The decision to make Agility Trains, a consortium led by Hitachi, the preferred bidder on the Department for Transport’s new fast train contract has dismayed many observers. But does it matter if a Japanese company builds trains in the UK, providing British jobs and business benefit? Will Stirling reports on a controversial case
Feelings are running high in Derby, a manufacturing heartland. The Evening Telegraph, a local newspaper, is running a petition to change an important decision by the Department for Transport (DfT) to award a big contract to build new high speed trains to the Agility Trains consortium, in favour of a consortium including local train builder…
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