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Back On Track is a Northern Echo campaign to get the North-East back on track – that is to get its economy back on track by reinvigorating its private sector and to get back on track as a big player in the rail industry that it once gave to the world.

 

The campaign that brought train-building back home

Philip Hammond: 'head of steam'

8:30am Wednesday 2nd March 2011

THE Government's decision to press ahead with the Intercity Express Programme (IEP) prompted jubilant scenes in the North-East last night. Joe Willis looks back at how the region united behind The Northern Echo's Back on Track campaign to deliver a £4.5bn economic boost.

Dream come true as rail plans get go-ahead

WAY AHEAD: Manufacturing and engineering, such as the hoped-for Hitachi high-speed train factory, are key to the area’s future prosperity

8:30am Wednesday 2nd March 2011

THE dream of bringing train-building back to the region of its birth - along with thousands of desperately-needed manufacturing jobs - finally came true yesterday.

Site is 'launch-pad' for future projects

Alistair Dormer

8:30am Wednesday 2nd March 2011

SECURING the Intercity Express Programme is a "launch pad" that could secure train-building work for generations to come, the managing director of Hitachi Rail Europe said last night.

Raising a glass to return of train building in region

Landlord of The Locomotion pub in Newton Aycliffe, Chris Newby, toasts the news of green light to the Hitachi train factory. Picture by Tom Banks

8:30am Wednesday 2nd March 2011

A PUB landlord and former engineer was one of many to raise a glass last night after Hitachi's plans to bring train building back to the region were announced. Chris Newby was standing in his pub - a few yards from where Locomotion No 1, the world's first passenger steam engine, was loaded on the track - when he heard the news.

A chance for town to fulfil its potential

MP Phil Wilson last year with petitions in support of bringing train building back to the region

10:52am Wednesday 2nd March 2011

Sedgefield MP Phil Wilson, below, who has led the Back on Track campaign, pays tribute to all the people who have made Hitachi’s £4.5bn investment possible.

‘I could kiss you’ – how the region reacted to Hitachi decision

James Ramsbotham

10:42am Wednesday 2nd March 2011

James Ramsbotham, chief executive of the North East Chamber of Commerce, said: “This is absolutely phenomenal news for the region.

£4.5bn Hitachi deal to bring 500 jobs to County Durham

An image of the new generation of high speed trains Hitachi will build in Newton Aycliffe

4:30pm Tuesday 1st March 2011

THE Government has announced a £4.5bn train-building deal which will bring 500 jobs to the North-East.

Rail scheme boost for Hitatchi plan could be approved today

8:30am Tuesday 1st March 2011

A HUGE rail scheme long seen as key to Hitachi's £7.5bn plans to bring train building back to the North-East is expected to get the go-ahead today.

Government urged to approve train deal after steel success

8:40am Saturday 26th February 2011

AS the ink dries on a $1bn deal securing the future of steelmaking on Teesside, the Government was last night urged to give the go-ahead for train building to return to the birthplace of the railways.

Campaigners plead for train-building decision

10:35am Thursday 17th February 2011

CAMPAIGNERS hoping to land a £7.5bn train-building contract for the region have written to the Secretary of State urging him to make a decision.

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