A huge contract for hundreds of new trains described as the “biggest investment in the railways since the Victorian era” has secured 1,000 British engineering jobs. Operator Abellio has been awarded the East Anglia rail franchise and has ordered more than 1,000 new carriages and engines to run on the line as part of a £1.4bn investment.
The deal will see Bombardier build 660 carriages at its Derby factory, guaranteeing jobs there for the next decade.
