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13 unusual facts about Bombardier Transportation


Bombardier Transportation

India : Movia-car manufacturing and Electrical component manufacture in Savli, Vadodara.

BTS Skytrain

The Silom Line cars have been modified to support a signaling system from Bombardier Transportation since the extension from Saphan Taksin to Wong Wian Yai.

Derby Works

Moreover the Carriage Works has continued in production and, as of 2012 builds multiple units under its present owner Bombardier Transportation.

Highliner

The original Highliners were rebuilt from 1978 to 1979 by the Bombardier company.

Kalmar

In more recent times, Kalmar has been an industrial city with Kalmar Verkstad making steam engines, trains and large machinery, later bought by Bombardier who closed the factory in 2005.

Metro Transit rolling stock

The Blue Line's original first-generation fleet of 27 Flexity Swift LRVs was built by Bombardier; the Siemens "type II" LRVs are mechanically, but not electronically, compatible with the current fleet of 27 "type I" vehicles, so while the two generations will be able to run on the tracks at the same time and either type would be able to push a malfunctioning unit of the other type, multiple-unit consists may only be assembled of one type.

Namma Metro

Initially the bids by Bombardier and Siemens, Alstom Projects India Ltd and consortium comprising BEML, Mitsubishi and Hyundai Rotem were shortlisted to supply the rolling stock and coaches.

Trams in Dresden

The second generation of low floor cars have been built since 2003 by Bombardier Transportation, also in Bautzen, and are of that manufacturer's Flexity Classic design; both 8 and 12 axle variants exist.

TransAdelaide

Formerly operated by TransAdelaide, all of the class have been replaced by new Bombardier Flexity Classic low-floor trams.

The tram line had undergone a major A$71 million overhaul in 2005–2006 with new Bombardier Flexity light-rail vehicles replacing the aging H-type trams which had been in service since 1929.

In 2006, TransAdelaide began to replace the H-class cars with a fleet of eleven new low floor articulated trams – the Flexity Classics, built by Bombardier in Germany.

Transportation in Dresden

Today many of the low floor vehicles are up to 45 metres long and produced by Bombardier Transportation in Bautzen.

West Anglia Main Line

These were replaced by Class 317 Electric Multiple Units (EMUs) and in 2014 passenger services on the line mostly use Class 315s or Class 317s and brand new Bombardier Class 379s.


Ankara Metro

The vehicles used on the Ankara Metro are Bombardier Transportation-built modified versions of Toronto, Canada's H6 subway model, which were originally built by Urban Transportation Development Corporation (UTDC), a company later purchased by Bombardier.

Claude Mongeau

Before joining CN, Claude Mongeau was a partner with Groupe Secor, a Montreal-based management consulting firm providing strategic advice to large Canadian corporations such as Bombardier and Bell Canada.

DBAG Class 430

The first trains will be made by the consortium of Alstom in Salzgitter and Bombardier in Hennigsdorf.

GoldLinQ

In June 2011 the GoldLinq consortium comprising Bombardier Transportation, Downer EDI, Keolis, McConnell Dowell and Plenary Group was awarded the contract to build the light and operate the Gold Coast light rail line for 18 years.

Hybrid vehicle

The new Autorail à grande capacité (AGC or high-capacity railcar) built by the Canadian company Bombardier for service in France.

Light rail in New Jersey

This line is operated under contract to New Jersey Transit by Southern New Jersey Rail Group, a Bombardier/Bechtel joint-venture.

London Underground 2009 Stock

The 2009 Tube Stock is a type of London Underground train built by Bombardier as part of its Movia family at its Litchurch Lane Works in Derby, England.

MAX Light Rail

The Type 1 cars were manufactured by a joint venture between La Brugeoise et Nivelles and Bombardier Corporation before the latter acquired the former, and featured a raised floor with steps at the doors.

MF 01

The winning consortium of four train manufacturers, namely Alstom, Bombardier, Technicatome and CSEE was chosen to manufacture the MF 2000 stock at a cost of 800 million.

PCC streetcar

The PCC technology was exported to Europe, with La Brugeoise et Nivelles (now the BN division of Bombardier) of Bruges, Belgium, building several hundred streetcars that saw service in Brussels, Antwerp, Ghent, The Hague, Saint-Étienne, Marseille and Belgrade (the latter city buying vehicles initially used by the Belgian Vicinal railways).

Rosa Parks Transit Station

Construction on the Skyway extension began in 1993, and coincided with the system's switch from Matra to Bombardier Transportation technology.

Waggonbau Görlitz

The Görlitz plants have been sold to Bombardier Transportation in 1998 making them available under the Bombardier Double-deck Coach brand (not to be confused with the North-American Bombardier BiLevel Coaches).