British Rail Class 221

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Virgin Trains Class 221 on the King Edward VII Bridge, 8 October 2005.

Virgin Trains Class 221 Super Voyager 221137 Mayflower Pilgrims at Camborne Station, Cornwall operating route VT1651, preparing to depart for Penzance. 24 December 2006.

Virgin Trains Class 221 Super Voyager 221113 "Sir Walter Raleigh" at Glasgow Central Station, Scotland. 5 May 2005.

The Class 221 Super Voyager is a train used by Virgin Trains in the United Kingdom. They were built by Bombardier Transportation for the British train operating companies Virgin CrossCountry and Virgin WestCoast. They are similar to the Class 220 Voyager units, but they are built with a tilting mechanism to allow faster speeds on curved tracks, and most have five carriages rather than four. They can be distinguished from their Class 220 counterparts by their bogies, which appear far more substantial than the lightweight ones of the 220.

They are named after ‘famous voyagers’, as follows:

(*) Four-car unit, originally intended for Virgin West Coast's North Wales services.

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