As Derby’s historic rail industry declines, it should look to Redcar for a model of letting go
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Derby has been a place where rail locomotives and rolling stock have been built for the best part of two centuries. A manufacturing capability was developed in the early 1840s, barely a decade after Stephenson’s Rocket had ushered in the rail revolution in transport. But last week the managing director of Derby’s Alstom train-building plant announced […]