Japanese machinery maker Hitachi has won a 4.5 billion pound ($7 billion) deal with the British government to build and maintain trains that will connect London with other cities, a project that will create more than 900 jobs. The British Department for Transport said Wednesday Hitachi will set up a new factory in Newton Aycliffe, County Durham, to build 596 railway carriages. Hitachi said the factory construction will create 200 jobs, and the plant will employ up to 730 people. Wednesday's deal is Hitachi's second train contract in Britain, following one for a line that connects London with Dover. The new trains will connect London with cities to its west. Hitachi supplies the bullet-train in Japan. The deals in Britain are its first overseas, according to a report of the Associated Press.