GWR unveils Hitachi IEP trainset

Hitachi is supplying GWR with trainsets under two contracts.

UK: The first of the Class 800 trainsets which Hitachi is building for operation by Great Western Railway under the Department for Transport’s Intercity Express Programme was officially unveiled on June 30, when it carried guests from Reading to London Paddington on the 175th anniversary of the first train running ...

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