BRITISH prime minister Mr David Cameron led the celebrations to mark the opening of the Hitachi's new £82m rail vehicle manufacturing facility at Newton Aycliffe in northeast England on September 3.
BRITAIN's Department for Transport has approved a £361m order with Hitachi Rail Europe for a fleet of 29 AT300 dual-mode 200km/h trains for operation by First Great Western (FGW) on services between London, Plymouth and Penzance.
BRITISH infrastructure manager Network Rail (NR) has selected Hitachi Rail Europe to supply the traffic management system for London's north-south Thameslink network as part of its £6.5bn upgrading and expansion project.
TRANSPORT for London (TfL) says it will award a £260m contract to Bombardier for 45 EMUs for the expanding London Overground rail network. Delivery of the trains will start in 2018.
HITACHI says it hopes to be able to move to the final phase of acquiring Finmeccanica's two railway equipment subsidiaries - AnsaldoBreda and Ansaldo STS - by the end of October.
MYANMAR Railways signed a $US 19.9m contract with Mitsubishi Corporation and Hitachi on May 15 for resignalling of the 140km Yangon – Pyuntasa section of the Yangon – Mandalay line.
FIRST Great Western (FGW) has selected Hitachi as preferred supplier for a contract to supply 29 bi-mode trains to replace the fleet High-Speed Trains (HSTs) currently used on services from London to Exeter, Plymouth and Penzance.
A mock-up of the Hitachi metro train for the first metro line in Ho Chi Minh City was unveiled on March 16 by the city's Management Authority for Urban Railways (Maur).
THE first of three pre-series Super Express Trains (SETs) being supplied by Hitachi under the Department for Transport's Intercity Express Programme (IEP) was unloaded at the port of Southampton on March 12 in the presence of rail minister Mrs Claire Perry.
ABELLIO, which is due to take over the seven-year ScotRail franchise on April 1, has signed a contract with Hitachi Rail Europe for the supply, and maintenance for 10 years, of 70 EMUs. The deal will be financed by Caledonian Rail Leasing.
