LNER tests running trains into St Pancras for when King’s Cross station is closed

If you had been near the Thameslink railway very early this morning, you’d have seen the odd sight of an LNER Azuma train on the railway – testing out a new route.
While most of the country slept, the LNER Azuma train conducted a test run between Leeds and London St Pancras to see if it’s viable to use St Pancras station when parts of the East Coast Main Line (ECML) are closed for Network Rail engineering works.
Using a 9-car bi-mode LNER Azuma train, the unit (no. 800108) star