High Speed Trains exported to Central America and West Africa certainly caught the attention last year. Richard Clinnick meets Robert Coleman, the Chairman of Romic Consulting Limited, the company behind these deals, and looks at the potentially interesting future awaiting HSTs (and other fleets). When High Speed Trains were withdrawn, en masse, following the introduction of Hitachi Class 80x fleets between 2017 and 2019, many questions were raised regarding their future.