SCOTTISH ministers “have a duty” to renegotiate rolling stock contracts depriving Scotland’s historic Springburn railway depot of work, Labour MP Paul Sweeney will say tonight.

Mr Sweeney, who represents Glasgow North East in the Commons, said official government minutes exclusively obtained by the Morning Star suggested that ministers had not previously been aware that new trains would be maintained by their manufacturers.

The St Rollox railway works in Springburn, Glasgow, are due to close tomorrow. The remaining workforce will rally at the gates of the works, popularly known as the “Caley” because they were built by the Caledonian Railway in 1856, at 11am.