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Class 805 Evero
The bi-mode version of Avanti's Hitachi Evero trains, built for London to Chester and the North Wales coast, where it replaced the diesel Class 221 Super Voyagers. It runs on electric power for nearly two-thirds of the way to Holyhead.
Shown
Scale
427 ft (130.12 m) (the cars’ lengths added)
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- Type
- Bi-mode multiple unit (electric and diesel)
- Builder
- Hitachi Rail, Newton Aycliffe
- Family
- Class 800 series, with Class 800, Class 801 Azuma, Class 802, Class 803, Class 807 Evero, Class 810 Aurora
- In service
- since 2024
- Operators
- Avanti West Coast
- Formation
- 5 cars, each 85 ft (26 m) long; two can run together as a 10-car train
- Fleets
- Avanti West Coast: 13
- Top speed
- 125 mph (201 km/h)
- Power
- 25 kV AC overhead, or diesel · how it works
- Bogies
- Hitachi AT300 bogies · drawn with the same bogie component as Class 800, Class 801 Azuma, Class 802, Class 803, 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
- 299
- Total capacity
- 25 first class and 274 standard seats
- Status
- In service since June 2024: 13 trains.
Car types
| Code | Car | Length | Doors per side |
|---|---|---|---|
| DPTF | Driving pantograph trailer, first class (coach J) | 85 ft 6 in26.06 m | 2 single |
| MSD | Motor, standard class, with diesel generator (coach D) | 85 ft 4 in26.00 m | 2 single |
| MSC | Motor, standard class, with diesel generator (coach C) | 85 ft 4 in26.00 m | 2 single |
| MSB | Motor, standard class, with diesel generator and the shop (coach B) | 85 ft 4 in26.00 m | 2 single |
| DPTS | Driving pantograph trailer, standard class (coach A) | 85 ft 6 in26.06 m | 2 single |
Sources
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Show the 33 sources from Wikimedia Commons, kitmasterbloke, via Wikimedia Commons, Avanti West Coast and 11 more
- First Trenitalia chooses Hitachi Rail to build new intercity trains for Avanti West Coast Hitachi, 6 December 201913 five-car bi-modes ordered; built at Newton Aycliffe; 125 mph (201 km/h); Rock Rail; maintained at Oxley
- Our new Class 805 and Class 807 trains (Evero fact sheet, archived) Avanti West Coast, 2024, p. side views85 ft (26 m) coaches; 299 seats (25 first, 274 standard); bi-mode; two can be joined as a 10-coach train; side views of both trains: door, window and bogie positions, and the livery
- Our Evero trains Avanti West Coast13 Class 805s
- Moment of truth for AWC 'Everos' Rail, 15 July 2024first passenger service 2 June 2024; replacing the Class 221s; coaches A, B (shop), C, D and J (first class) for the car names
- Avanti West Coast Class 805 Evero fleet reaches major milestone Avanti West Coast, 11 June 2026London to North Wales; nearly two-thirds of the Holyhead run electric
- Table 6314: rolling stock vehicles by traction type and operator Office of Rail and Road, 20 November 202565 bi-mode vehicles with Avanti, March 2025 (13 x 5)
- 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
- Avanti West Coast Class 805 and 807 photographs (805001, 805005, 805008, 805013, 807006) Wikimedia Commons (kitmasterbloke CC BY 4.0 and CC BY 2.0; Foulger Rail Photos CC BY-SA 2.0), 2024-2025colours; the blanked first-class windows; door colours
- 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)
- 805004 and 805002 at the Hitachi plant in Newton Aycliffe.jpg (photograph, CC BY-SA 4.0) Wikimedia Commons (The joy of all things), 18 July 2023an 805 with its nose open: it opens as the other AT300s do (layout only; no side-on photograph of two coupled 805s was found)
- 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)
- 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)
- Wolverhampton - AWC 807007 London service.JPG (photograph, CC BY-SA 4.0) Wikimedia Commons, 3 August 2025the 807's first-class driving car's grille groups, three-quarter (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)
- 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 805's door-leaf windows and both display panels (set T8; distant, layout only)
- 805008 on a test run working 5Q52 Holyhead to Crewe at Chester 300424 (53690516700).jpg (photograph, CC BY-SA 2.0) Wikimedia Commons, 30 April 2024the 805's door-leaf window rectified on the leaf (set T8 re-check)
- 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)
- 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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- Seats: Hitachi's 2019 order announcement gave 301; Avanti's fact sheet gives 299, shown here
- Drawing: the cars are the Class 800's measured layout, which Avanti's own side view matches to a mean of 35 mm; the driving-car length and wheel size carry the 800's doubts, and Avanti's side view ends the driving car about 0.2 m shorter than the 800's drawings do
- Colours: sampled from photographs; no paint references have been published. The blue shades from the cab back; it's drawn flat
- Livery: traced off Avanti's small side view (about 56 mm per px); edges to about 150 mm. The black window band is as Avanti draws it
- Car height: the Class 800's drawn height
- 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
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