Known as InterCity 225s in anticipation of their service speed of 225km/h (140mph), they were also referred to as Electras by BR during their development phase
No 91018 was built at BREL Crewe and entered service in 1990
It received the name Robert Louis Stevenson in November 1993, and this was changed to Bradford Film Festival in February 2000
It was modified to Class 91/1 in 2002 and renumbered 91118, and remained in service until withdrawn by LNER in May 2020, before going into storage
Description
A total of 31 Class 91s were built between 1988 and 1991 for high-speed express passenger train haulage as part of the East Coast electrification programme of the late 1980s