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GEC Alsthom Traction Ltd became Alstom Traction Ltd on 22 June 1998 and the company name survived to 19 August 2008, although increasingly integrated within the Transport division of Alstom. The Alstom Transport factory at Preston was the last site of the former GEC Traction to remain open, albeit on a much reduced scale to that in the 1970s ...
Between 1952 and 1954 the depot hosted a number of Class 76 locomotives which were tested on local passenger and freight services. [9] During the 1960s as electrification was extended to Southend, Colchester, Clacton and Walton more EMUs were introduced and allocated to Ilford. In the early 1980s the Class 306s were replaced by Class 315 units.
In November 2013, Alstom announced it planned to raise €1 to €2 billion through sale of some non-core assets, plus the possible sale of a stake in Alstom Transport, and cut 1,300 jobs. [ 48 ] [ 49 ] In 2014, Alstom sold its steam auxiliary components activities (air preheaters and gas-gas heaters for thermal power, other industrial heat ...
In February 2020, Alstom agreed to buy the Bombardier Transportation division and signed a memorandum of understanding to do so, for between €5.8 billion and €6.2 billion. The deal required approval by Alstom shareholders at a meeting held in October 2020, as well as approval by European regulators.
In December 2021, it was announced that a joint venture between Hitachi and Alstom had won the contract to build 54 trains for the High Speed 2 programme. The rolling stock would be constructed at Newton Aycliffe and Alstom plants in Crewe and Derby. [30] However, questions over the future of this order have been raised. [31]
The depot also maintains other stock manufactured by Alstom, including British Rail Class 180 Adelante DMUs and from 2023 will become the home depot, for Avanti's new Class 805 and 807, under a joint train maintenance agreement between Avanti and Hitachi Rail - the manufacturer of the stated trains.
After the closure of Alstom's Washwood Heath plant in 2005, Derby works became the only passenger rolling stock manufacturer in the UK. [1] [2] During mid-2011, Bombardier announced it was to cut 1,400 out of the 3,000 jobs at Derby. In November 2019, following the awarding of several big contracts, Bombardier announced the creation of 400 new ...
Transport UK Group (TUK) is a British transport operator which operates services in England. It commenced operations in February 2023 when it purchased the British assets of Abellio via a management buyout .