industrial buildings special report
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BUILDING PROJECTS
The new Hitachi Intercity Express fleet will be built in Britain
Putting train manufacturing back on track
This summer a new factory opens in the North East of England – the first large-scale railway train building facility to be built in Britain for more than a century. Ray Philpott finds out what makes it special
its heart. This is where the country’s next generation of express trains
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will be made by a resurgent British railway manufacturing sector, following a huge investment by the Japanese bullet train manufacturer Hitachi. Next year, the gigantic Hitachi works at Newton Aycliffe will
begin building a fleet of 122 hi-tech, electric Class 800 Super Express trains – each 140mph-capable train taking 35 days to build from start to finish. From 2017 they will replace the iconic, but rapidly ageing and diesel-powered High-Speed Train (HST) fleet, operating on the Great Western and East Coast Main Lines. Later, they will also supercede 1980s-vintage Intercity 225 electric trains. The creation of the £82 million facility is a cornerstone of
the £5.7 billion Intercity Express Programme (IEP) run by the Department for Transport (DfT) in partnership with Agility Continued overleaf...
swathe of redundant farmland in North East England is being dramatically transformed into a high-tech industrial centre with a gigantic new factory at
‘The gigantic Hitachi works at Newton Aycliffe will begin
building a fleet 122 hi-tech, electric Class 800 Super Express trains – each 140mph- capable train taking 35 days to build from start to finish’
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