UK ScotRail Class 170 Turbostar

ScotRail Class 170 Turbostar Bring the blue-and-white Saltire-liveried Class 170 diesel multiple unit to Transport Fever 3. This model includes a detailed passenger interior, animated platform-side doors, longer station boarding sequences, lighting and a layered diesel-and-rolling sound system. The pack offers ten grouped formations with just one driving cab at each end. WHAT THE MOD INCLUDES • Ten train lengths in one purchase-menu group: 3, 6, 9, 12, 15, 18, 21, 24, 27 and 30 cars. • Each consist has one outward-facing driving cab at each end; the centre car is repeated between them. No intermediate cab noses break up the train. • Detailed Abellio ScotRail / Saltire-style external livery, passenger accommodation, seating, cab ends, bogies and underfloor equipment. • Seated train driver in the active driving cab, using TF3 crew placement and changing with the direction of travel. • Passenger doors with opening and closing animations (24 moving door leaves across the original three-car unit), door sounds and paths configured for passengers boarding and alighting on both sides. • Slower door operation and more generous loading and departure delays for station stops. • Day-and-night interior illumination with three saloon light sources and seven visible, softly glowing rectangular ceiling fittings per carriage. • Direction-aware white headlights, red tail lights and cab marker lights. • Diesel engine idle, acceleration and running layers, turbo and hydraulic-drive effects, carriage rolling noise at different speeds, brakes, rail-joint clacks, curve squeal and horn. • Corrected standard-gauge wheel spacing, bogies that follow curves, closely spaced internal gangways and reduced cab-to-cab coupling gaps. • Custom vehicle-store pictures for the full set and all three carriage types. FORMATION OPTIONS The 3-car unit represents a conventional Class 170. The longer 6–30-car versions are intentionally fictional, single continuous formations for players who want exceptionally long trains. They use the same front and rear driving cars with additional centre coaches; they do not represent real-life 30-car ScotRail Turbostars. Very long formations need suitably long platforms and may be more demanding to render. SOUND NOTE The engine and hydraulic sounds are custom Class 170-style approximations, not recordings of a real Turbostar. Some carriage-running layers were adapted from a separately provided Mk3 coach sound pack and blended with the diesel engine audio. The Class 170 sliding-door recordings are retained instead of Mk3 slam-door audio. THE REAL CLASS 170 — HISTORY The British Rail Class 170 belongs to the Turbostar diesel multiple-unit family developed by Adtranz and subsequently Bombardier Transportation. The units were manufactured at Derby, with the family entering service from the late 1990s and Class 170 production continuing into the mid-2000s. Designed for modern regional and longer-distance passenger services, these air-conditioned diesel-hydraulic trains generally run as two- or three-car units and have a maximum speed of 100 mph (161 km/h). Their underfloor diesel engines drive through hydraulic transmissions. Scotland became an important home for the type. In 2000, ScotRail completed the introduction of 24 new Turbostar trains on the Glasgow–Aberdeen–Edinburgh network, helping to improve journeys on routes towards Inverness. Over the years the Class 170 became a familiar sight on Fife and other Scottish interurban and regional routes, often working in three- or six-car formations. The Abellio ScotRail franchise began on 1 April 2015. The blue-and-white Saltire identity associated with this era was also seen as the fleet's routes and duties evolved. ScotRail passenger services returned to Scottish Government public control on 1 April 2022, although Class 170 units continued to serve the network. This mod portrays that recognisable modern ScotRail appearance. HISTORICAL REFERENCES National Express Group Annual Report 2000 (ScotRail's 24 Turbostars): https://editor.mobicogroup.com/media/bcwdxeuw/094610-ar2000.pdf Class 170 technical overview: https://gbtrains.uk/stock/170/ Transport Scotland — Rail sponsorship (2022 change of operator): https://www.transport.gov.scot/public-transport/rail/rail-sponsorship/