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| British Rail Class 800 IET/Azuma | |
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.jpg) A London North Eastern Railway Class 800 at Arbroath | |
 The standard-class interior of a Great Western Railway Class 800 unit | |
| Stock type | Electro-diesel multiple unit |
| In service | 16 October 2017 – present |
| Manufacturer | Hitachi Rail |
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| Family name | A-train |
| Replaced | |
| Constructed | 2014–2018 |
| Entered service |
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| Number built | 80 (36 × 800/0, 13 × 800/1, 10 × 800/2, 21 × 800/3) |
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| Owners | Agility Trains[2] |
| Operators | |
| Depots | |
| Lines served | |
| Specifications | |
| Car body construction | Aluminium |
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| Width | 2.7 m (8 ft 10 in) |
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| Maximum speed | 125 mph (200 km/h)[5] |
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| Traction system | Hitachi IGBT[1] |
| Prime mover(s) | 3 or 5 × MTU 12V 1600 R80L[8] (3 per 5-car unit, 5 per 9-car unit)[1] |
| Engine type | V12 four-stroke turbo-diesel with SCR[9] |
| Displacement | 21 L (1,284 cu in) per engine[9] |
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| Acceleration | 0.7 m/s2 (1.6 mph/s)[1] |
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| Electric system(s) | 25 kV 50 Hz AC overhead |
| Current collector(s) | Pantograph |
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| Wheels driven |
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| Braking system(s) | Electro-pneumatic (disc) and regenerative |
| Safety system(s) | |
| Coupling system | Dellner 10[12] |
| Multiple working | Within class and Class 801 and Class 802 |
| Track gauge | 1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in) standard gauge |
The British Rail Class 800, branded as the Intercity Express Train (IET) by Great Western Railway (GWR) and Azuma by London North Eastern Railway (LNER) is a type of bi-mode multiple unit train built by Hitachi Rail for GWR and LNER. The type uses electric motors powered from overhead electric wires for traction, but also has diesel generators to enable trains to operate on unelectrified track. It is a part of the Hitachi AT300 product family.
The Class 800 was developed and produced, alongside an electric-only Class 801 variant, as part of the Intercity Express Programme (IEP) to procure replacements for the InterCity 125 and InterCity 225 fleets of high speed trains.[13][14] The trains were manufactured by Hitachi between 2014 and 2018, being assembled at Hitachi's Newton Aycliffe Manufacturing Facility using bodyshells shipped from the company's Kasado Works in Japan.[15] Similar bi-mode units have also been produced by Hitachi as Classes 802, 805, and 810.
The Class 800 trains came into service on the Great Western Main Line on 16 October 2017, while the first examples on the East Coast Main Line were put into service on 15 May 2019. Early operations have been troubled by fatigue cracking and corrosion on the aluminium vehicle body shells, particularly on the yaw dampers.
- ^ a b c d e f g Rogers, Andrew; Robinson, Chris; Agatsuma, Koji; Iwasaki, Mitsuo; Inarida, Satoru; Yamamoto, Takahisa; Konishi, Kenta; Mochida, Toshihiko (2014). "Development of Class 800/801 High-speed Rolling Stock for UK Intercity Express Programme" (PDF). Hitachi Review. 63 (10): 646.
- ^ "GWR HSTs to go in December". Modern Railways. No. 892. January 2023. p. 98.
- ^ Hale, Robert (16 May 2017). "Rail watchdog welcomes news of hourly train services linking Worcestershire, Cotswolds and London". Malvern Gazette. Newsquest. Retrieved 18 January 2018.
new InterCity Express Trains will provide us for the first time with a regular hourly service between Worcester and London
- ^ Abbott, James (February 2018). "Electrics reach Didcot". Modern Railways. Vol. 75, no. 833. Key Publishing. pp. 8–9. ISSN 0026-8356.
...and services on the Cotswold line
- ^ "Speed limiters for Hitachi fleets". Traction & Stock. The Railway Magazine. Vol. 168, no. 1457. August 2022. p. 92.
- ^ "Table 1: Inter City Express classes 800, 801 and 802" (PDF). RailEngineer. October 2017.
- ^ Ford, Roger (May 2015). "INFORMED SOURCES e-Preview". Informed Sources.
- ^ MTU Rail Power for the UK & Ireland (PDF). MTU Friedrichshafen GmbH. September 2018. p. 2. Archived (PDF) from the original on 3 December 2022. Retrieved 3 December 2022.
- ^ a b MTU Diesel Engine 12V 1600 for Railcar Applications (EU Stage IIIB) (PDF) (01/19 ed.). Friedrichshafen: Rolls-Royce Power Systems AG. 17 December 2020. 32310481. Archived (PDF) from the original on 14 May 2022. Retrieved 20 January 2022.
- ^ Pritchard, Robert (February 2016). "The Future for Intercity Travel". Today's Railways. No. 170. Sheffield: Platform 5 Publishing. pp. 40–43.
- ^ Fender, Keith (27 December 2018). "Maintaining the bi-modes". Modern Railways. Stamford: Key Publishing. Retrieved 1 January 2023.
- ^ Pritchard, Robert (2021). British Railways Locomotives & Coaching Stock 2021. Sheffield: Platform 5 Publishing. p. 390. ISBN 978-1-909431-86-7.
- ^ IEP Master Availability and Reliability Agreement - Schedule 1, Appendix A: Train Technical Specification, Issue 5 (PDF). Department for Transport. February 2013. IEP-TECH-REQ-35. Archived (PDF) from the original on 10 August 2018. Retrieved 19 February 2013.
- ^ "AT300 - Intercity High Speed". London: Hitachi Rail. Archived from the original on 21 February 2020. Retrieved 31 March 2019.
- ^ "Government gives green light for more state-of-the-art intercity trains" (Press release). Department for Transport. 18 July 2013.
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