Siemens Mobility has secured a maintenance contract for trains operated by TransPennine Express, according to railway portal Railway Supply, citing Siemens Mobility.

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The contract, valued at 530 million euros, is for a duration of 8 years until 2031. While most of the fleet monitoring is done remotely, the maintenance will provide approximately 200 jobs in northern England.

The Class 185 trains, owned by Eversholt Rail Leasing and leased to TransPennine Trains, have been operated by Siemens Mobility since 2006.

The maintenance and technical support contract covers 51 Class 185 trains originally manufactured by Siemens Mobility. They are equipped with the Railigent X cloud-based application suite.

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This means that the fleet monitoring is done remotely. It also means that the maintenance teams receive specific updates on the performance of each individual train unit, enabling more targeted work.

The trains operate on the Manchester-Sheffield-Cleethorpes and Manchester-Hull routes. Therefore, the majority of the maintenance work will be conducted at the Ardwick depot in Manchester.

Other maintenance centers are located in York and Cleethorpes. Siemens Mobility operates a total of 13 such maintenance facilities in the UK.

There are 572 Siemens-built trains running on the railway tracks in the UK, accounting for approximately a quarter of all trains in the country. In total, the company services 587 units.

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