Sentence examples for build carriages from inspiring English sources

A £1bn competition to build carriages for the Crossrail project is expected to relaunch this week, with the future of Britain's last active train manufacturing plant in the balance.

Early vehicles were built by a number of independent companies, but in 1844 the railway started to build carriages at Swindon railway works, which eventually provided most of the railway's rolling stock.

On 4 April 1806, he boarded a specially built carriage and travelled from Leicester to his new home at 53 Piccadilly, then near the western edge of London.

Three months later, his ministers announced that Siemens of Germany would be preferred bidder for a £1.4bn contract to build 1,200 carriages for the London Thameslink rail route, knocking Canadian-owned Bombardier into second place.

The job security of Bombardier Transportation workers in the UK, particularly at Derby, has been improved by the recent confirmation of a contract to build 665 carriages for the Greater Anglia franchise, as well as orders to build new London Overground trains.

His men began rebuilding Ticonderoga's barracks, and worked to extract armaments from the rubble of the two forts and build gun carriages for them.

He build a carriage that featured total enclosure of the horse.

Many of the roads built for carriages or the first automobiles have, in fact, served to trace the current network of roads and motorways.

Infrastructure and jobs … Thameslink trains Unions were furious when Siemens won the contract to build 1,200 rail carriages for Thameslink two summers ago.

Under the deal, Agility Trains, a consortium led by Hitachi of Japan, will build 596 rail carriages at a new factory in Newton Aycliffe, County Durham.

Gillig, which was founded in 1890 to build horse-drawn carriages, is a throwback to an era when manufacturing was king and American workers stayed in the same jobs for decades.