High Speed 2 Line: Rolling Stock

(asked on 10th December 2021) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the HS2 contract awarded to a Hitachi and Alstom joint-venture, whether there will be two separate types of train, (a) classic compatible trains, and (b) trains dedicated to high-speed lines.


Answered by
Baroness Vere of Norbiton Portrait
Baroness Vere of Norbiton
Parliamentary Secretary (HM Treasury)
This question was answered on 20th December 2021

The 54 trains contracted from the Joint venture are conventional compatible trains only.

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