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Hitachi Intercity Express Trains (IETs): problems with them, ongoing discussions
 
Re: Hitachi Intercity Express Trains (IETs): problems with them, ongoing discussions
Posted by grahame at 17:42, 26th December 2025
 
If anyone has issues, comments or suggestions, please do contact me -
Chris from Nailsea.

We DO have our heartfelt thanks to add, Chris.  I suppose that comes under "comment"s.

Hitachi Intercity Express Trains (IETs): problems with them, ongoing discussions
Posted by Chris from Nailsea at 17:23, 26th December 2025
 
News from an Administrator's desk, here on the Coffee Shop forum:

Over the years, since they arrived, we have discussed many issues relating to these trains. The sheer number of pages of posts here on this forum was well over 200 .

I have therefore tried to break things down into rather more manageable chunks, by splitting / merging topics - generally in date-related order.  There are now three main topics related to our 'problems with Hitachi Intercity Express Trains - ongoing discussions'.  Click on the link to take you to the topic:

IETs into passenger service from 16 Oct 2017 and subsequent performance issues

Problems with Hitachi Intercity Express Trains - posts from April 2021

Problems with Hitachi Intercity Express Trains - ongoing discussion since 2022

I know that there are still many more, perhaps smaller, topics where similar issues have been discussed, and I will continue to review those and perhaps merge them, where appropriate.

This is all done in my spare time (I'm a pensioner now ) for my own enjoyment, and purely in the interests of clarity and ease of future reference for our members and readers. If anyone has issues, comments or suggestions, please do contact me - my details are all in my forum profile here.

Chris from Nailsea.

 
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