Class 70
The Class 70 is a diesel loco from the UK in Train Sim World. Another DLC brings it to 3 routes.
Picture: Freightliner BR Class 70, 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 70, BR Class 70.
In these DLCs: Freightliner BR Class 70.
Official manual: Freightliner BR Class 70.
From Dovetail's store page
- BR Class 70 diesel locomotive in Freightliner Powerhaul livery
The real thing
A heavy Co-Co freight locomotive from General Electric's PowerHaul series, built in Erie, Pennsylvania. Freightliner and Colas Rail run them in the UK. When new it had the highest tractive effort of any Co-Co diesel in the country.
- Built by: General Electric (Wikipedia)
- Built: 2008–2017 (Wikipedia)
- Number built: 37 (Wikipedia)
- Operators: Heavy Haul Rail, Colas Rail (Wikipedia)
- Top speed: 75 mph (121 km/h) (Wikipedia)
- Power: Engine: 2750 kW (3,688 hp) (Wikipedia)
- Wheel arrangement: Co′Co′ (Wikipedia)
- Power type: Diesel-electric (Wikipedia)
Photo: Geof Sheppard, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
From the English Wikipedia article British Rail Class 70 and Wikidata.
Sources. Dovetail's public DLC database and Steam store pages; English Wikipedia and Wikidata for the real train.