The UK's largest ever fleet upgrade picks up the Major Project of the Year award at the 2023 Railway Innovation Awards.
(Permalink) Avanti West Coast Major Project of the Year Pendolino Railway Innovation Awards

Avanti West Coast's Pendolino stripped bare as work on the £117m project to transform the fleet gathers pace.
(Permalink) Avanti West Coast Overhaul Pendolino

The first Avanti West Coast Pendolino has entered Alstom's Widnes depot to mark the start of a £117m investment to refurbish and transform the UK's hardest working fleet.
(Permalink) Avanti West Coast Pendolino

Avanti West Coast runs Pendolino trains without power underneath damaged overhead wires to continue operating planned timetable.
(Permalink) Avanti West Coast Pendolino

The former Alstom factory at Washwood Heath, Birmingham, where Virgins Pendolinos were built, has been demolished to make way for an HS2 maintenance depot. Underground-train manufacturer Metro Cammell, which owned the site before Alstom, built trains for countries across the world at Washwood Heath, including British Rails iconic Blue Pullman as well as most of ...
(Permalink) Alstom Blue Pullman HS2 Metro Cammell Pendolino Washwood Heath