Preparations are under way for the start of GB Railfreight’s contract to move brand new Piccadilly Line trains from East Yorkshire to London.
Manufacturing of the £1.5 billion order by Siemens started in Austria in August 2021. The first train is now being tested at Siemens’ Wegberg-Wildenrath Test and Validation Centre in Germany.
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