On Tue, 22 Nov 2011 23:45:48 +0000, Arthur Figgis wrote:

Why are Siemens building trains and nobody in the UK?

Bombardier are building trains in the UK.

Aren't they about to lay off 1400 workers 'cause some rail company
in
the UK has signed a contract for rolling stock from Germany?

The short answer is "no", the long answer fills Modern Railways every
month.

I didn't think it would be, just headline grabbing. If Siemens order
books are full and the factory has liitle/no capacity left they won't
be that keen on tendering at sensible prices for other work. This
then gets tendered for by Bombardier who do have the factory and
order book space...

(and the government hasn't signed the contract in question yet anyway)

If they U turn on it just to give the work to a UK company the EU
won't like it, flat open market etc... this lot do seem to have a
habit of backtracking or dramatically altering course or the rules at
short notice thouugh.

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Cheers
Dave.