rolling stock
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Hebei
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province,
People's Republic of China
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. While Datong built mainline steam locomotives until 1988, Tangshan built steam for industrial use until 1999, becoming the last works in the world to build steam for non-tourist use.
History
The predecessor of the subsidiary, Tangshan Locomotive and Rolling Stock Works was founded before the establishment of the People's Republic of China in 1949. It was nationalized and remaining as an entity of the Ministry of Railways until 2002, when it was a manufacturing facility of (LORIC). In 2002, LORIC was split into CNR Group and
CSR Group
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, which Tangshan works belonged to the former due to geographical location. CNR Group and CSR Group also belonged to newly established
State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission
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, another department of the
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.
Due to the
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of China CNR, the assets of the works was injected to a newly incorporated subsidiary, which was known as Tangshan Railway Vehicle Co., Ltd..
In November 2005, CNR Group signed a 669 million euro agreement with Siemens under CEO Klaus Kleinfeld that gave them access to the
intellectual property
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jewels of the latter. The first of these trains were to run in 2008 on the
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Tianjin
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route. Only the first three of 60 trains were to be built in Germany. The balance were built at the plant which is now named CRRC Tangshan.
After the merger of CSR and CNR to CRRC, the subsidiary also renamed to , known as just CRRC Tangshan Co., Ltd. in English.
Products
Steam locomotives
*"Rocket of China", first locomotive built in China (1881)
* China Railways SY (from 1958 to 1999)
Two tourist railways in the
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* TSD09
* CRH3, Chinese version of the Siemens Velaro train set
* Two DMUs using Voith transmissions for suburban use with
Ghana Railway Corporation
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Fuzhou Metro
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line 1
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Shijiazhuang Metro
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Network
Line 1
Line 1, opened on 26 June 2017. It is 34.3 kilometers in length with 26 underground stations.
Line 2
Line 2, open ...
Samsun Tram
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, Turkey
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Trams in İzmir
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