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Title: Super Express announced Post by: lj3 on February 12, 2009, 15:35:30 It seems that Agility Trains, Hitachi, have won the bid for the new "Super Express" HST replacement.
http://www.agilitytrains.com/ http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7885873.stm http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2009/feb/12/super-express-train-jobs-row Unions don't appear to be happy... The new train appears to be a hybrid allowing diesel working for the GWML and MML and electric for everyone else. This seems to rule out the earlier idea of electrifing the entire mainline railway system and building one type of train only. There don't seem to be too many technical details yet, but the train looks remarkably like the Javlin Class 395 train. The train visuals are for a very short train with a diesel loco at one end and an electric car at the other end with four carriages between. Hopefully this is only for illisturation purposes. The interior also looks very "suburbian" "metro" style, not at all "intercity" and comfortable. Hopefully this is also just for demonstration. Title: Re: Super Express announced Post by: tramway on February 12, 2009, 16:12:23 Also being discussed here lj3, although I have to admit the title isn't a dead giveaway.
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