This from the Railway Gazette...
UK: Spanish rolling stock manufacturer CAF has selected the Celtic Business Park at the Llanwern steelworks site near Newport in South Wales as the location of its future UK factory.
Indeed.
And a big #RailwayFamily welcome to CAF.
You got to be in it, to win it!
This from Nottingham headquartered BWB Consultancy...
BWB, one of the UK’s leading design engineering consultants, is set to embark on significant expansion in the UK and abroad after becoming part of the global transport engineering giant CAF Group.
A multi award-winning business which delivers advice and solutions to clients in the property, development and construction industries, BWB employs more than 300 people across seven offices covering England’s main cities and has an annual turnover of more than £23m.
CAF, which is headquartered in Spain and has annual revenues in excess of €1.3 billion, designs, manufactures, maintains and supplies equipment and components for rail systems across the globe.
In addition to rolling stock, CAF provides integrated rail solutions for all types of rail systems - feasibility studies, design of civil engineering, electrification and signaling works, maintenance and system operation services.
An Eye chum in Europe has sent the following screen grab...
This from the Grauniad...
"There is a process we are legally bound to follow and we will follow
that process. I'm not saying there won't be [a UK supplier] but we are
honour bound by the process. Everybody in the UK would like a UK
supplier to win that contract. It would be a huge fillip for UK
industry. That decision will be taken by the Crossrail board."
Hammond
said that though the Thameslink network's 1,140 new carriages would be
built in Germany there was a big benefit from the project for Britain's
wider supply chain.
Quite so.
Let's hope it's not a maiden over on the 5th February...
UPDATE: This from Boadicea...
According to Global Rail News:
Deutsche Bahn (DB) and the German Railway Industry Association (VDB) have agreed to work more closely together to encourage greater collaboration with the domestic supply chain.
The partnership will strengthen ties between DB and the rail industry and involve German suppliers earlier in the development of new vehicles for the network.
A formal agreement was signed between DB chief executive Rüdiger Grube, DB’s rail technology lead Heike Hanagarth and the president and vice president of VDB Michael Claus Ecker and Jürgen Wilder in Berlin earlier this week.
No shit Sherlock!
No doubt RIA and the DfT are already on the case?
This just in from Adge Cutler...
It is good to see that the strong representation of West Country folk in the English community around Zaragossa has been recognised by CAF when naming their new high speed train concept.
Train names nowadays are designed to be pronounceable in any European language, so the Wurzels will be entering next year's Eurovision song contest with a tribute to the CAF Ooarris.
Oi've got a bran new 'igh speed train concept.
An' you can have a total train service provisioon contract
UPDATE: This, unbelievably, from Long John Silver somewhere on the Spanish Main...
'Old 'ard, Adge me 'earty.
Them devil dogs of Spain be tryin' to publicise their Ooarris train to the in'ernational pirate community
'Ere be our website
UPDATE: This from Jake the Pake...
G'day, Cobbers
The Spanish community here in mutlicultural Oz reckon that the new train is named after there adopted Cultural Icon Rolf.
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