"Roland Perry" wrote in message
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In message , at 22:43:20 on
Mon, 10 Aug 2009, Zen83237 remarked:
Can somebody explain how building the depot creates hundreds of
jobs. Will the new Thameslink trains be that much more unreliable
than the existing trains that they need more maintenance.
Surely the existing trains are maintained so why does the new
Thameslink require hundreds of extra maintenance staff.

The new trains will have more carriages than the old. But they may
also be factoring in a reluctance of staff at the old depot (where is
that?) to the new ones, resulting in *local* recruitment.

It's a bit like when supermarkets want to open new branches -- they
invariably promise to create lots of jobs. But, of course, these 'new'
jobs will simply replace a larger number of 'old' jobs lost in other
local shops whose business will decline.