UK: Bombardier Transportation and CAF have been selected to supply rolling stock for the next West Midlands franchise, the West Midlands Trains Ltd consortium of Abellio, East Japan Railway and Mitsui & Co announced on October 17.
UK: Greater Anglia has unveiled a full-size mock-up of the interior of the Aventra electric multiple-units ordered from Bombardier Transportation for entry into service on the East Anglia franchise in 2019-20.
New trains being tested in Germany ahead of arrival in Scotland; overseas test facilities being used to speed-up test programme overcoming crowded UK rail network. Passengers in Scotland are a step closer to the arrival of new ScotRail Alliance trains, after the next phase of testing began in Germany.
Arriva Trains Wales has fitted its entire train fleet with driver advisory systems (DAS), transforming them into “much greener machines”. Since the rollout of DAS began in July 2015, 750,000 litres of fuel have been saved – enough to fly an Airbus A320 passenger airliner around the world at least three times, according to Arriva.
TransPennine Express (TPE) has issued the first photo of one of its newly liveried Class 68 locomotives.
