Bombardier Transportation

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Bombardier Transportation is the rail equipment division of the Bombardier group. Bombardier Transportation is the world’s largest company in the rail equipment manufacturing and servicing industry. Its headquarters is in Berlin.

Their wide range of products includes passenger rail vehicles, locomotives, bogies, propulsion, and controls. They also provide rail control solutions and build total transit systems.

Bombardier Transportation has production facilities or product development in:

André Navarri is the current CEO of Bombardier Transportation. In January 2008 the company had 31,500 employees, 23,800 of them in Europe.

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[edit] History

Bombardier Transportation was founded in 1974 and started manufacturing rolling stock with a contract from the STCUM (Montreal transport authority) to build metro trains for the Montréal Métro.

The original core of the Transportation group was formed with the purchase of Montreal Locomotive Works (MLW) in 1975. With that purchase Bombardier acquired MLW's LRC design. The group also purchased Hawker Siddeley Canada. MLW was later sold to General Electric in 1988.

Bombardier produced the LRC (Light, Rapid, Comfortable) tilting train in the 1980s.

In the late 1980s and 1990s, Bombardier Transportation enlarged its scope mainly in Europe with the acquisitions of BN Constructions Ferroviaires et Métalliques (with its principal site in Bruges, Belgium) 1988, ANF-Industries (with its principal site in Crespin, France) 1989, Procor Engineering Ltd. (with its principal site in Derby, UK) 1990, Waggonfabrik Talbot KG in Aachen, Germany 1995 and Deutsche Waggonbau AG (DWA) 1997. The latter was an entity that encompassed the major portion of the railway equipment industry of the former German Democratic Republik ("Kombinat Schienenfahrzeugbau") with its principal sites in Görlitz and Bautzen (smaller sites included e.g. Vetschau and Niesky).

With its acquisition of the German company ADtranz from DaimlerChrysler in 2001, Bombardier Transportation became by many measurements the world’s largest rail equipment manufacturer. The addition of ADtranz also made Bombardier a manufacturer of locomotives along with its existing product lines of passenger carriages, multiple-unit trains, and trams. Additionally, the acquisition of ADtranz gained Bombardier competence in the components business, most notably for (electrical) propulsion.

The Canadian mass transit unit was created from the purchase of Urban Transportation Development Corporation.

[edit] Products

[edit] Metro rolling stock

MBTA Red Line train
MBTA Red Line train
R142 car (NYC Subway)
R142 car (NYC Subway)
The Flexity Swift tram in Cologne
The Flexity Swift tram in Cologne

[edit] Trams

TRAXX electric locomotive
TRAXX electric locomotive

[edit] Locomotives

ALP-46 and multilevel coaches
ALP-46 and multilevel coaches

[edit] Passenger carriages

Electrostar EMU
Electrostar EMU
Talent DMU
Talent DMU

[edit] Regular-speed multiple-unit trains

[edit] High-speed trains

Acela Express train
Acela Express train

Bombardier also supplies propulsion units, train-control systems, bogies, and other parts, and maintains train fleets.

[edit] Services

Bombardier Transportation provides two major services for commuter train providers all over the world.

[edit] Maintenance

Bombardier Transportation has several maintenance contracts for the servicing of commuter trains. This includes fueling, storage, train washing and upkeep. One of their key clients is GO Transit.

[edit] Operations

Bombardier Transportation will be the next operator for 6 of the 7 GO Transit commuter train lines starting in June of 2008.

[edit] Clients

This list is not complete, since Bombardier is the largest transit system manufacturer.

Austria:

Australia:

Canada:

Croatia:

Finland:

France:

Germany:

Hong Kong:

India:

Italy:

Malaysia:

Mexico:

Philippines:

Romania:

Russia:

Sri Lanka:

Sweden:

Spain:

United Kingdom

USA:

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