Bombardier BiLevel Coach

Bombardier BiLevel Doppelstockwagen (English Bombardier BiLevel Coach) are designed for suburban railways in North America train compartments. The car can carry up to 360 passengers and are easily recognized by their shape with the smooth octagonal sides. They are built since 1976 and are now in the eighth generation.

This Bombardier BiLevel double-deck coaches should not be confused with the Bombardier multi-level bi-level cars ( also North America ) and the Bombardier bi-level cars (originally wagon Görlitz). All product names used in the English terms BiLevel Coach, Multi Level Coach and Double-deck Coach German as " double-deckers " translated.

History

The original model was made by Hawker Siddeley Canada (HSC ), a subsidiary of the British Hawker Siddeley Group, which in the 1970s on behalf of the public transport company of Toronto a replacement for their former one-story regional diesel trains designed and manufactured. Even for the first generation was found as a customer also Metrolink (Los Angeles ). The second generation also came not from HSC, and could also be placed at Trinity Railway Express and Coaster (San Diego ).

In the early 1980s, concluded with the HSC located in Canadian government-owned UTDC / Can -Car together (Urban Transportation Development Corporation / Canadian Car and Foundry ) in order to create a complete product portfolio for contracts can. The third generation was placed beside GO Train Toronto and Metrolink Los Angeles even with Tri-Rail Florida. The generations four and five on the other hand could only be placed by the house purchaser Go- Train - after the privatization of UTDC / Can -Car, the company was located on the system builder SNC Lavalin, however its expansion could not hold and UTDC / Can -Car 1991 Bombardier sold.

The other generations were then placed under the brand Bombardier, and already the first generation successor six could be placed at nearly a dozen transport companies. Similarly, the seventh generation found new customers, the eighth generation can only be found by the house purchaser Go- Train, who also has a total of more than half of all trains sold in use.

Use

The double-deckers are used inter alia in the following establishments: