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National Express East Coast

National Express East Coast operate a fleet of HSTs along the ECML from London to Edinburgh and Aberdeen or Inverness.

National Express interim white stripe livery (GN)

P/C: 43111

P/C: 43367

National Express Silver / White livery (NX)

TS: 42192	TS: 42193	TRFB: 40711
TF: 41100	P/C: 43238	P/C: 43300

National Express East Coast HST Power car fleet

Original no.	New no.	Livery	Engine	Name	Admitted	Released	In service
43006	43206	GN	MTU	Kingdom of Fife	24th October 2007	9th January 2008	11th January 2008
43008	43208	GN	MTU		17th July 2007	1st October 2007	20th October 2007
43038	43238	NX	MTU	City of Dundee	28th June 2007	29th August 2007	1st October 2007
43039	43239	NX	MTU	The Royal Dragoon Guards	17th April 2008	26th June 2008	27th June 2008
43051		GN	Valenta
43053		GN	Valenta
43056		GN	Valenta
43057	43257	GN	MTU		13th August 2008
43077	43277	NX	MTU		26th June 2008	14th October 2008	14th October 2008
43090	43290	GN	MTU	mtu facination of power	23rd March 2006	15th December 2006	27th December 2006
43095	43295	GN	MTU	Perth	14th October 2008
43096	43296	GN	MTU	Stirling Castle	15th May 2007	17th July 2007	21st July 2007
43099	43299	NX	MTU		9th April 2008	26th June 2008	27th June 2008
43100	43300	NX	MTU	Craigentinny	23rd March 2006	1st December 2006	7th December 2006
43102	43302	NX	MTU	Diocese of Newcastle	9th January 2008	11th April 2008	12th April 2008
43105	43305	NX	MTU	City of Inverness	11th June 2008	13th August 2008	15th August 2008
43106	43306	NX	MTU	Fountains Abbey	9th January 2007	12th March 2007*	3rd May 2007
43107	43307	NX	MTU	Tayside	10th March 2008	9th June 2008	9th June 2008
43108	43308	NX		Old Course St. Andrews	7th November 2008
43109	43309	NX	MTU	Leeds International Film Festival	24th April 2007	28th June 2007	3rd July 2007
43110		GN	Valenta	Stirlingshire
43111	43311	NX	MTU	Scone Palace	26th June 2008	3rd September 2008	3rd September 2008
43112	43312	NX	MTU	Doncaster	9th January 2008	18th March 2008	19th March 2008
43113	43313	GN	MTU	The Highlands	1st October 2007	30th November 2007	6th December 2007
43114	43314	GN	MTU	East Riding of Yorkshire	30th November 2006	16th February 2007	21st February 2007
43115	43315	GN	MTU	Aberdeenshire	30th November 2007	6th February 2008	14th February 2008
43116	43316	NX	MTU	The Black Dyke Band	29th August 2007	30th October 2007	31st October 2007
43117	43317	NX	MTU	Bonnie Prince Charlie	6th February 2008	17th April 2008	17th April 2008
43118	43318	GN	MTU	City of Kingston upon Hull	12th March 2007	15th May 2007	30th May 2007
43119	43319	NX	MTU	Harrogate Spa	28th August 2008	7th November 2008	7th November 2008
43120	43320	GN	MTU	National Galleries of Scotland	23rd October 2006	9th January 2007	11th January 2007
43167	43367	NX	MTU	DELTIC 50 1955 - 2005	15th February 2007	24th April 2007	2nd May 2007

Notes:

