Class 31
The Class 31 is a diesel loco from the UK in Train Sim World. Another DLC brings it to 12 routes.
Picture: BR Class 31, 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.
- Birmingham Cross-City Line: Lichfield - Bromsgrove & Redditch: with BR Class 31
- Blackpool Branches: Preston - Blackpool & Ormskirk: with BR Class 31
- Cathcart Circle Line: Glasgow - Newton & Neilston: with BR Class 31
- East Coastway: Brighton - Eastbourne & Seaford: with BR Class 31
- Great Western Express: with BR Class 31
- London Overground Suffragette line: Gospel Oak - Barking Riverside: with BR Class 31
- Midland Main Line: Leicester - Derby & Nottingham: with BR Class 31
- Southeastern Highspeed: London St Pancras – Ashford Intl & Faversham: with BR Class 31
- Tees Valley Line: Darlington – Saltburn-by-the-Sea: with BR Class 31
- WCML: Preston - Carlisle: with BR Class 31
- West Coast Main Line: Crewe - Preston: with BR Class 31
- West Somerset Railway: with BR Class 31
In the game
Names in Dovetail's lists: Class 31, BR Class 31, Class 31/1 BLU, Class 31/1 BLU.
In these DLCs: BR Class 31.
Official manual: BR Class 31.
From Dovetail's store page
- BR Class 31 in BR Corporate Blue livery
The real thing
The Brush Type 2, a diesel locomotive built by Brush Traction from 1957 to 1962. It was one of the Pilot Scheme designs British Railways ordered to replace steam, and the first one entered service in November 1957.
- Built by: Brush Traction (Wikipedia)
- Built: 1957–1962 (Wikipedia)
- Number built: 263 (Wikipedia)
- Operators: British Railways, EWS, Fragonset Railways, FM Rail, Mainline Rail, Nemesis Rail, Network Rail (Wikipedia)
- Top speed: D5500–5534: 80 mph (129 km/h), Remainder: 90 mph (145 km/h) (Wikipedia)
- Power: Engine: Mirrlees: 1250 bhp (932 kW) or 1365 bhp (1,018 kW), English Electric: 1470 bhp (1,096 kW), At rail: 1170 hp (872 kW) (Wikipedia)
- Wheel arrangement: (A1A)(A1A) (Wikipedia)
- Power type: Diesel-electric (Wikipedia)
- Safety systems: AWS (Wikipedia)
Photo: Tutenkhamun Sleeping, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
From the English Wikipedia article British Rail Class 31 and Wikidata.
Sources. Dovetail's public DLC database and Steam store pages; English Wikipedia and Wikidata for the real train.