August 19, 2024
Hitachi Rail has agreed to acquire Thales’ Ground Transportation Systems business for an enterprise value of €1,660m. The final purchase price will be determined after customary adjustments typical for a transaction of this nature. The acquisition is expected to close...
Hitachi Rail, train operators, and government have agreed, with oversight from the Office of Rail and Road, a service recovery plan to safely reintroduce more 800 Series and 385 Series trains to the network. The fleet of 800 series trains...
The Rail Alliance is the UK’s largest business community of over 820 members across the UK and further afield. It operates at the heart of the rail industry supply chain, supporting business growth and product development activities.. Rail Alliance members...
Woodland Group, one of the UK’s largest privately owned logistics companies, has today launched new rail freight connected services at iPort Rail, Doncaster. The service begins this month and moves containers between ports of Felixstowe and Southampton with further services...
Hitachi Rail has completed the acquisition of Perpetuum, a British rail technology firm that continues to pioneer digital solutions that dramatically improve train reliability and performance. With the deal complete, Perpetuum’s digital solutions will further improve, optimise and expand the...
Hitachi Rail Washington, LLC. (“Hitachi Rail”) has been awarded a contract worth up to $2.2 billion with the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (“Metro”) to design and build 256 of the 8000-series railcar vehicle. The Contract includes options, if exercised,...
Hitachi Rail Starts Welding Brand New British Trains as Investment in North East Factory Reaches £110m • Watershed moment for train building in the North East as Hitachi Rail starts welding new passenger trains at its factory in the Sedgefield...
Railway MGVs Support Maintenance Operations : Just because it’s made for the Rail industry doesn’t necessarily mean it has to run on rails. Manually guided vehicles as well as automatically guided vehicles are often found moving between tracks in order...
Hitachi Rail Announces 250 Jobs Could Be at Risk : Hitachi Rail EU has announced that up to 250 members of staff at its Newton Aycliffe factory could potentially lose their jobs in the coming weeks. The company’s factory at...
Warnings Against Scaling Back HS2 Project : Cancelling the eastern extension of HS2 that connects to Leeds and Sheffield, would be “out of touch” with the expectations of Northern leaders, according to Transport for the North (TfN). Earlier this year,...
