The bidders competing to build the essential new

Tyne and Wear Metro fleet

Bombardier is a multi- Recent contracts include: national transportation and  London Crossrail and Overground trains aerospace company. The  Regional trains for the east of England transportation division is  Regional trains for the West Midlands based in Germany and has  Suburban trains for Paris a train factory in Derby, Website: www.bombardier.com among worldwide facilities. CAF (Construcciones y Recent contracts include: Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles) is a  Regional trains for the West Midlands Spanish company with  Intercity trains for TransPennine factories in Spain, France,  Regional Trains for the Northern franchise the USA, Mexico and Brazil.  Competing to build trains for HS2 Its new UK train assembly Website: www.caf.net plant in Newport, South Wales, will open this autumn. CRRC is the world’s largest Recent contracts for include: train builder formed when  Suburban train fleet for Chicago (CRRC) two Chinese train  Intercity electric trains for Argentina (CRRC) companies merged in 2015;  Suburban trains for Melbourne (Downer) it has factories in China and  Subway trains for Los Angeles (CRRC) the US. CRRC is in a Website: www.downergroup.com/rail & www.crrcgc.cc/en consortium with Downer, an Australian transport, utilities and infrastructure company and the country’s largest train builder. Hitachi is a Japanese Recent contracts include: industrial conglomerate  Azuma intercity trains for the UK encompassing transport,  Intercity electric trains for Scotland utilities, energy, technology,  Subway trains for Milan Metro health and consumer  Suburban trains for Baltimore, USA products. The Rail division  Regional trains for Italy is based in Japan and Website: www.hitachirail-eu.com includes a UK assembly plant in Newton Aycliffe, County Durham. Stadler is a Swiss company Recent contracts include: owned by its founding family  New fleet for Merseyrail and employees specialising  Regional trains for East Anglia in regional and local trains.  Subway trains for Glasgow It has a UK HQ and  Suburban trains for Cardiff and the Valleys maintenance centre in Website: www.stadlerrail.com/en/ Liverpool. It has factories in Switzerland, Germany, Poland, Belarus, the USA and Spain.

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