Invensys Rail Group is a designer, manufacturer and integrator of railway equipment, including automation, signalling and controls. It is a division of Invensys, a UK-based multinational engineering company. The group is headquartered in Chippenham, Wiltshire, and as of 2005, had over 2750 employees in 14 locations internationally. It operates through four companies:
- Invensys Rail Dimetronic (Spain, Portugal and Latin America);
- Safetran Systems including Burco Services (USA and Canada);
- Westinghouse Rail Systems (UK); and
- Invensys Rail Systems Australia incorporating Westinghouse Signals Australia and Foxboro Transportation, now known collectively as WRSA (Westinghouse Rail Systems Australia).
Westinghouse Rail Systems Ltd (WRSL) (UK) was previously known as Westinghouse Signals Ltd and before that was part of Westinghouse Brake and Signal Company, named after inventor George Westinghouse.
The other part of Westinghouse Brake and Signal Company, Westinghouse Brakes Ltd, was sold by Invensys to Knorr-Bremse, and has since left the Chippenham site to set up in the nearby town of Melksham.
On 28 November 2012, Invensys sold its rail arm to Siemens for £1.7bn
Famous quotes containing the words rail and/or group:
“Old man, it’s four flights up and for what?
Your room is hardly any bigger than your bed.
Puffing as you climb, you are a brown woodcut
stooped over the thin rail and the wornout tread.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
“Now, honestly: if a large group of ... demonstrators blocked the entrances to St. Patrick’s Cathedral every Sunday for years, making it impossible for worshipers to get inside the church without someone escorting them through screaming crowds, wouldn’t some judge rule that those protesters could keep protesting, but behind police lines and out of the doorways?”
—Anna Quindlen (b. 1953)