Green Signals23 Okt 2024

Exclusive! Alstom Derby Litchurch Lane visit & MD Nick Crossfield interview

Green Signals was exclusively invited to visit Alstom’s Derby Litchurch Lane train building and maintenance works to have a look around in the wake of the news earlier in the year that a follow-on order would be made for Elizabeth Line trains – securing the future the site. Richard speaks to a process manufacturing engineer who started as an apprentice, and to Alstom’s Communications Director about the Railway 200 The Greatest Gathering event that will be taking place at the site in 2025. Principally, he speaks to Nick Crossfield, Managing Director for UK & Ireland for Alstom about prospects for the future and the outlook for the rolling stock market in the UK. In this episode: (00:00) Intro (02:48) Interview with Chloe Turnbull, Process Manufacturing Engineer, Alstom (06:08) South Western Railway Class 701 Arterio on Derby Litchurch Lane test track (07:22) Interview with Nick Crossfield, Managing Director UK& Ireland, Alstom (08:27) What did the news of an Elizabeth Line order do for Derby? (11:32) Is Derby being a political topic helpful? (13:06) Can we do anything about feast and famine in the rolling stock market? (15:20) Is boom and bust a British problem? (17:05) Is there potentially too much train building capacity in the UK? (19:23) Why does train procurement take so long in the UK? (25:19) Does DfT involvement have an impact? (27:45) The future of Derby Litchurch Lane (37:50) Does Labour's change of approach cause concern? (41:23) Has Derby downsizing too much? (45:08) Nick Crossfield's memories of Alstom (51:11) Plans for The Greatest Gathering - Ben Goodwin interview

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