Description

Now out of production. Information below for reference only. You may be interested in 10-1673 Special product British Rail Class 800/0 GWR “Paddington Bear” 5-car set

The Class 800 AT300 is a bi-mode multiple unit built by Hitachi for Great Western Railway and London North Eastern Railway. They use electric motors for traction, but in addition to operating on track with overhead electric wires, they have diesel generators to enable them to operate on unelectrified track. Based on the Hitachi A-train design, the trains were built by Hitachi between 2014 and 2018. The trains were assembled at the Hitachi Newton Aycliffe facility from bodyshells shipped from Kasado, Japan.

As part of its production, the Class 800 is a part of the Intercity Express Programme (IEP) and is in the Hitachi AT300 product family. The respective train operating companies has also given the units separate branding; under Great Western Railway, they are known as Intercity Express Trains and under London North Eastern Railway, they are known as Azuma.

We are delighted to be able to present this iconic train, made by the legendary Japanese manufacturer KATO, a world leading company in the world of N Scale model railways.  We'd also like to thank Hitachi, GWR and LNER for their helpfulness and assistance in bringing this project to market.

Features of the Kato Class 800

• Five Car Train Pack.

• • Beautifully reproduced GWR livery and details.
  • Scale reproduction of the 26m coaches unique to British vehicles in 1:148 Scale.
  • Minimum radius Kato R282.
  • Directional LED lighting.
  • Equipped with a special coupler. It is possible to prototypically and easily run these units in multiple.
  • Flywheel Motor
  • Prototypical disc-braked wheels with no traction tyres.
  • DCC Ready - you will need DCC89 Class 800 DCC Decoder Set or similar.

Optional extra:

Coach lighting 11-212 Pack of six standard LED lighting set Version 2