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Kevin Smith

Kevin Smith joined IRJ in 2009 as Features Editor and since then has travelled the world reporting on developments in the world's railways. He was appointed Managing Editor in 2017 and Editor-in-Chief in February 2020. Before joining IRJ, Kevin worked for several local newspapers in the United States and as a freelance technical writer for a university engineering magazine. Kevin graduated with a first class honours degree in American Studies from Lancaster University, Britain, in 2006, and with a Master's degree in American Studies from Purdue University, United States, in 2008.
May 10, 2013 |

India issues RFQ for electric loco plant

FOLLOWING hot on the heels of a request for qualification (RFQ) to build a new diesel locomotive plant at Marhowra in Bihar province, India's Ministry of Railways has issued an RFQ for an electric locomotive factory at Madhepura, also situated in Bihar.

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