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Today, 20th October, the National Training Academy for Rail (NTAR) was officially opened by Transport Minister Claire Perry. The state-of-the-art training facility is now ready for the first intake of students.

Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin today formally opened Siemens and Govia Thameslink Railway’s new, purpose-built Three Bridges train depot in Crawley, West Sussex, marking a major milestone for the Thameslink Programme, which will transform journeys for passengers. The depot, which is already home to two new Class 700 Desiro City trains, will play a significant part in housing and maintaining the new fleet for the Thameslink network.

Siemens has received an order for the supply, installation and commissioning of 54 direct drive wind turbines. The SWT-3.2-101 turbines will add another 172.8 megawatts (MW) to SSE’s Clyde wind farm in South Lanarkshire, Scotland. Siemens will also be providing long-term service for the new Clyde Extension project. With an existing capacity of 350 MW, Clyde is already one of the largest onshore wind power plants in Europe.

Rail Minister Claire Perry visited Siemens Rail Automation’s offices in Chippenham today (9 October), meeting some of the company’s directors and staff and taking a tour of its facilities.

UK company 4Navitas Green Energy Solutions Ltd has successfully developed a vertical axis wind turbine (VAWT) which is set to revolutionise the worldwide onshore wind turbine market, currently dominated by horizontal axis wind turbines (HAWT).

John Radcliffe Children’s Hospital, part of Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust, has introduced a new mobile application during its MRI scan play preparation which is helping ease children’s potential fears and anxieties around the imaging process. Many young patients who attend an MRI scan come with pre-conceived ideas around the noise, the closed environment and having to lie still for long periods of time with parents at a distance. The MRI Scan App from Siemens Healthcare is enabling children to gain clear, fun and reliable information plus play out the experience and learn coping mechanisms.

The Siemens’ team responsible for looking after the 172-strong fleet of South West Trains operated Siemens Desiro Class 444 and 450 trains based at Northam, Southampton, were last night commended in the rail industry ‘Oscars’. They picked up two Highly Commended accolades in the National Rail Awards 2015 Maintenance Team of the Year and Outstanding Teamwork categories.

Central Middlesex Hospital, part of London North West Healthcare NHS Trust, is leading the way in providing rapid liver disease diagnosis by using innovative technology to deliver full liver assessments in one day. The hospital has reduced the number of liver biopsies, the current gold standard method for assessing liver disease, by utilising Acoustic Radiation Force Impulse (ARFI) technology on an ACUSON S2000TM ultrasound system from Siemens Healthcare.

Building on the continued development of the latest cloud-based traffic technology, Siemens has released an additional module to Stratos this month, enabling traffic managers to keep the travelling public informed of current traffic conditions on the road network. Designed using the latest web technologies with versions tailored for both desktop and mobile devices, Siemens Stratos Emerge allows local authorities to quickly and easily configure and automatically publish traffic network information to the public.

Siemens Healthcare has won 3 awards at the UK Best Factory Awards held on Friday 25th September.

Today sees a celebration event at Siemens’ Customer Service Centre in Newcastle to mark 32 Siemens apprentices finishing a four-year long journey to become fully-fledged Siemens Wind Technicians.