Services ramp up as 80x inter-city trainsets return to service

Three Hitachi-built electro-diesel trainsets of Class 800 and 802 meet at Plymouth.

UK: Both LNER and Great Western Railway have been able to reinstate many of their inter-city services after the Office of Road & Rail reached agreement with Hitachi and the train operators over how the cracking problems with the Class 80x fleets are to be managed.

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