Historic Brush Falcon Works ‘to close’ after 156 years

IN the year that the Talyllyn Railway is marking the 70th anniversary of its takeover by volunteers and the start of the global operation heritage railway movement, the historic Falcon Works where one of the revivalists’first locomotives was built 143 years ago, is set to close, it has been announced

Wabtec, the American owner of the Brush Traction factory in Meadow Lane, Loughborough, where locomotives are built, overhauled and repaired, has proposed closing it, placing around 300 jobs at risk, saying that reduced volumes had made the site “unsustainable”.

Staff were told of the plans on April 16. It was understood