{"id":121484,"date":"2026-04-20T13:40:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T03:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/ballarat\/?p=121484"},"modified":"2026-04-20T13:37:53","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T03:37:53","slug":"jobs-locked-in-as-alstom-gets-order-for-25-new-trains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/ballarat\/news\/jobs-locked-in-as-alstom-gets-order-for-25-new-trains\/","title":{"rendered":"Jobs locked in as Alstom gets order for 25 new trains"},"content":{"rendered":"

Twenty-five new X\u2019Trapolis 2.0 trains will be built in Ballarat, further securing 150 jobs at the Alstom manufacturing works in Creswick Road.<\/p>\n

Member for Wendouree Julianna Addison announced at the plant this morning that $673.6 million would be included in the government\u2019s 2026\u201327 budget to pay for the trains.<\/p>\n

Addison made the announcement to about 100 Alstom workers, who greeted the news with applause and cheers.<\/p>\n

Premier Jacinta Allan made a similar announcement in Melbourne at the same time.<\/p>\n

Addison said there had been \u201ca lot of nervousness\u201d about future work for Alstom.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re coming through with this so you can make decisions about your life and also take a deep breath,\u201d Addison told the workers.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a lot of challenges on people at the moment with cost of living pressures and everything that\u2019s going on.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo to be able to make this announcement today, with you right here, right now, I really hope that that is something that allows you to say \u2018my future is looking secure\u2019.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is about securing jobs in regional Victoria; it is about making Ballarat the best place in the world to manufacture trains.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Alstom’s Jean-Marie Mengelle, Juliana Addison and Michael Poulton with an X’Trapolis 2.0 train.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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The new X\u2019Trapolis 2.0 trains will be used on the Frankston, Upfield and Craigieburn metropolitan Melbourne lines. The government has now funded 50 of the trains, the first of which will be rolled out in the coming months.<\/p>\n

The government also announced this morning that the cost of public transport will be half-price from 1 June until the end of the year.<\/p>\n

Alstom Ballarat site managing director Jean-Marie Mengelle described the announcement as \u201cfantastic news for us\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think you can all be very, very proud of what you have done,\u201d he told the workers.<\/p>\n

Committee for Ballarat chief executive Michael Poulton was also at the announcement and thanked Addison and her government for their continued support of the local workforce.<\/p>\n

He described the employees as \u201ca wonderful workforce\u201d in \u201ca wonderful sector\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s great to know that\u2019s going to continue on,\u201d Poulton said, \u201cfor the families, for the people who work for Alstom, for those who are sitting in school right now thinking about perhaps … electrical engineering as a skill, the opportunity to do that continuing in Ballarat.\u201d<\/p>\n

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An Alstom employee works on one of the new trains.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Addison said the order for new trains would support up to 750 jobs across the supply chain, including at Alstom\u2019s Dandenong operation.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis would not happen if you were not such a great workforce; that you weren\u2019t delivering product that the Victorian government recognises,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd I just want to say, if I have anything to do with it we\u2019ll be making trains here for decades and decades.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Twenty-five new X\u2019Trapolis 2.0 trains will be built in Ballarat, further securing 150 jobs at the Alstom manufacturing works in Creswick Road. Member for Wendouree Julianna Addison announced at the plant this morning that $673.6 million would be included in the government\u2019s 2026\u201327 budget to pay for the trains. Addison made the announcement to about […]<\/p>\n

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