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The Swiss national train company has their own share of issues with trains built by Bombardier. After years of delays, what was finally delivered is horribly un

by pilif 7y ago

The Swiss national train company has their own share of issues with trains built by Bombardier. After years of delays, what was finally delivered is horribly unreliable and passengers also don't like the shaking feeling when they do run. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/SBB_RABe_502 https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/SBB_RABe_502 Two examples doesn't make a trend, but seeing how similar the issues are, maybe there is some systemic issue plaguing them.

_jon9 7y ago
On my commute I have been twice the witness of a broken door refusing to close on all new trains built by Bombardier not even 6 months old
the_mitsuhiko 7y ago
Different Bombardier, different factories, different gauges, different trains, different problems. Very little these two things have in common other than the name.
jplayer01 7y ago
Bombardier produced the new IC2 trains in Germany. There were a lot of issues (including the carriages rocking from side to side which made people sick) and things breaking repeatedly. Seems like Bombardier's MO.
ancientworldnow 7y ago
NYC has also had problems with Bombadier and banned them from bidding on new contracts. Ongoing deliveries from them have been frozen until their problems are fixed (bad welds being the most dangerous but reliability overall being terrible).
slavik81 7y ago
Kind of off-topic, but Bombardier was running a really terrible ad on TV in Canada a few years back. It featured a couple of tourists in Europe asking a lady to take a photo for them. She purposefully waited until a train blocked the shot, so they got a photo of the train instead of the view they wanted. She then shows them the sabotaged photo and says something like, "I made that train! It's Bombardier." I think the point of the ad was that they're an important exporter that creates good jobs and that earns international recognition. It was clearly designed for strengthening political support from the provincial and federal governments, not for selling trains. To me, though, it just made them seem like selfish assholes. I wish I could find the ad, but Google just returns a mountain of news reports and marketing videos.

by pilif 7y ago

_jon9 7y ago

On my commute I have been twice the witness of a broken door refusing to close on all new trains built by Bombardier not even 6 months old

the_mitsuhiko 7y ago

Different Bombardier, different factories, different gauges, different trains, different problems. Very little these two things have in common other than the name.

jplayer01 7y ago

Bombardier produced the new IC2 trains in Germany. There were a lot of issues (including the carriages rocking from side to side which made people sick) and things breaking repeatedly. Seems like Bombardier's MO.

ancientworldnow 7y ago

NYC has also had problems with Bombadier and banned them from bidding on new contracts. Ongoing deliveries from them have been frozen until their problems are fixed (bad welds being the most dangerous but reliability overall being terrible).

slavik81 7y ago

Kind of off-topic, but Bombardier was running a really terrible ad on TV in Canada a few years back. It featured a couple of tourists in Europe asking a lady to take a photo for them. She purposefully waited until a train blocked the shot, so they got a photo of the train instead of the view they wanted. She then shows them the sabotaged photo and says something like, "I made that train! It's Bombardier." I think the point of the ad was that they're an important exporter that creates good jobs and that earns international recognition. It was clearly designed for strengthening political support from the provincial and federal governments, not for selling trains. To me, though, it just made them seem like selfish assholes. I wish I could find the ad, but Google just returns a mountain of news reports and marketing videos.