“FUNDING has finally been secured to bring new high-speed trains to the main London to Yorkshire route in a £2.7 billion job-boosting contract. The Government announced that a total of 497 carriages for the East Coast line will be built at Hitachi Rail Europe’s purpose-built factory in Newton Aycliffe, County Durham, creating 730 jobs. The Class 800 trains will start running on the East Coast line in 2018.” Yorkshire Post 16th April 2014 Read more here