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Class 380 Desiro
Siemens' Desiro electric train, leased to ScotRail. It ran the first electric trains on the Edinburgh to Glasgow main line, and now works mainly in Ayrshire and Inverclyde.
Scale
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Liveries
Former liveries 1
First ScotRail then Abellio ScotRail branding on SaltireRan as First ScotRail; Abellio ScotRailFormer2010 to 2022Not drawn yet
- Type
- Electric multiple unit
- Builder
- Siemens
- Family
- Desiro UK, with Class 185 Desiro, Class 350 Desiro, Class 360 Desiro, Class 444 Desiro, Class 450 Desiro
- In service
- since 2010
- Operators
- ScotRail
- Formation
- 3 or 4 cars (DMS-PTSLW-(TSL)-DMSB): driving cars 78 ft 0 in (23.78 m), intermediate cars 77 ft 4 in (23.57 m)
- Fleets
- ScotRail: 38
- Top speed
- 100 mph (161 km/h)
- Power
- 25 kV AC overhead · how it works
- Bogies
- Siemens SF 5000 bogies · drawn with the same bogie component as Class 185 Desiro, Class 350 Desiro, Class 360 Desiro, Class 444 Desiro, Class 450 Desiro
- Profile
- main-line
- Total capacity
- 3-car: 191 seats and 17 tip-up; 4-car: 265 seats and 17 tip-up
- Status
- In service: 22 three-car and 16 four-car units.
Sources
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Show the 18 sources from Wikimedia Commons, Eversholt Rail, Rail Engineer and 7 more
- Class 380 Eversholt Rail22 three-car and 16 four-car units; Siemens; in service 2010–2011; formation; car lengths; seats; 100 mph (161 km/h); 25 kV AC; routes
- Hitachi's Class 385 enters service Rail Engineer, 24 July 2018380s on the Edinburgh to Glasgow line in 2018, released from Ayrshire and Inverclyde
- Desiro design is evolving Railway Gazette International, 16 October 2008indicative drawing: 75 ft (23 m) bodies redesigned above the floor, bogies generally unchanged
- First Class Bogies (bogie catalogue, edition 08/08) Siemens Transportation Systems, Graz, August 2008, pp. 60-61indicative drawing: SF 5000 UK bogie, wheelbase 8 ft 6 in (2,600 mm), wheels 2 ft 9 in (850 mm)
- SWR 450044 bogie detail (63644) (photograph, 29 October 2022, CC BY-SA 4.0) Wikimedia Commons (Geof Sheppard), 29 October 2022the bogie drawing's layout (a Class 450's SF 5000 UK bogie; layout only)
- Class 380 photographs ('Class 380 Desiro EMU - ScotRail 380013.jpg', '380108 at Haymarket.jpg', 'Ardrossan level crossing, North Ayrshire, Scotland.jpg', 'Ayr - Abellio 380108 in platform 2.JPG', 'Trains at Haymarket railway station 07.jpg', 'Siemens Desiro 380007 (7468208476).jpg') Wikimedia Commons (Samson Ng, CC BY-SA 4.0; Pencefn, CC BY-SA 3.0; Rosser1954, CC BY-SA 4.0; Geof Sheppard, CC BY-SA 4.0; Tbatb, CC BY-SA 4.0; Neil Turner, CC BY-SA 2.0), 2011-2025indicative drawing: doors, windows, bogies, heights and livery, estimated from photographs
- ScotRail Saltire photographs, side-on or nearly ('Abellio ScotRail class 380 "Electrostar" EMU 380014 at Largs', 2021-06-21; 'Largs - ScotRail 380020 Glasgow service', 2025-06-08; 'Eastfield - ScotRail 385014 and 385111', 2025-06-09; 'Scotrail Train at Falkirk Grahamston (47738786752)', 2019; 'British Rail Class 385s - Abellio ScotRail 385123 (3)', 2020-01-31; 'Motherwell - ScotRail 320316 Dalmuir service', 2025-06-07; 'Glasgow Queen Street - ScotRail 153377 West Highland Explorer', 2025-06-09; 'ScotRail Class 156 DMU in 2022', 2022-10-06; '318261 in saltire livery at Gourock', 2019-10-29) Wikimedia Commons (Matt Buck, CC BY-SA 2.0; Geof Sheppard, CC BY-SA 4.0; Daniel from Glasgow, CC BY 2.0; Kevin.B, CC BY-SA 4.0; Coopydood, CC BY-SA 4.0; dave souza, CC BY-SA 4.0), 2019-2025indicative drawing: the cab-end arrow's place and shape (380014 and 380020 at Largs, near side-on; layout only)
- Identity Guidelines for Scotland's Railway, version 1.1: Rolling stock (pp. 14-36), with ScotRail's train outlines (livery sheets) and decals Transport Scotland, 2023, pp. 15-18indicative drawing: the Saltire's dots (the arrows' and vignettes' dot sizes and spacing, measured on the Class 380 livery sheet; the 150 mm margin round the doors; the colours by name)
