Bombardier Transportation unveiled its new testing and commissioning facility at its UK design and manufacturing site in Derby.
The new testing and commissioning facility features four train roads taking trains up to 250m in length. Each train road has full length overhead lines and vehicle servicing and inspection pits and is fully accessible by rail at both ends, connecting it to the existing test track and production facilities. The facility provides a fully flexible multi functional capability, being able to be configured for both initial engineering type-testing on multiple trains and for final acceptance testing and validation.
“This new £12 million facility is one of the biggest investments in the history of our Derby site and ‘V’ Shop (as the finished test facility will be known) will be a fundamental part of both our current projects and future train builds, enhancing our ability to deliver all the stages of a new train product from a single UK site. It increases our capacity to deliver high volume orders within short timescales, ensuring we meet the future requirements of the UK market,” Richard Hunter, Managing Director, Bombardier Transportation UK said.
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