A prototype of the newest Russian electric train will be exhibited on the square near the Kazansky railway station of the capital from 4 to 15 September EG2TV .

During the exhibition, a wide range of potential passengers of the new train will have the opportunity to evaluate the merits of the new project and express their wishes to the developers regarding what they expect from the new urban and commuter train and how they want to see it, the press service of Transmashholding reports.

The EG2Tv electric train is the first representative of a new family of Russian electric trains created by Transmashholding. The first two trains, consisting of five cars, will be built this year. The production of new rolling stock is organized at the facilities of the Tver Carriage Works. The exterior and interior design of EG2Tv was developed by one of the leading European design companies Integral Design and Development, whose projects have been implemented on many European railways.

By their own technical specifications EG2Tv is not inferior to foreign analogues, including those presented on the market, and even surpasses them in a number of parameters. It was created using the most modern technical solutions to date. The electric train uses the latest asynchronous motors, new design bogies with air suspension technology, crash systems; a complex digital control, diagnostics and safety system was used, which provides the function of automatic driving of an electric train, collection and storage of information about its movement modes, monitors the technical condition of the train in real time and allows one driver to control the train without an assistant. Due to the use of modern technical solutions, the complexity of maintenance has been significantly reduced and the overhaul intervals have been increased. Energy-saving equipment also contributes to economy.

The concept of an electric train implies the possibility of creating modifications for speeds up to 120, up to 160 km/h, and in the future for high-speed traffic - up to 250 km/h.

The electric train uses the most modern principles of modular space configuration, which makes it possible to quickly adapt the space of the car to the needs of various operating organizations: the train can be urban, intercity, regional, designed to transport passengers to the airport, etc. The number of seats in the car depends from the destination of the train and the desire of the customer. The car can be equipped with special places for baggage transportation, bicycles, prams, etc.

When creating a new train, special attention was paid to solutions that provide comfortable travel and movement for passengers with disabilities of the musculoskeletal system.

In Europe, people often use electric trains to work in neighboring cities, where it is much more convenient than a car. In a European train, you can meet a successful businessman working on a laptop. Let's hope we have the same soon. In the meantime, electric trains are used in Russia, rather, out of poverty and hopelessness.

We get acquainted with the new electric trains at the international salon Expo 1520.

Why Expo 1 520? This is exactly the official gauge of our railways, as well as railways in the CIS countries, the Baltic States, Mongolia and Finland - 1520 mm. Its total length in the "space 1520" is over 150 thousand km. 1520 mm is called the "wide" gauge.

The "broad" gauge is the second longest in the world. The most common gauge today is the so-called "European" or "standard" gauge - 1435 mm. The total length of the lines of this track is estimated at 720 thousand kilometers.

Vladimir Yakunin, President of Russian Railways, came to open the Salon. (Photo by Ramiz Mustafaev):

Modifications of a conventional train. The 2011 version, according to Russian Railways, "provides maximum comfort for passengers."

Driver's cab:

Recently Russian Railways launched train to Nice. Here in such cars, passengers are offered to travel to the Cote d'Azur:

The interior of the car resembles suites in Soviet boarding houses:

Each compartment has a shower and toilet:

Each carriage has a bar:

With various interior layouts and designs. A new muzzle was pulled onto the old train:

Looks good at first glance:

The interior of the train. The first question is what to hold on to for passengers who do not have enough seating space?

Second option:

Transition between cars in our train:

Swiss company Stadler. Everything here is the same as in ours, only better. It is already being delivered to Belarus and will be used on Minsk city routes. One composition costs almost 6 million dollars.

The Swiss train provides passenger comfort at the highest European level: it has air conditioning, a special entrance for the disabled and wireless Internet.

Salon Flirt:

It is immediately clear that the interior design of the Swiss factory is done by a designer, not a janitor. All for the people. It's just nice to be here:

Convenient handrails and trash cans!

Places for the disabled and wheelchairs:

Sockets! In our trains, you still rarely see an ordinary socket. This is given the fact that now everyone has at least a few gadgets that would be good to charge. In Flirt, there is a socket under every small table. In the bracket on which the table rests, a retractable urn is hidden. I don’t understand why they don’t make trash cans in our trains?

