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Class 395 Javelin
High-speed trains from St Pancras over High Speed 1 into Kent, which Southeastern calls the UK's fastest trains. They ran the Olympic Javelin shuttles in 2012.
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Scale
399 ft (121.76 m) over couplers
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Liveries 2
SoutheasternSoutheastern Highspeed (2009)From Southeastern's 2008 livery drawingsBeing replaced: Southeastern's new livery, on 395015 from 2025 and spreadingBeing replacedfrom 2009Shown aboveSoutheasternSoutheastern's new livery395015 first, in 2025, with the Railway 200 graphicVinyl, spreading across the fleet; replacing the original livery the drawing above shows.from 2025Not drawn yet
Special liveries 3
- Railway 200 graphic (395015) Unique graphic with Kent and HS1 landmarks; only unit with it. Unveiled at Margate on 25 March 2025, the first unit in the new livery.
- Trainbow (Pride), 395012 July to September 2018: rainbow vinyls for the LGBT+ Pride season, unveiled at St Pancras International on 6 July 2018, the day before London Pride, and run on the Highspeed routes until September.
- Armed Forces poppy design (395018) A poppy design on both driving cars, incorporating the Armed Forces Covenant; unveiled at St Pancras International on London Poppy Day, 30 October 2025.
- Type
- High-speed electric multiple unit
- Builder
- Hitachi, Kasado (Japan)
- Built
- 2007–2009
- In service
- since 2009
- Operators
- Southeastern
- Formation
- 6 cars (DPT-MS-MS-MS-MS-DPT)
- Trains in fleet
- 29
- Fleets
- Southeastern: 29
- Top speed
- 140 mph (225 km/h) on 25 kV AC (High Speed 1); 99 mph (160 km/h) on 750 V DC
- Power
- 25 kV AC overhead and 750 V DC third rail; sixteen 210 kW motors, 3,360 kW a unit · how it works
- Bogies
- Hitachi bolsterless bogies (Class 395)
- Train length
- 399 ft (121.76 m)
- Coupled
- 2 × 6 cars, 799 ft (243.5 m) (over couplers)
- Car height
- 12 ft 7 in (3.845 m), read off the 2008 livery sheet, not a printed figure
- Profile
- main-line
- Seats per train
- 340
- Total capacity
- 340 seats and 12 tip-up seats
- Status
- In service with Southeastern, all 29 units. Every interior was refreshed by May 2025 (the first phase of a £27m programme with Eversholt Rail and Hitachi Rail; 395017 the last, back in service on 19 May 2025); the second phase brings new passenger information and a new exterior livery. Maintained at Ashford, in-house by Southeastern since 12 January 2025, with technical support and spares from Hitachi.
Car types
| Code | Car | Length | Doors per side |
|---|---|---|---|
| DPTS | Driving pantograph trailer (DPT) | 68 ft 6 in20.88 m | 2 single |
| MS | Motor standard (MS) | 65 ft 7 in20.00 m | 2 single |
Sources
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Show the 22 sources from Wikimedia Commons, Southeastern, Brand Environment for Southeastern and 9 more
- 395022 Pantograph at Ashford International.jpg (photograph: 395022's raised pantograph and roof, from the platform; CC BY-SA 2.0) Wikimedia Commons (Joshua Brown, via Flickr), 29 January 2011the pantograph's post insulators: ribbed, 3 sheds each (insulators in pantographs_mm; layout and proportion only, 395022's roof photographed close)
- Class 395 Eversholt Rail29 six-car units, speeds, power, car lengths, formation, seats
- Final Class 395 train arrives in Southampton, begins last leg of journey to depot in Ashford Hitachi Rail, 17 August 2009built at Kasado; deliveries 2007–2009; preview service 29 June 2009
- Olympics rail plans on final approach Railnews, 27 February 2012Olympic Javelin, 2012
- Southeastern and Hitachi Rail agree new deal to maintain UK's fastest trains Southeastern, 5 December 2024maintenance at Ashford: in-house by Southeastern from 12 January 2025, with Hitachi's technical support and spares, through to at least 2027 (re-read 27 October 2026)
- Highspeed fleet upgrade on the right track Southeastern, 19 May 2025the interior refresh of all 29 completed in May 2025 (395017 the last, 19 May 2025), the first phase of a £27m programme with Eversholt Rail and Hitachi Rail; phase two: passenger information and a new exterior livery
- Kent Area Route Study Network Rail, May 2018, pp. 27, 40-4112-car (2 x 6) train, 799 ft (243.52 m): with Eversholt's 65 ft 7 in (20.0 m) motor cars, the driving car's 68 ft 6 in (20.88 m) over couplers and the six-car train's 399 ft (121.76 m)
