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<blockquote data-quote="Hindsight" data-source="post: 6748427" data-attributes="member: 3169"><p><span style="font-size: 26px"><strong>Outrage as Swiss trainmaker Stadler awarded contract for Tyne and Wear Metro</strong></span></p><p></p><p><a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/profile/robert-lea" target="_blank">Robert Lea</a>, Industrial Editor</p><p>Wednesday January 29 2020, 12.01am, The Times</p><p><a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/topic/europe" target="_blank">Europe</a></p><p><a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/topic/european-union" target="_blank">European Union</a></p><p><a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/topic/global-politics" target="_blank">Global politics</a></p><p><a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/topic/transport" target="_blank">Transport</a></p><p><img src="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/imageserver/image/%2Fmethode%2Ftimes%2Fprod%2Fweb%2Fbin%2F806e722c-41f9-11ea-a083-1ec392b38124.jpg?crop=1129%2C635%2C9%2C152&resize=1180" alt="Local Conservative MPs and union officials described the decision to rule out Hitachi, a local bidder, as “terrible and appalling”" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p>Local Conservative MPs and union officials described the decision to rule out Hitachi, a local bidder, as “terrible and appalling”</p><p>STADLER/NEXUS</p><p>Share</p><p><a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/past-six-days/2020-01-29/business/outrage-as-swiss-trainmaker-stadler-awarded-contract-for-tyne-and-wear-metro-j6wdngm3c" target="_blank">https://www.thetimes.co.uk/past-six-days/2020-01-29/business/outrage-as-swiss-trainmaker-stadler-awarded-contract-for-tyne-and-wear-metro-j6wdngm3c</a></p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/outrage-as-swiss-trainmaker-stadler-awarded-contract-for-tyne-and-wear-metro-j6wdngm3c" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/outrage-as-swiss-trainmaker-stadler-awarded-contract-for-tyne-and-wear-metro-j6wdngm3c</a></p><p><a href="https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/outrage-as-swiss-trainmaker-stadler-awarded-contract-for-tyne-and-wear-metro-j6wdngm3c" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/outrage-as-swiss-trainmaker-stadler-awarded-contract-for-tyne-and-wear-metro-j6wdngm3c</a></p><p><a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/past-six-days/2020-01-29/business/outrage-as-swiss-trainmaker-stadler-awarded-contract-for-tyne-and-wear-metro-j6wdngm3c" target="_blank">https://www.thetimes.co.uk/past-six-days/2020-01-29/business/outrage-as-swiss-trainmaker-stadler-awarded-contract-for-tyne-and-wear-metro-j6wdngm3c</a></p><p>Save</p><p><a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/past-six-days/2020-01-29/business/outrage-as-swiss-trainmaker-stadler-awarded-contract-for-tyne-and-wear-metro-j6wdngm3c" target="_blank">https://www.thetimes.co.uk/past-six-days/2020-01-29/business/outrage-as-swiss-trainmaker-stadler-awarded-contract-for-tyne-and-wear-metro-j6wdngm3c</a></p><p>Days before Britain leaves the European Union, the Department for Transport has spent £337 million of taxpayers’ money for new trains for the Tyne and Wear Metro to be built overseas.</p><p></p><p>Rather than have the rolling stock made near by at Newton Aycliffe, the British home of <a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/east-coast-order-small-comfort-at-hitachi-factory-75pgvq2g9" target="_blank">Hitachi Rail</a>, it will be built 900 miles away by Stadler, the Swiss trainmaker.</p><p></p><p>The decision left the Unite union and local politicians fuming. Ben Houchen, Conservative mayor of Tees Valley, called it a “terrible and appalling decision” that “fails to protect a major North East business and local jobs”.</p><p></p><p><a href="https://home.thetimes.co.uk/myNews" target="_blank"><img src="https://nuk-tnl-deck-prod-static.s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/uploads/8769df377dc8078f83fb1987919f3a01.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p><p>IN YOUR INBOX</p><p><a href="https://home.thetimes.co.uk/myNews" target="_blank">Your daily Business Briefing</a></p><p>Keep up to date by getting our Times Business Briefing newsletter straight to your inbox at 8am and lunchtime</p><p><a href="https://home.thetimes.co.uk/myNews" target="_blank">Sign up now</a></p><p>Pat McCourt, a local Unite officer, said: “This is the first test of the government to shape up and protect UK manufacturing. Unless the government takes immediate action, the UK is at real risk of losing key parts of its manufacturing sector and the vital jobs and skills that are linked with it.”</p><p></p><p></p><p>The decision is a huge blow for the Hitachi factory, which is short of work and had been shortlisted for the £362 million contract. Hitachi cut 250 jobs, 30 per cent of its workforce, this month at its factory in Co Durham, which went into production only five years ago.</p><p></p><p>Having come to the end of large contracts to supply new trains for the Great Western and London & North Eastern lines, Newton Aycliffe would have run out of work this year but for an order for rolling stock for East Midlands Trains.</p><p>Labour lost five seats in the area to the Tories at the general election last month — Sedgefield, Redcar, Darlington, Stockton South and Bishop Auckland — after Boris Johnson promised to get Brexit done.</p><p>Stadler supplied trains to the small Merseyrail network from 2016 and won an order for 58 trains for Greater Anglia. However, they have been breaking down and are blamed for delays on the London-Ipswich-Norwich line.</p><p>The transport department declined to comment. A spokesman for Tyne and Wear Metro said that Stadler would be using companies in the UK manufacturing supply chain to provide parts for its trains.</p></blockquote><p></p>
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