Trains: Hitachi

(asked on 24th May 2021) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether the introduction of new Hitachi-made trains onto the UK rail network will be delayed as a result of faults within the Intercity Class 800 series trains.


Answered by
Chris Heaton-Harris Portrait
Chris Heaton-Harris
Secretary of State for Northern Ireland
This question was answered on 27th May 2021

We expect Hitachi to take lessons learnt from this incident into future orders and expect Hitachi to deliver trains on time and to the quality and reliability contracted.

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