NFRIP – Hitachi’s position

The following letter was printed in Modern Railways July 2010 issue. The data supplied by Mr Dormer is also shown here.

NFRIP

I refer to Roger Ford’s article on p27 of the June issue entitled ‘NFRIP – the great leveller’. I would like to apologise to anyone who was offended by the error on agilitytrains.com/case for Inter-city Express Programme (IEP). The NFRIP (National Fleet Reliability Improvement Programme) data available at the time of writing the article for the Agility Trains web site was Period 10, which shows Class 395 as the fourth most reliable fleet in January (our first month of running) however we were in error to say that the Class 395 was the most reliable on Southern routes as this was not correct. Following the publication on the web site, NFRIP data was updated again in mid March for Period 11, leading to Roger Ford’s confusion. We would never knowingly publish anything in error.

ALISTAIR DORMER

Managing Director

Hitachi Rail Europe Ltd

London WC1