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  • Hitachi on track to recruit for 250 jobs at newly built Doncaster rail depot

    Hitachi Rail Europe is on schedule to employ 250 people at their newly built Doncaster depot. The depot is hiring a brand new team to maintain new fleets of intercity trains inspired by Japanese bullet trains, which are due to start running next year. Hitachi has invested £80m in the Doncaster site to create a facility that is clean, light and packed with the most advanced industry technology.

  • Ansaldo STS presented ERSAT and ERSAT EAV projects: the satellite technology applied to the railway traffic management for the first time in Europe

    Cagliari, February 24th 2017
    ERSAT is the latest generation signaling project that interfaces and integrates – for the first time in Europe – the European Rail Traffic Management System (ERTMS) with the navigation and satellite positioning technology Galileo.
    ERSAT EAV project, which is presented together with Rete Ferroviaria Italiana and Trenitalia in Sardinia today to show how this techno

  • New Hitachi trains for GWR’s Devon and Cornwall route a step closer to entering service

    Passengers travelling towards Devon and Cornwall are one step closer to experiencing new trains as Hitachi Rail’s Italian factory receives bodyshells to start work. Hitachi’s UK manufacturing facility has already built its first train for Great Western Railway. The delivery of trains will transform passenger experience for routes connecting London to Wales and the South West of England.

  • Hitachi Rail Italy wins contract worth 106 million euros for additional 15 “Leonardo” metro trains from ATM

    Hitachi Rail Italy today announced that it has been awarded a contract worth 106 million EUR from Azienda Trasporti Milanesi (ATM) to manufacture an additional 15 “Leonardo” metro trains for the city of Milan. This contract, final option of the framework agreement for 60 trains signed in 2012, concerns the delivery of 9 trains for Line 1, and 6 trains for Line 2 of Milan metro.

  • 150 new jobs created in Bristol area by Hitachi Rail Europe

    Hitachi Rail Europe is recruiting for 150 new roles at their Stoke Gifford depot. The recently built depot is hiring ahead of a new ‘bullet train inspired’ fleet entering service later this year. HRE will build upon the area’s engineering legacy, which includes transportation achievements such as Concorde, to develop a new long-term hub for skilled work.

  • Ansaldo STS signed 44 million AUD signalling and communications contract in Australia

    Genoa, 24th January 2017
    Ansaldo STS has signed a contract worth 44 million AUD (Australian dollars) with Salini Impregilo - NRW Joint Venture (SINRW) to deliver the complete signalling and telecommunications system for Perth’s 8 km Forrestfield - Airport Link rail extension project
    Under the contract awarded to Ansaldo STS by the SINRW, Ansaldo STS will deliver the complete signalling and

  • Trenitalia and Hitachi Rail Italy present Rock

    This is the brand name chosen for the new double deck regional train Hitachi Rail Italy is building for Trenitalia. A mock-up scale 1:1 was unveiled at the Hitachi Rail Italy plant of Pistoia and the construction of the train started. The event was attended by Renato Mazzoncini, FS Italiane, Tiziano Onesti, Trenitalia, Barbara Morgante, Trenitalia, and Maurizio Manfellotto, Hitachi Rail Italy.

  • Works for the technological systems of the High Speed/High Capacity “Terzo Valico dei Giovi” line between Milan and Genoa have been assigned to ANSALDO STS

    11 January 2017, 08:15 am
    On 28th December 2016, the “Saturno Consortium for the undertaking of High Technology Railway works for the Italian High Speed Railway System”, of which Ansaldo STS S.p.A is member, signed a contract with the General Contractor, the Consorzio Collegamenti Integrati Veloci (“COCIV”) for the production of the technological systems for the AV/AC Project (High Speed and Hi

  • First Train for New Driverless Metro unveiled in Taipei

    Hitachi Rail Italy and Ansaldo STS today presented at the new Taipei maintenance facility, the first new driverless metro train (see picture) for DORTS (Department of Rapid Transit Systems), the local transport authority of Taipei Municipality (New Taipei City).

  • Hitachi unveils first UK built Intercity Express Train

    Hitachi Rail Europe (HRE), a global rail specialist with over 100 years of industry expertise, today celebrates the first Intercity Express (IEP) train to be built in the UK at its manufacturing facility in Newton Aycliffe, County Durham.

  • Hitachi Rail Italy Delivers the Last Tram For Line 2

    Hitachi Rail Italy has completed the supply for the second line of the urban transport system for the city of Florence and is now going to deliver further 7 trams for Line 3, all within the contractual deadlines.

  • Hitachi Intercity trains begin digital signalling tests

    Hitachi’s Intercity trains, bound for passenger service on the Great Western route from 2017, have begun testing digital technology designed to create extra capacity and relieve overcrowding on the country’s rail network.

  • Delhi Metro Rail Corp. Ltd awards Ansaldo STS – ZTE Corp. for Indian contract Noida – Greater Noida Metro project

    02 September 2016, 15:30 pm
    DMRC awards Consortium of Ansaldo STS & ZTE Corporation equivalent amount of EUR 38.8 million works for Train Control, Signalling (CBTC) and Telecommunication Systems for Noida-Greater Noida Metro Project.
    The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation Ltd. (DMRC) has been authorized by Noida Metro Rail Corporation (NMRC) to proceed with the implementation of Metro Rail Sys

  • Hull Trains to expand fleet with £60 million deal

    Passengers on the East Coast Main Line are to benefit from the arrival of five brand new Inter City trains, following completion today of a £60 million deal between FirstGroup and Hitachi Rail Europe, financed by Angel Trains.

  • Hitachi Rail Italy: Train Number 1 for Miami Metro is a reality

    First Hitachi-made metro unveiled in Florida Hitachi Rail Italy today presented the first vehicle for the new Metro for Miami-Dade County, with the Miami Mayor Carlos Gimenez and the Japanese Consul General Ken Okaniwa in attendance.

  • Prime Minister Renzi visits Hitachi Rail Italy in Pistoia

    This morning Prime Minister Matteo Renzi visited the Hitachi Rail Italy plant at Pistoia, welcomed by the Global CEO of Hitachi Rail Alistair Dormer, the CEO of Hitachi Rail Italy Maurizio Manfellotto, the CEO of Trenitalia Barbara Morgante and Lorena Dellagiovanna Country Manager of Hitachi Ltd.

  • Ansaldo STS awarded two contracts for signalling in Italy

    Genoa, October 11th 2016
    Ansaldo STS has been awarded two contracts for a total value of EURO 74.8 million related to the signalling of the DD Rome – Florence route of the AC/AV Turin – Milan – Naples line
    The scope of work of Ansaldo STS, in the contracts awarded by RFI (Italian Railway Network), is related to the design and construction of the Ground Subsystem ERTMS/ETCS Level 2, of th

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