United Goninan

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United Goninan is an Australian rail engineering company and specializes in building and re-building rail cars.

Contents 1 History 2 Products 3 Clients 4 References

[edit] History

Founded in Australia in 1899 by brothers Ralph and Alfred Goninan (1865 - 1953) as an engineering and manufacturing company for the coal industry.

It entered the rail business via Commonwealth Steel Products Company Limited of Waratah, Newcastle, a wheel and axle manufacturer. It was later acquired by Howard Smith and lastly acquired by United Group in 1999.

United Goninan is based in Newcastle, New South Wales and is a unit of United Group Limited along with Alstom. It has a staff of 1,200 people across Australia and Asia.

[edit] Products

• Refurbishment of Metro Cammell M-stock metro cars for MTR
• mockup - rebuild for MTR's DisneyLand line
• A. Goninan LRV
• NR74 Locomotive
• EMU for Railgroup
• passenger cars
• freight wagons
• locomotives
• Bogies
• spare parts
• GG20B Green Goat hybrid shunting locomotive with RailPower

[edit] Clients

• V/Line
• KCR
• MTR
• CityRail

[edit] References

• RailPower partners with 'Premier' Australian Railway Engineers United Goninan to market hybrid locomotives in Australia and SE Asia
• Alfred Goninan

• United Group