Agility Trains gets to work

Agility Trains has released further information on the Hitachi Super Express train.

Recently named as the preferred bidder for the Department for Transport’s Intercity Express Programme (IEP), Agility Trains has wasted no time in progressing plans for the new train that will become the backbone of the intercity fleet once it is introduced from 2013 onwards. Rail chiefs at Hitachi have reassured railway staff that the trains will be assembled in Britain and new facilities built to construct and maintain the new fleet.

The scope of the project embraces the design, manufacture, financing, servicing and maintenance of the entire fleet. It is likely that initial pre-series trains will be deployed on the southern part of the East Coast Main Line, followed by the replacement of existing fleets, on several long distance routes, including the ECML and the Great Western Main Line.