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This is the age of the (Japanese) train
12/02/2009 by admin.
Those of us who have ever been inside the old BREL plant at Derby will wonder at its future today. Lord Bradstock called that future “perilous” and feared for the future of train manufacture in this country.
OK, so Bombardier are as British and Maple Syrup and Sauerkraut but they are providing British jobs for British workers.
I’m sure Hitachi make splendid trains. Japan, after all, is the home of the bullet trains.
But having given them the job, the least Geoff Hoon can do now is drive the hardest of bargains on which bits of it are made in Britain.
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