COUNCIL leaders in Selby are pressing a Japanese-based company to choose the former Gascoigne Wood colliery as the site for a new train manufacturing plant.
The Hitachi Rail Group has short-listed five sites for the new plant, which will build and maintain Super Express trains.
The plant would initially take on 200 workers, potentially rising to 500.
Gascoigne Wood, once the heart of a busy coalfield, would be the perfect location. And the jobs created would boost a manufacturing and industrial sector hard hit by the coalfield closure and the loss of carriage-making in York.
We back Selby council all the way in its attempt to secure the deal.
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