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Class 385
Hitachi's AT200 commuter electric train, the first of its kind, ordered for the newly electrified lines between Edinburgh and Glasgow. Due in service in autumn 2017, they were held back by a fault in the curved windscreen, through which drivers saw signals double at night ('ghosting'). ScotRail's 70 first carried passengers in July 2018 and run across the central belt.
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Scale
306 ft (93.28 m) (the cars’ lengths added)
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Liveries
Former liveries 1
Abellio ScotRail SaltireFormer2018 to Mar 2022Not drawn yet
- Type
- Electric multiple unit
- Builder
- Hitachi Rail: the first seven at Kasado, Japan, the other 63 at Newton Aycliffe
- Built
- 2016–2019
- In service
- since 2018
- Operators
- ScotRail
- Formation
- 3 cars (385/0) or 4 cars (385/1): driving cars 76 ft 1 in (23.18 m) and intermediate cars 72 ft 5 in (22.08 m) long over the body; up to four units run together as 12 cars
- Trains in fleet
- 70: 46 three-car (385/0) and 24 four-car (385/1)
- Fleets
- ScotRail: 70
- Top speed
- 100 mph (161 km/h)
- Power
- 25 kV AC overhead · how it works
- Bogies
- Hitachi AT200 bogies, bolsterless and inside-framed (Class 385)
- Train length
- 306 ft (93.28 m) (the cars’ lengths added)
- Coupled
- 2 × 4 cars, about 612 ft (187 m) (the units’ lengths added); 7 cars (3 + 4), about 537 ft (164 m) (the units’ lengths added)
- Profile
- main-line
- Seats per train
- 273
- Total capacity
- 273 seats (20 first class) in a four-car 385/1 and 206 in a three-car 385/0; 479 in a seven-car train of one of each
- Status
- In service with ScotRail, all 70: 46 three-car (385/0) and 24 four-car (385/1) units, maintained by Hitachi at Craigentinny under a seven-year contract from April 2025.
Car types
| Code | Car | Length | Doors per side |
|---|---|---|---|
| DMC | Driving motor composite (DMC) | 77 ft 7 in23.64 m | 2 double |
| TPS | Trailer, pantograph, standard class (TPS) | 75 ft 6 in23.00 m | 2 double |
| TS | Trailer, standard class (TS) | 75 ft 6 in23.00 m | 2 double |
| DMS | Driving motor standard (DMS) | 77 ft 7 in23.64 m | 2 double |
Sources
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Show the 26 sources from Wikimedia Commons, Rail Engineer, Hitachi and 9 more
- Development of Class 385 semi-customised/standard commuter rolling stock for global markets (Hitachi Review vol. 66 no. 2, archived) Hitachi, 2017234 cars: 46 three-car and 24 four-car sets; AT200; built at Kasado and Newton Aycliffe; car lengths (Fig. 2); 161 km/h (100 mph); 25 kV AC; up to 12 cars
- Hitachi's Class 385 enters service Rail Engineer, 24 July 2018first passenger service 24 July 2018; built at Newton Aycliffe; 479 seats in a seven-car train
- Maintaining the 385s Rail Engineer, 3 April 2020the contract signed April 2015; the last of the 70 accepted December 2019; 46 three-car and 24 four-car; maintained by Hitachi at Craigentinny
- Table 6314: rolling stock vehicles by traction type and operator Office of Rail and Road, 20 November 2025ScotRail's 649 electric vehicles, March 2025 (with the 380, 334, 320 and 318)
- 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. 15-17, 20, 22the drawing: the Class 385 livery sheets (DMC, intermediate car, three-car composite), measured; the livery colours and where they go; the First Class decal (p. 22): the yellow line round the first-class windows
- 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), 2019-2025the Saltire's dots: where the arrows and vignettes sit, and the dots a row and rows a field (layout and count only); the window corners, measured (Falkirk Grahamston, 2019, rectified on a saloon window; 385123, 2020) and the yellow-edged step under the doors (set T5, 20 October 2026)
- Class 385 bogies in photographs: 'Trains at Haymarket railway station 06' (TS 443121's bogie side on, 2019; CC BY-SA 4.0, Tbatb), 'Glasgow Central - ScotRail 385018 arriving from Edinburgh' (2025; CC BY-SA 4.0, Geof Sheppard) and 'Scotrail Train at Falkirk Grahamston (47738786752)' (a driving car's motor bogie, 2019; CC BY 2.0, Daniel from Glasgow) Wikimedia Commons, 2019-2025the underframe between the bogies (set C385Z): 385018 at Glasgow Central (2025), the DMS layout from its first car and the TPS layout from its second; TS 443121 at Haymarket (2019), the TS at one end (photographs, layout only)
