Just seen an online snippet from Business Traveller saying they should be entering service "in the coming weeks". That`s almost a meme where LNER are concerned with the Azumas entering service. I noticed they omitted a date...…..again.https://www.businesstraveller.com/b...wrnwiaPN6xQUFV3Kzo4IA__wj2-1C0YnXRewJe6lLpbtM
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59CosG95
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800111 has now been fully stickered, much the same as 800103 and 800107. 800104 has apparently also been stickered.
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realnovice
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Hopefully fully stickered and ready to rock and roll! Anyone have a list of 800/801s that have completed testing and are ready to enter service?
59CosG95
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Staying true to my adopted role on here as "Titipu's Lord High Executioner"*, I've got a little list...
*see "The Mikado" by Gilbert & Sullivan
LNER Azumas - delivery, liveries, interiors, and service status
800/1s - 9 cars, bi-mode
801/1s - 5 cars, electric only with last-mile engine
*see "The Mikado" by Gilbert & Sullivan
LNER Azumas - delivery, liveries, interiors, and service status
800/1s - 9 cars, bi-mode
- 800101 - last seen in Virgin "Azuma" livery last June, prior to LNER takeover -
MIAat Newton Aycliffe since then - 800102 - on test, unbranded, default interior
- 800103 - on test, full final "Azuma" livery with fully fitted LNER interior
- 800104 - on test, almost finished final "Azuma" livery with fully fitted LNER interior
- 800105 - delivered to Doncaster Carr IEP Depot, unbranded, default interior. Yet to go out on test.
- 800106 - on test, unbranded, default interior
- 800107 - on test, full final "Azuma" livery with fully fitted LNER interior
- 800108 - on test, unbranded, default interior
- 800109 - on test, full final "Azuma" livery with fully fitted LNER interior
- 800110 - delivered to Doncaster Carr IEP Depot, unbranded, default interior. Yet to go out on test
- 800111 - on test, full final "Azuma" livery. Interior status currently unknown.
- 800112 - on test, nearly complete final "Azuma" livery (just a few stickers missing), with fully fitted LNER interior.
- 800113 - on test, full final "Azuma" livery. Interior status currently unknown.
- 800201 - on test, unbranded, default interior
- 800202 - on test, unbranded, default interior
- 800203-210 - not yet built.
801/1s - 5 cars, electric only with last-mile engine
- 801101 - on test, unbranded, default interior
- 801102 - on test, unbranded, default interior
- 801103 - at Newton Aycliffe, yet to go on test, unbranded. Unsure about interior
- 801104 - at Newton Aycliffe, yet to go on test, unbranded. Unsure about interior
- 801105 - at Newton Aycliffe, yet to go on test, unbranded. Unsure about interior
- 801106 - at Newton Aycliffe, yet to go on test, unbranded. Unsure about interior
- 801107 - at Newton Aycliffe, yet to go on test, unbranded. Unsure about interior
- 801108 - at Newton Aycliffe, yet to go on test, unbranded. Unsure about interior
- 801109-112 - not yet built.
- 801201 - on test, unbranded, default interior
- 801202-230 - not yet built.
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thejuggler
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Just seen what I think was 800112 in Leeds - Lots of pieces of masking tape and blue arrows highlighting where small snags were identified, but it looked to be almost complete.
DanNCL
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There's at least one 9 car bi-mode that's unbranded but with the fully fitted LNER interior, think it might have been 800102.
59CosG95
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800104 just passed Peterborough on 5Q31 - this has about 90-95% of the final Azuma livery, and the finished interior.
cactustwirly
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Looks like there'll be enough finished units for up to 3 or 4 diagrams, in April!
DanNCL
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Definitely wasn't that unit I saw - the one I saw didn't have any trace of the final Azuma livery on the outside. 99% certain that 800102 was the unit I saw in this condition on Sunday evening in York
cactustwirly
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The livery could have been applied on Sunday night or Monday, afterall most of it is Vinyl!
Strat-tastic
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What a last-mile engine? 
anamyd
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missing in action...?
Correct. Although you already knew that.......
swt_passenger
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It’s a term used to denote the ability to run for a relatively short distance at low speed if the OHLE power fails, and/or to support the hotel services if the unit is stranded.What a last-mile engine?
The EMU variant has a single generator unit (GU) for this purpose, rather than the multiple GUs fitted in the bi-modes.
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59CosG95 wow thanks for this list will be interesting to update as more go on test. Hopefully enough are ready for a few diagrams soon!
800101 is at Newton Aycliffes Hitachi factory.
Azumas are go!
"Roger Ford @Captain_Deltic
According to Informed Sources @IanProsser7 has signed off the LNER class 800 fleet. London-Leeds service to start in May?"
"Roger Ford @Captain_Deltic
According to Informed Sources @IanProsser7 has signed off the LNER class 800 fleet. London-Leeds service to start in May?"
59CosG95
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Not a problem - as Ko-ko (Lord High Executioner of Titipu) once said "they'll none of them be missed!"
I happen to have a very good vantage point of ECML goings-on from my workplace...
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Only after looking it up. Carry on using unexplained abbreviations and you'll see bold red text.
They may of been signed off, but no units have yet been accepted by lner for use into service.
I was informed in December 2018 that LNER had accepted 3 sets that had completed fault free testing & had been handed over to LNER by Hitachi....
Lets not forget that LNER had originally pencilled in the Hull service going over to IET at the end of January until the ORR got on there high horse about the climbing frames between the coaches & stopped there introduction into passenger operation.....
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I didn't use any unexplained abbreviations and do not threaten me, you are not a moderator. MIA is not rail jargon and isn't a specialist term, non-rail abbreviations are used dozens of time a week on here and pass without comment. Do you intend to backseat moderate every single one?
59CosG95
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Darandio's right; MIA is a widely used term, and certainly isn't exclusive to the rail industry. Hell, there's even a pop star called M.I.A., and a Foo Fighters song called M.I.A.
MIA is the 3-letter code for Manchester Airport, I grant you, but I can assure you that the 'normal' use was implied. Also, I'm fairly sure that bold red text only really applies to unexplained rail jargon.
All this is however neither here nor there, as 800101's location has been confirmed to be at Newton Aycliffe.
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Technically, MIA is only the railway station code, the airport itself is MAN....
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Mordac
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MIA is the code for Miami Airport. I hope you don't work as an airport baggage handler.
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May is weeks away.
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You were informed incorrectly.
59CosG95
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Back on topic - 800109 is on the 5Q11/5Q12/5Q13/5Q14/5Q15/5Q16/5Q17/5Q18 circuit again today.
As with yesterday, 800104 is on the 5Q30/5Q31/5Q32/5Q33 circuit again today.
800107, meanwhile, is on the 5Q20/5Q21/5Q22/5Q23/5Q24/5Q25 circuit.
There's a 5Q90/5Q91/5Q92/5Q93/5Q94/5Q95/5Q96/5Q97 circuit based at Donny Carr - though as it's a "ZZ" headcode that may be a TPE 802.
My assumption is that the diagram allocations will stick until the end of the working week. Click the headcodes for the RTT page
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