Hitachi AT300

The Hitachi AT300 is a family of intercity express multiple units developed by Hitachi Rail as part of its Hitachi A-train family. The first AT300 in the United Kingdom was the Class 395 Javelin, ordered by Southeastern in 2005 for domestic services on High Speed 1, which was the first time Hitachi Rail supplied trains outside Japan. Hitachi then won the Intercity Express Programme in 2011 to replace InterCity 125 fleets, and in 2013 the InterCity 225 fleet, producing the Class 800 bi-mode and Class 801 electric units for the Great Western Main Line and East Coast Main Line, with a new factory at Newton Aycliffe in County Durham. Later orders brought the Classes 802, 803, 805, 807 and 810 for operators including Hull Trains, TransPennine Express, Lumo, Avanti West Coast and East Midlands Railway. The design speed is 140 miles per hour (230 km/h), but British signalling limits most fleets to 125 mph, and the number of units has risen from 29 to nearly 300 since 2017.