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Class 195 Civity
CAF's Civity diesel train for Northern, with 24-metre aluminium cars, open gangways and doors at the thirds. Ordered with the electric Class 331 to replace the Pacers, it entered service in July 2019 and works across the North West, Yorkshire, Cumbria and Derbyshire, and to Lincoln and Nottingham.
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Scale
234 ft (71.4 m) (the cars’ lengths added)
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- Type
- Diesel multiple unit
- Builder
- CAF (Construcciones y Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles): bodies at Zaragoza and assembly at Irun, Spain
- Family
- Civity, with Class 196 Civity, Class 197 Civity, Class 331 Civity, Class 397 Civity (Nova 2)
- Built
- 2017–2020
- In service
- since 2019
- Operators
- Northern
- Formation
- 2 or 3 cars: 25 two-car units (DMSL-DMS) and 33 three-car (DMSL-MS-DMS)
- Trains in fleet
- 58
- Fleets
- Northern: 58
- Top speed
- 100 mph (161 km/h)
- Power
- Diesel: an MTU power pack of 390 kW, with a ZF six-speed automatic gearbox, under every car · how it works
- Bogies
- CAF ARIN bogies (Civity UK) · drawn with the same bogie component as Class 196 Civity, Class 197 Civity, Class 331 Civity, Class 397 Civity (Nova 2)
- Train length
- 234 ft (71.4 m) (the cars’ lengths added)
- Coupled
- 2 × 3 cars, about 469 ft (143 m) (the units’ lengths added)
- Car height
- 12 ft 8 in (3.85 m)
- Car width
- 8 ft 11 in (2.712 m)
- Profile
- main-line
- Air-conditioned
- Yes
- Total capacity
- 2-car: 108 seats and 15 tip-up; 3-car: 184 seats and 19 tip-up (Eversholt Rail). Northern's 2022 contract gives 124 and 204 seats, with 97 and 142 standing
- Status
- In service with Northern: 58 units (25 two-car and 33 three-car), maintained at Newton Heath with support from CAF.
Car types
| Code | Car | Length | Doors per side |
|---|---|---|---|
| DMSL | Driving motor standard with lavatory (DMSL) | 78 ft 10 in24.026 m | 2 double |
| MS | Motor standard (MS) | 76 ft 7 in23.35 m | 2 double |
| DMS | Driving motor standard (DMS) | 78 ft 10 in24.026 m | 2 double |
Sources
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Show the 23 sources from Wikimedia Commons, Arriva Rail North, Northern and 7 more
- The Class 195 Diesel Multiple Unit (specification sheet) Arriva Rail North, 24 January 2018formation (DMSL-DMS, DMSL-MS-DMS), car lengths 78 ft 10 in (24.026 m) and 76 ft 7 in (23.350 m), width 8 ft 11 in (2.712 m), height 12 ft 8 in (3.850 m), 100 mph (161 km/h), double-leaf sliding plug doors, one PRM toilet, MTU 390 kW power pack and ZF six-speed transmission, Dellner couplers
- Class 195 Eversholt Rail, accessed 7 October 202625 two-car and 33 three-car units, 149 vehicles; CAF Civity; seats; 78 ft 10 in (24.03 m) and 76 ft 7 in (23.35 m); 100 mph (161 km/h); air conditioning; entry into service 2019-2020; maintained by Northern at Newton Heath
- Northern's trains from Spain (David Shirres) Rail Engineer, 3 April 2018£490 million order with the 331s, financed by Eversholt; bodies at Zaragoza, assembly at Irun, bogies at Beasain; 79 ft (24 m) cars, doors at the thirds; MTU 390 kW engines; 100 mph (161 km/h); Newton Heath
- Northern unveils new £500 million diesel and electric trains RAIL (Richard Clinnick), 26 June 2019 (republished 9 September 2019)launched 26 June 2019; seven 195s due in passenger service from 1 July 2019; first routes
- New trains arrive ahead of schedule for Yorkshire, East Midlands and Lincolnshire customers Northern, 10 December 2019the first 195s between Leeds, Sheffield, Lincoln and Nottingham from December 2019 (summary)
- Transformation of Northern continues with the introduction of its 100th brand new train Northern (press release), 10 December 2020100th new train, a Class 195, 9 December 2020
- DfT OLR Holdings Limited and Northern Trains Limited 2022: services contract (public register copy, version 1.1x) Department for Transport, 24 February 2022, pp. 145-146 (Appendix 1 to Schedule 1.6, Table 1)25 two-car (124 seats, 97 standing) and 33 three-car (204 seats, 142 standing)
