RUSSIA: Siemens' Wien plant has completed the first of 200 sleeping cars which Russian Railways ordered in July 2009 for use on services to western Europe.
Designed for 200 km/h and meeting RIC standards for use on the rail networks of UIC members, the cars will swap bogies at the breaks of gauge.
TMH's Tver plant will produce the 1520 mm gauge bogies and undertake some assembly work.
RUSSIA: RZD President Vladimir Yakunin and Patentes Talgo President Carlos Palacio Oriol signed an agreement on January 25 that will see the Spanish manufacturer work with the Russian Railway Research Institute to develop rolling stock for RZD network. This covers the design, assembly and testing of three gauge-changing trainsets ...
RUSSIA: RZD's Federal Passenger Co and Patentes Talgo signed a contract for seven 20-car long-distance passenger trains at the St Petersburg International Economic Forum on June 18. Talgo said the contract worth more than €100m ‘marks the culmination of 15 years of bilateral contact between the two companies’. Three trains ...
EUROPE: Mikhail Akulov, Director General of RZD’s Federal Passenger Company, was at Moscow Belorussky station on September 23 for the first departure at 16.17 of Train 17, due to arrive in the French city of Nice at 19.12 on September 25. The new service operates once a week in each ...
