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British Steel secures £500m contract to supply UK train tracks

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British Steel has secured a five-year contract worth 500 m to supply train tracks for Network Rail .

The deal could help safeguard the short-term future of the Scunthorpe steelworks.

Chinese firm Jingye , which bought British Steel in 2020 , had threatened to shut down the plant.

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