How a 200-year-old British industry hit the buffers [Yahoo! Finance]
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Once a manufacturing behemoth, an industry that made 14,000 locomotives for India alone between 1854 and 1947 has already been reduced to just two main factories that appear destined to shut. Alstom and Hitachi, which run the plants in Derby and Newton Aycliffe respectively, have warned that closure is inevitable without new work to keep the sites ticking over until 2026, when the pair will join forces to commence construction of trains for the new High Speed 2 line. While a drying up of orders is behind the immediate crisis, the threat to the factories raises questions about whether Britain can and should maintain a large-scale rail manufacturing capability. Britain's open market approach has already seen the loss of once world-leading manufacturing capabilities in sectors spanning shipbuilding to battle tanks. While no one would suggest that trains should have the same protected status as warships, they nevertheless sit at the centre of Britain's commuter economy and a trav
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