Hitachi Rail Italy and Ansaldo STS take part in the annual event organized by the American Public Transportation Association (APTA) in Atlanta. APTA is an important opportunity for the rail sector involving manufacturers, suppliers and experts from all over the world. Focus for the two companies will be on products destined for the American market, including the new metro for Baltimore.
Hitachi Rail Italy and Ansaldo STS – since 2015 part of the Hitachi Group – will participate to the exhibition with a joint booth in which they will present their technology and their innovation that places them among the main players of the sector. EXPO Ferroviaria represents an important showcase for the two companies, as well as an opportunity of discussion and business in their own Country.
Hitachi Rail Italy and Trenitalia have invited the associations of disabled persons and consumers to Pistoia to show them in advance the real scale mock-up of the new Rock regional train and meet with Hitachi’s and Trenitalia's designers and technicians. The mock-up of the train will be the protagonist of the road show that from next October will present it in the main Italian squares.
Passengers in Scotland are a step closer to the arrival of new ScotRail Alliance trains, after the next phase of testing began in Germany.
A new intercity train bound for passengers next year reached a major test milestone today as it reached Edinburgh station for the first time.
Hitachi Rail, one of the largest builder and maintainer of trains in the UK, has launched a new national apprentice and graduate programme.
Virgin’s state-of-the-art Azuma train has visited Scotland for the first time on Wednesday 16th August as part of plans to transform Edinburgh-London rail journeys.
On Tuesday 8th August, the first of Great Western Railway’s Intercity Express Trains for Devon and Cornwall carried out test runs in Somerset, between Bruton and Cogload. Two more trains are due to arrive in the South West within the coming weeks as part of a comprehensive test programme.
Genova, 1st August 2017
We hereby announce that the eight edition of Ansaldo STS’s annual Sustainability Report for the year 2016 has been made available to the public on the Company’s website today.
The Board of Directors approved the 2016 edition drafted in compliance with the G4 “Sustainability Reporting Guidelines ”In Accordance Core” option.
This Report was subject to the limi
Hitachi’s new intercity trains, due to enter passenger service this autumn, have passed tests to run their digital technology required by the Department for Transport. The UK-built fleet, known as the Class 800s, is among the first in the country to successfully test an advanced level of digital signalling.
Hitachi Ansaldo Baltimore Rail Partners, LLC, a company established between Hitachi Rail Italy SpA and Ansaldo STS USA, Inc. (the US subsidiary of Ansaldo STS SpA), has been awarded a $400.5 million contract from Maryland Transit Administration (MTA) to provide a new metro fleet of railcars and a Communication Based Train Control (CBTC) system for the Baltimore Metro Subway Link.
Hitachi’s new intercity trains, due to enter passenger service this autumn, have passed tests to run their digital technology required by the Department for Transport.
