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British Rail Class 803
🇬🇧 United Kingdom ·built by Hitachi· from 2021· British electric multiple unit
2 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. 803005 at Northallerton: The joy of all things· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 2. Lumo class 803: TriStateGuy· CC BY 4.0
what is it?
The British Rail Class 803 AT300 is a type of electric multiple unit built by Japanese rolling stock manufacturer Hitachi Rail for open-access operator Lumo. Based on the Hitachi A-train design, a total of five units, each comprising five cars, have been produced. The class is used to operate passenger services on the East Coast Main Line between London King's Cross and Glasgow Queen Street.
who runs it
base stats
Bars compare against all trains: 600 km/h (maglev), 1,700 seats; power, weight and number built on a log scale up to 20 MW, 1,000 t and 20,000 built.
fun facts
- First built 5 years ago, in 2021.
- Top speed is 1.5× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- At full speed it would cover Amsterdam–Utrecht (≈ 40 km) in 12 minutes.
- Weighs about as much as 38 African elephants (~6 t each).
- Seats 402: 8 full city buses (~50 seats each).
multiple unit: A self-propelled train: motors are spread under the passenger cars, so no separate locomotive.
spec sheet
- built
- 2021
- in service from
- 2021
- status
- in service
- number built
- 5
- kind
- Electric multiple unit
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
- builders
- Hitachi Rail, Hitachi
- operators
- Lumo
- top speed
- 200 km/h
- power
- —
- electric system
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- formation
- 5 cars per unit: DPTS, Driver's cab, Pantograph, Trailer car, Standard class (open saloon)-MS, Motor car, Standard clas…
- weight
- 229 t
- capacity
- 402 passengers
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q85749056, Wikipedia: British Rail Class 803 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.