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UK £7.5 billion train order lost to Japan's Hitachi [The Times]

Date: 13/02/2009

A Japanese company has won Britain's biggest order for intercity trains, defeating a rival bidder that owns this country's only train factory.[From Mark Bartlett]

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UK £7.5 billion train order lost to Japan's Hitachi [The Times]

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