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Disruption to Scotland-London rail services due to cracks in trains is expected to continue for weeks.
(Permalink) Cancellations Class 800 GWR Hairline cracks Hitachi LNER

Passengers on Britain's intercity rail services face a third day of disruption as engineers continued to check high-speed trains for cracks. Trains between London and the south-west and between London and Scotland on the East Coast line are affected.
(Permalink) Cancellations Class 800 GWR Hairline cracks Hitachi LNER

Several ScotRail trains have been found to have hairline cracks as part a widespread safety investigation also affecting other operators such as LNER, The Scotsman has learned.
(Permalink) Class 385 Hairline cracks Hitachi ScotRail

Rail passengers in parts of the UK are continuing to experience delays after a number of high-speed trains have been removed from service due to hairline cracks.
(Permalink) Cancellations Class 800 GWR Hairline cracks Hitachi LNER

Hitachi apologises after cracks found in some of its trains lead to services being cancelled. [See also item on 27/04/2021 and the Railway Magazine of 03/05/2021.]
(Permalink) Cancellations Class 800 GWR Hairline cracks Hitachi LNER


Clayhills Yard: Saturday's 07:52 & 09:52 LNER Azuma trains parked up at Clayhills due to cracks being found in the Class 800 bogies.
Duncan Ross 08/05/2021

Rail passengers are being told to cancel travel plans after a number of high-speed Scotland-London trains had to be taken out of service as a 'precautionary measure' when hairline cracks were found.
(Permalink) Cancellations Class 800 GWR Hairline cracks Hitachi LNER

Cracks were discovered during routine maintenance of two Hitachi 800 trains.
(Permalink) Class 800 GWR Hairline cracks Hitachi

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