- Robroyston railway station, Cumbernauld Line. View east.jpg: a 385/1 (DMS 444108 nearest) with the TPS's pantograph raised (photograph, CC BY-SA 4.0) Wikimedia Commons (Rosser1954), 20 December 2019the underframe (set C385Z): DMS 444108's inner half, the box modules and the box before the bogie, and the TPS beyond it, a continuous dark mass (photograph, layout only)
- Development of Class 385 semi-customised/standard commuter rolling stock for global markets (Hitachi Review vol. 66 no. 2, archived) Hitachi, 2017, pp. Table 1; pp. 105-106bogies: bolsterless, the AT300's design with the suspension optimised; two motor bogies on each motor car, two motors in each; a three-car set 1.5M1.5T
- Class 385 bogies in photographs: 'Trains at Haymarket railway station 06' (TS 443121's bogie side on, 2019; CC BY-SA 4.0, Tbatb), 'Glasgow Central - ScotRail 385018 arriving from Edinburgh' (2025; CC BY-SA 4.0, Geof Sheppard) and 'Scotrail Train at Falkirk Grahamston (47738786752)' (a driving car's motor bogie, 2019; CC BY 2.0, Daniel from Glasgow) Wikimedia Commons, 2019-2025the drawing's bogies: inside frame, wheel-mounted discs, the bracket, arm, drop link and damper, the motor cases (photographs, layout only)
- Scotrail Class 385-0 w-pantograph.png and Scotrail Class 385-1 w-pantograph.png: three- and four-car Class 385s (side diagrams, CC BY-SA 4.0) WestRail642fan, via Wikimedia Commons, 21 March 2020the drawing's pantograph: its car, end and place along the car (side diagram, layout only)
- EMU from Alloa to Glasgow crossing the Forth Rail Bridge - geograph.org.uk - 8340092.jpg: a four-car 385 near side on (photograph, CC BY-SA 2.0) Wikimedia Commons (Peter Moore, via geograph.org.uk), 10 June 2026the drawing's pantograph: folded, low, at car 2's car-3 end (photograph, layout only)
- Robroyston railway station, Cumbernauld Line. View east.jpg: a 385/1 (DMS 444108 nearest) with the TPS's pantograph raised (photograph, CC BY-SA 4.0) Wikimedia Commons (Rosser1954), 20 December 2019the drawing's pantograph: on the TPS, at its end next to the TS (raised; photograph, layout only)
- Interim report IR1/2026: collision between two passenger trains at Elstow, near Bedford Rail Accident Investigation Branch, October 2026, p. 7 (figure 3)the drawing's pantograph: the folded length and height (the Class 810's, measured; taken as alike)
- Class 385 cab ends: Hitachi's render 'Class 385 render.jpg' (25 November 2014) and the photographs 'Scotrail Class 385 test train at Gourock' (geograph.org.uk 5269720, 29 January 2017), 'Eastfield - ScotRail 385014 and 385111' (9 June 2025) and '385 026 Edinburgh Waverley 010926' (1 September 2026) Wikimedia Commons (Hitachi Rail Europe, CC BY 3.0; Thomas Nugent via geograph.org.uk, CC BY-SA 2.0; Geof Sheppard, CC BY-SA 4.0; kitmasterbloke, CC BY 4.0), 2014-2026the cab end's colours and what shows from outside: the black dome, bellows and frame, the yellow front, the dark lamp cluster, the coupler (photographs, layout and colour only; set C385)
- Stirling - ScotRail 385027 Dunblane service (photograph: the cab end at three-quarters), with Eastfield - ScotRail 385014 and 385111 (2025) and AT200, coupled at Edinburgh Waverley (2020) Wikimedia Commons (Geof Sheppard, CC BY-SA 4.0; E235JREMU, CC BY-SA 4.0), 8 June 2025the drawing: the cab-end arrows' dots, counted and placed on one lattice, and their sizes (layout only)
- Five Hitachi Class 385 bodyshells heading for UK RAIL (railmagazine.com), 21 May 2016the first four-car Class 385 under test at Kasado, May 2016; the first and six more built in Japan, 63 at Newton Aycliffe
- Class 385 debut further delayed Rail Engineer, 9 April 2018the first unit built at Kasado and shipped from Japan in August 2016; due in service in autumn 2017, held back by double images of signals at night through the windscreen ('ghosting')
- Building ScotRail's 385s Rail Engineer, 1 November 2017206 seats in a three-car 385/0 and 273, 20 of them first class, in a four-car 385/1; all but the first seven built at Newton Aycliffe; the bogies supplied from Hitachi's plant in Naples
