Hitachi promised on-time delivery, quality and reliability. Find out how Hitachi successfully delivered on all of its promises.
By involving the customers all the way through the build, it ensured that when the train was ready for passenger service, it was exactly what the customer wanted.
play the video “Hitachi Class 395 CTRL Train : about Hitachi Rail Europe” (3min. 04sec.)
“It was an important milestone for us, and our first opportunity to fully demonstrate the calibre of our high quality rolling stock that we can offer the UK and Europe.” — Alistair Dormer, Managing Director, Hitachi Rail Europe
Hitachi Rail Europe Ltd., is a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi Europe, Ltd. and is headquartered in London, UK. Hitachi Rail Europe is a total railway system supplier offering rolling stock, traction equipment, signalling, traffic management systems, and maintenance depots.
Hitachi draws on many years of experience as a leading supplier of high-speed trains such as the Shinkansen (bullet train) for the Japanese and international markets. In Europe, Hitachi Rail Europe's first rolling stock contract was to deliver a fleet of 29 Class 395 trains, the first domestic high-speed train in the UK. The trains are maintained at Hitachi's state of the art depot in Ashford, Kent.
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