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Merry Christmas… and a Happy New Year from #TeamBCIMO
So here we are, looking forward to putting work away just for a little while… to relaxing and spending time with the people we love. But as the festive spirit well and truly sets in, it’s the perfect time to take a look back at the highlights of what has been an...
Service Please! Launch of a New Hydrogen Trams-as-a-Service Working Group
As the imperative for cleaner and thus greener transport continues apace, the exploration of potential solutions becomes ever more important, including a range of options for propulsion to ensure sustainability of both source and supply. The discussion opened this...
Harnessing the Power of Joint Effort to Enhance Collaborative Innovation
In innovation, collaboration is the new ‘competition’. The way in which challenges are faced and opportunities are taken; in which businesses grow, sectors grow and, ultimately, economies grow through the real synergy of ‘joint effort’. But finding the right...
Walk Through the VLRNIC with an In-Depth Look at Family Day
In mid-September, BCIMO were delighted to formally announce their celebration of the Railway 200 anniversary with a Family Day – both to welcome a range of visitors from the local community and the rail community to the Very Light Rail National Innovation Centre, and...
All Change for Skills and Employment at Festival of Change
With skills not just important to young people embarking on their career path, but to the development of a strong regional economy for the future, getting the right support and making the right connections to do so is essential. This week, BCIMO was proud to host a...
Made in Dudley, Sold to the World, Welcomed to BCIMO
As part of International Trade Week and a series of events being delivered by the UK Export Academy in partnership with Dudley Council, BCIMO hosted a busy event at the Very Light Rail National Innovation Centre focused on introducing the broad range of support...
Cross-Sector Inspiration & Collaborative Innovation for Future Technology
In October, BCIMO explored the first of its framework for innovation ‘cogs’, looking in-depth at challenges and opportunities within the rail industry, and how its new Commercial Investment Hub model will aim to facilitate innovation. This month it highlights the role...
Lightning-Fast Connectivity with Blu Wireless Tunnel Testing
Blu Wireless Technology Ltd, a Bristol-based company specialising in the development of high-performance wireless communication solutions, spent time at the Very Light Rail National Innovation Centre (VLRNIC) earlier this month testing their LightningBlu technology in...
BCIMO Welcomes New Business Development Director
The team is delighted to welcome a new member this month as Steve McBride joins the organisation as Business Development Director. Steve has held senior positions in the rail industry across the train manufacturing, rolling stock maintenance and leasing sectors for...
Facilitating Rail Innovation via the Commercial Investment Hub
In August, BCIMO introduced its framework for innovation; a model with four interdependent cogs – representing its core areas of focus – that must turn together for new, emerging and existing industries to flourish. Over the next two months, each cog will be explored...
Creating Connections Through Business Networking at BCIMO
As a key aspect of business development, networking is an essential on the ‘to do’ list but, for those tasked with the ‘doing’, it can be a little daunting, particularly if they’re new to the role… and even more so when they’re new to the profession or industry. This...
Celebrate 200 Years of the Railway at BCIMO’s Family Day
In 2025, we mark the 200th anniversary of the birth of the modern railway, with a national celebration of the past, present and future of rail, entitled ‘Railway 200’. Over the course of the year, railways and rail organisations across the UK will be delivering a...
Power to the People at ‘Electrifying Transport’ Event
With environmental challenges and opportunities increasingly on the agenda of businesses, and awareness of them increasing within households, the question for many remains: what can we do? One of the options is to switch from a petrol or diesel vehicle to an electric...
All Aboard for the First Facility Tour of the VLRNIC
This week the Very Light Rail National Innovation Centre (VLRNIC) opened its doors for the first in a series of monthly facility tours. ‘Behind the Scenes at BCIMO’ offers an insight into a unique, world-class centre for rail innovation in Dudley in the heart of the...
A Warm Welcome for the New BCIMO Clean Futures SMEs
The wait is finally over as the second cohort of innovators on the Clean Futures Accelerator arrived at the Very Light Rail National Innovation Centre (VLRNIC) this week to embark on their six-month programme of technical and commercial support, beginning with an...
An Introduction to BCIMO’s Framework for Innovation
As a research and technology organisation (RTO), BCIMO works with a range of organisations to deliver core products, services and programmes to help shape and accelerate innovation within rail and the wider transport industry. Within its vision, the organisation has...
Fun & Games within a Vision for Transport in the Future at BCIMO
In a busy schedule of meetings at and visits to BCIMO this week, there emerged something of theme: a timeline of rail technology from the past to the present, and on to the future. Add in train rides, robot dogs and electric scooters… but far from simply fun and...
Testing, Testing: Take a Look Behind the Scenes at BCIMO
As the latest landmark in the regional innovation landscape, it’s time for BCIMO to lift the lid on its world-class range of technical and commercial facilities at the Very Light Rail National Innovation Centre (VLRNIC), and to introduce a current funding opportunity...
Rail on Track for the Future: The Challenges & Opportunities
As the deliberations end and BCIMO awaits the arrival of Cohort 2 of the Clean Futures programme – and so the range of exciting innovations their new SMEs will bring to the rail sector – we reflect on where the sector is at the moment and, most importantly, the track...
Raising the Flag for Black Country Innovation at BCIMO
Innovation is core to BCIMO’s mission and, being at the heart of the community within the Black Country, the organisation always welcomes the opportunity to engage with other local innovative projects and programmes; most particularly as we celebrate Black Country Day...
Inspiration in Action at Black Country Skills Event
This week, the team from BCIMO exhibited at a hands-on skills event for school children and young people at Wolverhampton Racecourse in Dunstall Park. Designed to inspire youngsters across a broad range of sectors, the event was an opportunity for BCIMO to offer an...
BCIMO is a not-for-profit Research and Technology Organisation (RTO) and operator of the Very Light Rail National Innovation Centre (VLRNIC), a unique, world-class centre for rail innovation based in Dudley in the West Midlands.
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