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By Paul Ormerod From steelworks to freeport, Redcar’s redevelopment offers a model for moving on which Derby may wish to follow, writes Paul Ormerod 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 that production is coming to an end. The next potential order is 18 months away. In the same way t…

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