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| Industry | Rolling stock manufacturing |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1957 |
| Founder | Commonwealth Engineering |
| Headquarters | , |
| Parent | Commuter Transport Engineering |
| Website | https://www.alstom.com/alstom-south-africa |
Union Carriage & Wagon (UCW) is a rolling stock manufacturer in South Africa. It presently functions as one of the two South African subsidiaries of the French rolling stock manufacturer Alstom.
Union Carriage & Wagon was established in 1957. Initial shareholders were Commonwealth Engineering (51%), Budd Company (25%) and Leyland Motors (12%). [1] By 1965, Budd and Metro Cammell Weymann held a combined 41% shareholding which they sold to Anglo American plc and General Mining. In December 1969, Commonwealth Engineering reduced its shareholding to 42% with the other two shareholders each owning 29%. [2] [3] [4]
Having initially built carriages, in 1964, UCW delivered its first electrical locomotives to the South African Railways, the South African Class 5E1, Series 2. [5] The Class 5E1 was also the first electrical locomotive to be produced in quantity in South Africa. [6]
In 1974, UCW entered the international market with orders from Angola and Zambia. [7] In 1976, UCW received its first Asian order for twenty Type E100 electric locomotives for Taiwan Railways Administration (TRA), based on a GEC design. In addition, the TRA E1000 push-pull trainsets were also manufactured jointly by UCW, GEC-Alsthom, Tang Eng Iron Works of Taiwan and Hyundai Rotem of South Korea. [8] In 1993, UCW formed a joint venture with Siemens Mobility, SGP Verkehrstechnik and China Steel Corporation to manufacture 216 cars (36 6-car sets) of C321 metro cars for the Bannan Line of Taipei Metro, the first of which entered service in 1999. [9]
Rolling stock for Gautrain is assembled at the UCW plant in Nigel under a partnership agreement between Bombardier Transportation and UCW. [10] [11] [12]
In 1987, Commonwealth Engineering Parent company Australian National Industries sold its shareholding to Malbak Limited. [13] In October 1996, the business was sold to Murray & Roberts. [13] [14] In February 2013, UCW was purchased by Commuter Transport Engineering. [15] In April 2016, Alstom acquired 51% shares and renamed the company Alstom Ubunye. [16]
The Australind is a currently suspended rural passenger train service in Western Australia operated by Transwa on the South Western Railway between Perth and Bunbury.
UGL Rail is an Australian rail company specialising in building, maintaining and refurbishing diesel locomotives, diesel and electric multiple units and freight wagons. It is a subsidiary of UGL and is based in Melbourne, with a staff of 1,200 across Australia and Asia. It operates factories in Broadmeadow (Newcastle), Maintrain Auburn, Spotswood and Bassendean. While it used to operate a factory in Taree, the plant was shut down and the equipment sold off.
Commonwealth Engineering was an Australian engineering company that designed and built railway locomotives, rolling stock and trams.
Australian National Industries was an Australian heavy engineering company with diverse range of holdings.
MetroBlitz was an experimental high speed commuter train service between Pretoria station and Johannesburg Park Station via Germiston, operated by the South African Transport Services (SATS). It started service on 16 January 1984.
The South African Railways Class 5E1, Series 2 of 1963 was an electric locomotive.
The South African Railways Class 5E1, Series 3 of 1964 was an electric locomotive.
The South African Railways Class 5E1, Series 4 of 1965 was an electric locomotive.
The South African Railways Class 5E1, Series 5 of 1966 was an electric locomotive.
The South African Railways Class 6E1, Series 4 of 1973 was an electric locomotive.
The South African Railways Class 9E, Series 2 of 1982 is an electric locomotive.
The South African Railways Class 10E1, Series 1 of 1987 is an electric locomotive.
The Spoornet Class 10E1, Series 2 of 1990 is a South African electric locomotive.
The South African Railways Class 6E1, Series 10 of 1982 was an electric locomotive.
Tulloch Limited was an Australian engineering and railway rolling stock manufacturer, located at Rhodes, New South Wales.
The Trans-Australian was an Australian passenger train operated by the Commonwealth Railways initially between Port Augusta and Kalgoorlie on the Trans-Australian Railway line, and later extended west to Perth, and east to Port Pirie and Adelaide.
The C1 is a type of bilevel commuter passenger car built by the Tokyu Car Corporation for the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR). Tokyu built ten cars in 1990–1991 as a precursor to the larger C3 order, which would be built by Kawasaki in the late 1990s. The cars were designed by Comeng, one of the last projects that the firm undertook before closing in 1990. After the arrival of the C3s, the Long Island Rail Road sold the C1s to private owners.
The Dandenong rolling stock factory in South Dandenong, Melbourne, Australia, was opened in 1954 by Commonwealth Engineering. It has since been operated in succession by ABB, Adtranz and Bombardier and Alstom.
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