You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: 
british groups general electric company -lrb- gec -rrb- and gec UNK telecommunications -lrb- gpt -rrb- and the franco-british giant gec alsthom have won orders worth ### million pounds -lrb- ###.# million dollars -rrb- to work on a hong kong railway system , gec announced wednesday .
gec gec alsthom and UNK win ### million pounds of orders for hong kong