Tube Lines unveils new £10m training centre

Tube Lines, the consortium of Amey and Bechtel which is rebuilding and maintaining sections of London’s Tube network, has today (Tuesday) announced the opening of its £10m skills training centre in Stratford.

The purpose built centre will provide signalling skills and engineering training programmes to help address national skills shortages in the signalling sector.

Tube Lines hopes to train 28 specialist signalling engineers at the centre every year through classroom and hands-on training.

Courses, which will range from basic safety training for office based employees to two year advanced technical courses for signalling engineers, will be available 24 hours a day, seven days a week to fit in with workers’ shifts.

The centre is fitted with five full-size lengths of track laid out for practical training on infrastructure, points and signalling.

Four of these tracks are exact replicas of those currently used on the Underground, with a fifth track enabling training on the new systems being introduced in line upgrades.