Some 1000 apprentices will hop on board a manufacturing push to build trains in NSW if Labor is elected, but the opposition leader is also under fire from a prominent gambling whistleblower.
Labor will create three centres in the Hunter, Illawarra and western Sydney at a cost of $42 million to form the vocational backbone needed to build trains, buses and ferries if it wins next month's election.
"There is a proud tradition of train building in the Hunter," Labor leader Chris Minns told reporters in Lake Macquarie on Monday.
