After the loss of a £3.5bn contract to build trains for a new rail infrastructure upgrade, Derbyshire-based Bombardier has said that it will now review its business presence in the UK.
The contract to manufacture 1,200 train carriages was instead awarded to Siemens which the government said had offered a better deal for the UK taxpayer. The trains will come into service on the north-south cross-London route from 2015. The route, reopened under British Rail in the 1980s, has been one of the UK’s most overcrowded…
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