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List of locomotive builders

This list of locomotive builders (companies, government agencies and railways) is ordered by country and includes both modern-day and defunct builders. Since many entities changed their names over time, the most recognisable name is used – generally the one used for the longest time or during the entity's best-known period.

Note: Two factors affect this list's reliability: the preponderance of unreferenced entries and the inconsistency in frequency and coverage of updates.

Argentina

Active companies

Defunct companies

Australia

Australia's mainline railways, owned by the governments of the six British colonies, imported locomotives from the United Kingdom and United States. Domestic production, by companies and railways alike, began about 1890, though locomotives continued to be imported after that.

Active companies

Defunct companies

Azerbaijan

Belgium

Active companies

Defunct companies

Brazil

Bulgaria

  • Express Service

Canada

Active companies

Defunct companies

Chile

  • Casagrande Motori

China

Active companies

Defunct companies

Croatia

Czech Republic

Denmark

Finland

France

Commercial manufacturers

Railway company workshops

Georgia

Germany

Active companies

Defunct companies

Greece

Hungary

India

Indonesia

Iran

Italy

Active companies

  • Alstom Ferroviaria S.p.A. – Savigliano
  • Bombardier Transportation Italy – Vado Ligure
  • Hitachi Rail Italy (formerly Ansaldo Breda)
  • Firema Trasporti
  • Ipe
  • Valente

Defunct companies

Japan

Latvia

Defunct Companies

Malaysia

  • SMH Rail Sdn Bhd

Netherlands

Active companies

  • Bemo Rail, Warmenhuizen

Defunct companies

New Zealand

Active companies

Defunct companies

North Korea

Pakistan

Philippines

Defunct companies

  • Manila Railroad Company's Caloocan Works — The Manila Railroad once made its own railmotors at the Caloocan yards from 1924 to 1949. It also assembled two 630 class 2-8-2 locomotives with parts acquired from the War Assets Administration in 1948.
  • Ramcar, Inc. — Also constructed and assembled railmotors alongside the MRR. Although it still survives as the Ramcar Group of Companies, its rolling stock business ended during World War II.

Poland

Active companies

Defunct companies

Portugal

  • Sorefame - acquired by ABB, then ADtranz, now part of Bombardier

Romania

Russia

Active Companies

Defunct Companies

Serbia

Slovakia

  • Avokov
  • ZOÅ  - Vrútky

South Africa

South Korea

Spain

Active companies

Defunct companies

  • ATEINSA. Became part of the GEC-Alstom group (now Alstom) in 1989.
  • Babcock & Wilcox
  • Euskalduna
  • (MTM). Became part of the GEC-Alstom group (now Alstom) in 1989.
  • MACOSA. Became part of the GEC-Alstom group (now Alstom) in 1989, until 2005 when it became part of the Vossloh group. The plant was sold to Stadler in 2015.

Sweden

Switzerland

Defunct companies

Taiwan

Defunct companies

  • Tang Eng Iron Works (Manufacturing of rolling stock has been ceased and transferred to Taiwan Rolling Stock Co.)

Turkey

Defunct companies

Ukraine

United Kingdom

Historically, major railways in the United Kingdom built the vast majority of their locomotives. Commercial locomotive builders were called upon when requirements exceeded the railway works' capacity, but these orders were generally to the railways' own designs. British commercial builders concentrated on industrial users, small railway systems, and to a large extent the export market. British-built locomotives were exported around the world, especially to the British Empire. With the almost total disappearance of British industrial railways, the shrinking of the export market and much reduced demand from Britain's railways, few British locomotive builders survive.

Active companies

Defunct companies

See also:

United States

Active companies

Defunct companies

In addition to these, many railroads operating steam locomotives built locomotives in their shops. Notable examples include the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Mount Clare Shops, Norfolk & Western's Roanoke Shops, Pennsylvania Railroad's Altoona Works and the Southern Pacific's Sacramento Shops. An estimate of total steam locomotive production in the United States is about 175,000 engines, including nearly 70,000 by Baldwin.

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