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...Avanti West Coast, which operates intercity services between London, Birmingham and the north-west, has three first class coaches on its 11 coach Pendolino trains, for example....
...Britain has long been an important market for Hitachi’s rail business. It has provided more than 40 per cent of the railcars for the Intercity Express Programme....
...The disruption is a blow to Hitachi’s rail business, which manufactured the class 800 trains in County Durham....
...High-speed trains taken out of service on two of the UK’s busiest intercity lines have been cleared to return to the tracks, although disruption is set to drag on for “some time”....
...He said the problems were caused by long delays in the delivery of new Hitachi electric trains and refurbished InterCity trains....
...Japan’s Hitachi, which is also interested in HS2 contracts, opened an £82m assembly plant in Newton Aycliffe, County Durham, in 2015 to make a new generation of Intercity trains for the Great Western and...
...“Italy now accounts for 40 per cent of the Hitachi group’s rolling-stock production globally,” Toshiaki Higashihara, Hitachi president, told the NAR....
...Hitachi executives said they have rescued the flagship Intercity Express train project, but have left open the possibility that the new trains could initially result in slower journeys....
...Many Intercity 125s are still in service but are due to be replaced by new Intercity Express trains being built by Hitachi....
...The new trains, being built by Japan’s Hitachi, will replace the diesel-powered, 125mph Intercity 125 trains that have been used on the route since 1976....
...Express trains from Japan’s Hitachi for the East Coast and Great Western main lines....
...By the same year, the entire TransPennine fleet, running between Liverpool, Manchester, Leeds, York, Newcastle, Edinburgh and Glasgow, will have been upgraded to Intercity standards, with Hitachi Rail Europe...
...Its workload will begin with the government’s £5.7bn Intercity Express Programme, comprising 122 trains, and a contract with Abellio for ScotRail....
...The strike is over threats to jobs, services and safety from the introduction of new Hitachi Intercity trains, the RMT union said....
...The track connects Hitachi Rail Europe’s new County Durham plant to a nearby branch line it will use to deliver its trains into the intercity network....
...The agreement includes 369 new carriages on Hitachi’s Intercity Express trains, and £30m to add more parking spaces and improve stations....
...Under the Intercity Express deal, Agility Trains, a Hitachi-led consortium, won a 27.5-year contract to build and maintain 866 carriages for the Great Western and East Coast lines from 2016....
...Hitachi, the Japanese engineering and electronics company that builds trains, is building trains for the Intercity Express Programme, arriving from 2017, the Great Western line from London to the West of...
...Each received about one-third of the trains in service and has invested billions in new rolling stock from companies including Siemens, Alstom Power, Hitachi and Bombardier....
...Japan is Hitachi’s biggest rail market by revenue, followed by Taiwan and then the UK, although the UK will soon move up to second place because of the Intercity Express Programme....
...The £5.8bn Intercity Express Programme contract, placed in 2012 with a consortium comprising Hitachi Rail Europe and John Laing, includes design and manufacturing at Newton Aycliffe, creating 730 jobs, and...
...consortium led by Hitachi of Japan....
...And Hitachi from Japan has set up a crate-opening depot in Northeast Sodor for the intercity contract.” “Well, value-for-money is what matters, not nationality,” said the PM....
...Agility Trains, a consortium of Hitachi Rail Europe and John Laing, has been awarded government contracts worth £5.8bn for the Intercity Express Programme....
...The cost of rolling stock will rise sharply on the route from 2018, however, when the new Hitachi-built Intercity Express trains enter service, with some estimating the cost of leasing them at closer to...
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