The Hindu : Tamil Nadu / Tiruchi News : Goldenrock workshop earns Rs. 100 crore in foreign exchange

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Tuesday, Feb 20, 2007
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Tamil Nadu

Tamil Nadu - Tiruchi

Goldenrock workshop earns Rs. 100 crore in foreign exchange

Staff Reporter

It rehabilitated old metre-gauge engines, exported them to third world countries It has rehabilitated old metre-gauge engines and exported them to third world countries

TIRUCHI: The Goldenrock railway workshop has earned Rs. 100 crore in foreign exchange and fetched more revenue to the Railways, rehabilitating old metre gauge engines and exporting them to third world countries over the years, Southern Railway General Manager Thomas Varghese said on Monday.

Metre gauge engines, over 25 years old and about to be condemned, were given a fresh lease of life at the workshop and sent to foreign countries with modifications, he said, flagging off the second lot of five metre gauge locomotives to Mozambique at a function on the workshop premises here.

Calling the workshop the best in the Railways, Mr. Varghese said another 10 metre gauge locomotives would be exported to Mozambique in the next few months. In 2007-08, the workshop would rehabilitate 25 metre gauge engines for export to Myanmar and Mozambique through the Rail India Technical and Economic Services, an autonomous organisation under the Ministry of Railways.

Work in progress

Mr. Varghese, who also flagged off the 32nd rake of low platform container wagons, said the workshop dispatched 1,405 container wagons to the Container Corporation of India. It bagged an order for making 990 container wagons worth Rs. 201 crore for the Corporation. The work was in progress. During this year, the workshop manufactured 570 wagons, earning Rs. 117.18 crore in revenue. He announced a cash award of Rs. 50,000 to the workshop.

S. Rangarajan, Chief Workshop Manager, Goldenrock workshop, said the workshop had so far exported 93 locomotives to Asian and African countries. Forty-eight surplus metre gauge wagons were sent to Malaysia. Divisional Railway Manager R.C. Jat participated.

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