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Birmingham Post
Birmingham Post
Business
David Laister

£106m rail R&D investment gives the green light to Goole centre of excellence

Funding has been secured for a world-leading railway research and innovation centre at Goole’s emerging rail village as part of a £106 million package.

The University of Birmingham, supported by Siemens Mobility, has been awarded £15 million by the UK Research Partnership Investment Fund to support long-held plans to establish such a facility beside the huge manufacturing plant.

Working with fellow academics from the University of Huddersfield, the Centre of Excellence for Railway Through-Life Engineering is expected to open in 2025. It will provide cutting-edge facilities to support the build, service, maintenance, and modernisation of railway rolling stock with a focus on robotics, sensing, and automation.

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