The same brakes are now operating in metro trains in Singapore, Shanghai, Barcelona and Istanbul, the French train manufacturer noted.

The braking system meets the most stringent international and EU specifications, but not those of Hungarian national railways company BKV. Cancelling the contract would be illegal, Alstom warned."

Source: Hungary Around the Clock.

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