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Class 802
Hitachi's AT300 version of the Intercity Express Train, built in Italy apart from three pre-series units built in Japan: GWR's 802s, TransPennine Express's Nova 1 fleet of 19 five-car units, and Hull Trains' five.
Shown
Scale
427 ft (130.12 m) (the cars’ lengths added)
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Liveries 3
The same measured train in each livery, each drawn from a cited source. The drawing above shows the largest fleet’s.
Special liveries 1
- GWR key workers' thank-you livery (802020) Unveiled by 3 July 2020: 'thank you' in 116 languages in 109 speech bubbles, from a design competition; when it came off isn't found.
- Type
- Bi-mode multiple unit (electric and diesel)
- Builder
- Hitachi Rail, Pistoia (Italy); GWR's three pre-series units (802001, 802002, 802101) in Japan
- Family
- Class 800 series, with Class 800, Class 801 Azuma, Class 803, Class 805 Evero, Class 807 Evero, Class 810 Aurora
- Built
- 2017–2019
- In service
- since 2018
- Operators
- GWR, TransPennine Express, Hull Trains
- Formation
- 5 cars: DPTS-MS-MS-MC-DPTF (GWR, Hull Trains) or DPTS-MS-MS-MS-DPTF (TransPennine Express); GWR's 9 cars: DPTS-MS-MS-TS-MS-TS-MS-MF-DPTF
- Fleets
- Great Western Railway: 36; Hull Trains: 5; TransPennine Express: 19
- Top speed
- 125 mph (201 km/h) on electric power; 110 mph (177 km/h) on diesel
- Power
- 25 kV AC overhead, or its own diesel engines (MTU 12V 1600 R80L, 700 kW each; Hitachi 226 kW traction motors) · how it works
- Bogies
- Hitachi AT300 bogies · drawn with the same bogie component as Class 800, Class 801 Azuma, Class 803, Class 805 Evero, Class 807 Evero
- Train length
- 427 ft (130.12 m) (the cars’ lengths added)
- Coupled
- 2 × 5 cars, about 854 ft (260 m) (the units’ lengths added)
- Car height
- 12 ft 3 in (3.725 m)
- Profile
- main-line
- Seats per train
- 326 (GWR, 5 cars)
- Total capacity
- GWR, 5-car: 36 first class and 290 standard seats; GWR, 9-car: 71 first class and 576 standard. TransPennine Express: 342 seats, 24 of them first class. Hull Trains: not found
- Status
- In service. GWR's are leased from Eversholt Rail and maintained by Hitachi at North Pole and Stoke Gifford; TransPennine Express's 19 are leased from Angel Trains and maintained by Hitachi at Doncaster and Edinburgh, under a contract to 2031; Hull Trains' five, also Angel Trains', are maintained by Hitachi at Bounds Green. GWR's services pass into public ownership on 13 December 2026. TransPennine Express is fitting new seat covers to all 19 Nova 1s, to finish by the end of 2026.
