Class 357 040 EMU.
© Copyright ROBsLab Productions May-June 2002.
(Further Credits - See Below)
Design Speed - 100mph Maximum. 
Built as 4 car sets.

The recommended routes for this Class 357 are:
Watford Junction to Milton Keynes Central by Anthony B.
Birmingham Cross City route by Anthony B.

.History.

Built from 1996 (by Adtranz, now known as Bombardier Transportation) for the railway line c2c (formerly known as LTS Rail), which covers the South of Essex (in England, UK) from Shoeburyness to Fenchurch Street in London. They were brought on to the line to replace the "slam door" Class 310 and 312 EMUs, and marked the final part of the modernisation on the railway line. Delays and system failures saw them eventually released fully into service as from the start of 2002.
Privatisation of the railways brought on the modernisation of the line. Prism Rail (the company who won the privatisation bid to run LTS Rail and re-named the line to c2c) was taken over by National Express a couple of years later, and are now the owners of c2c.

Because the Class 357 is built specifically for c2c, I decided to use a picture of the Class 357 in the basic livery it was released in (white, with green doors. Mainly known as LTS livery). Although classed as LTS livery, they were also released with grey doors, and that, with the white, is the basic undercoat livery (even though this was also classed as LTS livery). This gives the effect that it can be used on BVE as if it is not specifically based on any railway line.

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.Credits/Copyrights.

BVE Class 357 'Electrostar' Electric Multiple Unit - June 2002 release.

Please seek permission before using any material from this train in your own add-ons.

-Pictures-

Train.bmp:
Taken by ROBsLab Productions in June 2001.

Original Cab Picture (of Class 170), Brake panel (of BVE Class 377), Speedometre panel (of BVE Class 377):
Created by Steve Green & Jason Morgan.

Modified cab panel (panel colour, and all buttons with the exception to the lever on the right side of cab):
by ROBsLab Productions.

Original Animated Handle (from BVE Class 377):
Created by Steve Green.

(Cab) Background & modification of Animated Handle:
Created by ROBsLab Productions.

Panel.cfg:
Created by Steve Green and Jason Morgon.
Modifications by ROBsLab Productions.

-Sounds-

AirZero.wav - ROBsLab Productions.
DoorCls.wav - ROBsLab Productions.
DoorOpn.wav - ROBsLab Productions.
Eb.wav      - Steve Green & Jason Morgon.
Klaxon0.wav - ROBsLab Productions.
Klaxon1.wav - ROBsLab Productions.
Leave.wav   - Steve Green, modification by ROBsLab Productions.
Loop.wav    - ROBsLab Productions.
Motor0.wav  - Steve Green & Jason Morgon.
Motor1.wav  - Steve Green & Jason Morgon.
Motor2.wav  - Modification of Motor1, by ROBsLab Productions.
Motor3.wav  - ROBsLab Productions.

Point    - ROBsLab Productions.
Run0.wav - Anthony B & Steve Green.
Run1.wav - ROBsLab Productions.
Run2.wav - ROBsLab Productions.
Run3.wav - Sounds like 2 of Mackoys Mixed together.
Run4.wav - Anthony B & Steve Green.
Run5.wav - Anthony B.
Run6.wav - Anthony B & Steve Green.
Run7.wav - Anthony B.

-Statistics-

Original train.dat file (of BVE Class 377) created by Steve Green & Jason Morgon.
Modifications to the train.dat file by ROBsLab Productions. These include weight and motor sound pitch & volume.

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.Known Problems/Bugs.

Blue button to the left of the handle is black.
An extra black (horizontal pixel) line appearing above the brake panel.

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Credits/Copyrights are done to the best of my knowledge. If any corrections are needed, please contact me.
Files that have not been mentioned, if any, are most likely an original BVE file from Mackoy.