- Class 380 cab ends ('Paisley Gilmour Street - ScotRail 380107 Ayr service', 2025-06-08, near side on; 'Largs railway station - geograph.org.uk - 7747684', 380001, 2024-04-08; 'Railfest 2012 MMB 49 380007', 2012-06-04) Wikimedia Commons (Geof Sheppard, CC BY-SA 4.0; Thomas Nugent, CC BY-SA 2.0; mattbuck, CC BY-SA 3.0), 2012-2025indicative drawing: the cab end from the side: the yellow line, the headlamp's surround and lens, and the top of the navy nose; the Saltire's cab-end dots, counted and placed (380107, near side on, 2025; layout only)
- Class 380 No 380108 (14839688375).jpg (photograph: 380108 at Musselburgh, front three-quarter) Wikimedia Commons (Peter Broster, CC BY 2.0), 5 August 2014indicative drawing: the cab door's window along the door; the lean of the Saltire's dot lattice (with 380107, 2025; layout only)
- Slateford Viaduct.jpg (The Transport Guide, CC BY-SA 4.0): 380110 crossing Slateford Viaduct Wikimedia Commons, 5 January 2019indicative drawing: the PTSLW's pantograph well, its inner end (perspective fit, layout only) and the pantograph's facing
- Clyde Bridge - ScotRail 380116 Newton service.JPG (Geof Sheppard, CC BY-SA 4.0) Wikimedia Commons, 8 June 2025indicative drawing: the pantograph well and the raised pantograph near the PTSL's end (side-on, distant; layout only)
- Trains at Haymarket railway station 07.jpg (photograph, CC BY-SA 4.0) Wikimedia Commons (Tbatb), 26 August 2019indicative drawing: the bellows between cars and the dark drawgear under them (measured side on at a join, 2019)
- Class 380 cab ends ('Paisley Gilmour Street - ScotRail 380107 Ayr service', 2025-06-08, near side on; 'Largs railway station - geograph.org.uk - 7747684', 380001, 2024-04-08; 'Railfest 2012 MMB 49 380007', 2012-06-04) Wikimedia Commons (Geof Sheppard, CC BY-SA 4.0; Thomas Nugent, CC BY-SA 2.0; mattbuck, CC BY-SA 3.0), 2012-2025the front gangway's end frame and bellows, side on (set C380G)
- 380011 - PYG - 1F69.jpg (photograph, CC BY 2.0) SmoIchopper, via Wikimedia Commons, 11 February 2023layout of the underframe equipment (the DMSB's and PTSLW's cases, the drawn side; layout only)
- Siemens Desiro 380007 (7468208476).jpg (photograph, CC BY-SA 2.0) Neil Turner, via Wikimedia Commons, 5 June 2012layout of the underframe equipment (a driving car's long case, a check; layout only)
- British Rail Class 380 Wikipedia, read 13 October 2026the livery's name, who ran it and its years (no colours taken)
- A Guide to Overhead Electrification (132787-ALB-GUN-EOH-000001, rev 10) Network Rail (prepared by Alan Baxter), February 2015, p. 39the contact wire in the In operation drawing: 15 ft 5 in (4.7 m) above rail, Network Rail's normal height
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- The drawing is indicative: no dimensioned drawing of a Class 380 has been published, so its doors, windows, heights, bogie positions and livery are estimated from photographs; only the car lengths and the bogie's wheelbase and wheels are published
- The drawing's cab ends and pantograph position: estimated, to about 1 ft 8 in (0.5 m)
- The drawing's pantograph well: laid out from two photographs of 380/1s (layout only, to about 1 ft 4 in (0.4 m)), its floor height the Class 360's; a 380/0's PTSLW wasn't seen
- The underframe: read off two photographs of driving cars (positions to about 150 mm) and one very oblique photograph of a PTSLW (positions to about 2 ft 4 in (0.7 m)); the cases' depth behind the bodyside (1 ft 8 in (520 mm)) is fitted, not measured; the DMS is drawn as the DMSB, mirrored, not from its own side
- The years of the former liveries come from Wikipedia's class article and the other sources listed, and haven't been checked against a second source.
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