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Template:Short description {{#invoke:Infobox|infobox}}Template:Template otherTemplate:Main other{{#invoke:Check for clobbered parameters|check|nested=1|template=Infobox company|cat=Template:Main other|name; company_name|logo; company_logo|logo_alt; alt|trade_name; trading_name|former_names; former_name|type; company_type|predecessors; predecessor|successors; successor|foundation; founded|founders; founder|defunct; dissolved|hq_location; location|hq_location_city; location_city|hq_location_country; location_country|num_locations; locations|areas_served; area_served|net_income; profit|net_income_year; profit_year|owners; owner |homepage; website }}{{#invoke:Check for unknown parameters|check|unknown=Template:Main other|preview=Page using Template:Infobox company with unknown parameter "_VALUE_" | ignoreblank=y | alt | area_served | areas_served | assets | assets_year | aum | brands | company_logo | company_name | company_type | defunct | dissolved | divisions | embed | equity | equity_year | fate | footnotes | former_name | former_names | foundation | founded | founder | founders | genre | homepage | hq_location | hq_location_city | hq_location_country | incorporated | image | image_alt | image_caption | image_size | image_upright | income_year | industry | ISIN | key_people | location | location_city | location_country | locations | logo | logo_alt | logo_caption | logo_class | logo_size | logo_upright | members | members_year | module | name | native_name | native_name_lang | net_income | net_income_year | num_employees | num_employees_year | num_locations | num_locations_year | operating_income | owner | owners | parent | predecessor | predecessors | production | production_year | products | profit | profit_year | rating | ratio | revenue | revenue_year | romanized_name | services | subsid | successor | successors | traded_as | trade_name | trading_name | type | website| qid | fetchwikidata | suppressfields | noicon | nocat | demo | categories }} Hitachi Rail Italy S.p.A. is a multinational rolling stock manufacturer company based in Pistoia, Italy. Formerly AnsaldoBreda S.p.A., a subsidiary of state-owned Finmeccanica, the company was sold in 2015 to Hitachi Rail of Japan.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> After the deal was finalized, the current name was adopted in November 2015 to reflect the new ownership.<ref name=soldtoHitachi>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

HistoryEdit

Early history: Ansaldo and BredaEdit

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Giovanni Ansaldo founded the company in 1853.

AnsaldoEdit

In 1853, the company Gio. Ansaldo & C. was registered in Genoa as a manufacturer of steam locomotives, rail rolling stock and steam engines. The company was backed by Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour, the powerful finance minister of Piedmont-Sardinia, who aimed to reduce its dependence on imported trains and rolling stock.<ref name="Palazzo Ducale Genova">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}Template:Cbignore</ref> Ansaldo entered the age of the steam locomotive in 1854 with its model FS113, also known as Sampierdarena. During the First World War, Ansaldo became a large supplier of weapons to the Italian army; facing insurmountable difficulties with post-war reconversion to civilian industry, the company was eventually nationalised in 1921.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> During the rest of the 1900s, the company diversified in different fields, especially power generation (Ansaldo Energia) and nuclear research, while the rolling stock activities were reunited under Ansaldo Trasporti.

BredaEdit

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Breda thousandth locomotive, the FS 685.600, at the Leonardo da Vinci Museum in Milan.

In 1886, Ernesto Breda founded in Milan Società Italiana Ernesto Breda.<ref name= Treccani.it>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> By 1908, Breda's thousandth locomotive was built.<ref name= Treccani.it/> Breda entered the electric locomotive era in 1936 with the production of the FS Class ETR 200 series electric multiple unit. In 1939 this type set the land speed record for rail vehicles<ref>"Forse nel tentativo di raggiungere il primato mondiale di velocità ferroviaria, che appena il mese prima un treno Diesel tedesco in prova aveva portato a 215 km/h, si pensò a una nuova corsa con un ETR.200. L'ingegner Mario Martinelli delle FS ricorda che 'poiché sembrava che la corsa dovesse essere ripetuta, fu prescelto l'ETR.214 per questo secondo exploit... poi l'idea della seconda corsa fu abbandonata: la guerra si avvicinava." Cf Cornolò, Una leggenda op. cit., p. 34.</ref> at Template:Convert.<ref name=autogenerato1>Maurizio Panconesi, La direttissima degli Appennini. La linea Bologna-Prato e le sue ferrovie di servizio, Cortona, Calosci, 2002, Template:ISBN, pp. 121-125.</ref> Similarly to Ansaldo, also Breda became a main weapon supplier to the Fascist regime, especially of artillery and airplanes. After the Second World War the company was facing bankruptcy, and was eventually nationalised in 1947. During the Italian economic miracle of the 1950-60s, Breda produced a highly successful commuter train, the FS Class ETR 300, several classes of railcars and locomotives, and diversified into defense (OTO Melara) and, especially, buses. In the 1980s Breda participated in the consortium that designed the first Italian high-speed train, the FS Class ETR 500.

