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£1bn Crossrail contract confirmed for Bombardier
additional trains.
The nine-car trains will be 200m long and able to carry 1,500 passengers. They will be air conditioned and have inter-connecting walk-through carriages, as well as on-train passenger information systems.
Bombardier has been confirmed to deliver Crossrail’s rolling stock. It will supply, deliver and maintain 65 new trains for up to 32 years, as well as a depot in Old Oak Common.
It will manufacture the trains at its Derby factory and deliver them for use on the existing network between Shenfield and Liverpool
Street from May
2017, ahead of use on the new Crossrail infrastructure from December 2018. The order includes options for 18
Dr Francis Paonessa, MD of Bombardier Transportation UK, said: “This is a resounding endorsement of our proposed Bombardier
Aventra in the UK train
for Crossrail, which has proudly been designed and developed
as
an iconic and world-technology leading train for London.
“Today’s decision is a credit to the efforts of our entire workforce in the UK, including our 1,600 strong Derby-based design, engineering and manufacturing team, who form a global centre of excellence for the rail industry, as well as our outstanding maintenance
teams who support train operators right across the country and particularly in London.”
Phil Garner, engineering project manager for the Aventra trains, said: “The key attributes of the platform are high reliability – 60% better than comparable 12-car EMUs – [and] maintainability. We have got the lightest train in its class.”
Mike Brown, TfL’s MD of LU and London Rail, said: “Bombardier is already supplying LU with 191 new air-con trains for the Metropolitan, Hammersmith & City, Circle and District lines, as well as extra carriages for London Overground, increasing trains from four to five
cars in length, boosting
capacity by 25%. We look forward to working closely with Bombardier on the delivery of all these new trains, as we continue to invest in larger, more frequent and reliable our customers.”
trains for
Bombardier had to lay off 400 full-time and 1,000 agency staff when it lost the £1.5bn Thameslink contract to Siemens in 2011. That decision created a huge political backlash and years of protests, and many campaigners urged the government to ensure the Derby factory won new work.
But heading off any accusations of a political stitch-up, Andrew Wolstenholme, chief executive of Crossrail, said: “Crossrail Limited has conducted this procurement in a fair, objective and transparent manner and in full compliance with the regulatory framework.”
The Derby and Derbyshire Rail
Forum said: “The DDRF
look forward to working with Bombardier, as preferred manufacturer, to ensure that our supply chain members can benefit from this decision, many of whom supply world-leading technology to rolling stock manufacturers across the globe.”
HS2 should be built north to south – Greengauge 21
Councils in the Midlands and the north of England are calling for earlier development of HS2, with more connections to existing stations.
Greengauge 21 looked at local government responses to the consultation on phase 2 of the line and identified a number of themes; for HS2 to be developed from north to south, to be built earlier, with more connections to existing lines in the north and the Midlands, and with complementary investment to deliver good transport access to HS2 stations.
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The Crewe-Lichfield segment of phase 2 and Manchester Piccadilly’s station should be built in the mid-2020s, with a new integrated station at Crewe. A section of HS2 in Yorkshire should be advanced to relieve congestion and very slow sections of the existing network, Greengauge 21 suggested.
A short link between HS2 and the Midland Main Line would also provide access to Derby.
Greengauge 21 director Jim Steer said:
“Looking
at investment in new lines and the existing network
together in the north and Midlands in the way we have identified is likely to lead to the discovery of ways to reduce overall project costs as well as advance the economic benefits for the North.
“And it is essential to realise that experience across Europe has shown us that regeneration can start in locations served by high- speed rail in advance of its opening. Anticipation, once it is clear this type of investment is going to happen, is enough to attract the development community.”
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