Bombardier wins British trains deal

LONDON, Dec 28 (Reuters): Bombardier, Britain's last remaining train builder, has been awarded a 189-million-pound ($296 million) contract to supply 130 carriages to UK rail operator Southern. The deal should help ease the pain caused by Britain's decision earlier this year to award a key rail contract to Germany's Siemens AG, leading incumbent Bombardier to cut hundreds of jobs at its plant in Derby, central England. Canadian-owned Bombardier, whose British unit makes trains for use on the country's railways, will build 130 of its new Electrostar rail carriages for Southern, which runs services in south London, Surrey, Sussex and Kent, Britain's Department for Transport (DfT) said Wednesday.