CLASS 800 INTERCITY UNITS
In 2012 the Department for Transport signed a deal with Agility Trains (Hitachi/Jon Laing) to build thirty-six (36) five-car units to replace the InterCity 125s (HST) on the Great Western system. The first units were delivered in 2017.
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Class 800 No.800006 at Worcester Shrub Hill on a test train from Stoke Gifford to Stoke Gifford via Worcester and Oxford on 20th July 2017. Photographed by Steve Widdowson.
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