Two Mechan traversers are to be used at Hitachi Rail’s new rail vehicle manufacturing facility in County Durham. The Newton Aycliffe facility is using a pair of 80t traversers developed by ...

A train vital to Britain’s rail transformation has arrived on UK shores- and future carriages will be built in County Durham. The class 800 train, specially designed and built by Hitachi for the ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The losing bidder in one of the UK’s biggest train tenders is considering legal action if Japan’s Hitachi wins ...

Sheffield-based Mechan has installed equipment at a fifth site associated with the Department for Transport’s flagship Intercity Express Programme (IEP). The heavy lifting specialist received two ...

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