Rail News – Early October 2024
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Siemens Mobility’s Goole Train Manufacturing Facility has been officially opened and is being hailed as a significant milestone in the future of rail transportation in the region.
Alongside the opening, Siemens Mobility has also confirmed an investment of up to £40m in a Bogie Assembly and Service Centre.
The centre will incorporate and expand the company’s current capabilities to overhaul bogies from UK trains, including the 3,224 strong fleet of vehicles it maintains in the UK, and will include production lines for assembling bogies for new trains – a first for Siemens in the UK.
Rail infrastructure provider, Network Rail, has been revealed as the new tenant of the former National College for Advanced Transport and Infrastructure, in Doncaster.
Network Rail has taken over a lease for the site from City of Doncaster Council for 25 years which will continue with the educational purpose of the building on Carolina Way, near Lakeside. The college had been used to train the next aspiring engineers for the partially scrapped HS2 scheme. But it shut down in July 2023 due to low student numbers. Network Rail is a Department of Transport (DfT) public sector arm’s length company responsible for maintaining the national rail network. It will develop the vacant site into a training facility that will offer a range of apprenticeship and trainee engineering opportunities