Japanese bullet train order set for UK network

July 23rd 2012

Japan’s bullet train technology is coming to the UK, with the Department for Transport expected to announce a £1 billion order with Hitachi before the Olympics.

The carriage shells will be built in Japan and then assembled in the UK, creating around 500 new jobs.

Five-hundred new carriages, which will use the same technology as the Shinkansen bullet trains, will be introduced to the network around 2016.

The new trains will replace the Intercity 125s, which were first introduced to the network in 1976, and will run between Paddington, Bristol and Cardiff.

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