All roads, or lines, lead to London!
Azuma 801219 on Platform2 at Newark Northgate Friday 14th February, heading up the rear of this KingsX, London unit.
On the 26th November 2019, the first of the new Azuma trains from LNER started working the ECML, the East Coast Main Line, operating between Aberdeen, Scotland and Kings X in London via Edinburgh.
Intended to replace the ageing and outdated 125 HST, High Speed Trains, these new units are bi-mode EMUs or Electric Multiple Units. Bi-mode means that they operate on Diesel generators where no overhead electric cables are available for the electric traction.
This one is no.801219, a nine-unit train that is one of the class 801/2. The class of 801/1 are all five unit trains. They are all very similar to the sister classes 800 and 802. All are made by Hitachi with the body being produced in Japan, the engine and final assembly in the U.K.
At the moment the units of these three classes, 800, 801 and 802 are just operated by the GWR(Great Western Railway) and the LNER(London and North Eastern Railway). The LNER decided to call its stock Azuma trains, Azuma being the Japanese for “East”. GWR call the units the IET or Inter-City Express Trains.
All roads, or lines, lead to London!
Azuma 801219 on Platform2 at Newark Northgate Friday 14th February, heading up the rear of this KingsX, London unit.
On the 26th November 2019, the first of the new Azuma trains from LNER started working the ECML, the East Coast Main Line, operating between Aberdeen, Scotland and Kings X in London via Edinburgh.
Intended to replace the ageing and outdated 125 HST, High Speed Trains, these new units are bi-mode EMUs or Electric Multiple Units. Bi-mode means that they operate on Diesel generators where no overhead electric cables are available for the electric traction.
This one is no.801219, a nine-unit train that is one of the class 801/2. The class of 801/1 are all five unit trains. They are all very similar to the sister classes 800 and 802. All are made by Hitachi with the body being produced in Japan, the engine and final assembly in the U.K.
At the moment the units of these three classes, 800, 801 and 802 are just operated by the GWR(Great Western Railway) and the LNER(London and North Eastern Railway). The LNER decided to call its stock Azuma trains, Azuma being the Japanese for “East”. GWR call the units the IET or Inter-City Express Trains.