West Midlands Trains (UK) is now providing training with LANDER railway simulators

Every day hundreds of travellers crowd into stations like Euston in London. Everyone converges on the central area of​the station, where they peer at the almost overwhelming departure board showing destinations and trains available for that day on the 18 platforms of the station.  The majority rush to reach their places of work with the famous British punctuality. Others stop for longer, surprised by the number of possible destinations.

Standing there, it seems difficult to imagine how in a few hours from London you can be enjoying some of the most idyllic landscapes in the country. But that’s the way it is. Taking the Caledonian Sleeper to the Scottish Highlands, for example, is one of the most memorable trips in the country. But that’s not the only route. A significant number of these trains are destined for the Midlands, where the railway operator West Midlands Trains is responsible for running numerous services to cities such as Birmingham.

And it will be precisely the train drivers of some of these lines who from now on will be able to train in the modern driving simulators developed by LANDER. 

This important simulator project is part of the joint work that the simulation managers of West Midlands Trains, a company established by Abellio, JR East and Mitsui & Co, have carried out with LANDER since 2018. The new equipment, a replica driving simulator, is the latest in the long history of this franchise involving the use of simulators and other training tools.

At LANDER we are delighted to have been able to develop this equipment for the English market and we are convinced that it will be the first of many others to follow.