First Trenitalia Chooses Hitachi Rail to Build New Intercity Trains for Avanti West Coast

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TOKYO, Dec 6, 2019 - (JCN Newswire) - First Trenitalia, whose new Avanti West Coast rail service starts on Sunday 8 December, has today awarded a contract worth more than GBP350m to Hitachi Rail to provide and maintain 23 new intercity trains (135 carriages), to be built at its County Durham factory.

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