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  • Chelyabinsk Sinara UKVZ tram exterior impression
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    Chelyabinsk orders 30 trams

    2021-05-04T10:18:00Z

    RUSSIA: Sinara Transport Machines has signed a 1·6bn rouble contract to supply 30 trams to the city of Chelyabinsk, enabling the replacement of about 20% of the fleet. Production of the trams at manufacturing partner UKVZ’s plant will start in May, with the first 10 scheduled ...

  • The 10-car version of the Sinara/Siemens joint venture’s Lastochka EMU offers more capacity than a pair of five-car units.
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    Long-distance Lastochka EMUs on test

    2021-04-18T05:00:00Z

    RUSSIA: Certification testing has begun with the latest member of Ural Locomotives’ Lastochka electric multiple-unit family, a 10-car variant which is intended for use on inter-regional routes of up to 700 km. Revenue services are planned to start this summer, with seven ...

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    Ufa tramway modernisation agreement signed

    2021-04-08T05:00:00Z

    RUSSIA. Sinara Urban Transport Solutions, the Ministry of Economic Development and the government of the Republic of Bashkortostan have signed an agreement for a comprehensive modernisation of the tram network in Ufa. Investment of 27·6bn roubles is planned in 2022-24, including building a line connecting the ...

  • Sinara Transport Machines 2TE35A locomotive design option
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    Ural Locomotives factory to produce ‘fully Russian’ main line diesel locomotives

    2021-03-11T16:02:00Z

    RUSSIA: Sinara Transport Machines has announced that its ‘fundamentally new, fully Russian’ 2TE35A main line diesel locomotives are to be produced at the Ural Locomotives factory near Yekaterinburg. STM and Russian Railways signed a framework agreement for the supply of 2ES6A electric and 2TE35A diesel locos ...

  • UKVZ Type 71-628 tram on test in Ust-Katav (Photo: Yakov Titenok)
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    Sinara to supply Moscow with UKVZ trams

    2021-01-26T11:00:00Z

     RUSSIA: Having won a contract to supply 90 trams to Moscow, Sinara City Transport Solutions has awarded UKVZ a subcontract to build the vehicles.

  • Sinara Transport Machines has begun delivering WorkSite Tampers in semi-knocked down kit form for local assembly in support of the Make in India programme.
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    Russian tamper kits exported for Make in India assembly

    2021-01-18T09:14:00Z

    INDIA: Russia’s Sinara Transport Machines has begun delivering WorkSite Tampers in semi-knocked down kit form for local assembly in support of the Make in India programme. The first batch of kits arrived in Chennai on January 12, with a second to follow in early February. STM ...

  • ru Moscow Sinara-Skoda JV tram impression
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    Sinara-Škoda joint venture wins first tram contract

    2020-10-12T05:00:00Z

    RUSSIA: The Sinara City Transport Solutions joint venture of Yekaterinburg-based Sinara and Czech supplier Škoda Transportation has won its first contract, covering the supply of 90 single-section low-floor trams to Moscow and the provision of 30 years of maintenance. The joint venture bid 11·07bn roubles, beating a ...

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    Automated train operation tested in Moscow

    2020-09-14T10:58:00Z

    RUSSIA: Automatic operation could be introduced on the 54 km Moscow Central Ring line next year, Russian Railways CEO Oleg Belozerov said following tests with an Lastochka electric multiple-unit. Trains would run under Grade of Automation 2, with a driver in the cab to monitor operations. Trials ...

  • Russian Railways Sapsan train
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    Partnership to develop 400 km/h high speed train for Russia

    2020-06-25T10:31:00Z

    RUSSIA:· Russian Railways, the Engineering Centre for Railway Transport and Knorr-Bremse have formed a partnership to develop high speed trains which could link Russia’s largest cities at speeds up to 400 km/h. It is envisaged that the first of the very high speed trains could enter service ...

  • ru-sinara-skoda-tram impression
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    Škoda and Sinara establish vehicle joint venture

    2019-12-18T06:00:00Z

    RUSSIA: Škoda Transportation and Sinara Group have signed an agreement to establish a 50:50 joint venture for the production of metro trains, trams and trolleybuses. The joint venture, branded Sinara-Škoda will be headquartered in St Petersburg. ‘Russia is a huge and promising market in which we want ...

