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Kambarka Engineering Works
Company typePLC
IndustryRail vehicle manufacturing
Founded1767 (1767)
Headquarters,
ProductsLocomotives and rolling stock
Websitewww.zavod-kmz.ru

Kambarka Engineering Works - Full name: Open Joint Stock Company «Kambarka Engineering Works» (Template:Lang-ru). A rolling stock manufacturer, located in the city of Kambarka (Udmurt), Russia.

History Factory

Interior of plant workshop
Company Plant office
File:Railroad Kuchuksulfate factory.jpg
Side-tipping wagon, 750 mm
Locomotive TU8, 750 mm
TU10 for Children's railway

Construction of an iron work started in 1761 and opened in 1767. The foundry produced up to 60,000 tons of iron per year. In 1950 the company shifted its focus towards railway technology.

Products

The companies product range consists of rolling stock, work trains for track maintenance and spare parts, primarily for narrow gauge railways with the track gauge between 750 mm (2 ft 5+12 in) and 1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in) - 1,520 mm (4 ft 11+2732 in). Produced for: Russia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Ukraine, Belarus, Poland,[1] Bulgaria,[2] Slovakia,[3] Argentina, Vietnam,[4] Cambodia,[5] Cuba,[6] Mali, Nicaragua, Uzbekistan,[7] Guinea-Bissau.

Main products

Diesel Locomotives

  • TU4 (1961–1972)
  • TU5 (1967–1973)
  • TU6 (1968–1971)
  • TU6A (1973–1988)
  • TU6SPA (1980 - 1993 - today)
  • TU7 (1970 - 1986)
  • TU7A (1986 - 2009 - today)
  • TU8G (1988 - today)
  • TU8P (1988 - today)
  • TU8 (1988 - today)
  • TU10 (2010 - today)
  • TGM40 (1,520 mm (4 ft 11+2732 in) Russian gauge and
    1,435 mm (4 ft 8+12 in) standard gauge, 1982 - today)

Passenger cars

Railroad freight cars

Other

See also

References and sources