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  • Hitachi unveils first UK built Intercity Express Train

    Hitachi unveils first UK built Intercity Express Train

    Hitachi Rail Europe (HRE), a global rail specialist with over 100 years of industry expertise, today celebrates the first Intercity Express (IEP) train to be built in the UK at its manufacturing facility in Newton Aycliffe, County Durham.

  • Hitachi Rail Italy Delivers the Last Tram For Line 2

    Hitachi Rail Italy Delivers the Last Tram For Line 2

    Hitachi Rail Italy has completed the supply for the second line of the urban transport system for the city of Florence and is now going to deliver further 7 trams for Line 3, all within the contractual deadlines.

  • Hitachi Rail Italy: Train Number 1 for Miami Metro is a reality

    Hitachi Rail Italy: Train Number 1 for Miami Metro is a reality

    First Hitachi-made metro unveiled in Florida Hitachi Rail Italy today presented the first vehicle for the new Metro for Miami-Dade County, with the Miami Mayor Carlos Gimenez and the Japanese Consul General Ken Okaniwa in attendance.

  • Prime Minister Renzi visits Hitachi Rail Italy in Pistoia

    Prime Minister Renzi visits Hitachi Rail Italy in Pistoia

    This morning Prime Minister Matteo Renzi visited the Hitachi Rail Italy plant at Pistoia, welcomed by the Global CEO of Hitachi Rail Alistair Dormer, the CEO of Hitachi Rail Italy Maurizio Manfellotto, the CEO of Trenitalia Barbara Morgante and Lorena Dellagiovanna Country Manager of Hitachi Ltd.

  • Unvelied the Train n.1 of the New Taipei Metro

    Unvelied the Train n.1 of the New Taipei Metro

    Hitachi Rail Italy disclosed today, at the plant in Reggio Calabria, the prototype train (in the picture) of the new driverless metro intended for DORTS (Department of Rapid Transit Systems), expression of the local Government of the Municipality of Taipei.

  • Hitachi Rail Italy is Awarded a Contract for the Supply of New Double Deck Regional Trains

    Hitachi Rail Italy is Awarded a Contract for the Supply of New Double Deck Regional Trains

    Hitachi Rail Italy S.p.A. today announced that it was awarded a contract by Trenitalia to build 39 trains with 5 cars each, worth 333 million Euros. The contract award is part of a framework agreement to build up to 300 regional trains, for a total amount of approximately 2.6 billion Euros. The new fleet will operate across the Italian regional network of over 16,000 km.

  • Hitachi Rail Italy is awarded a contract for the supply of new double deck Regional Trains

    Hitachi Rail Italy is awarded a contract for the supply of new double deck Regional Trains

    Hitachi Rail Italy S.p.A. (Hitachi Rail Italy) today announced that it was awarded a contract by Trenitalia to build 39 trains with 5 cars each, worth 333 million Euros. The contract award is part of a framework agreement to build up to 300 regional trains, for a total amount of approximately 2.6 billion Euros. The new fleet will operate across the Italian regional network of over 16,000 km.

  • Hitachi Rail Europe HR team success

    Hitachi Rail Europe HR team success

    The HR team at Hitachi Rail Europe Ltd. (HRE) in Newton Aycliffe is celebrating after being crowned the HR&D team of the year at the North East of England CIPD awards. The Hitachi team was recognised at an industry event for its recruitment and training processes that have seen over 500 new people recruited from over 16,000 applications last year.

  • Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and UK Prime Minister David Cameron visit Hitachi Train Maintenance Centre

    Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and UK Prime Minister David Cameron visit Hitachi Train Maintenance Centre

    Hitachi Rail Europe (HRE) was proud to host Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Prime Minister David Cameron at its recently refurbished North Pole train maintenance centre in West London. As part of a UK visit by the Prime Minister of Japan, Mr Shinzo Abe joined UK Prime Minister David Cameron for a tour of the rail facility, which will serve as one of the maintenance centres for new IEP trains.

  • Hitachi Rail Italy presents the first train of the new Metro of Honolulu

    Hitachi Rail Italy presents the first train of the new Metro of Honolulu

    Directly from Hawaii, Hitachi Rail Italy unveiled yesterday the first of 20, 4-cars vehicles planned for the new metro of Honolulu. Manufactured and assembled in Italy, at the factory in Reggio Calabria, the cars are completed, furnished and equipped with all the foreseen technological innovations, in the HRI site of Pittsburgh in California and transported to Hawaii.

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