Car types
| Code | Car | Length | Doors per side |
|---|---|---|---|
| DPTS | Driving pantograph trailer, standard class | 85 ft 6 in26.06 m | 2 single |
| MS | Motor, standard class | 85 ft 4 in26.00 m | 2 single |
| MC | Motor, composite | 85 ft 4 in26.00 m | 2 single |
| DPTF | Driving pantograph trailer, first class, with kitchen | 85 ft 6 in26.06 m | 2 single |
Sources
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Show the 58 sources from Wikimedia Commons, kitmasterbloke, via Wikimedia Commons, Walter Baxter, via Geograph and Wikimedia Commons and 17 more
- Class 802 Eversholt Railbuilder and factory, fleet, formations (5 and 9 cars), car lengths (DPTS and DPTF 84 ft 4 in (25.7 m), the others 85 ft (26 m)), seats (9-car: 71 first, 576 standard), speed, depots
- Class 802 livery drawings (driving car, front, 5-car strip) TransPennine Express (released under FOI: 'Livery designs for your rolling stock'), 2023side elevation, compared with the Class 800 (measured)
- ADPL-12-01-02 Rev 4: Class 800 LNER Azuma livery, sheets 1-3 Atlantic Design Projects for LNER (released under FOI: 'Class 800/801 Livery Designs'), 12 September 2018the Class 800 layout the drawing uses
- GWR Class 802 photographs (802001, 802018, 802101, 802108) Wikimedia Commons (Alex Noble CC0; Foulger Rail Photos CC BY-SA 2.0; Geof Sheppard CC BY-SA 4.0), 2017-2025colours, blanked windows, door colour
- Class 802 Angel TrainsTPE's 19 five-car Class 802s (DPTS-MS-MS-MS-DPTF) and Hull Trains' five (DPTS-MS-MS-MC-DPTF), owned by Angel Trains; 85 ft (26 m); 125 mph (201 km/h); MTU 12V 1600 R80L engines of 700 kW, Hitachi 226 kW traction motors
- Nova 1 TransPennine Express, accessed 7 October 2026TPE's 19 Nova 1s: 342 seats, maintained by Hitachi in Doncaster and Edinburgh
- Hitachi Class 802 enters service with TransPennine Express The Railway Magazine (Tony Miles), 12 November 2019TPE's first 802 service, 28 September 2019
- Hull Trains to expand fleet with £60 million deal Hitachi Rail, 2 November 2016Hull Trains' five, £60 million, Angel Trains, maintained at Bounds Green
- How Hull Trains opened the door RAIL, 10 October 2024first Hull Trains 802 in service 5 December 2019; built at Pistoia
- Pantograph on a British Rail Class 800 'Azuma' of LNER seen from the main bridge at Leeds railway station (5th July 2019).jpg: a driving car's roof well from above, the pantograph folded (photograph, CC BY-SA 4.0) Mtaylor848, via Wikimedia Commons, 5 July 2019the drawing's pantographs: folded in the well, the head inboard, the pan and the arms' end 0.63 and 0.97 of the way along the well (photograph, layout only)
- Penzance - GWR 802013 (DPTS 831013).JPG: a driving pantograph trailer's roof from above, the pantograph folded (photograph, CC BY-SA 4.0) Geof Sheppard, via Wikimedia Commons, 27 November 2018the drawing's pantographs: the DPTS's well and its folded pantograph, the head inboard (photograph, layout only)
- 805 008 Mill Meece 180124.jpg: 805 008 at Mill Meece, its pantograph raised (photograph, CC BY 2.0) kitmasterbloke, via Wikimedia Commons, 18 January 2024the drawing's pantographs: raised, the arms coming up out of the lowered roof, the knee towards the cab (photograph, layout only)
- 805008 Mill Meece 180124.jpg: 805 008 at Mill Meece, near side on (photograph, CC BY 2.0) kitmasterbloke, via Wikimedia Commons, 18 January 2024the drawing's pantographs: the lowered roof's length and the folded pantograph's place along it, from the inner end (photograph, scaled by the car's doors and windows)
- GWR 802011 (835011 pantograph).JPG: the pantograph on an 802's first-class driving car (photograph, CC BY-SA 4.0) Geof Sheppard, via Wikimedia Commons, 28 January 2023the drawing's pantographs: one on the first-class driving car too (photograph, layout only)
