N700S、台湾へ！ 日本車両が台湾新幹線の新型車両を受注 日立を通じて納入へ
N700S goes to Taiwan. Nippon Sharyo got business for new rolling stocks of Taiwan High Speed Rail. They will be delivered through Hitachi.
https://news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/e8eb1fc9055ac04df2c560cd4644fc978f184ebe
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Nippon Sharyo announced new rolling stocks for Taiwan High Speed Rail from April 26, 2024.
About the rolling stocks for Taiwan High Speed Rail, Hitachi Toshiba Supreme Consortium（HTSC）, which consists of Hitachi, Toshiba, and Toshiba Infrastructure Systems received order for 144 cars. Nihon Sharyo will manufacture some of them.
The rolling stocks are designed on the basis of N700S series, which are currently used by JR Central.
They will be delivered to Taiwan via Hitachi from 2026.
As far as the train manufactured in Japan, it's been approximately 19 years since 700T series train, which was based on 700 series train, was delivered to Taiwan High Speed Rail.
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I am looking forward to seeing the exterior color of the new train.
