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Bombardier Turbostar
🇬🇧 United Kingdom ·built by Adtranz· from 1998· Family of British diesel multiple unit passenger trains
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4 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. 170636 Rearsby: Duncan Harris· CC BY-SA 2.0
- 2. British Rail Class 171: My another account ( talk )· CC0
- 3. British Rail Class 170: Foulger Rail Photos from Basingstoke, UK· CC BY-SA 2.0
- 4. British Rail Class 172: Superalbs· CC BY-SA 4.0
what is it?
The Bombardier Turbostar (sold as the ADtranz Turbostar until 2001) is a group of diesel multiple unit (DMU) passenger trains that was built by ADtranz and later Bombardier Transportation at Derby Litchurch Lane Works, England, between 1997 and 2011. The Turbostar was the first new train type to be introduced after the privatisation of British Rail. The first units were ordered by Chiltern Railways in 1996 and were designated Class 168 (also known as Clubman).
who runs it
base stats
Bars compare against all trains: 600 km/h (maglev), 1,700 seats; power, weight and number built on a log scale up to 20 MW, 1,000 t and 20,000 built.
fun facts
- First built 28 years ago, in 1998.
- Top speed is 1.2× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- At full speed it would cover Amsterdam–Utrecht (≈ 40 km) in 15 minutes.
- 23.6 m long: about 5 cars parked nose to tail.
- Still in service after 28 years.
multiple unit: A self-propelled train: motors are spread under the passenger cars, so no separate locomotive.
spec sheet
- built
- 1998
- in service from
- 1998
- status
- in service
- number built
- 206
- kind
- DMU
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
- builders
- Adtranz, ALSTOM Transportation Germany
- operators
- Chiltern Railways, CrossCountry, East Midlands Railway, Northern Trains, ScotRail Trains (2022-), Southern, West Midlands Trains
- top speed
- 161 km/h
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- formation
- 2, 3 or 4 carriages per set
- length
- 23.6 m
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
family
Sources: Wikidata Q3303940, Wikipedia: Bombardier Turbostar (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.