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Class 331 Civity

The electric twin of the Class 195: CAF's Civity for Northern's electrified routes, in three- and four-car units, brought in from July 2019 on electrified routes around Leeds (to Doncaster, and to Bradford Forster Square, Skipton and Ilkley from September 2019), Manchester, Liverpool and Blackpool.

Class 331 Civity, schematic side elevation, 4 cars
Class 331 Civity, schematic side elevation, 4 cars, in operation: pantographs raised to a contact wire at 4.7 mcontact wire 15 ft 5 in (4.7 m)
311 ft (94.75 m) (the cars’ lengths added)

Class 331 Civity · schematic drawing GB Trains · gbtrains.uk/stock/331/ · CC BY 4.0

Schematic side elevation of a full train, drawn from the dimensions below. Drawn from Arriva Rail North's dimensioned layout of the Class 195, the same CAF Civity body (the 331's own sheet prints the same lengths and bogie positions but draws the roof about 200 mm lower than photographs show), with the pantograph from the 331's sheet; the underframe equipment is laid out from photographs. Branding left out: Northern's name and lettered roundels, and the numbers. In operation: the pantograph raised to a contact wire 15 ft 5 in (4.7 m) above the rail, Network Rail's normal height (Network Rail, A Guide to Overhead Electrification, 2015; one wire, schematic). Drawn at 10 px per metre. Download SVG Download SVG · Use this drawing

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NorthernNorthernYellow front, blue cab ends sweeping back to white, blue doors; colours from photographs. Arriva Rail North ran the same colours in 2019-2020; only its wordmark, which isn't drawn, differedShown above

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Type
Electric multiple unit
Builder
CAF (Construcciones y Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles), Zaragoza, Spain
Family
Civity, with Class 195 Civity, Class 196 Civity, Class 197 Civity, Class 397 Civity (Nova 2)
Built
2017–2020
In service
since 2019
Operators
Northern
Formation
3 or 4 cars: 31 three-car units (DMSL-PTS-DMS, 234 ft (71.40 m)) and 12 four-car (DMSL-PTS-TS-DMS, 311 ft (94.75 m)), the cars' lengths added
Trains in fleet
43
Fleets
Northern: 43
Top speed
100 mph (161 km/h)
Power
25 kV AC overhead: a 2,570 kVA transformer on the PTS feeding four 220 kW motors on each driving car (1,760 kW), with regenerative braking · how it works
Bogies
CAF ARIN bogies (Civity UK) · drawn with the same bogie component as Class 195 Civity, Class 196 Civity, Class 197 Civity, Class 397 Civity (Nova 2)
Train length
311 ft (94.75 m) (the cars’ lengths added)
Car height
12 ft 8 in (3.87 m)
Car width
8 ft 11 in (2.712 m)
Profile
main-line
Air-conditioned
Yes
Total capacity
3-car: 184 seats and 19 tip-up; 4-car: 260 seats and 23 tip-up (Eversholt Rail). Northern's 2022 contract gives 204 and 284 seats, with 141 and 185 standing
Status
In service with Northern: 43 units (31 three-car and 12 four-car), maintained at Allerton and Neville Hill with support from CAF.

Car types

CodeCarLengthDoors per side
DMSLDriving motor standard with lavatory (DMSL)78 ft 10 in24.026 m2 double
PTSPantograph trailer standard, with the transformer (PTS)76 ft 7 in23.35 m2 double
TSTrailer standard (TS)76 ft 7 in23.35 m2 double
DMSDriving motor standard (DMS)78 ft 10 in24.026 m2 double

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