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Düwag or Duewag, formerly Waggonfabrik Uerdingen, was a German manufacturer of rail vehicles. It was sold in 1999 to Siemens with the brand later retired.
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| Formerly | Waggonfabrik Uerdingen |
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| Industry | manufacture of railway locomotives and rolling stock (NACE 30.2) vehicle construction  |
| Predecessor | Düsseldorfer Waggonfabrik |
| Founded | March 1898 |
| Fate | Merged into Siemens Mobility |
| Successor | Siemens & Halske |
| Headquarters | Krefeld, Germany |
| Products | Rolling stock |
| Parent | Siemens |
| Website | www.duewag.de |
History
editDuewag was founded in March 1898 as Waggonfabrik Uerdingen in Uerdingen and produced rail vehicles under the Düwag brand. After merging with Düsseldorfer Waggonfabrik in 1935, railway vehicles were built in Uerdingen, while the Düsseldorf plant produced mainly local traffic vehicles, namely tramway and light rail vehicles. In 1981, the company changed its name from Waggonfabrik Uerdingen to Duewag.[1]
Siemens acquired a 60% shareholding in 1989 before taking full ownership in April 1999.[2][3] In 2001, the Düsseldorf plant was closed with production transferred to Uerdingen.[4]
Duewag vehicles were close to a monopoly market in West Germany, as nearly every tram and light rail vehicle purchased from the 1960s onward was built by Duewag.[citation needed]
Products
editTrain
edit- Uerdingen railbus
- Düwag Wadloper
- Buffel (DM'90)[5]
- Y-trains Delivered about 100 trains, to local railways in Denmark, between years : 1965-1983
- DSB Class MR/MRD DMUs
- RegioSprinter[6]
- Toll Royal Railways ZZ800 DMU
Tram/light rail
edit- T4 tramcar
- GB6 tramcar
- GT6 tramcar in various versions
- GT8 tramcar in various versions
- GT12 tramcar
- SL79
- TW 400
- TW 6000[7]
- Stadtbahnwagen M/N
- Stadtbahnwagen Typ B
- SSB DT8
- Hong Kong Light Rail Phase 1 (Comeng), Phase 2 (Kawasaki) and Phase 3 (A Goninan) bogies
- Siemens-Duewag U2
- Siemens SD-400
- Siemens-Duewag Supertram[8]
References
edit- ^ Company Presentation Duewag AG (in German)
- ^ Siemens and Duewag form separate company Railway Age September 1991 page 28
- ^ Annual Report year ended 30 September 1999 Duewag AG (in German)
- ^ Duewag to close Düsseldorf plant Railway Gazette International 1 February 2000
- ^ Nederlandse Spoorwegen sells (almost) all its Buffalos to Romania Rail Color 26 January 2018
- ^ Mixed fortunes in the railcar market Archived 2020-06-05 at the Wayback Machine Railway Gazette International 1 March 1999
- ^ More TW3000 trams for Hannover International Railway Journal 22 March 2018
- ^ Duewag to assemble Sheffield trams Railway Gazette International March 1991 page 131
External links
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Media related to Düwag at Wikimedia Commons- Company website
- Collection of photos of Duewag manufactured Trams Archived 2020-01-09 at the Wayback Machine
- Documents and clippings about Waggon-Fabrik Uerdingen AG in the 20th Century Press Archives of the ZBW
