page_title: Construcciones y Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles
section_title: Newport factory, South Wales, UK
hierarchical_section_title: Construcciones y Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles / Rolling stock / Outside Spain: trains / Newport factory, South Wales, UK
caption_attribution_description: English: Brand new and still undergoing test is one of Northern Rail's new class 195 3-car DMUs seen at Preston on 15 November 2018.
context_page_description: Construcciones y Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles is a Spanish publicly listed company which manufactures railway vehicles and equipment and buses through its Solaris Bus & Coach subsidiary. It is based in Beasain, Basque Autonomous Community. Equipment manufactured by Grupo CAF includes light rail vehicles, rapid transit trains, railroad cars and locomotives, as well as variable gauge axles that can be fitted on any existing truck or bogie.
  Over the 20 years from the early 1990s, CAF benefited from the rail investment boom in its home market in Spain to become a world player with a broad technical capability, able to manufacture almost any type of rail vehicle. CAF has supplied railway rolling stock to a number of major urban transit operators around Europe, the US, South America, East Asia, India, Australia and North Africa.
context_section_description: CAF Rolling Stock U.K. Ltd announced in 2017 its UK factory location was selected as Celtic Business Park at Llanwern steelworks in Newport, Wales. It has at least five confirmed UK projects from 2019 onwards and will be the site for their bid to design stock for High Speed 2. The site was funded with support from the Welsh Government Inward Investment Programme.
  UK: CAF Oaris (Prospective bid for HS2)
  UK: British Rail Class 195 (Northern Trains)
  UK: British Rail Class 196 (West Midlands Trains)
  UK: British Rail Class 197 (Transport for Wales)
caption: British Rail Class 195 Civity, one of the prospective units to be manufactured at the CAF production line in Newport, Wales
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