Class 395 Countdown Begins

摘要

To mark the start of a one-year countdown to the launch of domestic services on High Speed 1, Transport Minister Lord Adonis and Southeastern Managing Director Charles Horton travelled from Ashford International to St Pancras International on a Hitachi Class 395 trainset on December 12. The trip took 37 min, arriving at Platform 13 at St Pancras at 09.46.rnFinished in its final Southeastern 'highspeed' livery, the EMU was the second of four pre-production sets being tested ahead of delivery of the rest of the 29-strong fleet from Japan - the first eight cars in the production fleet are due to reach Southampton in late January or early February. Chiaki Ueda, Executive General Manager of Hitachi Europe Ltd's Kail Group, told RBI on December 12 that 'everything is running to time'.