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LNER Azuma (Class 800/801)

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td97

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I noticed the changeover yesterday near Letchworth.
Unfortunately not on electric through Ely & Cambridge.
Is this the fall out from their signalling interference tendencies or power limitations?
 
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I just travelled up to Newcastle today on an Azuma which went via Royston, Cambridge and Ely. A scenic if rather lengthy addition to the journey which I didn't mind. The switch over to diesel was very seamless and happened just after we left the ECML. I have to say I was impressed by how muted the Diesel engines were. We arrived at Peterborough some 20 minutes early and immediately the Diesel engines were shutdown.

I was in first class and I'm sure the seats are getting more comfortable with time and use. I really can't abide the window blinds though. My one was already falling apart and looking threadbare. I also had an annoying expense when a chap got on at York, sat behind me and immediately pulled the blind down fully. My rather passive aggressive response of immediately raising it back up, albeit to a half closed position seemed to work for both of us. Annoyingly, he could've sat in the free seat with no window or indeed on the other side of the train out of the sun. Oh how I miss the curtains in the Mk.4s...
 
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What's different about the first class priority seats? I've got a trip in March and am booked in k19, which is a priority seat. From the photos on the LNER website it looks like the table might be a folding rather than a fixed one?
Is it the same size or smaller than the other tables? And will it be ok for working at or should I try to get my seat reservation changed?
Appears to be nicely aligned with a window.
 

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Spotted this on Twitter...
https://twitter.com/williemackenzie/status/1217087597434023937
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New LNER #azuma trains have doors you can open without leaning out of a window, and more egalitarian plug socket distribution. Everything else is a downgrade - seats set aside on new trains for luggage? Ffs
 

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These seats will eventually become luggage racks - I believe they've been removed from the list of reservable seats and more than likely removed from the seating plans too.
Noticed it on the Chieftain in December, though it still wasn't enough to prevent luggage taking up vestibule space - which on the IEPs is a tight squeeze. Shame they never followed a similar design to the vestibules on the 397s with wider doors and corridors.

Anyway, I take it the covers are permanent until the seats are replaced, as I assumed they were just added and taken out depending on the service they worked on?
 

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These seats will eventually become luggage racks - I believe they've been removed from the list of reservable seats and more than likely removed from the seating plans too.
The seats were never reservable.

New luggage racks have been ordered, then the trains need to spend time at depot.

Seats need removing, floor work needs doing, the reservation panel needs altering and re-wiring.

The additional luggage racks alone are costing over £1milliom pound for the fleet.
 

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800101 the original 9 car unit used for test, and originally in Virgin livery, was hauled from Eastleigh - Craigentinny yesterday, after spending about 6 months at Eastleigh.

It is now lner livery with full lner interior fitted.

Unsure why to Craigentinny, when units to be readied for service normally head back to Doncaster.
 

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I’ve been looking at the LNER site this morning and it no longer denotes at the ticket selection stage whether or not the service is booked to be an Azuma. It’s only when you get to the seat selector that you find out what type of train your service is booked to be. Too many complaints from set swaps/cancellations?
 
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800101 the original 9 car unit used for test, and originally in Virgin livery, was hauled from Eastleigh - Craigentinny yesterday, after spending about 6 months at Eastleigh.

It is now lner livery with full lner interior fitted.

Unsure why to Craigentinny, when units to be readied for service normally head back to Doncaster.

It has to complete it fault free running tests before it can enter service.
 

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I’ve been looking at the LNER site this morning and it no longer denotes at the ticket selection stage whether or not the service is booked to be an Azuma. It’s only when you get to the seat selector that you find out what type of train your service is booked to be. Too many complaints from set swaps/cancellations?

Intriguing, I've just had a quick look cause I'm trying to pick the 91s when I travel and it still shows for me?upload_2020-1-21_14-21-18.png
 

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Intriguing, I've just had a quick look cause I'm trying to pick the 91s when I travel and it still shows for me?View attachment 73016

I was going to say, it was still showing at the weekend when I last looked.

Just looked again and it’s reverted back to showing them :lol:. It definitely wasn’t before, even on services that are definitely Azuma booked and have been for a little while.

Very perculiar!
 

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It has to complete it fault free running tests before it can enter service.

Correct and fully aware of that, however it has not been accepted for service yet.

800/1s and also 801/2s have often departed from Aycliffe on delivery to Doncaster and Tyne Yard, under there own power and then the 801/2s have been dragged to Eastleigh.

Hull Trains 802s are delivered to Eastleigh and then move under there own power to Aycliffe.

Bearing mind 800101 has done several thousand miles, that is why I was curious about why it was dragged rather than moving under its own power
 

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Bearing mind 800101 has done several thousand miles, that is why I was curious about why it was dragged rather than moving under its own power

Only 800/1 that I can remember being 66 hauled from Eastleigh. The move to Eastleigh was also 66 hauled in August.
 

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Correct and fully aware of that, however it has not been accepted for service yet.

800/1s and also 801/2s have often departed from Aycliffe on delivery to Doncaster and Tyne Yard, under there own power and then the 801/2s have been dragged to Eastleigh.

Hull Trains 802s are delivered to Eastleigh and then move under there own power to Aycliffe.

Bearing mind 800101 has done several thousand miles, that is why I was curious about why it was dragged rather than moving under its own power

Are you sure Hull Trains 802s have been to Aycliffe? Why was that?
 

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3 of the damaged coaches have been reported as sent back to Japan.

Is this more for precaution then anything else? To see (with a fine toothed comb) how the bodyshells & other components held up when crashed/damaged?

I would imagine Kasado (if that's where they've gone) will be able to handle this better than Newton Aycliffe.
 

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Is this more for precaution then anything else? To see (with a fine toothed comb) how the bodyshells & other components held up when crashed/damaged?

I would imagine Kasado (if that's where they've gone) will be able to handle this better than Newton Aycliffe.
Presumably because the bodies need redoing, and the bodyshells were only ever built at Kasado to my recollection.
 

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Are you sure Hull Trains 802s have been to Aycliffe? Why was that?

Yes they have, after Eastleigh they have headed to Aycliffe, spent about a week there, then moved to Heaton where they did acceptance/milage before moving to Hull Trains.

Reasons unknown, but 802301, 302 and 303 have all been to Merchant Park.
802304 is currently at Eastleigh.
When they have arrived at Aycliffe the doors have been grey, when they leave they are the pink colour, what else they do at Aycliffe, I couldn't tell you.
 
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