UK company gets Crossrail trains contract
A UK company has beaten foreign opposition to win a jobs-boosting £1 billion train-building contract.
Contract will bring new jobs to NW London
The deal also involves the construction of a maintenance depot at Old Oak Common in north-west London which will create 244 jobs and 16 apprenticeships.
When fully operational it will support 80 jobs to maintain the new fleet of trains..
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