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Class 897 Serenza
Ten tri-mode trains on CAF's Civity UK platform, to replace LNER's InterCity 225s. They will be the first new fleet introduced as part of Great British Railways, and carry its branding.
Drawing to come
- Type
- Tri-mode multiple unit (overhead electric, battery and diesel)
- Builder
- CAF, Newport (Wales)
- In service
- date not yet announced
- Operators
- LNER
- Formation
- 10 cars
- Trains in fleet
- 10 ordered
- Top speed
- 125 mph (201 km/h)
- Power
- 25 kV AC overhead, batteries and diesel · how it works
- Profile
- main-line
- Seats per train
- 569
- Status
- On order. Financed and owned by Porterbrook.
Sources
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- CAF selected by British operator London North Eastern Railway to supply first tri-mode UK intercity fleet CAF, 9 November 2023 (the page prints 11/09/2023, month first; Porterbrook and the trade press reported it that day)order, tri-mode, Civity UK, assembly at Newport
- Porterbrook to finance new LNER tri-mode fleet Porterbrook, 9 November 2023Porterbrook ownership; order confirmed 9 November 2023
- The next generation: LNER reveals exciting new details of upcoming East Coast trains LNER, 2 February 2026name, 569 seats, GBR branding, replacing the InterCity 225s
- Serenza - the new trains for LNER Railvolution, 5 February 2026125 mph (201 km/h) on the ECML, tested to 137 mph (220 km/h); GBR branding inside and out; interiors from a mock-up
- New LNER Fleet To Have Joint Line Capability (Modern Railways, January 2024), as quoted in 'What Will Be The Power Unit In LNER's New CAF Tri-Mode Trains?' The Anonymous Widower (blog), quoting Modern Railways, 1 January 2024diesel engines for the Joint Line's 90 miles; their and the batteries' arrangement in the sets not yet decided (January 2024)
- CAF Civity (UK, Electric): British Rail classes 331, 397 and 897 loco-info.com, last changed February 2026; read 10 October 2026the 897 as an electric Civity UK with the 331 and 397; in service 2028 (cross-check only)
- Rendering of Civity trains for LNER (CAF's image, as published with Railcolor News's report 'CAF to supply tri-mode Civity trains to LNER') CAF, via Railcolor News, 10 November 2023the 897's outside as CAF drew it in 2023: nose, cab door, gangway, door layout behind the cab (layout only; drawing)
- Regional and intercity trains: Civity (Civity UK) CAF, read 9 October 2026the Civity UK's ARIN bogies (the bogie type, drawing)
- The Class 331 Electric Multiple Unit (specification sheet) Arriva Rail North, 24 January 2018, p. layout drawingvia the Class 397's drawing: bogie centres, wheelbase, gaps, folded pantographs (drawing)
- 379104 [sic] Greenholme (a Class 397 side on at Greenholme, photograph, 30 May 2026, CC BY 4.0) Wikimedia Commons (Steve Knight), 30 May 2026via the Class 397's drawing: the cars' doors, windows and pantograph positions (drawing)
- 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 2018LNER's current colours (the Azuma's), used as a stand-in livery (drawing)
![379104 [sic] Greenholme (a Class 397 side on at Greenholme, photograph, 30 May 2026, CC BY 4.0)](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:379104_Greenholme.jpg){kind=link}
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- Where they are built: CAF says Newport; the first two may be built in Spain (Wikipedia, citing Rail Express, September 2024)
- Entry into service 2028: Wikipedia (citing Today's Railways UK on X, 2 February 2026) and loco-info.com; LNER says only 'in the coming years'
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