Global Centre of Rail Excellence news

  • GCRE - Overview
    Rail Business UK

    GCRE still hopeful of securing investment in Welsh test facility

    2024-10-14T11:00:00Z

    UK: Representatives of the planned Global Centre for Rail Excellence test facility in South Wales have agreed that securing funding is challenging but reiterated their hope that it can be secured soon. Speaking to Rail Business UK at the InnoTrans trade fair in Berlin, GCRE noted ...

  • GCRE competition InnoTrans 2024
    Rail Business UK

    GCRE launches international innovation competition

    2024-10-02T04:00:00Z

    UK: The Global Centre of Rail Excellence launched a rail innovation competition in partnership with Innovate UK and the Department for Business & Trade at the InnoTrans trade show in Berlin. The £500 000 competition asks teams to address thematic rail challenges including minimising degradation of ...

  • GCRE - Crossrail International
    Rail Business UK

    Partnership to share well-respected UK rail expertise worldwide

    2024-09-27T11:00:00Z

    UK: The Global Centre of Rail Excellence and the Department for Transport’s arm-length rail consultancy body Crossrail International have signed a partnership agreement to support the development and delivery of major rail infrastructure projects around the world. Speaking at the InnoTrans trade fair in Berlin, GCRE ...

  • Turkish electrification firm targets UK rail market (Photo GCRE)
    Rail Business UK

    Turkish electrification firm targets UK rail market

    2024-09-26T11:00:00Z

    UK: Turkish overhead electrification equipment manufacturer Ulusoy Raylı Sistemler has a signed a memorandum of understanding to use the future Global Centre of Rail Excellence in South Wales for product development and commercial showcasing as part of its planned expansion into the UK market. Ulusoy produces ...

  • GCRE event
    Rail Business UK

    Innovation in Railway Construction funding announced

    2024-01-23T04:00:00Z

    UK: Funding to test rail infrastructure technology has been awarded in the second round of the Innovation in Railway Construction competition. The first round covered feasibility studies, and the second round provides funding to take the ideas to concept stage at the Global Centre of Rail ...

  • GCRE
    Rail Business UK

    Rail research co-operation

    2023-11-15T04:00:00Z

    UK: The Global Centre of Rail Excellence and Swansea University have signed a memorandum of understanding to collaborate in research at the future test track which is under construction in South Wales. ‘Swansea has some sector-leading strengths in key areas including rail technology, engineering and ...

  • Ricardo and GCRE
    Rail Business UK

    Ricardo to advise GCRE on certification and approvals

    2023-10-20T11:00:00Z

    UK: Certification and engineering consultancy Ricardo is to work with the Global Centre of Rail Excellence to help define what the global rail sector requires from infrastructure and rolling stock test and research facilities. There will be a particular focus on how on-site approvals and certification ...

  • GCRE aerial landscape overview
    Rail Business UK

    University rail research hub at GCRE awarded funding

    2023-07-07T07:34:00Z

    UK: A Centre of Excellence for Railway Testing, Validation & Customer Experience is to be established by the universities of Birmingham, Cardiff and Swansea backed with £15m of funding from the UK Research Partnership Investment Fund. The University of Birmingham’s Birmingham Centre for Railway Research & ...

  • 5TH-GCRE-Overview
    Rail Business UK

    Private sector invited to tender for Global Centre of Rail Excellence stake

    2023-04-27T11:00:00Z

    UK: Pre-qualified organisations have been invited to tender to take a majority stake in the Welsh government-owned company which is developing the Global Centre of Rail Excellence in South Wales. The procurement process began in January, and the pre-qualified bidders have now progressed to the next ...

  • GCRE site
    Rail Business UK

    Hitachi partnership to underpin GCRE’s net zero aim

    2023-04-19T11:35:00Z

    UK: The Global Centre of Rail Excellence has agreed a technology development partnership with Hitachi, and procured a Static Frequency Converter to support planned electrification of the railway test facility.

  • Furry + Frey moveable electrification concept
    Rail Business UK

    Innovation in Railway Construction grants awarded

    2023-03-07T05:00:00Z

    UK: A test section of overhead electrification which can be raised or lowered to provide different contact wire gradients and to assess whether bridges actually need to be raised or speed restrictions imposed during electrification projects is one of 24 proposals awarded a grant from the ...

  • Global Centre for Rail Excellence
    Rail Business UK

    Global Centre of Rail Excellence promoters confident as investment search ramps up

    2023-01-27T08:00:00Z

    Rail Business UK visits the future site of the Global Centre of Rail Excellence in South Wales, as promoter GCRE Ltd steps up its search to find an outside investor able to attract £330m in funding to fulfil its vision. Nick Kingsley reports.

  • GCRE
    Rail Business UK

    Funding available for rail construction innovation projects

    2022-12-08T15:08:00Z

    UK: Innovators from across the UK are being invited to submit proposals for the Innovation in Railway Construction Competition, which is making £7·44m available for ideas which could be tested at the Global Centre of Rail Excellence in South Wales. The competition is being run by ...

  • GCRE site
    Rail Business UK

    Global Centre of Rail Excellence seeks strategic investment partner

    2022-11-23T15:59:00Z

    UK: The Global Centre of Rail Excellence has invited investors to express interest in taking an equity stake to support the next phase of development of the planned test centre in South Wales. Project promoter GCRE Ltd is currently wholly owned by the Welsh government, and ...

  • GCRE site
    Rail Business UK

    GCRE and Singapore Land Transport Authority to work together

    2022-11-11T05:20:00Z

    INTERNATIONAL: Singapore Land Transport Authority and the Global Centre of Rail Excellence in Wales have signed a memorandum of understanding to work together in rail testing and asset management activities.

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    Rail Business UK

    UK railway news round-up

    2022-11-10T05:52:00Z

    This week’s round-up of business news from the UK railway industry.

  • GCRE site
    Rail Business UK

    Land acquired for Global Centre of Rail Excellence

    2022-10-28T11:42:00Z

    UK: The 700 ha site for the Global Centre of Rail Excellence research and testing facility at the former Nant Helen opencast site and Onllwyn washery has formally been acquired from mining company Celtic Energy, the Welsh government’s Economy Minister Vaughan Gething has announced. Outline planning ...

  • GCRE-SIte Plan August 2022
    Rail Business UK

    Global Centre of Rail Excellence to hold ‘meet the buyer’ event

    2022-10-13T08:00:00Z

    UK: The Global Centre of Rail Excellence is to hold a ‘meet the buyer’ event for potential suppliers in Cardiff on November 2, ahead of the award of contracts with an estimated value of £250m. Formal procurement is expected to get underway in early 2023. ‘We’re ...

  • GCRE
    Organisations

    Global Centre of Rail Excellence Ltd (GCRE)

    Established with support from the Welsh government in 2021, the GCRE is to provide rolling stock and infrastructure testing facilities using purpose-built test tracks: 6·9 km high-speed outer loop for running at up to 185 km/h; 4·5 km low-speed inner loop for running at up to 64 km/h, specifically ...

  • Class 360/2 EMUs
    Rail Business UK

    Test centre acquires former Heathrow Connect EMUs

    2022-10-04T14:40:00Z

    UK: The Global Centre of Rail Excellence has acquired three Class 360/2 EMUs which will be made available for testing ETCS, novel train control, traction systems and other innovations at the test centre which is being developed in South Wales. The 25 kV 50 Hz EMUs ...