AHR and Arup have been appointed to design a £200m rail manufacturing facility near Goole in East Yorkshire.

Arup will lead a multi-disciplinary team, supported by architects AHR, to deliver all aspects of the engineering design for the facility, which will include 860,000sq ft of manufacturing, commissioning, warehouse buildings and stabling sidings, as well as an 54,000sq ft office building and welfare facilities.

The plant will manufacture and commission state-of-the-art trains, placing Goole at the forefront of the UK rail manufacturing industry, Siemens Mobility said.

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