ACEDA Commercial Division Awarded Prestigious Hitachi Rail Contract
ACEDA are planned to start work on the new £82m Hitachi Rail facility in Newton Aycliffe in October 2014. It is expected that the site will be operational from 2015 and will bring around 730 jobs to the region.
The facility will produce high speed trains, computer trains and metro trains. Plans are underway to build a fleet of up to 300 carriages by 2019 for East Coast Mainline.