BHEL's involvement in the transportation sector has been marked with rapid growth.

Today over 85% of Indian Railways, one of the largest railway networks  in the world, is equipped with traction equipment built by BHEL.                                                                            

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The range includes traction motors, traction generators/alternators, transformers, sub-station equipment, vacuum circuit breakers, locomotive bogies, smoothing reactors, exciters, converters, inverters, choppers and associated control equipment, viz. master controllers, HSCBs, chopper controllers brake and door equipment, electronic controls including software based controls extending to rolling stock and other transport applications.

BHEL has manufactured and supplied large numbers of electric locomotives ( upto 5000 hp) to Indian Railways and Diesel Electric Locomotives ranging from 350 hp to 2600 hp to cement, steel and fertilizer plants, thermal power stations, coalfields, ports and other medium and large industries. This has established BHEL as a leading locomotive manufacturer in the country.

Diesel Multiple Units, underground Metro-rail system at Calcutta, Electric Multiple Unit (EMU) services at Mumbai, Calcutta, Chennai & Delhi operate on drives and controls supplied by BHEL.

BHEL has also started the supply of equipment for Dual Voltage EMUs
with 3 phase technology.

To contain air pollution & to conserve mineral oil resources, battery powered road vehicles are in operation in various cities, BHEL is also ready to undertake turnkey execution of LRT, MRTS & electric trolley bus.