#5579· Class 380
British Rail Class 380
🇬🇧 United Kingdom ·built by Siemens Mobility· from 2010· British electric multiple trainsets operating in Scotland
2 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Class 380 Desiro EMU - ScotRail 380013: Samson Ng . D201@EAL· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 2. Class380: No machine-readable author provided. VirginVoyager assumed (based on copyright claims).· CC BY-SA 4.0
what is it?
The British Rail Class 380 Desiro is a type of electric multiple unit passenger train that operates on the National Rail network in Scotland, for ScotRail on various routes out of Glasgow Central. The three- and four-carriage trains were built in Germany by Siemens Mobility and entered into service in 2010.
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 16 years ago, in 2010.
- 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.
multiple unit: A self-propelled train: motors are spread under the passenger cars, so no separate locomotive.
spec sheet
- built
- 2010
- in service from
- 2010
- status
- in service
- number built
- —
- kind
- multiple unit
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
- builders
- Siemens Mobility
- operators
- First ScotRail (2004-2015), Abellio ScotRail (2015-2022), ScotRail Trains (2022-)
- top speed
- 161 km/h
- power
- —
- Dutch name
- Class 380
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q776221, Wikipedia: British Rail Class 380 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.