If the remaining BREL stock is replaced too soon before it reaches end of life its just gonna bring the order gap forward even quicker
A significant part of Airbus is it's defence arm. It's owner is EADS. The French, German and Spanish governments own 25% between them and national governments keep the defence arm going....
Because the mainland European market is much bigger and all the major players have manufacturing capacity there already. Why export from the UK with all the hassle of not being able to properly test stock, transport problems (road/ferry) and the general encumberance that is Brexit. There is really very little to attract the manufacturers to UK assembly for overseas markets.
Hmmmm... Bet that you love Nigel....
Little thing fits through big hole. Big thing doesn't fit through little hole.
Derby had always been a domestic producer, with the occasional export order to countries with a similar loading gauge to ourselves. It's completely unrealistic to expect Alstom (or any of the previous owners of the Derby works) to send European work there, with all the expense of getting it out by road as it won't fit on the rails.
The EU Commission view on the TCA. Note the mention of "public procurement" and avoidance of unfair subsidies.
I remember some export orders from Derby, probably Africa.. My those coaches looked huge. All went out by road, strangely often just after 4pm.
There simply is not enough demand to justify more than one factory in the UK, which means that we have precisely three choices:
Never underestimate the ability of politicians to keep throwing money at something, even if on most fronts it is a bad idea... Train manufacturing policy is far from the only area where this happens, and certainly not the most extreme one
The TGV line is a bit like Airbus, with major components coming from various French factories and transported, mostly by road I believe, to La Rochelle for final assembly.
www.railjournal.com
I thought it was Government policy to choose the most expensive option over the longer term. Get the cost down, do the job twice. Build a new line (EWR) , connecting 5* electrified lines, make it diesel.
Well they will be CrossRail 345 units then.Sunak was in Derbyshire today (at Trent Barton bus) but got asked questions about Alstom at Derby
Prime Minister says Government is doing 'everything it can' to help Alstom
Rishi Sunak was in Derbyshire today (Friday, March 22) to announce new electric bus fleet in the countywww.derbytelegraph.co.uk
Long enough to be past the election date?
I thought there was talk of extra coaches for existing units at one point.
Only on this forum. The practicalities of running 11 coach units on the Elizabeth Line involve significant expenditure.
"The EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement concluded between the EU and the UK sets out preferential arrangements in areas such as trade in goods and in services, digital trade, intellectual property, public procurement, aviation and road transport, energy, fisheries, social security coordination, law enforcement and judicial cooperation in criminal matters, thematic cooperation and participation in Union programmes. It is underpinned by provisions ensuring a level playing field and respect for fundamental rights."
”This means that businesses in the EU and the UK compete on a level playing field and will avoid either party using its regulatory autonomy to grant unfair subsidies or distort competition. The agreement foresees the possibility of adopting rebalancing, remedial, compensatory and safeguard measures.
Both parties can engage in cross-sector retaliation in case of violations of the Trade and Cooperation Agreement. This cross-sector retaliation applies to all areas of the economic partnership."
The EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement
An agreement between the EU and UK that sets out preferential arrangements in trade that go beyond free trade agreements to preserve longstanding cooperation.commission.europa.eu
Core stations are big enough, just lacking platform screen doors. The issue is particularly Heathrow as well as other stations outside the core.
I suspect part of this immediate order is getting some extra 345s or whatever else they might be built before it's too late.
Derby is in a poor position for export work, it isn't near a sea port so any trains built larger than the UK loading gauge have to go a fairly long distance by lorry. Whereas Alstom can drag them by rail if built in Poland (or anywhere else in Europe, or on HS1).
Not really, most of the components are made at Derby or from subcontractors around the UK. The main exception is the traction motors, BREL used to buy these from other UK manufacturers like GEC-Alsthom at Preston. But when Derby became part of Adtranz it could draw them in-house from Sweden.
And I'd imagine all trams get delivered by road, due to their line speed.
345 reliability is atrocious according to data presented monthly in modern railways which is sourced from RDG so Alstom need to fix the underlying problems with the Aventra fleet before anymore are ordered.
