MOROCCO IS ACCELERATING! feature - Alstom
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26<br />
event<br />
BADGE OF TRUST<br />
With 47 out of 52 trains in service every day,<br />
the Pendolino fl eet in operation on the UK’s<br />
West Coast Main Line is one of the most<br />
intensively-used in the world, covering almost<br />
17 million miles per year. In recognition<br />
of the strong working relationship between<br />
the two companies, which underpins the<br />
delivery of this world-class intercity service,<br />
Virgin Trains invited <strong>Alstom</strong> to design a special<br />
branding for one of the trainsets and to<br />
rename it <strong>Alstom</strong> Pendolino. Commenting<br />
on the invitation, Paul Robinson, Managing<br />
Director <strong>Alstom</strong> Transport UK and Ireland<br />
said “We fought throughout last winter<br />
to enable Virgin to maintain their services<br />
on the London Glasgow line, when many other<br />
trains were blocked by ice or unable to<br />
run in the snow. This undoubtedly contributed<br />
to Virgin’s highly symbolic decision to<br />
propose joint branding for the train.”<br />
<strong>Alstom</strong> selected the newly branded train<br />
for a special mission in a further illustration<br />
of cross-industry partnership aimed<br />
at bringing benefi ts to passengers.<br />
<strong>Alstom</strong> Pendolino is fi tted with pantograph<br />
and track monitoring equipment which<br />
provides valuable data to train maintainer,<br />
operator and infrastructure operator to help<br />
support improvements in system reliability.