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Deutsche Bahn sues train builder over faults
Published: 14 Feb 13 13:49 CET | Print version
Online: http://www.thelocal.de/money/20130214-47971.html
Fed up with unreliable trains on suburban systems across Germany, Deutsche Bahn is suing Canadian train maker Bombardier for €160 million, the Süddeutsche Zeitung reported on Thursday.
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The paper said Deutsche Bahn had filed two suits in both Munich and Berlin, claiming a total of €160 million in compensation from Bombardier.
The complaint concerns more than 200 regional trains in operation in southern Germany which have experienced repeated problems with tilting technology and axles.
The Munich case concerns trains which have had repeated braking problems, forcing the federal railway office to reduce the speed limit in the region at times. Initially Deutsche Bahn is not claiming compensation in this case, but wants to force the release of information which it can later use for such a claim which the SüddeutscheZeitung said was planned.
Deutsche Bahn confirmed the existence of the two complaints to the paper, but declined to say what they were about. Bombardier also said it would not comment.
Bombardier, alongside Siemens, is the most important supplier of trains to Deutsche Bahn and primarily supplies local and regional trains.
AFP/The Local/hc
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That should be Deutsche Bahn.
Please correct.
Assuming your information is accurate, I wonder if they figure into that really ugly crash in China a couple years ago. I have no idea who made the units involved in that mess.
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" Bomberdier" products, increased the projected completion costs way beyond
what was originally envisaged, now causing a city wide witch hunt into the astronomical rise in costs.
First of all Bombardier Transportation (the train maker) is a German company headquartered in Berlin. It belongs to the parent company Bombardier Corp. in Canada.
The trains in question were also assembled in Germany at a Bombardier plant in Hermsdorf, near Berlin. Bombardier Transportation has a number of large assembly plants in Germany, which assemble passenger trains, locomotives and light rail vehicles. The company also has assembly plants in various other countries including France, England, China, Sweden, Canada, USA and several others.
Bombardier exited the snowmobile and jet ski business many years ago, perhaps a couple of decades ago. Today Bombardier has essentially just two divisions / two product lines. One is design and production of regional passenger aircraft and biz jets, which is headquartered in Montreal, Canada. The other is trains, locomotives, mass transit rail cars, light rail transit cars, etc. headquartered in Berlin, Germany with various manufacturing and assembly plants in Germany and elsewhere around the world.
Shenzhen Metro certinaly uses rolling stock manufactured by Bombardier joint venture with CSR in China. So if you had components made in China same design would you use them on other trains overseas. Volkswagon has just opened a huge gearbox factory as well. Current demand means it may be a few years before exports start.
The High speed trains are very similar to a simens design of a train sold before in China. Now made by CSR I dont think Simens have anything to do with it.
The fault was signal hardware not the trains due to lightning they had saved a bit of money on lightning protection and fall back and spent it on lunch instead.