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Bombardier Transportation is the rail equipment division of the Bombardier Inc.. Bombardier Transportation is one of the world’s largest companies in the rail equipment manufacturing and servicing industry. Its headquarters are in Berlin, Germany.
The original 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 (Light, Rapid, Comfortable) tilting train design which it produced in the 1980s. The group also purchased Hawker Siddeley Canada. MLW was later 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. In 1987, Bombardier bought the assets of US railcar manufacturers Budd and Pullman-Standard. 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 (with its principal site in Bruges, Belgium) in 1986, and the acquisition of ANF-Industries (with its principal site in Crespin, France, near the Belgium border) in 1989 In 1990 Procor Engineering Ltd. a manufacturer of bodyshells was acquired, in 1995 Waggonfabrik Talbot KG in Aachen, Germany and in 1998 Deutsche Waggonbau AG (DWA). The latter was an entity that encompassed the major portion of the railway equipment industry of the former German Democratic Republic ("Kombinat Schienenfahrzeugbau") with its principal sites in Bautzen and Görlitz. In 1998 Bombardier also acquired Ateliers de constructions mécaniques de Vevey in Vevey . 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 made Bombardier a manufacturer of locomotives along with its existing product lines of passenger carriages, multiple-unit trains, and trams. With the acquisition of ADtranz Bombardier gained competence in the electrical propulsion components business.
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