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Railway renaissance at Washwood Heath

It’s only from the air that the Washwood Heath site’s full scale - 65 hectares (160 acres) - can really be appreciated. Washwood Health, in east Birmingham. was formerly home to train manufacturer Alstom and van maker LDV. The majority of the site is now earmarked for HS2’s train maintainance depot and the Network Integrated Control Centre. HS2 LTD.

Having closed several years ago, the site of the old Metro-Cammell factory at Washwood Heath will soon have a new railway use, housing a major HS2 train depot. Peter Plisner visits the site to find out how work’s progressing.

It’s a site that’s steeped in railway history. The factory that stood at Washwood Heath, about a mile outside Birmingham city centre, was the place where (most recently, under the ownership of Alstom) the Class 390 Pendolino tilting trains were assembled.




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