Alstom opens academy
TRANSPORT SECRETARY
Chris Grayling has opened Alstom’s Academy for Rail in Widnes. The academy, located alongside
Alstom’s rail technology centre at the same site, is due to take on 20 new apprentices this autumn and will offer a further 30 places to current Alstom staff. The total number of apprentices at the academy is due to rise to 135 by 2021, with 500 apprentices trained over the next five years.
Alstom says young people and mature employees will receive ‘a rounded education’. The academy will work with other education providers to deliver its apprenticeship programmes, with students taking classes at local colleges and learning rail-specific skills at the academy.
Some of the apprentices will work on the repainting of the Virgin Trains Class 390 Pendolino, which is the first project being delivered at the rail technology centre.
Howard to chair Beacon board
LEASING COMPANY
Beacon Rail’s parent firm Beacon Rail Lux Holdings has appointed four new members to its board. Keith Howard joins as chairman of the board. Mr Howard was commercial director at Porterbrook Leasing for nearly 17 years until 2015, and is now a director of Belvoir Consulting. He is also a non-executive advisor t…
