The Department for Transport awarded the contract for 1, 200 new carriages for the Thameslink line to Siemens.
The trade mission also offered the chance for some informal lobbying over Bombardier's loss of a multi-million Department for Transport contract to build new carriages for the UK's Thameslink.
The minister said funds were allocated for "thousands of new carriages across the country, electrifying swathes of the rail network, and redeveloping many of our great railway stations" to address "crowding, cut journey times and improve passenger experience".
The Transport Secretary said he had halted work on building 1, 400 new train carriages, pending the outcome of October's public spending review.
The high point for Bombardier was to be a photo opportunity with its boss and the PM to celebrate new rail carriages on the Gauteng line between Johannesburg and Pretoria.
The Lib Dem proposals would include a five-year plan to insulate every school and hospital, subsidies for home energy efficiency, 40, 000 new zero-carbon homes, improvements to rail lines and 700 new train carriages.
The overall investment package will increase capacity on the UK's railways by 17%, delivering more than 2, 100 new rail carriages by May 2019 in a bid to tackle overcrowding on the busiest services.
He said the first of a new fleet of carriages should start using the line in 2015.
Reading that makes me think of what it must have been like when cars became ubiquitous and lovers of horse-drawn carriages lamented this new mechanization of traveling.
So, beginning in the 1780s, the bodies were transferred in carriages at night to a new, final resting place in the old quarries.
He assembled 22 of the former Winton children in one of the pre-war carriages for a scene in his new version of the story.
Engineering giant Siemens is creating up to 300 new jobs on South Tyneside in a deal to build train carriages.
Warwickshire rail users are calling for extra train carriages on the line between Coventry and Nuneaton when two new stations open next year.
Stocks are like broken-down horse-drawn carriages in this context, the leverage and action of the new markets are significantly more alluring for active traders.
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The new station, expected to open in 2015, will have longer platforms to allow 12 carriages to stop at Rochester instead of 10.
The third founder is New Yorkers for Clean, Livable and Safe Streets, which wants to ban horse-drawn carriages in Central Park.
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