Identify this stock?

[Egg Centric]

(Image shows an unidentifiable to me train on Durham viaduct)

Can anyone identify this? Someone in the comments on the reddit thread I've taken it from has asked and been answered "Trans Pennine Express" but it doesn't look like anything they run to me. I can't think of anything with such an odd window configuration - 1 window/door then 12 windows then 1?

 

[TT-ONR-NRN]

I'm almost certain that's a 397, and indeed some did test up near Newcastle in the last few months.

 

[Darandio]

can't think of anything with such an odd window configuration - 1 window/door then 12 windows then 1?

Where you are counting those windows it's actually the viaduct railings making it look that way.

I'm almost certain that's a 397, and indeed some did test up near Newcastle in the last few months.

Pretty certain they don't have two full length destination displays per carriage?

Just looks like some sort of LNER/TPE 800xxx variant to me, of which there would be many at that location!

 

[TT-ONR-NRN]

Where you are counting those windows it's actually the viaduct railings making it look that way.



Pretty certain they don't have two full length destination displays per carriage?

Just looks like some sort of LNER/TPE 800xxx variant to me, of which there would be many at that location!

The displays look a little too thin and MUCH too wide to be 80x to me?
You may be right of course.

 

[DanNCL]

I’m inclined to think it’s a 397. Can rule anything that regularly travels through Durham out based on the side destination screens. A 397 did pass southbound through Durham during hours of darkness very recently en route to Wabtec at Doncaster.

 

[Darandio]

I’m inclined to think it’s a 397.

397's don't have identical side destination screens at each end from what I can see. Door windows look too wide as well. I'm not convinced.

 

[swt_passenger]

Where you are counting those windows it's actually the viaduct railings making it look that way.

Agree

Pretty certain they don't have two full length destination displays per carriage?

Just looks like some sort of LNER/TPE 800xxx variant to me, of which there would be many at that location!

I think the greater distance between two adjacent door windows supports some sort of 80x, rather than a 397.

 

[Darandio]

The displays look a little too thin and MUCH too wide to be 80x to me?

Looking more closely i'm inclined to agree. And given i'm less convinced it's a 397 it can only be some top secret train we haven't been told about!

I think the greater distance between the two door windows supports some sort of 80x, rather than a 397.

And i'm not convinced it's that either now!

 

[fgwrich]

It is definitely an 80X though it is hard to tell if it is TPE, LNER or LUMO. If anything and looking at the length / location, I would say that is an LNER example.

80Xs have small, A4 sized screens by the doors with orange LEDs in. Along with the 26 metre coach lengths. 397s are shorter, have bigger and less windows, and the desi displays are long and wide so that a full destination can be displayed.

 

[jh64]

The width of the orange light could be blurred/affected by being taken on a phone camera in the dark.

 

[DanNCL]

Now I’ve looked more closely I think it’s an 80x too. Distorted to make all of it (not just the side screens) look wider than they actually are

 

[XCTurbostar]

Almost certainly an 800, 801 or 802 unit. The length and rounded door windows give it away.

 

[Egg Centric]

Well I think a consensus is reached - IET - I'm still not convinced but in the absence of any better explanation I'll believe it for the moment!

 

[transportphoto]

I don’t know if I’m seeing what I want to see (rather than reality) but the interior appears to be red in parts. This would support an LNER 80x.

 

[43096]

Why not ask what date and time it was taken and then check it against RTT or similar?

 

[davart]

Is it not possible to go to the original source of the photo and examine it for metadata - date, time that the photo was taken, then cross-reference that with known timetables and services?

 

[TRAX]

The ominous atmosphere of the photo is outstanding.

 

[moffatcalum]

800207 (LNER) just after departing Durham Station

 

[NSEWonderer]

It's definitely an iet, phone seems to have not dealt well with the motion blurring. It was quite foggy so the lights have also created a semi illusion alongside the railings

 

[AndrewP]

Beautiful pic