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 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:

• North America: Canada, United States, Mexico
• Europe: Belgium, Germany, United Kingdom, France, Italy, Spain, Sweden, Denmark, Poland, Norway, Switzerland, Austria, Hungary, Czech Republic
• Asia: China, India, Thailand
• South America: Brazil
• Australia

André Navarri is the current CEO of Bombardier Transportation.

Contents 1 History 2 Products 3 Services 4 Criticism 5 Clients 6 External links

[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 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.

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.

[edit] Products

• Metros
  • Advanced Rapid Transit
  • Movia metro trains customised to the needs of a wide range of cities
  • Toronto Transit Commission: RT75-T1 subway cars
  • Société de transport de Montréal: MR73 Montreal Metro cars
  • Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority: "#4 Red Line" cars (01800 series)
  • Metropolitan Transportation Authority (New York City): R62A and R142 cars for the New York City Subway
  • Chicago Transit Authority: An order of new cars for the Chicago L is in development for a 2008 launch.

• Trams
  • Flexity Outlook Eurotram and Cityrunner
  • Flexity Classic
  • Flexity Swift
  • Flexity Link (tram-train) BOCLF70
  • Metropolitan Area Express (Portland, Oregon) (MAX) LRV in Portland, Oregon

• Locomotives
  • HHP-8
  • LRC locomotives
  • TRAXX
  • IORE
  • Docklands Light Railways Rolling stock

• Passenger carriages
  • BiLevel Coach
  • Double-deck Coach
  • Horizon/Comet/Shoreliner coaches
  • LRC carriages

• Regular-speed multiple-unit trains
  • AGC (Autorail Grande Capacité)
  • Electrostar (electric) (see also British Rail Classes 357, 375, 376, and 377)
  • InterCity 3
  • Talent
  • Turbostar (diesel)
  • M7 class of EMU cars for the Long Island Rail Road and Metro-North Railroad
  • VLocity diesel DMU's for V/Line, in Victoria, Australia.
• High-speed trains
  • Acela Express (leader of a project in which Alstom is a participant)
  • Voyager and Meridian diesel-electric multiple units
  • InterCityExpress (participant in a Siemens-led project)
  • JetTrain (experimental)
  • TGV (participant in an Alstom-led project)
• Guided Light Transit (GLT)
• Monorails
• Automated people movers

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

[edit] 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.

[edit] Criticism

Bombardier has faced international criticism from some pro-Tibetan independence organizations for its involvement in the Qingzang railway project.^{[1][2] [3]}

[edit] Clients

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

Austria:

• Öbb
• IVB

Australia:

• V/Line

Croatia:

• HŽ

Finland:

• HKL

France:

• Ville de Strasbourg
• Ville de Nancy
• Ville de Caen
• Ville de Paris
• SNCF

Canada:

• VIA Rail
• Société de transport de Montréal
• Agence métropolitaine de transport
• Toronto Transit Commission
• GO Transit
• Vancouver SkyTrain
• West Coast Express
• OC Transpo (O-Train pilot project)

United Kingdom

• Anglia Railways (Turbostar DMU)
• c2c Elctrostar EMU
• Central Trains (Turbostar DMU)
• Hull Trains (Turbostar DMU and Pioneer DEMU)
• Midland Mainline (Turbostar DMU and Meridian DEMU)
• Scotrail (Turbostar DMU)
• South West Trains (Turbostar DMU)
• Virgin Trains (Voyager DEMU)

USA:

• Amtrak
• Chicago O'Hare Airport
• Hartfield Jackson Atlanta Int'l Airport
• New Jersey Transit
• New York City Transit
• Los Angeles Metro
• Long Island Rail Road
• Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority
• The Walt Disney Company
• Tampa International Airport
• Denver International Airport
• Tri-Rail
• Altamont Commuter Express
• Caltrain
• Coaster
• Metrolink
• Rail Runner Express
• Sounder
• Trinity Railway Express
• Virginia Railway Express
• Sounder)
• Northstar Corridor
• Utah Transit Authority FrontRunner
• SEPTA Regional Rail

Germany:

• Die Deutsche Bahn
• City of Saarbrücken

Mexico:

• Ciudad de Mexico

Romania:

• Bucharest Metro

Sweden:

• SJ AB

Hong Kong:

• MTR

India:

• Indian Railways

[edit] External links

• Bombardier Transportation
• V/LineCars.com VLocity 160 Page' - Comprehensive information on Bombardier's VLocity 160 type diesel multiple unit train made for V/Line, the passenger rail service operator in the state of Victoria, Australia.

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