Merger and crisis (2001–2015)Edit

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AnsaldoBreda logo, 2001–2015.

In a massive restructuring effort, in 2001 the Italian state merged all the rolling stock activities of the then loss-making Ansaldo and Breda in a new company, AnsaldoBreda,<ref name="company">Company Template:Webarchive. AnsaldoBreda. Retrieved on 2009-07-17.</ref> that in turn became part of the Finmeccanica state-owned group.<ref>Energy Transportation Template:Webarchive. Finmeccanica. Retrieved on 2009-07-17.</ref> The new company won a string of big contracts across Europe and the United States; however, lacking adequate funding and capacity,<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> AnsaldoBreda became infamous for its unreliable products and long delays, damaging the reputation of the company.

Controversies during the 2000sEdit

In 1991, 100 4000 Series railcars from AnsaldoBreda were delivered to the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority. On 4 July 2010, after several incidents where the doors would open while the train was in motion, Metro removed the fleet for repairs until 20 July that year. On 17 November 2016 Metro discovered an error in which a 4000-series car would display an incorrect speed limit to a train operator while in manual mode (which is the only mode used since the June 2009 Washington Metro train collision). On 7 June 2017 Metro announced that the 4000-series cars would be fully retired and removed from service on 1 July 2017, and by that date all cars were taken out of service.<ref name="nbc 2018">Template:Cite news</ref>

Delivery of 83 IC4 AnsaldoBreda trainsets for the Danish State Railways DSB was originally planned for 2003–2006. However, the last train was delivered only in 2013 and IC4 trains have seen many technical problems during their service.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> DSB announced in 2016 that the trains would be withdrawn from service from 2024.<ref name="auto">Template:Cite news</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

After winning a big contract for the Dutch-Belgium Fyra project in 2004, nine V250 train units were delivered to the Dutch partner NS over five years later than originally contracted. Soon after the trains went into service on the high-speed line between the Netherlands and Belgium, the V250 suffered a number of severe technical problems. The Fyra had a poor reputation for reliability. After a month of operations more than 5% of all trains were cancelled and less than 45% of them ran on schedule.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> On 31 May 2013, the Belgium partner NMBS/SNCB announced that they would exit the Fyra project and cancel the contract with AnsaldoBreda.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

The City of Gothenburg in Sweden has ordered 40 one-directional Sirio trams which were to be put into service on the Gothenburg tram network during 2005 and onwards. The trams were delivered late and functioned poorly when put into traffic. Among reported problems were corrosion, excessive track damage caused by the trams, malfunctioning air conditioners inside the trams and poor ride quality. The City of Gothenburg therefore withheld a large part of the payment for a delivered tram until fully operational.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref name=gp_2nov2015/>

The 32 two-directional trams delivered for the Oslo Tramway from 1999, called SL95, have met several difficulties with rust during snowy weather and the heavy weight necessitates much maintenance to streets and tracks, which make the trams expensive to operate.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> They are also considered to create more noise than necessary. The replacement of the trams will start in 2020 and the last trams will be taken out of service in 2024.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

After 7 years on a 4-year project the region of Stockholm decided to cancel the contract on new signal system for the red metro line in Stockholm with Ansaldo on 1 billion SEK. The prepayment of hundreds of million SEK is currently up in arbitration court.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

The maintenance issues experienced by MBTA AnsaldoBreda Type 8 Vehicles delayed the retirement of the Boeing LRVs by several years. According to MBTA Chief Operating Officer Jeff Gonneville, they present a "maintenance challenge".<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In October 2016, the Boston Globe reported that the MBTA Green Line had the most derailments in the nation due to the Type 8.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

The Italian high-speed trains programEdit

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A Frecciarossa 1000.

