Alstom (Washwood Heath)

Alstom Washwood Heath refers to the former Metro-Cammell carriage works at Washwood Heath in Birmingham during its ownership by Alstom from 1999 until closure in August 2005. The works had been absorbed into GEC-Alsthom through the acquisition of Metro-Cammell in 1989, becoming Alstom on the company's rebranding in 1998, and continued producing rolling stock bodies and completed vehicles for British and export customers from the same Washwood Heath site that Metro-Cammell had occupied since the early twentieth century.

Washwood Heath's most significant product under Alstom ownership was its contribution to the Class 390 Pendolino tilting train fleet for Virgin West Coast — the train that transformed travel times on the West Coast Main Line when introduced from 2002, reducing London to Manchester to two hours. The Pendolino's body shells were built at Washwood Heath while the active tilting bogies, traction equipment, and final assembly involved Alstom's Italian and French facilities, reflecting the international supply chain that characterised European rolling stock manufacturing in the early 2000s.

The works closed on 26 August 2005, ending nearly 175 years of continuous railway carriage and wagon building in Birmingham — a tradition stretching from the Birmingham Railway Carriage and Wagon Company's earliest products through Metro-Cammell's long and productive history. The Washwood Heath site is now redeveloped; the Derby Litchurch Lane works became the consolidated UK manufacturing centre for Alstom's British business.