The government has launched a last-ditch effort to keep a historic train factory in Derby open in an effort to ensure it can assemble the rolling stock it has been contracted to deliver for HS2.
After more than a year during which Alstom, the owners of the Litchurch Lane works, have been warning ministers that it does not have enough work to remain open, the transport secretary last night agreed to a new commitment to build ten more trains for London’s Elizabeth Line.
It is understood that a contract for the extra rolling stock for the metro line that runs across the capital will be signed as early as next month.
It is believed that this, along with software upgrades and retrofits on trains previously