- British Rail Class 195 Wikipedia, read 13 October 2026built 2017-2020 (cross-check); the Arriva Rail North years (2019-2020), in the colours as drawn
- The Class 195 Diesel Multiple Unit (specification sheet) Arriva Rail North, 24 January 2018, p. layout drawingsthe drawing: body, doors, windows, nose, roof, heights (measured)
- Gearboxes solutions (CAF Mobility product brochure) CAF Mobility, accessed 8 October 2026, p. 11wheels 2 ft 7 in (780 mm) new (drawing)
- Regional and intercity trains: Civity (Civity UK) CAF, read 9 October 2026the Civity UK's ARIN bogies (the bogie type, drawing)
- BR Class 195 Velim (photograph, 15 October 2018, CC0) Wikimedia Commons (Plutowiki), 15 October 2018the livery's cab end and the underframe layout (drawing)
- NRClass195101.jpg (photograph, CC BY-SA 4.0) Wikimedia Commons, 11 April 2018the cab end's livery (the window band, the orange line, the pale band), the cab door's grab rails, a leaf window and a door strip (set T10, Kyle, 27 October 2026; drawing)
- 195102 Burneside.jpg (photograph, CC BY-SA 4.0) Wikimedia Commons, 18 September 2021the window widths, the leaf windows, the door strips and the cab end's livery, on whole-car overlays (set T10, Kyle, 27 October 2026; drawing)
- Class 195 and Class 67 at Doncaster.jpg (photograph, CC BY-SA 4.0) Wikimedia Commons, 10 January 2020the cab step: an open ladder with two treads (set T10, Kyle, 27 October 2026; layout only)
- Doncaster - Arriva 331105 and 195103 in the sidings (photograph, 27 August 2019, CC BY-SA 4.0) Wikimedia Commons (Geof Sheppard), 27 August 2019195103's cab step ladder and the pale band ending at it (set T10, Kyle, 27 October 2026; layout only)
- Doncaster - Arriva 331105 and 195103 in the sidings (photograph, 27 August 2019, CC BY-SA 4.0) Wikimedia Commons (Geof Sheppard), 27 August 2019the front's livery, the cab-roof case (drawing)
- 331004 The Bradfordian (photograph at Leeds, 1 December 2025, CC BY 4.0) Wikimedia Commons (kitmasterbloke), 1 December 2025the cab coupler: its kind, place and heights (set BC6, 20 October 2026; layout only for photographs)
- NRClass195101.jpg (photograph, CC BY-SA 4.0) Wikimedia Commons, 11 April 2018the cab-side window's four-sided shape, its chamfer and its place (set T10P-A2, Kyle, 27 October 2026; drawing)
- Class 195 and Class 67 at Doncaster.jpg (photograph, CC BY-SA 4.0) Wikimedia Commons, 10 January 2020the cab step's place against the grab rails and the grey lower nose (set T10P-A2, Kyle, 27 October 2026; layout only)
- NRClass195101.jpg (photograph, CC BY-SA 4.0) Wikimedia Commons, 11 April 2018the saloon windows' corner radius, about 75-90 mm, square on (set T12, 28 October 2026)
- The Class 195 Diesel Multiple Unit (specification sheet) Arriva Rail North, 24 January 2018the cab's joint line, about 211 mm ahead of the cab door (set T12F, Kyle, 29 October 2026, question 4; drawing)
- NRClass195101.jpg (photograph, CC BY-SA 4.0) Wikimedia Commons, 11 April 2018the cab's joint line, parallel to the front grab rail and 186 mm ahead of the cab door (set T12F, Kyle, 29 October 2026, question 4; drawing)
unverified
- Built 2017–2020: Wikipedia; Rail Engineer found one two-car and six three-car units complete at Irun in January 2018, and Northern's 100th new train entered service in December 2020
- Seats: Eversholt's 108 + 15 and 184 + 19 tip-up match Rail Engineer's 123 and 203 (2018); Northern's 2022 contract gives 124 and 204
- Where they were built: Rail Engineer (2018) names Zaragoza for the bodies and Irun for assembly; Eversholt names Irun and CAF's Newport factory in Wales
- Door layout: Rail Engineer gives double-leaf plug doors at the one-third and two-thirds positions; their positions aren't printed as figures: they're measured off Arriva Rail North's layout drawing at the scale of its printed lengths, and a 2021 photograph (195102 at Burneside) agrees within about 100 mm
- The Arriva Rail North years (2019-2020), when the drawn colours carried Arriva's wordmark: Wikipedia
- Drawing: the underframe equipment, the grey lower nose and the livery are laid out from photographs, not measured; the DMS and MS underframes are assumed from the DMSL's
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