Personal Amazon packages could be delivered to seats of rail passengers

HS2 passengers could order Amazon packages to be delivered to their seat, a train manufacturer has claimed.

Bombardier Transporta- tion, which is bidding to win a £2.75 billion contract to build the high-speed trains in a joint venture with Hitachi Rail, is developing technology that would enable clickand-collect services on board.

Martin Rennoldson, sales director at Bombardier, said the 225mph trains would be “very convenient and very passenger-centric”.

He said: “You could preorder your coffee or sandwich. It could be that you pre-order and arrange to collect your Amazon parcels. The train would enable lots of things, so we’d certainly work with the operator to develop the wider passenger experience.”

He added: “The journey that [passengers] take on highspeed rail could be a very productive period for them, not only work-wise, but for their private life, shopping and comfort.”

Amazon customers who do not want items posted to their home because they will not fit through their letterbox can already arrange to collect them from lockers, Post Office branches or shops.

Fifty-four trains will be built. The high-speed trains will run beyond the new lines on existing tracks as far north as Edinburgh and Glasgow.