FIRST IEP SHIPPED FROM JAPAN
Published at 12:00 on Wednesday 7th January 2015
Tags: National Network, IEP, Hitachi
The first of the Class 800 IEP trains is en route from Kasado Works in Kudamatsu City to Kobe Port, where it will be transhipped for onward movement to the UK, arriving in March. Hitachi Rail
Hitachi Rail has confirmed that the first of the new Class 800 IEP trains has left the factory in Japan en route to the UK.
The train, the first of the pre-series sets that will be used for testing and approvals, will arrive at Kobe Port on 22nd January, and will be bound for the UK after being offloaded from the barge and reloaded onto a sea-faring ship.
It will arrive in the UK in March, and after being equipped with various measurement devices for testing will commence running tests and driver training from April of this year. The tests are to be carried out on the UK National Network by Hitachi Rail Europe, to enable acceptance by Agility Trains, the leasing company that will own the trains, and provide them to First Great Western and Inter City Railways.
