Uploaded October 2016 | Updated September 2026, 22 hours ago
Bombardier and Hitachi have teamed up in the UK to create an innovative, competitive and deliverable proposal for the New Tube for London. We have taken LUL’s stunning design vision and exacting technical specifications and developed a new metro train, Novatroia.
The name Novatroia reflects the Roman heritage of London and echoes the pioneering spirit and innovative engineering for which the Romans were renowned and which resonates in our design. Novatroia will be manufactured and assembled across HBJV’s two British sites at Derby and Newton Aycliffe. Bombardier will be the lead vehicle designer, and Hitachi the lead on reliability, with both supplying key subsystems.
Bombardier and Hitachi already work together successfully in the manufacture and supply of the ETR1000 to Trenitalia in Italy, described as ‘the most stunning train in the world’, and in the ANM consortium on the new metropolitan system in Riyadh.
Bombardier and Hitachi have teamed up in the UK to create an innovative, competitive and deliverable proposal for the New Tube for London. We have taken LUL’s stunning design vision and exacting technical specifications and developed a new metro train, Novatroia.
The name Novatroia reflects the Roman heritage of London and echoes the pioneering spirit and innovative engineering for which the Romans were renowned and which resonates in our design. Novatroia will be manufactured and assembled across HBJV’s two British sites at Derby and Newton Aycliffe. Bombardier will be the lead vehicle designer, and Hitachi the lead on reliability, with both supplying key subsystems.
Bombardier and Hitachi already work together successfully in the manufacture and supply of the ETR1000 to Trenitalia in Italy, described as ‘the most stunning train in the world’, and in the ANM consortium on the new metropolitan system in Riyadh.
