RUSSIA: Two single-section low-floor 71-415R trams built by UTM with retro styling have been delivered to Nizhny Tagil, and on August 16 Sverdlovsk oblast allocated a further 830m roubles for the acquisition of further vehicles.
The next deliveries are likely to be UTM Type 71-412 cars with a variable floor height.
Delivery of eight cars is envisaged by the end of this year, with four more to follow in 2023.
This week’s round-up of news from the urban transport sector
RUSSIA: Uraltransmash Holdings unveiled two prototype trams at the Innoprom-2018 industrial exhibition held in its home city of Yekaterinburg on July 9-12. The Type 71-415 is a fully-low floor vehicle designed in-house by UTM as the basis for a planned family of two, three and four-section vehicles. The single section ...
