AES Railcar
The AES (Automotor Eléctrico Suburbano) is an Electric rail, electric passenger rail, passenger railcar that has been in use in Chile since 1977, originally with Ferrocarril del Norte, and later for Valparaíso Metro, MERVAL, the Valparaiso region metro system. History A total of 20 units, service numbers AES1 - AES20, have been built in Argentina by the English company General Electric Company, GEC and Argentine company Fiat Concorde (Materfer, FIAT MATERFER) between 1976 and 1977. Their main area of passenger service has been rapid suburban transit between Valparaiso and Limache, with extended service between Valparaiso and Santiago, Chile, Santiago during the 1980s, and service on the Biotren in the South of Chile since the 2000s. Their maximum speed is 130 km/h (80 mph). Accidents There was a major accident at the town of Queronque on February 17, 1986, involving two AES units. It was the largest railroad accident in the history of Chile. Another three AES ...
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General Electric Company
The General Electric Company (GEC) was a major British industrial conglomerate involved in consumer and defence electronics, communications, and engineering. The company was founded in 1886, was Britain's largest private employer with over 250,000 employees in the 1980s, and at its peak in the 1990s, made profits of over £1 billion a year. In June 1998, GEC sold its share of the joint venture GEC-Alsthom on the Paris stock exchange. In December 1999, GEC's defence arm, Marconi Electronic Systems, was sold to British Aerospace, forming BAE Systems. The rest of GEC, mainly telecommunications equipment manufacturing, continued as Marconi Communications. After buying several US telecoms manufacturers at the top of the market, losses following the bursting of the dot-com bubble in 2001 led to the restructuring in 2003 of Marconi plc into Marconi Corporation plc. In 2005, Ericsson acquired the bulk of that company. What was left of the business was renamed Telent. History ...
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