same as the Class 170 apart from a Dellner coupler that lets it couple to Southern's Class 377 electric units in an emergency. It works Southern's unelectrified lines, London Bridge to Uckfield and Eastbourne to Ashford International.
- Built by: Bombardier Transportation (Wikipedia)
- Built: 2003–2004 (Wikipedia)
- Number built: 20 sets (Wikipedia)
- Operators: Southern (Wikipedia)
- Top speed: 100 mph (161 km/h) (Wikipedia)
- Power: 422 hp (315 kW) per engine (Wikipedia)
- Formation: 2 or 3 cars per unit (Wikipedia)
- Safety systems: AWS, TPWS (Wikipedia)
Photo: Joshua Brown, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
From the English Wikipedia article British Rail Class 171 and Wikidata.
Sources. Dovetail's public DLC database and Steam store pages; English Wikipedia and Wikidata for the real train.