Noel Travers has been appointed as the new managing director and head of projects for Bombardier Transportation UK.
Travers takes the place of Francis Paonessa who is joining Network Rail as the organisation’s head of infrastructure projects.
Bombardier has said that Peter Doolin, who joined the company in 2010 as senior director for Multiple Unit projects, will retain responsibility as head of projects for Crossrail and London Underground.
Both appointments report directly to Laurent Troger, president, Western Europe, Middle East and Africa Division.
Troger said: “These appointments endorse the excellent and experienced management team that we have in place in the UK and will continue to ensure our total focus on project delivery, quality and customer satisfaction.”
As Bombardier are continuing building more Electrostars for Southern, London Overground and the S-Stocks which is now operated on the Metropolitan (S8), Circle and Hammersmith & City Lines (S7) and some routes on the District Line (Richmond-West Ham, Wimbledon-West Ham, Earls Court-Edgware Road, Kensington Olympia-Earls Court/West Ham, Richmond-Edgware Rd & Wimbledon-Edgware Rd) with the Upminster-Ealing Broadway/Wimbledon/Richmond routes that the D78 stocks are still operating on will be scrapped in 2015 with the S7 Stocks taking over the remaining District Line routes.
Bombardier would of consider building more Class 379 Electrostars for Abellio Greater Anglia as they built 30 for the Cambridge service and the Stansted Express to/from Liverpool St & Stansted Airport.
Abellio Greater Anglia would benefit having new trains to be built by Bombardier to cascade the Class 321’s, Class 317’s and the London-Norwich Intercity fleets with Class 153’s & Class 156’s also to be cascaded with more Class 170’s to be used on Rural routes or future electric trains if electrification happens on the Rural lines in East Anglia.