In spite of its overall terminal crisis, AnsaldoBreda managed to successfully participate in the Italian high-speed trains program until the very end of its existence. The ETR 500, that entered service in 1993, was continuously upgraded and ran at a record speed of Template:Convert in the Monte Bibele tunnel between Florence and Bologna in 2009, setting a speed record for trains in a tunnel.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> A new generation high-speed train, the Frecciarossa 1000, was developed in a consortium with Bombardier Transportation and entered service in 2015.<ref>Frecciarossa 1000 in cifre Template:Webarchive (25-09-2012).</ref><ref name="fsnews2">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> On 26 February 2016, a Frecciarossa 1000 reportedly attained a peak speed of Template:Cvt while traversing the Torino-Milano high speed line.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Hitachi Italy era (2015 to present)Edit

Lacking the funds for a proper restructuring of its troubled subsidiary, Finmeccanica announced on 2 November 2015 the 'closing of transactions' covering the purchase of AnsaldoBreda by Hitachi, together with Finmeccanica's 40% stake in Ansaldo STS, for $2.2 billion.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Under the agreements signed on 24 February 2015, following a dividend distribution announced on 6 March, the purchase price for Finmeccanica's stake in Ansaldo STS has been set at €9.50 per share, amounting to a total of €761m. The total net consideration to be paid for AnsaldoBreda as a going concern, including property assets, amounts to around €30m. As a part of the deal Finmeccanica would keep the responsibility for some residual contracts.<ref>Hitachi agrees to buy Ansaldo STS and AnsaldoBreda Template:Webarchive (24 Feb 2015)</ref>

Since being acquired by Hitachi, production of some British Rail Class 802 was shifted to Hitachi Rail Italy's Pistoia plant due to Hitachi Rail's Newton Aycliffe plant being at capacity.<ref>Template:Citation</ref>

ProductsEdit

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DMU and EMUEdit

MetroEdit

(All of these metros are being used in the Milan Metro network as of 2023.)

Tram and light railEdit

LocomotivesEdit

Main operatorsEdit

BrazilEdit

  • Elettrotreno ETR 211 (Metrostar) for Fortaleza Metro running in the Linha Sul

ChinaEdit

DenmarkEdit

GreeceEdit

ItalyEdit

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MoroccoEdit

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ONCF TAF Z2M

NorwayEdit

|CitationClass=web }}</ref> Over the years, AnsaldoBreda has updated the equipment to meet the requirements and demands of the operator in Norway.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref><ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>

SpainEdit

  • multiple unit AnsaldoBreda series S7000 operates mainly on the Line 10 (Madrid Metro) Madrid Metro. The Madrid Metro operates a fleet of 37 trains.<ref name="Madrid.org">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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SwedenEdit

TurkeyEdit

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AnsaldoBreda Sirio in Samsun

United KingdomEdit

  • Midland Metro formerly operated a fleet of 16 two carriage T69 trams in Birmingham.<ref name="boynton2001page80">Boynton (2001), p.80.</ref> The fleet was completely replaced after 14 years of service by CAF Urbos 3 trams in 2015.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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United StatesEdit

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  • 80 cars for Skyline in Honolulu, Hawaii

See alsoEdit

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ReferencesEdit

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Further readingEdit

  • Giovanni Cornolò, Una leggenda che corre. Breve storia dell'elettrotreno e dei suoi primati. ETR.200 - ETR.220 - ETR 240, 2. ed., Salò, Editrice Trasporti su Rotaie, 1990, Template:ISBN
  • Stefano Garzaro, Angelo Nascimbene, FS-Italia. Elettrotreno ETR 400 "Pendolino", collana Monografie ferroviarie n. 6, Torino, Edizioni Elledi, 1982

External linksEdit

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