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Class 745 FLIRT
Stadler's FLIRT in twelve-car form: ten for the Norwich intercity route and ten for the Stansted Express, with a 3 ft 2 in (960 mm) floor for level boarding at the doors. The first 745/0, 745007, carried passengers on 8 January 2020 on the 07:40 from Norwich, replacing the Class 90 locomotives and Mark 3 coaches on the Norwich line.
Scale
776 ft (236.6 m) over couplers
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Liveries
Special liveries 1
- Poppy 'Lest We Forget' livery, one 745 On one 745 by 8 November 2024, as Greater Anglia's second poppy release reports; unit not named.
- Type
- Electric multiple unit
- Builder
- Stadler
- Family
- FLIRT, with Class 231 FLIRT, Class 755 FLIRT, Class 756 FLIRT
- In service
- since 2020
- Operators
- Greater Anglia
- Formation
- 12 cars, 776 ft (236.6 m) over couplings
- Fleets
- Greater Anglia: 20
- Top speed
- 100 mph (161 km/h)
- Power
- 25 kV AC overhead, 5,200 kW · how it works
- Bogies
- Stadler FLIRT bogies, with Jacobs bogies between cars · drawn with the same bogie component as Class 231 FLIRT, Class 755 FLIRT, Class 756 FLIRT
- Train length
- 776 ft (236.60 m)
- Car height
- 12 ft 10 in (3.915 m), Stadler's figure for the GB FLIRT body (Class 756 sheet)
- Car width
- 8 ft 11 in (2.72 m)
- Profile
- main-line
- Seats per train
- 704 (745/0 Intercity); 722 (745/1 Stansted Express)
- Total capacity
- Intercity (745/0): 624 standard, 80 first and 53 tip-up seats (Stadler, 2019); the 2021 contract gives 672 standard and 80 first. Stansted Express (745/1): 722 seats and 45 tip-up (Stadler); 748 (contract)
- Status
- In service with Greater Anglia (publicly owned since 12 October 2025): ten 745/0s on the Norwich-London Liverpool Street intercity route and ten 745/1s on the Stansted Express. Leased from Rock Rail.
Car types
| Code | Car | Length | Doors per side |
|---|---|---|---|
| C1 | Car 1: driving car | 69 ft 0 in21.041 m | 1 double |
| C2 | Car 2: pantograph car | 63 ft 9 in19.438 m | 1 double |
| C3 | Car 3: intermediate car | 63 ft 10 in19.447 m | 1 double |
| C4 | Car 4: intermediate car | 63 ft 10 in19.449 m | 1 double |
| C5 | Car 5: intermediate car | 63 ft 10 in19.45 m | 1 double |
| C6 | Car 6: intermediate car | 63 ft 10 in19.446 m | 1 double |
| C7 | Car 7: intermediate car | 63 ft 9 in19.438 m | 1 double |
| C8 | Car 8: intermediate car | 63 ft 10 in19.444 m | 1 double |
| C9 | Car 9: intermediate car | 63 ft 9 in19.44 m | 1 double |
| C10 | Car 10: intermediate car, with the bistro counter | 63 ft 10 in19.447 m | 1 double |
| C11 | Car 11: pantograph car, first class | 63 ft 9 in19.443 m | 1 double |
| C12 | Car 12: driving car, first class | 69 ft 1 in21.044 m | 1 double |
Sources
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- BR Class 745 Triebdrehgestell (photograph, CC0) Wikimedia Commons (Plutowiki), 15 October 2018, at the Velim test circuitthe FLIRT motor bogie's layout (photograph: layout only)
- BR Class 745 Laufdrehgestell (photograph, CC0) Wikimedia Commons (Plutowiki), 15 October 2018, at the Velim test circuitthe FLIRT trailer bogie's layout (photograph: layout only)
- TfW 231008 articulated bogie (photograph, CC BY-SA 4.0) Wikimedia Commons (Geof Sheppard), 20 February 2023, Cardiffthe FLIRT Jacobs bogie's layout (photograph: layout only)
- FLIRT EMU for Greater Anglia (data sheet) Stadler, 2019length, width, floor height, door opening, power, seats
- Abellio East Anglia Limited 2021: national rail contract Department for Transport, September 202110 Intercity and 10 Stansted Express units, seats, Rock Rail (status: which sub-class runs where)
- Greater Anglia services transferred to public ownership Department for Transport (gov.uk), 12 October 2025Greater Anglia's services in public ownership from 12 October 2025 (status)
- Greater Anglia launches new intercity trains on Norwich-London route RAIL, 8 January 2020the first 745/0 (745007) in passenger service on 8 January 2020, the 07:40 from Norwich, replacing the Class 90 and Mark 3 sets (summary)
- FLIRT EMU for Greater Anglia (data sheet) Stadler, 2019, p. 2side elevation of the 12-car 745/0 (measured)
- FLIRT bi-mode multiple unit for Greater Anglia (data sheet) Stadler, 2019, p. 2heights, cab front and the skirt under the cab cross-checked
