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  • Unions plan for national rail strike as job cuts loom‘Attacks on pay and pensions’ also expected after Department for Transport tells industry to find savings of 10%Rail unions are drawing up plans for a national strike as job cuts loom across the industry.The RMT is preparing to ballot its members for industrial action, with the union anticipating compulsory redundancies are highly probable at train operating companies and Network Rail. Such redundancies would mean “trains are coming to a halt”, the TSSA union said after it failed to get assurances over jobs. Continue reading...

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  • Alstom and Hitachi win HS2 train bid [subscription]The government and HS2 are on the verge of announcing that a 2.8 billion contract for the most prestigious train manufacturing project in the history of Britains railways is to be awarded to Derbys historic Litchurch Lane works and Hitachis much newer factory at Newton Aycliffe in Co Durham.

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