see fc electroputere craiova . electroputere s.a. type public bvb ept industry railroad power generation founded 1949 1949 headquarters craiova romania products locomotives electric motors oem parts services locomotive maintenance locomotive management training website electroputere.ro 5100 kw class 45 electric locomotive currently in operation by romanian cfr electroputere s.a. which translates as electropower in english is a company based in craiova romania . founded in 1949 it is one of the largest industrial companies in romania . during the time electroputere has produced for romanian bulgarian chinese polish railways and others more than 2 400 diesel locomotives 1 050 electric locomotives urban vehicles and complex equipments . 1 contents 1 products 2 electric and diesel electric locomotives 2.1 export orders 3 see also 4 references 5 external links products edit electroputere are currently manufactures of industrial electrical parts circuit breakers transformers etc. industrial electric motors & converters heavy duty power transformers railway and urban vehicles . they also have divisions specialising in forging and molding metal equipment repairing tools modernisation . electric and diesel electric locomotives edit see also list of electroputere locomotives export orders edit british rail class 56 locomotives were built by electroputere and british rail engineering limited a total of 1 105 locomotives were delivered between 1972 1991 to railway companies in the following countries bulgaria china greece iran poland united kingdom yugoslavia 2 one of its more notable foreign orders was for the class 56 locomotives for british rail . the 30 locomotives were outsourced to electroputere because brush traction could not build them at its own plant ; however upon their arrival in the uk the machines were deemed to be unsuitable for use as they suffered from poor construction standards and had to be withdrawn and extensively rebuilt . however they were seen as being perfectly reasonable for use in romania by the romanian crews who tested them 3 see also edit romanian railways c ile ferate rom ne references edit electroputere craiova manufacture . exports between 1972 1991 the locos that came in from the cold the railway magazine december 2000 january 2001 issues external links edit wikimedia commons has media related to electroputere . electroputere official site in english cfr 2 100hp co co locomotive 1 this article related to a manufacturing company is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e this romania related article is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e this european corporation or company article is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title electroputere & oldid 736884899 categories locomotive manufacturers of romaniacompanies of romaniacompanies established in 1949craiovarolling stock manufacturers of romaniaprivatized companies in romaniacompanies listed on the bucharest stock exchangeromanian brandsmanufacturing company stubsromania stubseuropean company stubshidden categories commons category with local link different than on wikidataall stub articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version in other projects wikimedia commons languages deutschfran aispolskirom n edit links this page was last modified on 30 august 2016 at 13 28 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view