• Liveries: GR: GNER dark blue with red stripe. GN: GNER dark blue with white stripe (National Express branding). NX: National Express livery Silver-Grey and White.
• $ Bodyside advert: 43367 Online booking.
• Most of the named power cars have vinyl lettering on the bodyside at waist level, originally gold on dark blue (43006/095/296/110 featured smaller size gold lettering), but now black on the white stripe.
• Power cars 43290, 43300 and 43367 have cast nameplates towards the non-cab end.
• The Admitted date is when the Power car arrived at Brush Loughborough for MTU fitment, the Released date is when it departed from Brush for tests and the In Service date is when it entered service.
• Current procedure for the MTU fitment is when a power car is released back to NXEC another one enters the works for the MTU engine to be fitted.
• MTU power car 43306 was released on 12th March 2007 from Brush Loughborough and returned to Neville Hill for testing, during testing several faults were found with the power car and it returned to Brush Loughborugh for repairs it was re released on 20th April 2007

National Express East Coast HST Formations

Set	Livery	B (TGS)	C (TS)	D (TS)	E (TS)	F (TS-D)	G TS	J (TRFB)	L (TF)	M (TF)
EC51	GR	44094	42154	42150	42146	42091	42215	40748	41150	41120
EC52	GR	44019	42059	42058	42057	42189	42323	40735	41040	41039
EC53	GR	44045	42354	42064	42063	42127	42340	40737	41044	41190
EC54	GR	44056	42219	42172	42171	42161	42104	40706	41088	41087
EC55	GR	44058	42106	42181	42180	42188	42179	40704	41092	41091
EC56	GR	44098	42244	42243	42242	42363		40720	41118	41170
EC57	GR	44080	42190	42186	42182	42128	42226	40740	41152	41151
EC58	NX	44061	42193	42192	42191	42238	42158	40750	41098	41097
EC59	NX	44063	42199	42198	42240	42239	42235	40705	41100	41099
EC60	GR	44031	42355	42134	42357	42116	42122	40742	41164	41066
EC61	GR	44057	42110	42109	42160	42159	42117	40805	41165	41115
EC62	GR	44075	42307	42237	42330	42306	42326	40804	41185	41095
EC63	GR	44050	42322	42130	42228	42286	42163	40708	41159	41083
EC64	GR	44083	42352	42102	42147	42294	42101	40701	41058	41153
Spares		44077	42065					40702	41090
							42241	40811
								40711

Notes:

• The coaches are undergoing a refurbishment programme to make the interiors the same standard the refurbished Mk4s. The first set, EC61, was released in March 2007. The programme is due to be completed in November 2009.
• The sets in red are the refubished Mallard sets
• The sixth set to be refurbished to Mallard standard is set EC63 it is about to be sent to Wabtec for refurbishment.
• Sets EC63 and EC64 are for the extra Leeds services GNER introduced in May 2007
• Set EC62 is only on hire as cover for the Mallard refurbishment program
• Formations may change due to daily requirements and maintenance schedules

• Diagrams:NXEC HSTs

Arriva CrossCountry

Arriva Crosscountry HST Power car fleet

Original No.	New No.	Engine	Livery	Location	Admitted	Released	In Service
43007	43207	MTU	Midland Mainline	Brush Loughborough	13th August 2008
43085	43285	MTU	Crosscountry Two tone silver / Plum	Edinburgh Craigentinny	14th November 2007	13th August 2008	15th August 2008
43101	43301	MTU	Crosscountry Two Tone silver / Plum	Edinburgh Craigentinny		16th July 2008	16th July 2008
43103	43303	MTU	Crosscountry Two tone silver / Plum	Edinburgh Craigentinny	9th July 2007	30th July 2008	31st July 2008
43104	43304	MTU	Midland Mainline	Brush Loughborough	September 2008
43121	43321	MTU	Crosscountry Two tone silver / Plum	Edinburgh Craigentinny	25th January 2008	10th September 2008	14th September 2008
43157	43357	MTU	Crosscountry Two tone silver / Plum	Edinburgh Craigentinny	February 2008	26th September 2008	27th September 2008
43166	43366	MTU	Midland Mainline	Brush Loughborough	September 2008
43178	43378	MTU	Midland Mainline	Brush Loughborough	30th July 2008
43184	43384	MTU	Crosscountry Two tone silver / Plum	Edinburgh Craigentinny	16th July 2008	7th November 2008	7th November 2008

