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GB Railfreight prepares for 2024 Tube stock movements

Former Polybulk wagons undergo conversion to barrier wagons at GBRf’s Peterborough wagon maintenance site on September 8. When completed, a repaint will follow. MEL HOLLEY.

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.

In January, Siemens announced that 80% of the 94 nine-car trains would be built at its new £200 million factory in Goole, rather than half as initially planned.




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