The Rail Industry driven by David Brown

Rail Industry

David Brown has accumulated vast experience during our long history in the rail industry, working with a range of global OEMs on a wide variety of projects.

David Brown’s long history in the rail industry has seen 14,000 gearboxes and 11,500 couplings along with over one billion hours of service, all engineered and supplied to our high quality standards. Our specialist knowledge in the rail gearbox field, has led to David Brown working with renowned global companies.

David Brown has supplied products to a number of rail applications, notably main line locomotives, electrical multiple units (EMU), metro and light rail systems. David Brown’s expertise in gears, transmissions, testing and Finite Element Analysis (FEA) as well as full in-house design capabilities allow us to provide safe and reliable solutions, optimised for lifetime performance and ongoing maintainability.

  • Tram/Light Rail Vehicles (LRV)
  • Metro
  • Electrical Multiple Units (EMU)
  • Couplings