Job losses feared as rail yard 'faces closure' [BBC News]





Date: 31/03/2020

About 100 jobs are threatened with the proposed closure of a train carriage refurbishment factory in East Ayrshire, a union has claimed.

Unite said Wabtec planned to consolidate its operations in Doncaster, South Yorkshire, citing a reduction in orders for its decision.

The union claimed Wabtec^s order books had been full in recent years.

It said orders included a refurbishment contract worth about £8m funded by the Scottish government in 2017.

The Kilmarnock site, which originally opened as an engineering workshop in 1840, has helped refurbish recent Abellio ScotRail and ScotRail models.


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A union claims 100 jobs are under threat at the Wabtec factory in Kilmarnock

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Wabtec Rail Scotland Works

This is a railway works on the south side of Kilmarnock station, at its west end. This was the site of the goods yard of the Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock and Ayr Railway. Approach was originally fr

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A view east over the Brush Barclay works at Kilmarnock from the Barassie line on 3 July 2010.
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Company: Andrew Barclay
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