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. Yet, all Eurostar labels have been removed, while GNER has applied its own numbering tags and has partly blacked out electronic destination displays, so as to hide the original Eurostar numbering pattern.
London King's Cross. 10th December 2003. P.L.Guillemin (plguillemin@yahoo.fr)