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Article: United Kingdom: Bombardier Transport loses bid to make British express trains.
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- February 13, 2009
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Byline: kusumv03
Montreal-based Bombardier Transportation didnt win a $13 billion Cdn contract to build new trains for the British rail system. The British government announced this week that it decided to go with a bid from Agility Trains a British-Japanese consortium led by Hitachi to construct more than 1,400 express trains.
Officials at the Express Rail Alliance, comprising Bombardier Transportation, Siemens, Angel Trains and Babcock & Brown, have said they are extremely disappointed not to have been awarded the contract after spending 18 months on the bid.
The decision has also shocked British unions, since Bombardier was the only bidder ...