Date: 20/07/2018

The first of ScotRail's new Hitachi trains is to finally enter service on Tuesday - ten months late - The Scotsman has learned. The Japanese-built class 385 electric train is due to make its passenger debut on the main Edinburgh-Glasgow line on the 0555 from Edinburgh Waverley to Glasgow Queen Street.

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Long-delayed new ScotRail trains to debut on Tuesday

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The first of ScotRail's new Hitachi trains is to finally enter service on Tuesday - ten months late - The Scotsman has learned.

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I was surprised to come across this Class 385 out and about (on driver training, presumably) as I thought the class was grounded. Have the windows been fixed? I can't tell. Anyway I worked out (without reference to RTT, which is cheating) that it had been to Dunbar and back, making a brief stop here at Prestonpans at the end of the platform, as if for a crew change. Notice the numbers on both sides: just for symmetry?
Location: Prestonpans
Company: North British Railway
23/05/2018 David Panton

ScotRail Unit 385124, recently involved in driver training operations, stabled in the EMU depot at Millerhill on Sunday 10 June 2018. View east across the goods lines from the current limit of the access road serving the Biogen and RERC recycling plants.
Location: Millerhill EGIP Depot
Company: Edinburgh and Dalkeith Railway
10/06/2018 John Furnevel

A view of the brand-new 385102 parked at Gourock while stationed there for night-time testing in January 2017
Location: Gourock
Company: Gourock Extension Railway (Caledonian Railway)
14/01/2017 Jeffray Wotherspoon