
Class 390 Pendolino
The Class 390 Pendolino is an electric unit from the UK in Train Sim World. Another DLC brings it to 6 routes.
Picture: Avanti West Coast BR Class 390 Pendolino EMU, 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 Avanti West Coast BR Class 390 Pendolino EMU
- London Overground Mildmay line: Stratford - Willesden Junction: with Avanti West Coast BR Class 390 Pendolino EMU
- Manchester Airport Commuter: Manchester - Alderley Edge: with Avanti West Coast BR Class 390 Pendolino EMU
- West Coast Main Line Trent Valley: Milton Keynes - Crewe: with Avanti West Coast BR Class 390 Pendolino EMU
- West Coast Main Line: Birmingham - Crewe: with Avanti West Coast BR Class 390 Pendolino EMU
- West Coast Main Line: London Euston - Milton Keynes: with Avanti West Coast BR Class 390 Pendolino EMU
In the game
Names in Dovetail's lists: Class 390, Class 390 AWC, BR Class 390 Pendolino.
In these DLCs: Avanti West Coast BR Class 390 Pendolino EMU.
From Dovetail's store page
- BR Class 390 Pendolino EMU in Avanti West Coast livery
The real thing
The Pendolino, a tilting electric high-speed train built by Alstom and run by Avanti West Coast on the West Coast Main Line. Fifty-three eight-car units were built between 2001 and 2005, later lengthened to nine cars, and some to 11.
- Built by: Alstom, Fiat Ferroviaria (Wikipedia)
- Built: 2001–2005, 2010–2012 (Wikipedia)
- Number built: 57, (22 × 390/0, 35 × 390/1) (Wikipedia)
- Operators: Current: Avanti West Coast, Former: Virgin Trains (Wikipedia)
- Top speed: 125 mph (201 km/h) (Wikipedia)
- Power: 390/0: 5160 kW (6,920 hp), 390/1: 6020 kW (8,073 hp) (Wikipedia)
- Wheel arrangement: (See ) (Wikipedia)
- Formation: Operate as 9-car or 11-car units (DMRFO-MFO-PTFO-MFO-(TSO)-(MSO)-TSO-MSO-PTSRMB-MSO-DMSO) (Wikipedia)
- Safety systems: AWS, TASS, TPWS (Wikipedia)
Photo: Vanmanyo, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
From the English Wikipedia article British Rail Class 390 and Wikidata.
Sources. Dovetail's public DLC database and Steam store pages; English Wikipedia and Wikidata for the real train.