英国以“铁路诞生地”著称的英国,尽管近30年来其私营铁路工业和出口都缩小了,但在铁道车辆改革方面仍保持着领先地位。衰退从20年前就已开始,只有少数几家公司予测到市场的变化并对生产进行了合理化的改造而保存下来。甚至英国国营铁路工厂也受到了影响。英国铁路工程公司于1970年建立后,提出了购置机床和在1980年建造一个机械化铸造厂的1800万英磅的投资计划。 Britain, known as “the birthplace of the railway,” has maintained its leadership in the reform of railway vehicles, despite its narrowing of private railway industry and its exports in the past 30 years. The recession has begun 20 years ago, and only a few companies have measured the changes in the market and rationalized their production. Even the British state-run railway factory has been affected. After the British Rail Engineering Corporation was established in 1970, it proposed an 18 million-pound investment plan to acquire machine tools and build a mechanized foundry in 1980.