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Britain's biggest train factory says it will close with the firm's French owner blaming HS2 woes and having 'no meaningful workload' as 1,300 people lose their jobs.
Train manufacturer Alstom notified the government that it has started mothballing its Litchurch Lane factory in Derby.
In a letter to Transport Secretary Mark Harper, Altom UK's managing director Nick Crossfield said: 'The ending of train manufacture at Derby Litchurch Lane after 147 years is an outcome we have been working extremely hard to avoid.
Train manufacturer Alstom notified the government that it has started mothballing its Litchurch Lane factory in Derby
Alstom and it's joint venture partner Hitachi won a contract worth up to £2.8million in 2021 to build 54 trains for the HS2 rail line (pictured)
'After 10 months of inconclusive discussions, we must now begin the arduous and disruptive task of demobilising manufacturing operations at Derby Litchurch Lane.
'A production gap of this scale is totally unsustainable for Alstom and our supply