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    Russian rolling stock innovation centre planned

    2019-06-10T12:48:58Z

    RUSSIA: An agreement to establish a rolling stock engineering innovation centre was signed by Russian Railways, Sinara Group and technology partner Siemens Mobility at the St Petersburg International Economic Forum. The partners said the centre would consolidate existing experience and acquire new expertise to provide engineering consultancy, design, and documentation ...

  • Russian Railway has signed a €1·1bn order for a further 13 Velaro RUS high speed trains
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    Russian Railways orders high speed trains

    2019-06-07T16:04:54Z

    RUSSIA: Russian Railways has signed a €1·1bn order for a further 13 Velaro RUS high speed trains for use on the 650 km Moscow – St Petersburg route, Siemens Mobility announced on June 7. The 10-car 3 kV DC trainsets will be supplied by Siemens Mobility and the Ural Locomotives ...

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    LNG shunting locomotives ordered

    2018-06-01T13:45:49Z

    RUSSIA: A agreement for Sinara Transport Machines to supply and maintain 24 liquefied natural gas-fuelled shunting locomotives was signed by the Gazpromtrans transport subsidiary of gas extraction company Gazprom during the St Petersburg International Economic Forum on May 25. The order covers 10 four-axle locomotives rated at 856 kW and ...

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    Sinara locos arrive in Cuba

    2017-11-24T15:27:41Z

    CUBA: During a ceremony at the port of Habana on November 23, Unión de Ferrocarriles de Cuba Director General Eduardo Hernández took delivery of seven of the 75 Type TGM8KM diesel-hydraulic locomotives being supplied from Russia by Sinara Transport Machines. UFC is expecting to take delivery of 15 locomotives this ...

  • The contract was signed at the Expo 1520 trade show in Moscow. In the background is a TGM8KM diesel locomotive for Cuba, which was on display at the Sinara stand.
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    Sinara to supply track machines to Iran

    2017-09-06T10:17:42Z

    IRAN: At the Expo 1520 trade show in Moscow on August 31, Sinara Transport Machines signed a contract with Iranian contractor Ferrotek Steel worth €24m for the supply of 36 track machines.These will be used for maintenance and renewals across the main line network in Iran. The vehicles are to ...

  • The Ural Locomotives joint venture of Sinara Group and Siemens displayed a Lastochka Premium inter-regional version of their Desiro RUS electric multiple-unit family at the Expo 1520 trade fair (Photo: Tomas Bacic).
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    Lastochka Premium inter-regional EMU offers higher comfort

    2017-09-01T10:27:34Z

    RUSSIA: The Ural Locomotives joint venture of Sinara Group and Siemens displayed a Lastochka Premium inter-regional version of their Desiro RUS electric multiple-unit family at the Expo 1520 trade fair at Shcherbinka. Russian Railways had previously used the Lastochka Premium brand to refer to some faster services operated using standard ...

  • Impression of a Russian high speed train.
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    CRRC and Sinara sign rolling stock joint venture agreement

    2017-07-13T07:12:00Z

    RUSSIA: The chairmen of Russia’s Sinara Group and China’s CRRC Changchun signed an agreement to establish the Sinara-CRRC Rail Transport rolling stock joint venture on July 4, in the presence of national presidents Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping who was on a state visit to Russia. The agreement builds on ...

  • RZD's North Caucasus Railway operates Lastochka EMUs in the Sochi region. (Photo: Toma Bačić)
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    Long-distance Lastochka agreed

    2017-06-09T09:36:56Z

    RUSSIA: An agreement to develop a long-distance variant of the successful Lastochka electric multiple-unit family has been reached between Russian Railways and the Urals Locomotive joint venture of Sinara and Siemens. The accord to draft revised technical specifications was signed during the St Petersburg International Economic Forum by the head ...

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    Sinara and CRRC sign Russian high speed train agreement

    2016-07-15T08:00:00Z

    RUSSIA: An agreement to establish a Russian joint venture for the production of high speed rolling stock capable of speeds above 300 km/h has been signed by Sinara Group Chairman Dmitry Pumpyansky and CRRC President Xi Guohua. The companies envisage manufacturing at least 100 high speed trainsets in Russia, with ...

  • Transmashholding  TEM19 LNG-fuelled shunting locomotive.
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    Gas-fuelled locomotive development agreement

    2016-07-01T13:51:00Z

    RUSSIA: Russian Railways, Gazprom, Transmashholding and Sinara Group have agreed to co-operate to develop technology and roll-out fuel distribution and handling systems needed to support the use of liquefied natural gas to fuel locomotives. Under an agreement signed at the St Petersburg International Economic Forum on June 17, Transmashholding will ...