New contracts build on an existing agreement to upgrade the line's signalling system with Hitachi Rail's cutting-edge electronic ETCS Level 2 interlocking.
Siemens Mobility has signed a major framework agreement for 50 Vectron locomotives with RIVE Private Investment, an independent European investment group and parent company of Northrail.
The Electrostar trains will be used by the UK’s largest railway franchise on their Great Northern network, connecting London King’s Cross with Cambridge, Peterborough and King’s Lynn.
Construction has now commenced to further modernise Porterbrook’s Long Marston Rail Innovation Centre (RIC) in Warwickshire with a 3.5km electrified track.
After the official presentation to the press of the Stadler TRAMLINK on 19 February, Azienda Transporti Milanesi S.p.A. (ATM) has started regular services the next day in Milan.