- Interim report IR1/2026: collision between two passenger trains at Elstow, near Bedford Rail Accident Investigation Branch, October 2026, p. 7 (figure 3)the drawing's pantographs: the lowered roof's depth and the folded height over it (the Class 810's, measured; taken as the same AT300 roof)
- Bristol Temple Meads - GWR 802006+802020 (802014).JPG (photograph, CC BY-SA 4.0) Wikimedia Commons (Geof Sheppard), 9 March 2019the open noses of two coupled units, side on: the face, its height and the couplers and electrical heads between (set NZ re-measure; the AT300 front end, alike on the 800, 801, 802 and 805)
- Nose to nose - geograph.org.uk - 6966139.jpg (photograph, CC BY-SA 2.0) Wikimedia Commons, from Geograph (DS Pugh), 15 September 2021two coupled 801s side on: the open faces and the gap between them (set NZ re-measure)
- ADPL-12-01-02 Rev 4: Class 800 LNER Azuma livery, sheets 1-3 Atlantic Design Projects for LNER (released under FOI: 'Class 800/801 Livery Designs'), 12 September 2018, p. sheet 1 (side B)the cab front laid on the outline, with the cone's lower lip and the apron's facet (set CA, ca-at300; measured)
- An LNER Azuma train on the East Coast Main Line (geograph 7347905): 801226's leading driving car side on, long lens, level, the nose closed (photograph, CC BY-SA 2.0) Walter Baxter, via Geograph and Wikimedia Commons, 21 November 2022the driving cars' cab-end bogie position (set C800B: the wheel centres read side on against the cab door and the first passenger door)
- Allerford - GWR 802111 (839111) at speed.JPG (photograph, CC BY-SA 4.0) Wikimedia Commons, 14 May 2022the bogies' wheelbase and the driving cars' inner bogie position (set C800B3: the axle-end covers read side on against the cab door and the passenger doors)
- Allerford - GWR 802111 (831111) at speed.JPG (photograph, CC BY-SA 4.0) Wikimedia Commons, 14 May 2022the driving cars' inner bogie position (set C800B3: the same unit's other end, which fixes the axle-end covers' depth behind the bodyside)
- GWR 802102 (831102) coupling detail.JPG and GWR 802006 (831006) coupling detail.JPG (photographs, CC BY-SA 4.0); Taunton - GWR 800003+800004 coupled.JPG (CC BY-SA 4.0) Wikimedia Commons (Geof Sheppard), 2017-2022the Dellner coupler behind the nose's doors, which open to couple (set BC10, 20 October 2026; layout only)
- Allerford - GWR 802111 (839111) at speed.JPG (photograph, CC BY-SA 4.0) Wikimedia Commons, 14 May 2022the driving car's underframe side on: skirt panels, latches, grilles, recess and heights (set UFAT300)
- Allerford - GWR 802111 (831111) at speed.JPG (photograph, CC BY-SA 4.0) Wikimedia Commons, 14 May 2022the standard driving car's grilles and notches (set UFAT300)
- 805 008 Mill Meece 180124.jpg: 805 008 at Mill Meece, its pantograph raised (photograph, CC BY 2.0) kitmasterbloke, via Wikimedia Commons, 18 January 2024every car's underframe, three-quarter: the generator cars' groups, the DPTS's grilles (set UFAT300)
- Allerford - GWR 802111 (839111) at speed.JPG (photograph, CC BY-SA 4.0) Wikimedia Commons, 14 May 2022the inner gangway, side on: end frames, bellows, cables and their heights (set JN807)
- GWR 800020 (814020 and 815020) bogies.JPG (photograph, CC BY-SA 4.0) Wikimedia Commons, 31 July 2021the inner gangway close and level: the bellows' colour, folds and seam, the cables and brackets (set JN807)
- 807006 passes 350261 at Stafford 31 03 25 (photograph, CC BY-SA 2.0) Foulger Rail Photos, via Wikimedia Commons (Flickr 54424000277), 31 March 2025the 807's inner gangway, three-quarter: the same end frames, brackets and bellows (set JN807)
- An LNER Azuma train on the East Coast Main Line (geograph 7347905): 801226's leading driving car side on, long lens, level, the nose closed (photograph, CC BY-SA 2.0) Walter Baxter, via Geograph and Wikimedia Commons, 21 November 2022the door-leaf windows (measured on the leaf) and the display panel by the first window (set T8)
