These units were originally to run on still-born services between Paris and the West Midlands, Northeast England and Scotland. Since 2000, part of them (4 out of 7) have been leased to GNER. They are diagrammed on the "White Rose" services London-Leeds.
This set is one of the two which have retained their original livery, but all Eurostar labels have however been removed.
This car marks the end of a batch of 7 cars, independent from the other 7-car batch. This has been imposed by the Anglo-French Intergovernemental Committee, so that the trainset can be split should a fire occur when crossing the Chunnel.
London King's Cross. 10th December 2003. P.L.Guillemin (plguillemin@yahoo.fr)