Vivarail News

Vivarail is delighted to announce that it has been chosen as preferred bidder to supply a fleet of Class 230 D-Trains to KeolisAmey for the Wales and Borders franchise.  The trains will be the first to come into service as part of the new franchise and will...

Our friends at Fully Charged Show can be seen at Fully Charged Live on 9th and 10th of June at Silverstone ... and so can we! Do come along to join in what promises to be an educational - and thoroughly enjoyable - couple of days. Fully Charged...

It's never been exactly quiet in our workshops but this summer is the most exciting yet.  Right now we are: building trains for the Marston Vale line working through the approvals for 230002 - the UK's first modern production battery train carrying out mainline...

230001 has been busy running on the Cotswold line for continued testing and accumulating mileage. This great shot of the train coming back from Evesham was taken by Peter Tandy and you can check out his other images...

Vintage Trains Ltd is delighted to announce that Cath Bellamy will be taking up the role of Managing Director. Cath has been a senior figure in the UK Rail Industry for the last 25 years during which she has been Managing Director of Chiltern Railways and Hull Trains...

VIVARAIL, which is offering modern low-cost regional trains to the British and international markets using trains built with former London Underground aluminium coach bodies and bogies has completed its first entirely battery powered train and is making progress with...

Lovely photo from Fraser Pithie of 230001 on the Cotswold line for testing ...  

Take a look at his report below or here. It was a pleasure to host Geoff and the London Transport Museum Friends last week!  A lovely group of people and a pleasure to show everyone what we've done to create the Class 230s Follow Geoff in his travels:...

Our first production train is in its final build stage and is due to go out on the network - fully approved for passenger service - by the summer. Photo credit: Ben Jones Battery trains are not new but battery technology is - and Vivarail is leading the way in new and...

We were very lucky to host Robert Llewellyn of Fully Charged Show earlier this year to talk about our market-leading battery train.  Do have a look at the footage below or here. Of course time has moved on since then and our first battery production trains...

Vivarail, the designers and manufacturers of the Class 230 DEMU, today announces new investment to develop their ground-breaking battery D-Train. The Accelerating Innovation in Rail grant competition is run by Innovate UK and Vivarail’s success recognises the huge...