Metro-Cammell
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'''Metro-Cammell''', formally the '''Metropolitan Cammell Carriage and Wagon Company''' ('''MCCW'''), was an English manufacturer of [[Passenger car (rail)|railway carriages]], [[locomotive]]s and [[Railroad car|railway wagon]]s, based in [[Saltley]], and subsequently [[Washwood Heath]], in [[Birmingham]]. The company was purchased by [[GEC Alsthom]] in May 1989; the Washwood Heath factory closed in 2005 and was demolished in early 2019. |
'''Metro-Cammell''', formally the '''Metropolitan Cammell Carriage and Wagon Company''' ('''MCCW'''), was an English manufacturer of [[Passenger car (rail)|railway carriages]], [[locomotive]]s and [[Railroad car|railway wagon]]s, based in [[Saltley]], and subsequently [[Washwood Heath]], in [[Birmingham]]. The company was purchased by [[GEC Alsthom]] in May 1989; the Washwood Heath factory closed in 2005 and was demolished in early 2019. |
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The company designed and built rolling stock for the railways in the United Kingdom and overseas, including the [[MTR|Mass Transit Railway of Hong Kong]], [[Kowloon–Canton Railway]] (now [[East Rail line]]), the [[Channel Tunnel]], and the [[Tyne and Wear Metro]], and locomotives for Malaysia's [[Keretapi Tanah Melayu]]. Diesel and electric locomotives were manufactured for [[South African Railways]], [[Nyasaland Railways]], Malawi, Nigeria, [[Trans-Zambezi Railway]] and Pakistan. [[Diesel Multiple Unit|DMUs]] were supplied to [[Jamaica Railway Corporation]] and the [[National Railways of Mexico]]. The vast majority of [[London Underground]] rolling stock manufactured in the mid-20th century was produced by the company, which also designed and built the [[British Rail Classes 251 and 261|Blue Pullman]] for [[British Railways]]. |
The company designed and built rolling stock for the railways in the United Kingdom and overseas, including the [[MTR|Mass Transit Railway of Hong Kong]], [[Kowloon–Canton Railway]] (now [[East Rail line]] and [[Tuen Ma Line]]), the [[Channel Tunnel]], and the [[Tyne and Wear Metro]], and locomotives for Malaysia's [[Keretapi Tanah Melayu]]. Diesel and electric locomotives were manufactured for [[South African Railways]], [[Nyasaland Railways]], Malawi, Nigeria, [[Trans-Zambezi Railway]] and Pakistan. [[Diesel Multiple Unit|DMUs]] were supplied to [[Jamaica Railway Corporation]] and the [[National Railways of Mexico]]. The vast majority of [[London Underground]] rolling stock manufactured in the mid-20th century was produced by the company, which also designed and built the [[British Rail Classes 251 and 261|Blue Pullman]] for [[British Railways]]. |
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==History== |
==History== |
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