
The trains, offering significantly increased capacity and higher service levels compared to the current fleet, were manufactured by Hitachi Rail Europe in a new UK factory and maintained in facilities around the country.
Agility Trains was the contract partner for the DfT for the delivery of trains, maintenance and daily service delivery, with Hitachi Rail Europe as sub-contractor in charge of supplying the trains and ensuring that they reliably performed day in and day out. The contract guaranteed 27.5 years of usage of the trains, ensuring long-term reliability for UK passengers. Given the size of the project, the transaction was split into two phases. In July 2012, Agility Trains West and the DfT achieved financial close for the GWML project. Agility Trains East and the DfT achieved simultaneous commercial close for the ECML project with financial close achieved in April 2014. As part of the contract, Agility Trains’ sub-contractor Hitachi Rail Europe provided 866 carriages of electric and bi-mode trains for the Great Western Main Line (Phase 1) and the East Coast Main Line (Phase 2). The fleet of 122 trains were maintained in a number of new-built and upgraded maintenance facilities, including new depots in Swansea, Bristol, west London and Doncaster.
The final train, marking delivery of both IEP West and East, was delivered in June 2020.
IEP West was fully realised by John Laing in 2018.
The sale of IEP East was announced in September 2020.
The investment in Denver Eagle in 2010 marked John Laing’s entry into the US P3 market and was the country’s first public-private partnership transit project.
In 2019, Mobilinx, in which John Laing has a 35 per cent equity interest, achieved financial close on the design, build, finance, operation and maintenance of the Hurontario Light Rail Transit Project.
The project is being delivered as a P3, with the consortium appointed to design, build, operate and maintain a next-generation fare payment system in Greater Boston.
The SLR project consists of the design, construction and financing of the light rail network, and its operation and maintenance.
John Laing acquired a 30 per cent stake in the Ruta del Cacao road project in Colombia in 2019. The acquisition marked the Group’s entry into Colombia, an OECD member state with a strong and stable PPP framework and a good pipeline of PPP projects focused on transport, a core area of John Laing expertise.
NGR is a public private partnership consisting of the design, build, finance and maintenance of 75 six-car trains for the South East Queensland suburban passenger rail network, and the design and construction of a new purpose-built maintenance facility in Wulkuraka.