Class 801 Azuma
The all-electric version of Hitachi's Intercity Express Train, built for the East Coast Main Line.
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- Type
- Electric multiple unit
- Builder
- Hitachi Rail (assembled at Newton Aycliffe)
- Built
- 2017–2020
- In service
- since 2019
- Operators
- LNER
- Formation
- 5 or 9 cars
- Fleets
- LNER: 42
- Top speed
- 125 mph in service (designed for 140 mph)
- Power
- 25 kV AC overhead, with one small diesel generator for emergencies
- Profile
- main-line
- Status
- In service. Owned by Agility Trains East and maintained by Hitachi.
Sources
- Hitachi press release on the Intercity Express Programme (East Coast), Hitachi, 16 April 2014 (12 five-car and 30 nine-car electric trains)
- Class 800/801 trains for the Intercity Express Programme (Hitachi Review vol. 63 no. 10, archived), Hitachi, 2014 (design, lengths, speed)
- East Coast Main Line, Agility Trains (owner, availability-based contract)
- Report 13/2020: incident at Neville Hill depot, Rail Accident Investigation Branch, November 2020 (in passenger service from 15 May 2019 (as IETs); 125 mph)
unverified the emergency diesel generator (Hitachi's design description; not confirmed for every unit), build years: assembly at Newton Aycliffe from July 2018, with early bodyshells from Kasado, Japan; deliveries planned until February 2020