Bombardier Transportation
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Bombardier Transportation
Type Subsidiary
Industry Rail vehicle manufacturing
Successor Alstom
Founded 1974; 46 years ago
Headquarters Berlin, Germany
Key people Danny Di Perna (President)
Products Locomotives
High-speed trains
Intercity and commuter trains
Trams
People movers
Signalling systems
Revenue US$8.3 billion (2019)
Number of employees 36,000 (2020)
Parent Bombardier Inc.
(sale to Alstom Transport pending)
Website [Link]
Bombardier Transportation is the German subsidiary and rail equipment division
of Bombardier Inc. It is one of the world's largest companies in the rail vehicle and
equipment manufacturing and servicing industry. Headquartered in Berlin, Germany,
Bombardier Transportation has many regional offices, production and development
facilities worldwide.[1][2]
Bombardier Transportation produces a wide range of products including passenger
rail vehicles, locomotives, bogies, propulsion and controls.
In February 2020, Alstom agreed terms to buy the Bombardier Transportation
division and signed a Memorandum of understanding to do so for between €5.8
billion and €6.2 billion.
In February 2020, the company had 36,000 employees, and 63 manufacturing and
engineering locations around the world.[3]
Contents
• 1History
o 1.120th century
▪ 1.1.11970s: Formation and first orders
▪ 1.1.21980s: Expansion to the US, France and Belgium
▪ 1.1.31990s: Expansion to Mexico, Germany and the UK
o 1.221st century
▪ 1.2.12000s: Western world's largest rail-equipment manufacturer
▪ 1.2.22010s: Global operations and consolidations
▪ 1.2.3Sale to Alstom
• 2Products and services
o 2.1Metro rolling stock
o 2.2Mainline Trains
o 2.3Monorails
o 2.4Trams and light rail vehicles
o 2.5Locomotives
o 2.6Passenger carriages
o 2.7Regular-speed multiple-unit trains
o 2.8High-speed trains
o 2.9People movers
• 3Services
• 4Facilities
• 5Legal issues
o 5.1Deutsche Bahn
o 5.2Everline
o 5.3Toronto Transit Commission
• 6See also
• 7References
o 7.1Literature
• 8External links
History[edit]
20th century[edit]
1970s: Formation and first orders[edit]
Bombardier Transportation's first order for mass transit rolling stock was in 1974 for
the Société de transport de Montréal (STM) (Montreal transport authority) to build
metro trains for the Montreal Metro.[4]
The core of the Transportation group was formed with the purchase of Montreal
Locomotive Works (MLW) in 1975.[5]
1980s: Expansion to the US, France and Belgium[edit]
With the 1975 purchase, Bombardier acquired MLW's LRC (Light, Rapid,
Comfortable) tilting train design which it produced in the 1980s. In 1987, Bombardier
bought the assets of US railcar manufacturers Budd and Pullman-Standard.[6]
In the late 1980s Bombardier Transportation gained a manufacturing presence in
Europe with the acquisition of a 45% share in BN Constructions Ferroviaires et
Métalliques[4] (whose principal site was in Bruges, Belgium) in 1986, and the
acquisition of ANF-Industries (whose principal site was in Crespin, France, near the
Belgian border) in 1989.[4]
1990s: Expansion to Mexico, Germany and the UK[edit]
In 1990, Procor Engineering of Horbury near Wakefield, England; a manufacturer of
bodyshells, was acquired,[4] and renamed Bombardier Prorail.[7]
In 1991 the group purchased Urban Transportation Development
Corporation (UTDC) from the Government of Ontario, which had previously
acquired Hawker Siddeley Canada[citation needed]. MLW was sold to General Electric in
1988. GE ended railcar operations in Canada in 1993. Bombardier Transportation
continues to operate the railcar operations in Thunder Bay. [citation needed]
In 1991 the grouping Bombardier Eurorail was formed consisting of the company's
European subsidiaries; BN, ANF-Industrie, Prorail, and BWS.[8][9] In 1992, the
company acquired Mexico's largest railway rolling-stock manufacturer, Concarril,
from the Mexican government.[10]
In 1995 Waggonfabrik Talbot in Aachen, Germany, and in 1998, Deutsche
Waggonbau (DW), and Ateliers de Constructions Mécaniques de Vevey in Vevey,
Switzerland,[11] were acquired.[4] DW encompassed the major portion of the railway
equipment industry of the former East Germany ("Kombinat Schienenfahrzeugbau"),
and had its principal sites in Bautzen and Görlitz.[citation needed]
21st century[edit]
2000s: Western world's largest rail-equipment manufacturer
