Class 805 Evero
The bi-mode version of Avanti's Hitachi Evero trains, built for London to Chester and the North Wales coast, where it replaced the diesel Class 221 Super Voyagers. It runs on electric power for nearly two-thirds of the way to Holyhead.
- Type
- Bi-mode multiple unit (electric and diesel)
- Builder
- Hitachi Rail, Newton Aycliffe
- In service
- since 2024
- Operators
- Avanti West Coast
- Formation
- 5 cars, each 26 m long; two can run together as a 10-car train
- Fleets
- Avanti West Coast: 13
- Top speed
- 125 mph
- Power
- 25 kV AC overhead, or diesel
- Car height
- 3.725 m
- Profile
- main-line
- Seats per train
- 299
- Total capacity
- 25 first class and 274 standard seats
- Status
- In service since June 2024: 13 trains.
Car types
| Code | Car | Length | Doors per side |
|---|---|---|---|
| DPTF | Driving pantograph trailer, first class (coach J) | 26.06 m | 2 single |
| MSD | Motor, standard class, with diesel generator (coach D) | 26.00 m | 2 single |
| MSC | Motor, standard class, with diesel generator (coach C) | 26.00 m | 2 single |
| MSB | Motor, standard class, with diesel generator and the shop (coach B) | 26.00 m | 2 single |
| DPTS | Driving pantograph trailer, standard class (coach A) | 26.06 m | 2 single |
Sources
- First Trenitalia chooses Hitachi Rail to build new intercity trains for Avanti West Coast, Hitachi, 6 December 2019 (13 five-car bi-modes ordered; built at Newton Aycliffe; 125 mph; Rock Rail; maintained at Oxley)
- Our new Class 805 and Class 807 trains (Evero fact sheet, archived), Avanti West Coast, 2024, p. side views (26 m coaches; 299 seats (25 first, 274 standard); bi-mode; two can be joined as a 10-coach train; side views of both trains: door, window and bogie positions, and the livery)
- Our Evero trains, Avanti West Coast (13 Class 805s)
- Moment of truth for AWC 'Everos', Rail, 15 July 2024 (first passenger service 2 June 2024; replacing the Class 221s; coaches A, B (shop), C, D and J (first class) for the car names)
- Avanti West Coast Class 805 Evero fleet reaches major milestone, Avanti West Coast, 11 June 2026 (London to North Wales; nearly two-thirds of the Holyhead run electric)
- Table 6314: rolling stock vehicles by traction type and operator, Office of Rail and Road, 20 November 2025 (65 bi-mode vehicles with Avanti, March 2025 (13 x 5))
- ADPL-12-01-02 Rev 4: Class 800 LNER Azuma livery, sheets 1-3, Atlantic Design Projects for LNER (released under FOI: 'Class 800/801 Livery Designs'), 12 September 2018 (the Class 800 layout the drawing uses)
- Avanti West Coast Class 805 and 807 photographs (805001, 805005, 805008, 805013, 807006), Wikimedia Commons (kitmasterbloke CC BY 4.0 and CC BY 2.0; Foulger Rail Photos CC BY-SA 2.0), 2024-2025 (colours; the blanked first-class windows; door colours)
unverified seats: Hitachi's 2019 order announcement gave 301; Avanti's fact sheet gives 299, shown here, drawing: the cars are the Class 800's measured layout, which Avanti's own side view matches to a mean of 35 mm; the driving-car length and wheel size carry the 800's doubts, and Avanti's side view ends the driving car about 0.2 m shorter than the 800's drawings do, colours: sampled from photographs; no paint references have been published. The blue shades from the cab back; it's drawn flat, livery: traced off Avanti's small side view (about 56 mm per px); edges to about 150 mm. The black window band is as Avanti draws it, car height: the Class 800's drawn height