British Rail Class 805 bi-mode multiple 5-car units

Electric system: Overhead line, 25 kV 50 Hz AC; Current collector: Pantograph

Bi-mode diesel engine type: 4-stroke V12 turbo-diesel

Maximum speed 125 mph (200 km/h)

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The front end of the 5-car Class 805 bi-mode unit 805004, unbranded, on a test run at Crewe Station (2024)

The driving cab end of the 5-car Class 805 bi-mode unit 805012 of Avanti West Coast trains (2024)

Avanti West Coast Class 805 five-car bi-mode unit 805008 heading south from Crewe station to London on a test run (May 2024)

The Class 805 express bi-mode multiple units operate from a 25 kV AC overhead pantograph electricity supply and a diesel engine generator.

Construction of Class 805 bi-mode units started in 2021.

CLASS 805 from wiki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Rail_Class_805
The British Rail Class 805 Evero is a type of bi-mode multiple unit built by Hitachi Rail for Avanti West Coast. Based on the Hitachi A-train design, 13 five-car units were built to replace Class 221s on services between London Euston, Birmingham New Street and stations on the North Wales Coast lines. The introduction of Class 850 bi-mode units allows the elimination of long-distance diesel working on electrified routes.

In December 2019, Avanti West Coast placed an order for 13 five-car bi-mode units to replace its Class 221 fleet, along with 10 Class 807 electric units, as part of £350 million contract with Hitachi Rail. All Class 850 bi-mode units were originally scheduled to be in service by 2023. Financing of this rolling stock was handled by Rock Rail West Coast, a joint venture between Rock Rail and Standard Life Aberdeen. The Class 850 bi-mode units trains will be maintained by a joint team of Alstom and Hitachi staff, alongside the Class 807, at Oxley depot near Wolverhampton. Passenger facilities on the Class 850 bi-mode units promised include free Wi-Fi, at-seat wireless inductive charging for electronic devices, 230 V sockets and USB sockets, a catering offer and a real-time passenger information system that can advise of connecting rail services. In June 2022, static testing of the Class 850 bi-mode units commenced at Newton Aycliffe and dynamic testing followed in November.

Main line testing of the Class 805 commenced in February 2023,while the type's introduction into service originally planned for later that same year. However, this was put back to Summer 2024. On 2 June 2024, the Class 805 entered regular service. In August 2024, the Office of Road and Rail (ORR) issued an improvement notice to Avanti West Coast regarding the operation of the newly-introduced Class 805 fleet, having determined its lack of an automatic speed supervision system (which was present on the preceding Class 221 fleet) to be in breach of legislation.

Compliance with the improvement notice would require all Class 805s to be retrofitted with some manner of continuous speed supervision; if this functionality necessitates the installation of additional hardware, such work could be quite costly to implement. In response, Avanti West Coast filed an appeal against the improvement notice. The Class 805 replaces the diesel-only Class 221 Voyager trains on the West Coast route. The Voyagers finished service in December 2024, and were transferred to CrossCountry to be replaced by the Class 850 bi-mode units.

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