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British Rail Class 334
🇬🇧 United Kingdom ·built by Alstom· from 2001· British suburban electric multiple-unit passenger train
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what is it?
The British Rail Class 334 Coradia Juniper is a suburban electric multiple unit passenger train built by Alstom in Birmingham. They are part of Alstom's Coradia Juniper family of trains, along with Classes 458 and 460. The trains are operated by ScotRail and mainly run on the North Clyde Line on Helensburgh Central - Edinburgh, Springburn - Milngavie and Airdrie - Balloch services.
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 25 years ago, in 2001.
- Top speed is 1.1× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- Still in service after 25 years.
multiple unit: A self-propelled train: motors are spread under the passenger cars, so no separate locomotive.
spec sheet
- built
- 2001
- in service from
- 2001
- status
- in service
- number built
- —
- kind
- Electric multiple unit
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
- builders
- Alstom
- operators
- First ScotRail (2004-2015), National Express ScotRail, Abellio ScotRail (2015-2022), ScotRail Trains (2022-)
- top speed
- 145 km/h
- power
- —
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
family
Sources: Wikidata Q779036, Wikipedia: British Rail Class 334 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.