In message o.uk, at
08:44:21 on Wed, 23 Nov 2011, Dave Liquorice
remarked:
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.

I think they will be laying them off, but not because of the Thameslink
order - which comes too late to save that particular set of workers,
1,000 of whom are temporary and presumably there to finish off the tail
end of whatever deliveries they do still have left, with all but one of
their existing contracts due to have been completed by now.
--
Roland Perry