CAPTION: Swedish iron ore mining group LKAB has taken delivery of five prototype Uanoo wagons from Transwerk of South Africa for MTAB to test on the Luleå - Kiruna - Narvik Malmbanan. LKAB must decide by September 1 whether to order a 68 vehicle trainset of the 120 tonne GLW wagons for delivery by August 1 2000. Further orders could bring the fleet to 209 by 2005 (RG 9.98 p585)
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