Class 800
Hitachi's Intercity Express Train. It runs on electric power under the wires and on its own diesel engines beyond them. LNER calls its trains Azuma.
Drawing to come
- Type
- Bi-mode multiple unit (electric and diesel)
- Builder
- Hitachi Rail, Newton Aycliffe
- In service
- since 2017
- Operators
- GWR, LNER
- Formation
- 5 or 9 cars
- Fleets
- LNER: 23; Great Western Railway: 57
- Top speed
- 125 mph in service (designed for 140 mph with signalling upgrades)
- Power
- 25 kV AC overhead, or diesel generator units (MTU, 700 kW each) under the motor cars
- Profile
- main-line
- Status
- In service with GWR and LNER.
Sources
- First new trains in a generation launched by GWR, Hitachi Rail, 16 October 2017 (built at Newton Aycliffe; first GWR service 16 October 2017; GWR's 36 five-car and 21 nine-car trains)
- All aboard the new Intercity Express trains that will transform journeys across Britain, Department for Transport, 16 October 2017 (57 trains for GWR, financed by Agility Trains)
- Class 800 Series (800–810), Hitachi Rail (bi-mode design; nominal car length 24 to 26 m)
- Hitachi press release on the Intercity Express Programme (East Coast), Hitachi, 16 April 2014 (LNER's fleet: 10 five-car and 13 nine-car bi-mode trains)
- Class 800/801 trains for the Intercity Express Programme (Hitachi Review vol. 63 no. 10, archived), Hitachi, 2014 (design drawing: 25,350 mm driving cars, 25,000 mm intermediate cars; engine; design speed)
- Report 13/2020: incident at Neville Hill depot, Rail Accident Investigation Branch, November 2020 (LNER service from 15 May 2019; 125 mph)
unverified how many diesel generator units each train carries (inferred: one per motor car)