- An LNER Azuma on the East Coast Main Line (geograph 8128257): 801204's driving car side on, long lens (photograph, CC BY-SA 2.0) Walter Baxter, via Geograph and Wikimedia Commons, 10 August 2025the door-leaf windows and both display panels, by the first window and ahead of door 2 (sets T8, T9; rectified on the doors)
- Weston-super-Mare - GWR 800307 (828007) door detail.JPG (photograph, CC BY-SA 4.0) Wikimedia Commons, 10 June 2023the door-leaf window rectified on the leaf; GWR's pale line ending at the last window (set T8)
- Allerford - GWR 802111 (831111) at speed.JPG (photograph, CC BY-SA 4.0) Wikimedia Commons, 14 May 2022GWR's pale line along the window run only; both display panels; door-leaf windows (set T8)
- Allerford - GWR 802111 (839111) at speed.JPG (photograph, CC BY-SA 4.0) Wikimedia Commons, 14 May 2022GWR's first-class driving car: door 1 green, the three blanked windows outlined (set T8)
- 800 320 GWR IEP Exeter St Davids LC 070824.jpg (photograph, CC BY 2.0) Wikimedia Commons, 7 August 2024GWR's pale line along the window run only; both display panels (set T8)
- Hitachi bi-mode Class 802s launched on London-Penzance route The Railway Magazine, 5 September 2018all but the three pre-series units (802001/002, 802101) built in Italy
- First Class 802 leaves Japan Rail Express, 16 May 2017the first GWR 802 shipped from Kobe on 26 April 2017; the bulk of the fleet built at Pistoia
- Hitachi Rail awarded new contract to maintain TransPennine Express Nova 1 Hitachi Rail (press release), 10 July 2023Hitachi's eight-year contract to maintain TPE's 19 Class 802s, to 2031 (TransPennine Trains and Angel Trains, 2023)
- Transport Secretary confirms transfer date for Great Western Railway (GWR) DfT Operator, 8 May 2026GWR's services into public ownership on 13 December 2026 (status)
- TransPennine Express unveils new Nova 1 train seating refurbishment Global Railway Review, 3 August 2026TransPennine Express fitting new seat covers to all 19 Nova 1s, by the end of 2026 (status)
- Allerford - GWR 802111 (839111) at speed.JPG (photograph, CC BY-SA 4.0) Wikimedia Commons, 14 May 2022GWR's first-class driving car: the pale line over the first-class windows and the plain panel with a '1' in a box at its inner end (set T11, T1126)
- Allerford - GWR 802111 (839111) at speed.JPG (photograph, CC BY-SA 4.0) Wikimedia Commons, 14 May 2022the first-class driving car's folded pantograph, 65 ft 2 in to 71 ft 10 in (19,870-21,890 mm) from the nose (set T11, T1125)
- GWR 800020 (814020 and 815020) bogies.JPG (photograph, CC BY-SA 4.0) Wikimedia Commons, 31 July 2021the first-class driving car's folded pantograph on 815020, about 64 ft 8 in to 71 ft 4 in (19,700-21,750 mm) from the nose (read on the inner door, the roof's depth allowed for: set T11, T1125)
- GWR 800020 (814020 and 815020) bogies.JPG (photograph, CC BY-SA 4.0) Wikimedia Commons, 31 July 2021GWR's composite car: the first-class panel's place and size, measured on 800020's composite 814020 (the same body; set T11F, Q9)
- GWR 802108 (838108) and 800307 (828007 roof detail).jpg (photograph, CC BY-SA 4.0) Wikimedia Commons, 16 April 2023GWR's composite car: the plain pale panel with a boxed '1' at its first-class end, shown on 800 composites (828007 here, from above, and 814020); no photograph in hand shows an 802 composite's side (set T11F, Q9; corrected by set T11G)
- Allerford - GWR 802111 (839111) at speed.JPG (photograph, CC BY-SA 4.0) Wikimedia Commons, 14 May 2022GWR's first-class driving car: the plain '1' on door 2, 73 ft 5 in (22,368 mm) from the nose and 6 ft 8 in (2,044 mm) up, about 230 mm tall (measured on the door, set T12F, Kyle, 29 October 2026, question 5)
