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British Steel has announced a contract to provide rail tracks for an upcoming fully electrified railway in North Africa, the company announced.
The contract will see about 9,500 tonnes of track produced in the UK for Egypt's Green Line railway, between the Red Sea and the Mediterranean.
British Steel said it was "a multimillion-pound" contract and the Green Line railway route will be Egypt's first fully electrified mainline and freight network.
It will carry trains travelling at speeds of up to 250km/h.
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