Rail manufacturer Bombardier has been contracted to continue delivering fleet maintenance services for Virgin’s Super Voyager trains fleet that operate on the UK’s West Coast Main Line.
The ongoing maintenance contract has been extended until March 2019 and is valued at nearly £103m.
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Virgin Trains commercial operations director Peter Broadley said: "Clean, reliable and comfortable trains are crucial to delivering the amazing experience our customers expect and Bombardier are critical suppliers in delivering this."
The contract follows after the UK Department for Transport awarded a contract on 19 June to Virgin Trains to continue operating the West Coast Main Line.
The fleet of 20 Super Voyager trains that operate on West Coast main line are currently maintained by Bombardier from its Central Rivers depot in Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire, as well as other outstations across the network.
Bombardier has a new-build train manufacturing factory in Derby, UK, as well as approximately 1,600 service employees based at 23 customer locations and sites to ensure optimum reliability, efficiency and longevity for their fleets.
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By GlobalDataBombardier UK commercial director Des McKeon said: "By the end of this extension, we will have been successfully maintaining their trains for nearly 20 years, delivering excellent performance of the Voyager fleet on the prestigious West Coast route."
Image: Fleet maintenance at Central Rivers, UK. Photo: courtesy of Bombardier.