- Taunton - GWR 800003+800004 coupled.JPG (photograph, CC BY-SA 4.0) Wikimedia Commons (Geof Sheppard), 31 July 2017the open space under the couplers between two coupled units' noses (set BCT11b)
- '802207 at Darlington 030725 (54630359392).jpg' (photograph: 802207 in TransPennine Express's Nova 1 livery at Darlington, the whole unit near side-on from a distance; CC BY-SA 4.0) Wikimedia Commons (Foulger Rail Photos, CC BY-SA 4.0), 3 July 2025the livery's layout on all five cars (the stripes and facets, rectified on the doors), colours sampled
- 'Class 802 2 Nova 1 BMU (54966931389).jpg' (photograph: 802216 in TransPennine Express's Nova 1 livery, three-quarter from the cab end; CC BY-SA 4.0) Wikimedia Commons (Samson Ng, CC BY-SA 4.0), 24 July 2025the driving car close: the stripes, the purple, the nose, the blanked windows; colours sampled
- 'TPE 802 210 Huddersfield (54956168178).jpg' (photograph: 802210 at Huddersfield; CC BY 4.0) Wikimedia Commons (Steve Knight, CC BY 4.0), 30 November 2025the layout again, November 2025
- 'TPE 802 207.jpg' (photograph: 802207's driving car at Newcastle; CC BY-SA 4.0) Wikimedia Commons (MissCatTrap, CC BY-SA 4.0), 6 March 2026the livery in service in 2026
- '802302 Hull Trains at Werrington.jpg' (photograph: 802302, the whole unit near side-on from above; CC BY 2.0) Wikimedia Commons (kitmasterbloke, CC BY 2.0), 7 April 2025all five cars, each rectified on its door-leaf corners: where each car's colours run, sampled; the red door leaves and their white line
- 'Class 802 3 Paragon BMU (54953012379).jpg' (photograph: a Hull Trains 802 at speed, three-quarter from the cab end; CC BY-SA 4.0) Wikimedia Commons (Samson Ng, CC BY-SA 4.0), 2 June 2025the first-class driving car and the MC close in sun: the band's height against the doors and windows, colours sampled
- '802303 at Doncaster.jpg' (photograph: 802303 in Hull Trains' Paragon livery at Doncaster, its first-class driving car three-quarter from the cab; CC BY 4.0) Wikimedia Commons (Vanmanyo, CC BY 4.0), 27 March 2024the first-class driving car rectified: the run of colours, the sweep to the nose, the doors; colours sampled
- 'Hull Trains class 802.jpg' (photograph: a Hull Trains 802 at Doncaster, the cab end close; CC BY 4.0) Wikimedia Commons (Vanmanyo, CC BY 4.0), 27 March 2024the cab end: the nose cone, the orange line, the sweep
- '802301, London Kings Cross, September 22nd 2022.jpg' (photograph: 802301 at King's Cross, the cab end; CC BY-SA 4.0) Wikimedia Commons (Southsea_Matt, CC BY-SA 4.0), 22 September 2022the cab end on a third unit
- '802304 William Wilberforce Common Lane Welton LC 221222.jpg' (photograph: 802304 in Hull Trains' Paragon livery near Welton level crossing, its standard-class driving car close and near side on; CC BY 2.0) Wikimedia Commons (kitmasterbloke, CC BY 2.0), 22 December 2022the standard-class driving car close: the red door behind its cab, the band's sweep
- Special train livery says Thank You to key workers RailStaff, 3 July 2020the livery, its unit and its design
- 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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- Colours: GWR's green and its lines sampled from photographs; no paint reference has been published
- Drawn as the Class 800 (TransPennine's 802 drawing matches it within 33 mm); the driving-car length and wheel size carry the 800's doubts: the driving car is drawn 83 ft 10 in (25.56 m) nose to body end, where Eversholt gives 84 ft 4 in (25.7 m) for the DPTS and DPTF and 85 ft (26 m) for the other cars (a 425 ft (129.4 m) five-car train against the drawn 427 ft (130.12 m))
