Britain's Iargest-ever rolling stock oder goes to Hitachi

摘要

Japanese conglomerate Hitachi has been selected by the Department for Transport to build the next generation of high-speed trains for the UK. It is the most valuable single roiling stock order ever placed for the British railway network.rnThe Agility Trains consortium, which comprises Hitachi, Barclays Private Equity and John Laing, has been given preferred bidder status for the Intercity Express Programme (IEP), narrowly beating the rival Express Rail Alliance (ERA), which was headed by Bombardier and Siemens, together with Angel Trains and Babcock & Brown.