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A spokesman for the Derby and Derbyshire Rail Forum, which represents over 100 rail related business in the East Midlands, said:
"Bombardier's decision to retain its train manufacturing facility in Derby comes as a huge relief to the region's extensive supply chain, the employees of the business and their families. Whilst we welcome this news it is important that the company can bid for additional work to ensure that it has a future well beyond 2014. So we call upon the Department for Transport to look with renewed vigour at opportunities to provide much needed new rolling stock for Britain's railways between now and placing the order for a new Crossrail fleet. And in particular we hope that the well-developed proposal to add electric vehicles to the Voyager fleet can be swiftly progressed."
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