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Bombardier Transportation

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 are 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 in:

André Navarri is the current CEO of Bombardier Transportation.

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.

Products

The Flexity Swift tram in Cologne
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The Flexity Swift tram in Cologne
TRAXX electric locomotive
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TRAXX electric locomotive
Talent DMU
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Talent DMU

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

Services

Bombardier Transportation is also in the business of servicing train cars. One of their key clients is GO Transit. Bombardier Transportation is vying to be the next operator of GO Transit's commuter train operations.


Clients

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

Austria:

Australia:

Croatia:

Finland:

France:

Canada:

United Kingdom

USA:

Germany:

Mexico:

Romania:

Sweden:

Hong Kong:

India:

Malaysia:

Philippines:

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