- 745 008 at Spellbrook, 26 November 2024 (photograph, CC BY 2.0) Wikimedia Commons (kitmasterbloke), 2024livery colours and placing, first-class stripes
- Greater Anglia FLIRT at Cattawade, 4 April 2021 (photograph, CC BY 2.0) Wikimedia Commons (kitmasterbloke), 2021the red flashes over the bogies along a whole 12-car train
- 745 008 at Spellbrook, 26 November 2024 (photograph, CC BY 2.0) Wikimedia Commons (kitmasterbloke), 2024layout of the underframe equipment under the low floor (indicative)
- FLIRT bi-mode multiple unit for Greater Anglia (data sheet) Stadler, 2019the box under the cab
- FLIRT EMU for Greater Anglia (data sheet) Stadler, 2019, p. 2the drawing's pantographs: cars 2 and 11, at their Jacobs ends (folded and raised)
- FLIRT tri-mode multiple unit, Transport for Wales (data sheet FWBTRI0922e) Stadler, September 2022, p. 2the cab front as one smooth curve fitted to the body shell, the lamp hood, wiper and fittings masked (set CA, ca-flirt; measured)
- FLIRT tri-mode multiple unit, Transport for Wales (data sheet FWBTRI0922e) Stadler, September 2022, p. 2the cab's joints and the lamp lens, side on (set FL5)
- FLIRT tri-mode multiple unit, Transport for Wales (data sheet FWBTRI0922e) Stadler, September 2022, p. 2car height 12 ft 10 in (3,915 mm) for the FLIRT body and cab the 745 shares (T134)
- Class 745 Cerhenice.jpg (photograph of 745001 on test, Plutowiki, CC0) Wikimedia Commons, 26 April 2019the cab side window's dark rubber frame, about 30 mm (set FL5)
- 0 FLIRT EMU.jpg (photograph, CC BY-SA 4.0) Wikimedia Commons (Samson Ng . D201@EAL), 20 June 2025the cab coupler: its kind, place and heights (set BC6, 20 October 2026; layout only for photographs)
- Class 745 Cerhenice.jpg (photograph of 745001 on test, Plutowiki, CC0) Wikimedia Commons, 26 April 2019the red flashes' tops at the Jacobs bogie (about 4 ft 6 in to 4 ft 7 in (1,370-1,390 mm)) and the pinstripe's orange (set T9)
- 745 008 at Spellbrook, 26 November 2024 (photograph, CC BY 2.0) Wikimedia Commons (kitmasterbloke), 2024the red flashes' tops at a Jacobs bogie and a coupling (about 4 ft 6 in to 4 ft 7 in (1,370-1,390 mm)) and the pinstripe's orange (set T9)
- Greater Anglia launches second “Lest we forget” poppy train livery Greater Anglia, 8 November 2024 (updated 11 November 2024)an intercity Class 745 among the trains that had received the poppy livery by 8 November 2024 (the release names no 745 unit; set TF, 20 October 2026)
- A Guide to Overhead Electrification (132787-ALB-GUN-EOH-000001, rev 10) Network Rail (prepared by Alan Baxter), February 2015, p. 39the contact wire in the In operation drawing: 15 ft 5 in (4.7 m) above rail, Network Rail's normal height
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- The trailer bogies at the couplings (cars 2 to 5 and 8 to 11) are drawn on a 8 ft 10 in (2,700 mm) wheelbase, as the motor and Jacobs bogies; a 2018 photograph of a FLIRT carrying bogie under one body, most likely one of these, is stencilled "2,50 m" where the motor and Jacobs bogies say "2,70 m" (Commons: BR Class 745 Laufdrehgestell)
- Built at Bussnang, Switzerland (Wikipedia)
- Seat counts: Stadler's 2019 sheet and the 2021 contract differ
- The drawing is the 745/0 Intercity layout; the 745/1 Stansted Express units have the same bodies but no first class (no yellow stripes), and their windows aren't drawn
- Height: 12 ft 10 in (3.915 m) is Stadler's figure on its Class 756 sheet (FWBTRI0922e), the same FLIRT body and cab; the Greater Anglia sheet prints no height; the drawing's cab top is 12 ft 7 in (3.84 m)
- Livery: colours and the placing of the black window panels, red flashes, pinstripe, yellow first-class stripes (cars 11 and 12) and cab colours are from photographs; no paint references were found
- The leading cab's red flashes are drawn as the photographed rear cab's, turned round
- The skirt under the cab end is taken from the Class 755 sheet; round the motor bogies of cars 6 and 7 it is only partly drawn, and follows the other couplings between pairs
- The cab front: one smooth curve fitted to the body shell on Stadler's Class 756 sheet (FWBTRI0922e, p. 2), the lamp hood, wiper and fittings masked and a 27-33 mm dip above the lamp bridged; the dome's top comes out at 12 ft 8 in (3,850 mm; 3,837 before); compared with photographs of 756001 (nearly side-on) and 745001 for its shape only
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