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Class 755 FLIRT
A FLIRT with a short power car between its passenger cars carrying diesel engines, so it can run off the wires on East Anglia's regional lines.
Scale
265 ft (80.7 m) over couplers
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Liveries
Special liveries 2
- Pride, 755421 Launched at Norwich 3 Apr 2024.
- Poppy 'Lest We Forget', 755414 Launched at Norwich 31 Oct 2024; to stay year-round.
- Type
- Bi-mode multiple unit (electric and diesel)
- Builder
- Stadler
- Family
- FLIRT, with Class 231 FLIRT, Class 745 FLIRT, Class 756 FLIRT
- Built
- 2018–2020
- In service
- since 2019
- Operators
- Greater Anglia
- Formation
- 3 or 4 passenger cars with a short power car between them: 213 ft (65.0 m) or 265 ft (80.7 m) over couplings
- Fleets
- Greater Anglia: 38
- Top speed
- 100 mph (161 km/h)
- Power
- 25 kV AC overhead (2,600 kW at the wheel), or diesel generator sets in the power car (1,920 kW installed in 4-car units, 960 kW in 3-car) · how it works
- Bogies
- Stadler FLIRT bogies, with Jacobs bogies between cars · drawn with the same bogie component as Class 231 FLIRT, Class 745 FLIRT, Class 756 FLIRT
- Train length
- 265 ft (80.70 m)
- Car height
- 12 ft 8 in (3.85 m)
- Car width
- 8 ft 11 in (2.72 m)
- Profile
- main-line
- Total capacity
- 4-car: 202 seats and 27 tip-up (Stadler, 2019), or 224 (DfT contract, 2021); 3-car: 144 and 23 tip-up, or 166
- Status
- In service with Greater Anglia, publicly owned since 12 October 2025 and becoming GBR Anglia (its logos to give way to GBR Anglia branding, July 2026): 14 three-car 755/3s and 24 four-car 755/4s, owned by Rock Rail and maintained by Stadler at Norwich Crown Point.
Car types
| Code | Car | Length | Doors per side |
|---|---|---|---|
| DMS | Driving motor standard (DMSO), first and last cars | 69 ft 1 in21.052 m | 1 double |
| PTSOW | Pantograph trailer standard, with the toilets and wheelchair spaces (PTSOW) | 51 ft 6 in15.70 m | 1 double |
| PTSO | Pantograph trailer standard (PTSO) | 51 ft 6 in15.703 m | 1 double |
| PP | Power pack car (PP) | 23 ft 7 in7.20 m |
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 bi-mode multiple unit for Greater Anglia (data sheet) Stadler, 2019, p. 2lengths, widths, power pack, power (2,600 kW at the wheel; diesel 1,920 and 960 kW installed), seats and tip-up seats, axle arrangements (data sheet FEABMU0819e)
- Abellio East Anglia Limited 2021: national rail contract Department for Transport, September 202114 three-car and 24 four-car units, seats, Rock Rail
- Greater Anglia to open Crown Point depot to the public for the first time in more than 30 years Greater Anglia, 31 March 2026maintenance with Stadler at Crown Point
- FLIRT bi-mode multiple unit for Greater Anglia (data sheet) Stadler, 2019, p. 2side elevation of a 755/4 (measured)
- FLIRT EMU for Greater Anglia (data sheet) Stadler, 2019, p. 2heights and cab front cross-checked
- 755 334 at Chappel, 30 March 2024 (photograph, CC BY 2.0) Wikimedia Commons (kitmasterbloke), 2024livery colours and placing
- 745 008 at Spellbrook, 26 November 2024 (photograph, CC BY 2.0) Wikimedia Commons (kitmasterbloke), 2024livery colours and placing (the same livery)
- Greater Anglia officially launches new bi-mode Stadler Class 755s into traffic RAIL magazine, 2019-09-05Four-car Class 755/4s entered traffic on 29 July 2019 on the Wherry Lines, with the official launch on 4 September 2019
- Greater Anglia puts first Stadler-built bi-mode train into service Railway Technology, 2019-07-30First Class 755 in commercial service on Lowestoft–Norwich at the end of July 2019
- First Flirt arrives in East Anglia RailStaff, 2018-11-19First four-car bi-mode FLIRT reached Norwich on 15 November 2018 after testing in Europe, so the first units were built in 2018
- Testing of new Greater Anglia trains underway RAIL magazine, 2018-12-17755405 made its first main-line test run in Britain on 15 December 2018
- Stadler completes 58-strong train order for Greater Anglia RAIL magazine, 2020-05-19The last Class 755 (755403) was delivered on 23 April 2020
- 755 334 at Chappel, 30 March 2024 (photograph, CC BY 2.0) Wikimedia Commons (kitmasterbloke), 2024layout of the underframe equipment under the driving cars (indicative)