- First Hitachi class 385 train comes into service on ScotRail routes Railway Technology, 25 July 2018273 seats in a four-car unit and 206 in a three-car
- Hitachi awarded contract extension to maintain Scotland's best performing fleet Hitachi, 10 April 2025Hitachi's seven-year contract to maintain the Class 385 fleet from 1 April 2025, with the Craigentinny depot upgrade
- ScotRail Class 385 fleet passes 62 million miles as reliability and sustainability credentials shine Rail Technology Magazine, 17 August 2026the 70-strong fleet in service, 62.8 million miles by the end of July 2026
- AT200, coupled at Edinburgh Waverley.jpg (photograph, CC BY-SA 4.0) Wikimedia Commons (E235JREMU), 4 September 2020the cab door's window, square-cornered, about 1.2 mm a pixel (photograph; set T5, 20 October 2026)
- British Rail Class 385 Wikipedia, read 13 October 2026the livery's name and who ran it (no colours taken)
- Scottish Government will take over ScotRail services on 1 April 2022 Transport Scotland, 9 February 2022ScotRail in public ownership from 1 April 2022, the end of Abellio ScotRail
- 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's TPS and DMS: no drawing of either car was found, so the TPS is drawn as the intermediate car the guidelines show and the DMS as the DMC's second side
- The drawing's driving car: the livery sheets draw it 0.2-0.3% shorter, against the intermediate car, than Hitachi's printed lengths (42 to 77 mm); each car is scaled by its own printed length
- The drawing's wheels: 2 ft 10 in (870 mm) as drawn under the intermediate car; the driving-car sheets draw them larger (2 ft 11 in and 3 ft 2 in (895 and 963 mm)), so the heights may be out by up to about 45 mm
- The three-car line-up row: the 385/0's driving cars (DMS2 and DTMS1) are drawn as the 385/1's standard-class driving car, as the guidelines' three-car example draws them
- The drawing's bogies: laid out from photographs (layout only); no dimensioned drawing of them was found
- The bogie type: Hitachi Review 2017 says the bogies are the AT300's design with the suspension optimised, but photographs show them inside-framed with wheel-mounted discs, unlike the AT300's outside frame, so they're drawn from the photographs
- The intermediate cars' wheelbase: 8 ft 2 in (2,500 mm) as the livery sheet draws it; a side-on photograph of TS 443121's bogie puts the axles 2.99 wheel diameters apart (8 ft 6 in (2,600 mm) with 2 ft 10 in (870 mm) wheels, as the driving cars are drawn)
- The three-car line-up row's driving cars: Hitachi gives the 385/0 one trailer bogie on one motor car (1.5M1.5T), not shown which, so both are drawn with two motor bogies
- The drawing's pantograph: placed from photographs and a Commons side diagram (layout only), to about 1 ft 8 in (0.5 m); its folded length and height are the Class 810's, and which way it folds is assumed (Hitachi's 395 and AT300s)
- The cab end's parts in side view (set C385): the gangway, windscreen, yellow front and lamp cluster are where the livery sheet draws them; measured on 385105 side on (set C385X), the uncoupled gangway's face stands about 2 ft 7 in (790 mm) ahead of the cab against the sheet's 493, its height within about 60 mm of the sheet's; the drawing keeps the sheet's length (Kyle, C385X6, 11 October 2026)
- The cab dome's and the roof covers' heights (12 ft 7 in to 12 ft 8 in (3,844-3,853 mm); sets C385X and C385Y) are the livery sheet's above its eaves line, not a published figure (Hitachi Review 2017 gives lengths only), and the roof between the covers (12 ft 2 in (3,700 mm)) is measured on one photograph (385105); the cab step's size is measured on the same photograph
- The underframe (set C385Z): laid out from photographs, layout only; the DMS from a 385/0 driving car (Glasgow Central) with only its inner half seen on a 385/1 DMS; the TPS from one oblique view of a 385/0's TPS, its boxes placed to about a metre, and which one is the transformer not known; the TS from one end only, which end not known; the DMC's rear half and the TS's middle and far end not photographed (a plain dark mass); which side of the train each photograph shows is not known
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