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A DERBY train-leasing firm has signed a £42 million deal to reconfigure trains for Stagecoach South West.
Porterbrook Leasing, on Pride Park, will use the money to modify its Class 458 fleet into five-carriage trains.
This will create extra trains, incorporating Class 460 carriages once used on the Gatwick Express.
The modification has been contracted to Alstom, which is working with Doncaster-based Wabtec Rail on the deal.
The 36 new trains will take a year to complete.
Porterbrook managing director Paul Francis said: "The deal on Class 458/5 clearly demonstrates the important role of rolling-stock leasers in providing flexible commercial and engineering solutions to rolling-stock provision alongside the purchase of new trains."
News Source: DET