Vivarail News

A very exciting day today as we hosted Robert Llewellyn of Fully Charged to talk about our battery train. Fully Charged is all about electric vehicles and renewable energy so our train certainly pressed all the right buttons!  We'll post the full link when the episode...

We finished a brilliant week at the Railway Industry Innovation Awards on Friday.  Our battery D-Train was highly commended in the Environment category - a fantastic achievement for the whole team as we only began the development a few months ago. As a company we are...

We had a fantastic two days at the Rail Live event this week - where our D-Train was the star of the show.  We provided a shuttle service from Honeybourne on the main Paddington line through to the event, our first opportunity to show off the train! What a brilliant...

As proud members of the Rail Alliance we have been delighted to work with them and RAIL on this year's exciting Rail Live event. To book your ticket (and get a chance to be one of the first to ride on the D-Train!) visit: http://www.raillive.events/ We will be on...

The Class 230 DEMU prototype begins its next set of testing tomorrow.  The train will travel between Evesham and Moreton-in-Marsh on the Cotswold line throughout the day.    The train will leave the Quinton Rail Technology Centre at 11.39 to go to Moreton-in-Marsh,...

We were delighted to meet Paul Haines today, winner of the RAIL cab desk competition.  Paul, a driver with Cross Country, made the trip to Long Marston with his wife, Andrea, to collect the desk. We took a ride on the battery train and had a good look inside the cab...

Vivarail is looking forward to welcoming the very first passengers to its D-Train prototype during the Rail Live 2017 show on 20 and 21 June at the Quinton Rail Technology Centre. D-Train Shuttle Service The D-Train will be run a passenger shuttle from Honeybourne -...

Important information from the Rail Alliance: This memo provides information relating to the Vivarail shuttles from/to Honeybourne station for rail travellers during Visitor Days to Rail Live event (21/22 June 2017) staged at QRTC, Long Marston. INTRODUCTION For those...

These trains can be built and delivered ahead of the forecast schedule due to increased production capacity as we scale up for 2017 and beyond.   The trains are already being prepared for construction at the Quinton Rail Technology Centre.  They can be supplied as...

Class 230 incident 30th December 2016 Whilst undertaking a test run today a fire started in one of the detachable engine modules on one of the power cars.  There were no passengers on the train and Vivarail staff were able to get off without a problem. The fire has...