ScotRail has announced a seven-year extension of its maintenance contract with Hitachi for the Class 385 electric commuter ...

Hitachi Rail has secured a seven-year extension to its maintenance contract for ScotRail’s Class 385 electric train fleet.

Hitachi engineers tell the BBC, though, that it has done extensive testing on the batteries to ensure passengers would be ...

A MAJOR Japanese firm has secured a seven-year extension to its maintenance contract for ScotRail’s electric train fleet ...

The trains, made up of 45 rail cars, will be manufactured at Hitachi Rail's factory in Newton Aycliffe, County Durham, for Grand Central. Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander, Labour, visited the ...

Hitachi Rail introduced batteries on the UK network in 2007. Its manufacturing options now include full battery, hybrid battery-electric or “tri-brid” battery-electric-diesel trains.

A County Durham train builder has secured a monumental £300m contract to build dozens of “cutting-edge” battery hybrid train cars in a move bosses say will protect jobs at its factory. Hitachi in ...

Nine new Grand Central trains will be built at Hitachi Rail's factory in Newton Aycliffe A rail operator's entire fleet is to be replaced with nine battery hybrid trains made in the north of England.

The trains, made up of 45 rail cars, will be manufactured at Hitachi Rail's factory in Newton Aycliffe, County Durham, for Grand Central. Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander, Labour, visited the ...