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11.09.09

MÁV-START Zrt. set the first Szolnok fabricated FLIRT into operation

Hungarian passenger transport operator MÁV-START Zrt. set the first FLIRT train into operation today, which was manufactured partly in the newly opened rail vehicle production plant of Stadler Rail Group in Szolnok. The partly Hungarian made FLIRT is the 50th train, which has started its commercial operation out of the altogether 60 electric multiple units ordered by the Hungarian State Railways. According to the delivery schedule, the last trains will be delivered by February 2010.

Stadler laid the foundation stone of its aluminium train carriage welding and painting factory in 2008 April. The construction and commissioning of the plant ...

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