I have seen this mentioned on social media and on here. The general reaction seems to be "so what?" or "what do you expect?". When everything is for sale, as someone else said, people and factories are just tradable commodities.
This country* and to be honest good chunks of the anglosphere in general, have lost the respect for engineers and work of that sort that surely existed a century ago. Dirty heavy work is not looked up to by most people nowadays. The notion that stuff isn't profitable seems to be enough for most people to just shrug it off. People just don't matter that much, economics is king. That, I understand is what privatisation was all about.
Wabtec seem to handle refurbishment without the site, though that in and of itself, is likely not enough to convince the Scottish Government to just let it disappear.
At this point, most of the
really hopeless workshops are gone, so I'm working on the assumption that they are capable of doing stuff properly, and not the 1970s style of "that'll do" that made absolute rubbish.
*Take that to be Scotland or the UK, either interpretation is probably pretty accurate, even with both having a big emphasis on engineering, at least traditionally.