More than 800 people took a look at what’s being made in Dandenong and raised cash for charity.
Bombardier Transportation hosted an open day for staff and families, suppliers, customers and industry partners on Sunday 20 November.
Jumping castles, mini Jeeps, train rides, face painting, a balloon artist and an animal petting zoo kept kids entertained.
There were food stalls and trucks, Melbourne SKA band Shanty Town, tours of a new VLocity train and the space where it’s made, and 85 per cent of the suppliers used for the open day were from Melbourne’s south-east.
A raffle raised $1150 for the TrackSafe Foundation which was established by the Australian rail industry to reduce near collisions, injuries and fatalities on the rail network resulting from suicide and reckless behaviour.
Bombardier Transportation Australia managing director Andrew Dudgeon told staff it was “important for your sons, daughters, wives, husbands, mothers, fathers, all of your loved ones, to get to see where you come to work every day and what you do, to see how we build the trains and trams that make up a vital part of Victorian, and Australian, infrastructure”.
“This open day has been a way for us to thank our customers and industry partners who have worked with us over many years to deliver some of Victoria’s most reliable and iconic trains and trams into passenger service,” he said.
“With their support we look forward to strengthening our ongoing partnerships and delivering the products and services our state needs and deserves.”
Bombardier Transportation has been in Dandenong for more than 60 years and from that site designed, engineered, built and delivered more than 2000 train and tram carriages.
The company has more than 700 employees across Victoria, and 1000 across Australia, which produce trains and trams from design and engineering through to testing, delivery, maintenance and signalling.