Arriva Crosscountry HST operated services

Headcode	Dep	Origin	Destination	Arr	Remarks
Northbound HST operated services
9S53	0640	Plymouth	Aberdeen	1900	Mon to Fri
2D00	0641	Dunbar	Glasgow Central	0820	Mon to Fri
Southbound HST operated services
9V57	0900	Glasgow Central	Plymouth	1920	Mon to Fri
2B61	2026	Aberdeen	Edinburgh	2332	Mon to Fri

Arriva Crosscountry HST Formations:

Set	A	B	C	D	E	F	G	H
XC01	41193	45001	42367	42368		42370	42366	44021
XC02	41194	45002	42372	42373		42375	42371	44072
XC03
XC04	41025	41026	42036	42037	42038		42097	44012
XC05	41035	41036	42052	42053	42051		42342	44017
Spares					42369
					42374

Notes:

• Sets in Blue are under refurbishment at Wabtec Doncaster
• Sets in Green are formed of Ex Midland Mainline coaches

Arriva CrossCountry are taking on five HST sets to provide additional capacity to support their fleet of Voyagers and Super Voyagers.

Network Rail

Network Rail have a modified HST set called the New Measurement Train (NMT), which was introduced in June 2003. It is operated on their behalf by Serco and runs on the East Coast and West Coast Main Lines.

If the NMT is unavailable, a substitute test train powered by top and tail DRS Class 37s or EWS Class 67s may run in its place.

• Times:NMT

Network Rail NMT Power Cars

Number	Engine	Livery	Name	Notes
43013	Valenta	Network Rail Yellow		Buffer fitted, Nose Cameras. New light clusters from July 2007
43014	Valenta	Network Rail Yellow		Buffer fitted, Nose Cameras. New light clusters from October 2007
43062	Valenta	Network Rail Yellow	John Armitt	Nose Cameras
43089	Valenta	Network Rail Yellow	HAYABUSA	Battery assisted diesel locomotive

43013/014/062 were the original member of this fleet in 2003. Other NMT power cars have been:

• 43067 (buffer-fitted) April 2005 - December 2005;

• 43154 February 2004 - November 2005
• 43196 November 2005 - December 2006
• 43089 has been in use since September 2007 (See Project Hyabusa below)

Network Rail NMT Coaching stock

Old BR no.	New NR no.	Use	Former Uses	Notes
11000	975814	NMT High Speed Track Recording coach	Test Car 10
40000	975984	NMT Generator Coach	Lab 15 "Argus"
40501	977984	NMT Generator Coach
44053	977993	NMT High Speed Recording Coach with Pantograph		replaces 999550
44087	977994	NMT High Speed Recording Coach		replaces 977974
40619	977995	NMT High Speed Track Recording Generator Coach
44062	977996	NMT Train Battery car

Project Hayabusa

Project Hayabusa which is Japanese for Project Falcon, is a partnership between Hitachi and Network Rail to test a battery powered HST power car to see if it could help HST emissions. It would be known as a Battery assisted diesel locomotive after conversion. The power car chosen for this refurb was 43089. The Power car was originally meant to be fitted with an MTU engine but due to demand has kept it's Paxman Valenta. To cut down on weight the rechargable Lithium Ion batteries were put in the TGS coach 977996.

After testing on the preserved Great Central Railway in the Summer of 2007, 43089 began use on the NMT, and was first noted in Scotland on 13 November 2007.

How it works:

The 48 Lithium ion rechargable batteries supply the power for moving the train off the mark once a decent speed has been achieved the train diesel engine in this case the Paxman Valenta kicks in to get the train up to linespeed or testing speed. The batteries are then recharged as the train brakes for a station stop or signal check meaning the batteries will always have sufficient power for starting the train away from a station or signal check. The diesel engine can still work if the batteries have been drained of power and have insufficient power to move the train.

See Also

External Links

• 125 Group
• Wikipedia: Intercity 125