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.

Electrostar EMU

TRAXX electric locomotive

Talent DMU

Flexity Swift LRV

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 Criticism
4 Clients
5 References
6 External links

History

Bombardier Transportation was founded in 1974 and started manufacturing rolling stock with a contract from the Société de transport de la Communauté urbaine de Montréal 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. 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.

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
Passenger carriages
*BiLevel Coach
*Double-deck Coach
*LRC carriages
Regular-speed multiple-unit trains
*[AGC] (Autorail Grande Capacité)
*Electrostar (electric) (see also British Rail Classes 357, 375, 376, and 377)
*Talent
*Turbostar (diesel)
*M7 class of EMU cars for the Long Island Rail Road and Metro-North Railroad
*M8 class of EMU cars for the Metro-North's New Haven Line, planned for 2012
High-speed trains
*Acela Express (leader of a project in which Alstom is a participant)
*Voyager and Meridian diesel-electric multiple units
*InterCity Express (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.

Criticism

Bombardier has faced international criticism from some pro-Tibetan independence organizations for its involvement in the Qingzang railway project.http://www.bombardieroutoftibet.orghttp://actionnetwork.org/sft/alert-description.tcl?alert_id=3492803 http://www.tibet.ca/en/wtnarchive/2005/6/18_3.html

Clients

References

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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