North East rail manufacturer Hitachi will have to repairs hundreds of its train carriages over the next six years after an investigation into a cracking issue that led to mass rail cancellations last year.
Services on LNER, TransPennine Express, Great Western Railway and Hull Trains were cancelled last May when cracks were found on the shell of the Class 800 trains made at Hitachi Rail’s plant in Newton Aycliffe, County Durham.
Now an investigation by the Office of Rail and Road (ORR) has pointed to several factors that could have cause the issue, with the regulator making a number of recommendations that aim to rectify the problem that caused severe disruption to passengers.
