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Britain's Japanese train contract will create 200-500 new jobs, not 15,000. Why are we not surprised?

February 16, 2009 – 12:21 pm

The UK Department of Transport (DOT) may have seen last week as another ‘good time to bury bad news’. Gordon Brown announced that the government had awarded the contract to upgrade our antiquated 125 Intercity trains to a consortium led by Hitachi of Japan. It is almost 7 years to the day since Stephen Byers was [...]

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