- The pantographs: placed from photographs (scaled by the driving car's doors and windows, to about 0.3 m); no drawing of this class's roof has been published; drawn with no roof well, as photographs show the roof line level over it from the side (set C800F, 13 October 2026), the folded pantograph standing about 240 mm above the roof edge, read off a close platform photograph of 811011 at Paddington scaled by its door: a lower bound, the camera being below the roof; a level, long-lens photograph would measure it
- The cab front: laid on ADPL's sheet 1 outline (side B), within 6 mm; compared with 802304 at Welton (three-quarter) for its shape only
- The driving cars' cab-end bogie: placed at 14 ft 7 in (4,455 mm) from the nose from three side-on photographs (801226, 800017, 801107; they agree within about 50 mm), not from a dimensioned drawing; the wheelbase is drawn 2,600, Beacon's figure for the 803 (set C800B3)
- The bogies: the wheelbase is drawn 8 ft 6 in (2,600 mm), Beacon's figure for the 803 (the photographs read 2,574-2,670); the driving cars' inner bogie centre is drawn at 70 ft 4 in (21,450 mm) from the nose, against about 21,510 (±30) on two long-lens photographs of 802111 and about 21,590 on Beacon's diagram fitted to the doors: not settled, so left as drawn
- The underframes (set UFAT300): from photographs only, no drawing of the AT300's underframe having been published; positions to about 150 mm on the level photographs and 1 ft 0 in to 2 ft 0 in (300-600 mm) on the three-quarter ones; intermediate cars without a side-on photograph of their own drawn with plain panels, or the 805's generator-unit group, as the record's underframe_checked says
- The inner gangway (set JN807): from photographs of 802 and 800 joins, and the 807's seen three-quarter; no drawing of the gangway has been published. The bellows' top is drawn 11 ft 1 in (3,390 mm; the photographs read 3,358 and 3,425), their foot 1,220 (839111; 800020, closer, reads about 1,330); the cables' loops and the brackets are placed from the photographs to about 100 mm
- The car height: 12 ft 3 in (3,725 mm) is the top of LNER's livery sheet for the Class 800; Hitachi printed 11 ft 11 in (3.62 m; undefined) and photographs read the body's roof edge about 12 ft 8 in (3.85 m)
- TransPennine Express: the stripes and facets are read on one distant near-side-on photograph (802207, rectified on its doors) and checked on a three-quarter view; about 250 mm along the car, 100 mm in height
- TransPennine Express: the two MS cars are one car type here, so they carry the same facets (802207's two MS look alike)
- TransPennine Express: colours: sampled from two photographs in sun and averaged, the silver drawn 10% lighter; no paint references found
- TransPennine Express: the passenger door behind each cab is drawn cyan; its lower half is silver in the photographs
- TransPennine Express: TPE's FOI livery drawing (tpe-802-livery) would settle every edge: fetch it when WhatDoTheyKnow is up
- Hull Trains: the band's height is read on two near-level photographs against the doors and windows (about 70 mm either way); the drone view of 802302 looks down on the curving lower body, so it gave the colours' positions, not heights
- Hull Trains: the colours are sampled on lit panels of a photographic montage, in sun and overcast; no paint references found
- Hull Trains: the standard driving car's and both MS cars' colours are read on one distant photograph (802302); 802304's standard driving car (2022, close) confirms its red door behind the cab and the sweep
- Hull Trains: the sweep at the standard driving car's cab is drawn as the first-class car's (802303), which it mirrors in 802302's view
- Hull Trains: the nose's dark grey is TPE's, checked by eye
- The years of the former liveries come from Wikipedia's class article and the other sources listed, and haven't been checked against a second source.
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