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Transportation / Storage 49 - Land transport and transport via pipelines 49 - Land transport and transport via pipelines 49 - Land transport and transport via pipelines
200 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
21 April 2005
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
Description
Track company Network Rail says it wants to retrain them to fill vacancies in the Birmingham area and nearly 200 of the 5,000 employees being made redundant by MG Rover could be offered jobs working on the railways. They said that the electrical and engineering skills of the Longbridge car workers will transfer well to the railways, it says.
Sources
21 April 2005: BBC News
Citation
Eurofound (2005), Network Rail, Business expansion in United Kingdom, factsheet number 61432, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://apps.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/61432.