page_title: Sorefame
section_title: Railway rolling stock
hierarchical_section_title: Sorefame / Products / Railway rolling stock
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Corail-Wagen der CP mit dem für Portugal typischen rostfreien Wagenkasten. Der Wagen ist nur für den Binnenverkehr zugelassen und trotzdem mit den breiten Originalpuffern für den Wechselverkehr zwischen der iberischen Halbinsel und dem europäischen Regelspurnetz ausgerüstet.
context_page_description: Sorefame was a Portuguese manufacturer of railway rolling stock and industrial equipment, such as dam gates equipment. The company was established in 1943.
  In the 1990s the company was split into a rolling stock company Nova Sorefame and a dam equipment company Hidrosorefame; Hidrosorefame was acquired by Alstom, the rolling stock business became part of ABB's rail transport division, later Adtranz, and in 2001 part of Bombardier transportation; it was closed in 2005.
context_section_description: From the 1960s the company specialised in the manufacture of stainless steel carriages, principally for the Portuguese Railways (CP). The stainless steel carriages were built at the company's factory in Amadora under licence from the Budd Company of the USA. During the years of the Salazar regime (the Estado Novo), Sorefame supplied the vast majority of Portugal's railway rolling stock (as well as for Portugal's then colonies), but the Carnation Revolution of 1974 and economic liberalisation, especially following Portugal's entry to the European Union in 1986, resulted in far greater international competition. Sorefame also assembled diesel and electric locomotives for CP (such as the Série 1900 in 1981), notably using components designed and supplied by the French company Alstom.
  The firm had also fabricated the shells for Boeing Vertol's 2400 series railcars constructed for the Chicago Transit Authority in 1976.
caption: A Sorefame-built carriage based on the French Corail design, at Braga
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