Hitachi in Aycliffe brings jobs and £110m investment
Apprentice welder Callum Crowe working on a train shell at the Weld Workshop, Hitachi Rail, Newton Aycliffe A TRAIN builder's investment at its County Durham factory – which now totals £110million – sees new facilities completed, allowing welding and painting to start on brand new UK passenger trains. New welding and painting facilities will be used to build the next generation of intercity trains for East Midlands Railway and Avanti West Coast at Hitachi, in Newton Aycliffe. Around 40 staff and newly graduated welders and painters will be completing the high-tech aluminium carriag...