LU trains lead as Siemens opens £200m Goole factory

Andy Comfort Acting News Editor rail@bauermedia.co.uk

THE UK’s newest train factory was officially opened on October 3. Transport Secretary Louise Haigh and London Mayor Sadiq Khan attended the opening of Siemens Mobility’s Goole Train Manufacturing Facility, where new trains for London Underground’s Piccadilly Line (the first deep-level Tube trains to have air-conditioning) are being assembled. Alongside the opening, Siemens announced an investment of up to £40 million in a new Bogie Assembly and Service Centre, to expand the company’s current capability of overhauling bogies of UK trains. The facility will also include new production lines for assembling bogies for new trains - a first for Siemens in the UK. Some 200 new jobs are expected to be created in the service centre. Eventually, the overall Goole Rail Village (as Siemens is calling the 67-acre site) will…

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