- FLIRT bi-mode multiple unit for Greater Anglia (data sheet) Stadler, 2019the box under the cab
- GA Class 755/4 side-profile illustration, based on concept art (diagram, CC BY-SA 4.0) Wikimedia Commons (WestRail642fan), 2018the power pack car's red lower body (placing only)
- FLIRT bi-mode multiple unit for Greater Anglia (data sheet) Stadler, 2019, p. 2the drawing's pantographs: cars and 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)
- 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)
- 09.01.20 Lowestoft 755424 and 755327 (49364254117).jpg (photograph, CC BY-SA 2.0) Wikimedia Commons (Phil Richards from London, UK), 9 January 2020the cab coupler: its kind, place and heights (set BC6, 20 October 2026; layout only for photographs)
- 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
- First Great British Railways trains for Anglia unveiled Greater Anglia, 16 July 2026Greater Anglia's logos to be replaced by GBR Anglia branding (16 July 2026)
- 755406 operating Peterborough-Ipswich for Greater Anglia alongside the Twenty Foot River at Turves 290125.jpg (photograph) Wikimedia Commons, 1 February 2025 (EXIF; the title says 29 January 2025)the power pack car's side (rectified on its four doors), the red flashes' tops and lengths at the Jacobs bogies, both cabs' red flashes (oblique), the wheelchair area's blue band and the PTSOW's underframe (indicative) (set T9)
- 755 338 Moreton Hall Lane 270425 ground.jpg (photograph) Wikimedia Commons, 27 April 2025the power pack car's side and the red's top (a 755/3, second source), both cabs' red flashes (oblique) (set T9)
- Norwich - Greater Anglia 755337 in the siding with doors open.JPG (photograph) Wikimedia Commons, 20 September 2024the red's top at 4 ft 7 in (1,405 mm), the pinstripe's orange and its height, the blue band's height and colour, the PTSOW's underframe from the other side (set T9)
- 755406 operating Peterborough-Ipswich for Greater Anglia alongside the Twenty Foot River at Turves 290125.jpg (photograph) Wikimedia Commons, 1 February 2025 (EXIF; the title says 29 January 2025)the two-tone body's grey and white diagonals, traced car by car (set T9, question 9)
- Norwich - Greater Anglia 755337 in the siding with doors open.JPG (photograph) Wikimedia Commons, 20 September 2024the two-tone body's white stopping under the cantrail, the grey above it, and the PTSOW's upper diagonals from the other side (set T9, question 9)
- Greater Anglia unveils regional Pride train Greater Anglia, 4 April 2024 (755421 launched at Norwich on 3 April 2024; read 26 October 2026)the livery, its unit and its dates
- Greater Anglia launches “Lest we forget” poppy train livery Greater Anglia, 1 November 2024 (755414 launched at Norwich on 31 October 2024; read 26 October 2026)the livery, its unit and its dates
- 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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- Seat counts: Stadler gives 202 and 144 fixed seats plus 27 and 23 tip-ups (229 and 167); the 2021 contract gives 224 and 166
- The drawing is the 755/4 (24 units); the 755/3 (14 units) has one passenger car fewer and isn't drawn
- Height: 12 ft 8 in (3.85 m) is the power pack car's roof as drawn (cab top 12 ft 7 in (3.84 m)); Wikipedia gives 12 ft 10 in (3.915 m), presumably over roof equipment
- Livery: colours and the placing of the black window panels, red flashes, pinstripe and cab colours are from photographs; no paint references were found
- The power pack car's side is drawn from photographs of 755406 and 755338 (rectified on the doors, to about 50 mm)
- The power pack car's raised roof stands about 1 ft 5 in (430 mm) in from its ends (read off the drawing, not measured closely)
- 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
- The PTSOW's underframe is indicative: a dark mass from about 6 ft 3 in to 40 ft 8 in (1.9 to 12.4 m) with two cases, read off 755406 (far off) and 755337 (the other side)
- The two-tone body's grey is sampled from photographs against the white beside it (linear ratio 0.59-0.72 on the sunlit upper bodyside, 0.47-0.58 in the shade below the band); no paint reference was found
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