Transforming everyday journeys for passengers across Scotland
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Siemens Mobility in Scotland
Proudly supporting Scotland’s railway
Our 250+ colleagues in Scotland are passionate about keeping people and freight moving around the country – we are there from the first mile to the last.
By leveraging our expertise in train maintenance, electrification, signalling and telecommunications delivery, we’re working closely with our partners in Scotland to help them achieve their ambitious decarbonisation goals.
Our people in Scotland
From apprentices and design engineers to project managers and operations leaders, our colleagues across Scotland are designing signalling systems, maintaining the ScotRail Class 380 fleet, delivering electrification projects, keeping Edinburgh's trams running, and reopening lines that have been closed for decades.
They come from all walks of life – career changers, military veterans, first-generation university graduates – united by a shared passion for transforming rail in Scotland.
Check out these videos from our colleagues.
Campbell Braid, Operations Director for Scotland says:
“Transforming Scotland’s railway can only be achieved through genuine collaboration.
At Siemens Mobility, we work closely with Scotland’s Railway, our partners and the wider supply chain to bring together technology, people and long term thinking.
By combining digital and physical innovation with local expertise, we are committed to helping deliver a safer, more sustainable and more resilient railway for Scotland.”
- Siemens Mobility employs more than 250 people in Scotland, providing significant infrastructure works, technical support and maintenance to improve efficiency and help meet Scotland’s decarbonisation targets.
- We're based out of our offices and depots in Edinburgh and Glasgow, including at Gogar, Cambuslang and Shields.
- Siemens Mobility Class 380 electric trains maintained at Shields depot have travelled over 50 million miles with more than 173 million passenger journeys on routes from Ayrshire to Glasgow, Edinburgh and beyond.
- Siemens Mobility’s signalling technology is helping achieve a more reliable railway at Carstairs, a key junction on the West Coast Main Line. This will ultimately shorten journey times between Glasgow and Edinburgh for passengers and freight users alike.
- Siemens Mobility’s new digital-ready signalling has been installed across the Portobello signalling area, located to the east of Edinburgh Waverley. This investment represents a significant step forward in improving reliability and resilience on this busy section of the route.
- UK-wide we work with 2,180 suppliers, 32% of which are UK-based SMEs. c.85% of our spend is with UK-based suppliers.
- As part of plans to electrify more of Scotland's railways, we're working with our industry partners to look at using our Sicat SX overhead line system to space masts further apart (up to 110m, rather than the UK standard of 65m), reducing the number of masts and foundations needed by up to 40%, cutting time and costs of electrification.
- Our modular signalling technology installed in-and-around Inverness Airport station, a first-of-a-kind in Scotland, has achieved over 25% savings when compared to traditional signalling projects.
- Siemens Mobility has helped Ayrshire-based SME CK Contracts more than double in size.
- We maintain the overhead line equipment, depot workshop equipment, on-track plant, communications, SCADA systems, traction power supplies and track for Edinburgh Trams.
- We're also delivering the communication and control systems, SCADA systems, passenger information systems, CCTV and public address systems, radio and cable transmission works, traction power supply equipment, overhead line equipment and road traffic signalling for the Edinburgh Trams to Newhaven project.
Innovative signalling systems
Our innovative digital technology helps make running Scotland’s railways cheaper and more efficient; savings which can be passed on to the customer to reduce fares and make rail travel more accessible.
We are making passenger journeys shorter and smoother through improvements to signalling.
Working in partnership with Network Rail, our Signalling Collaborative Partnership team has reduced certain project management costs from 10% to 2%, which frees up more money to be spent on Scotland’s infrastructure, making stations, lines and rail travel more accessible for people in Scotland.
