Hitachi cracking woes worsen

 

Nova 1: TransPennine Express unit No 802205 passes Coopies Lane, having just departed from Morpeth with the 07.24 Liverpool Lime Street to Edinburgh on 10 December 2020.
Bill Welsh

In recent months, readers could have been forgiven for assuming the name of this column had changed to ‘Fatigue cracking monthly (incorporating “Informed Sources”)’. And here we go again.

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