Siemens Mobility: £200m rail manufacturing plant opens in Goole

Yorkshire Post

A new plant that will supply 8 per cent of London's rail transport has opened in Yorkshire.  The Grand Opening of the Goole Rail Village, their state-of-the-art £200 million facility in Goole, will play a pivotal role in producing the next generation of trains for the UK, including the highly anticipated new Piccadilly Line trains for Transport for London (TfL). Talking is Sambit Banerjee, joint CEO and Managing Director of Rolling Stock & Customer Services UKI.   Video by James Hardisty

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00:00I am Sambit Banerjee, Joint CEO, Siemens Mobility for UK and Ireland.

00:06We are here in our Manufacturing Assembly Facility in Gould, Rail Village.

00:12I'm standing in front of a Piccadilly Line train under manufacturing and we are so proud

00:19to open our factory to continuous production from today onwards.

00:25We are looking for a long and sustainable future for rail manufacturing in Gould.

00:31We need continuity of orders, train orders and particularly the next in the line from

00:38TfL for Piccadilly Line to keep Gould into continuous production for the next decade.

00:45And this is what we are here celebrating together, apprenticeships, skills, communities, diversities

00:54and a net zero or net gain environmentally friendly manufacturing assembly village in

01:03Gould.

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