Date: 29/06/2018

New electric trains for Scotland's central belt have been approved by rail regulators after their windscreens were replaced over safety concerns. Train drivers' union Aslef had said the curved windscreen on the Class 385s were causing reflections of other signals at night. New flat windscreens will now be fitted to all 70 of the trains. The Office of Rail and Road (ORR) has confirmed the Hitachi trains are safe and licensed to carry passengers.

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New electric trains for Scotland's central belt are approved after their windscreens are replaced.

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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

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

The new ScotRail class 385 electric multiple unit to be built by Hitachi. Artist's impression distributed at the Abellio franchise launch on 1 April 2015.
Location: ScotRail
Company: Abellio
01/04/2015 ScotRail