Arriva Trains Wales | NEW TRAIN CARE DEPOT OPENS AT MACHYNLLETH

ARRIVA OPENS NEW £3 MILLION TRAIN CARE FACILITY

A new purpose-built Arriva Trains Wales train care facility at Machynlleth has been officially opened by David Martin, chief executive of Arriva Plc on Monday 13 August 2007.

Machynlleth Depot Opening The facility creates 10 new jobs in addition to an existing 14 positions and has been specially built to service ATW’s entire fleet of Class 158 Units, which serve the Cambrian routes and other lines across Wales and the English borders.

The dedicated team at Machynlleth is responsible for ensuring that this fleet is maintained to the highest standards of reliability, cleanliness and comfort.

Arriva Trains Wales has invested £3 million in the new facility which has state-of-the-art cleaning and maintenance equipment. These facilities include two full length servicing pits complete with full garage services as well as exterior washing facilities, purpose built cleaning platforms and advanced fuelling facilities.

A key feature of the facility its environmental features which include a water harvester, solar panels, a wind turbine and automatic lighting that dims when there is enough daylight.

David Martin, chief executive of Arriva Plc said: “This is a significant investment by Arriva which demonstrates the company’s commitment to further improving the reliability and standards of our rail services throughout Wales and the Border counties.

Inside Machynlleth Depot This investment is over and above the commitments originally made by Arriva when we took over the Wales and Borders Franchise in 2003.

Arriva Trains Wales managing director Bob Holland said. “This is a further major investment by Arriva in Wales. Until now only nightly routine servicing has been carried out at Machynlleth.

This investment will allow full servicing of all units used on the Cambrian lines at Machynlleth by a dedicated team. Previously they had to go to Cardiff.

Construction work was undertaken by Wrekin and began in November 2006. The depot was completed in August 2007.