- Class 395 livery, version 4: Powercar and Coach sheets Brand Environment for Southeastern (released under FOI: 'Livery Designs'), 18 July 2008, p. Powercar and Coach sheetsside elevation, colours (measured); the bogies' outline
- Class 395 high-speed trains for the UK (Hitachi Review vol. 59 no. 1) Hitachi, 2010, pp. Table 1, Fig. 3; pp. 40-41formation, car proportions; bolster-less bogies, motor and trailer bogies of a common design; the main motors, 16 x 210 kW a set, and the top speeds, in km/h (Table 1); the six-car set about 400 ft (122 m; Fig. 3)
- Class 395 livery, version 4: Powercar and Coach sheets Brand Environment for Southeastern (released under FOI: 'Livery Designs'), 18 July 2008, p. Powercar sheetthe drawing's pantograph: car (DPT, both ends), its end, length, folded height and the lowered roof under it (measured)
- 395 011 Hospital Lane.jpg (photograph, CC BY 4.0) Wikimedia Commons (kitmasterbloke), 14 April 2026the door windows' height and width, checked (layout only)
- 395029+395011 at Canterbury West.jpg (photograph, CC BY-SA 2.0) Wikimedia Commons, from Flickr (TheJRB), 1 November 2014two coupled 395s side on: the open faces, the gap and the couplers and electrical heads between (set NZ re-measure)
- 395025 and 395009 at St Pancras.jpg (photograph, CC BY-SA 2.0) Wikimedia Commons (train_photos), 18 April 2015two 395s with their noses open, side on, uncoupled: the open faces and the coupler heads (set NZ re-measure)
- 20007 with two coaches from unit 395008 ... passes Eastleigh 12/12/25 (photograph, CC BY-SA 4.0) Wikimedia Commons (Foulger Rail Photos), 12 December 2025the gap between cars: a plain dark recess, dark down into the underframe (side on, 2025)
- 20007 with two coaches from unit 395008 ... passes Eastleigh 12/12/25 (photograph, CC BY-SA 4.0) Wikimedia Commons (Foulger Rail Photos), 12 December 2025layout of the underframe: the DPTS's right-hand side (car 6) and the MS's skirts, grilles, recess, cut-outs and latches (set UF395; layout only)
- 395 011 Hospital Lane.jpg (photograph, CC BY 4.0) Wikimedia Commons (kitmasterbloke), 14 April 2026a check of the DPTS's right-hand side: its grilles, skirt ends and yellow latches (set UF395; layout only)
- High Speed Train At Canterbury West (photograph, CC BY 2.0) Jon Curnow, via Flickr, 2 January 2010layout of the DPTS's skirt on its left-hand side (car 1): panel joints, latches, a top-edge cut-out, a low opening, two grilles in two halves, the raked rear end and the grey (set UF395; layout only)
- Class 395 Javelin EMU.jpg (photograph, CC BY-SA 4.0) Samson Ng (D201@EAL), via Wikimedia Commons, May 2025a check of the DPTS's left-hand side from above: its slot about 40-45% along and no recess near the cab end (presence only)
- Big train meets little train: a Railway 200 encounter Southeastern (Railway 200), read 13 October 2026395015 the first in the new livery, with the Railway 200 graphic
- Southeastern catches the #trainbow for LGBT+ Pride season Southeastern, 9 July 2018the livery, its unit (395012) and its dates
- Southeastern unveils Armed Forces tribute on London Poppy Day Southeastern, 30 October 2025the livery, its unit and its date
- Rail Replacement System (UK5 transparency notice, 2026/S 000-002777) Network Rail (High Speed) Limited, via Find a Tender, 13 January 2026, p. 2the contact wire in the In operation drawing: 16 ft 8 in (5.08 m) above rail, HS1's normal height
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- The car height of 12 ft 7 in (3.845 m): read off Southeastern's 2008 livery sheet, which is marked as guidance only and not to be scaled; no printed figure found
- Wheels (2 ft 10 in (870 mm)) and wheelbase (8 ft 6 in (2,600 mm)) as drawn; no printed figure found
- The bogies: drawn from the outlines on Southeastern's livery sheets (marked as guidance only) without a dimensioned bogie drawing or a checked photograph; the yaw damper's side and the gear under the centre as the sheets draw them
- The underframe (set UF395): from photographs only; positions along the car to about 150 mm on the DPTS and 300 mm on the MS (one very oblique view), heights to about 50 mm; the DPTS's right-hand joints placed midway between its latch pairs (only one shows on the dull photograph); the MS's left-hand side (cars 2 and 3) drawn as its right-hand side, no photograph of it having been found, and its skirt behind a signal post (42 ft 0 in to 46 ft 11 in (12.8-14.3 m)) left plain; the grey and the latches' colour scaled from two photographs
- Southeastern's new livery: how much of the fleet wears it
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