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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:

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 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

Flexity Swift LRV
TRAXX electric locomotive
Electrostar EMU
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 servcing 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.

Criticism

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

Clients

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

Austria:

Australia:

France:

Canada:

USA:

Germany:

Mexico:

Sweden:

Hong Kong:

India:

References

  1. ^ http://www.bombardieroutoftibet.org
  2. ^ http://actionnetwork.org/sft/alert-description.tcl?alert_id=3492803
  3. ^ http://www.tibet.ca/en/wtnarchive/2005/6/18_3.html
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