Toilet on a Swiss train. Everything seems to be the same as in ours, but look at the details. See how the colors are chosen, on the variety of handrails:

And finally, the retro model is a masterpiece of the Stalinist Empire style, the electric train of the ER-1 series (nickname is “globe”). (Photo by Ramiz Mustafaev):

February 13, 2016 There is no common understanding of the term “best” in relation to passenger trains in the world, since comfort, speed, cost of the trip, and a number of other factors are important for the passenger. Therefore, railway companies and train designers are working in different directions - increase speed, improve comfort, achieve lower energy consumption and cost of transportation. We will tell you what has been done in these areas in last years in Russia.

peregrine falcon

The most famous high-speed electric train in Russia today, it even has its own Twitter account and a LiveJournal blog. The Sapsan project was developed specifically for Russia by the German company Siemens.

On December 17, 2009, Sapsan set off on its first, loudly advertised commercial flight from Moscow to St. Petersburg, and now runs on the Moscow - St. Petersburg (five trains per day) and Moscow - Nizhny Novgorod (two trains per day) lines. The electric train is capable of speeds up to 300 km/h, but on Russian roads its maximum speed is 250 km/h, on the section Malaya Vishera - Okulovka (Mstinsky bridge), and the main part of the Sapsan track moves at a speed of 200 km/h. The number of cars in the train is 10, the number of seats is 592.

The fare on the Sapsan on the Moscow-St. rubles in business class.

Allegro

This high-speed train, well-known to St. Petersburg residents, can be considered Russian, at best, half. The Allegro train runs between St. Petersburg and the capital of Finland, Helsinki, and is jointly operated by Russian Railways and the Finnish company Suomen Valtion Rautatiet. The project developer and manufacturer is the Finnish company Alstom.

On the territory of Finland, the train moves at a speed of 220 km / h, on the territory of Russia - at a speed of 200 km / h, the railway infrastructure no longer allows. distance from our northern capital to the capital of the Suomi Country, the Allegro high-speed train overcomes in 3 hours 50 minutes, with stops in the border Vyborg and some Finnish cities - Vainikkala, Lahti, Pasila and others.

The number of cars in the Allegro train is 7, the number of seats is 352, plus 2 seats for the disabled. The basic fare is 84 euros in the second class carriage and 104 euros in the first class.

ES "Lastochka"

This high-speed train, running in Krasnodar Territory, can rightly be considered "the most expensive electric train in Russia." Lastochka is one of the most ambitious and costly projects related to the 2014 Olympics. For its implementation, in 2009 Russian Railways signed a contract with the German company Siemens, according to which the company must supply 54 Siemens Desiro Rus electric trains to Russia in the amount of 410 million euros. And in 2013, Russian Railways signed a new contract with Siemens for the maintenance and service of trains for 40 years, worth 500 million euros. By the way, the letters ES in the name of the train mean Electrosiemens.

Each "Swallow" has five cars. Seats - 409; there are also 4 seats for passengers with disabilities, and a toilet room. With a large passenger flow, for example, along the Adler-Tuapse route, two coupled trains of 10 cars are sent on a flight.

And if it weren’t for the boorish controllers of the Russian Railways and the wagons packed with passengers to the eyeballs, these electric trains could be safely called one of the most comfortable modes of transport in Russia. In the summer months, despite the high season and crowds of tourists, electric trains on the Tuapse-Sochi-Olympic Park route rarely run, because of this, most passengers have to stand for hours in unsuitable aisles. It looks something like in the Moscow metro cars at rush hour, but unlike the metro, the Swallows' salons with narrow aisles are not at all suitable for standing passengers.

At home, in Spain, this high-speed train is called Talgo 250. True, Spanish, from the company Patentes Talgo S.L, there are only wagons in the train, it is planned to use domestic locomotives - EP20. Starting June 1, 2015, the Swifts will run on the route Moscow - Nizhny Novgorod. From the capital, with stops in Dzerzhinsk and Vladimir, the train will run to Nizhny Novgorod 3 hours 45 minutes.

The number of cars in the train "Strizh" - from 7 to 11. In the 11-car train 299 passenger seats, in a standard 8-car train - 236 seats. The fare in a car with standard seats is 1,150 rubles, in a deluxe class car - 7,570 rubles.

Since 2013, train No. 103 has been running on the Moscow-Adler route with double-deck cars manufactured at the Tver Carriage Works. In such a carriage (compartment) there are 64 berths instead of the usual 36, and in a SV-class carriage there are 32 places (instead of 18 in the usual version). Such a “compression” should have led to cheaper tickets, but so far nothing of the kind has been observed. A seat in a compartment to Adler in a double-decker car costs 7,540 rubles, and in a single-decker car it costs 7,140 rubles. Starting June 1, 2015, passenger train No. 5\6 with double-deck cars will run on the most popular route Moscow - St. Petersburg, the cost of a compartment ticket to St. Petersburg is 2,670 rubles.

In general, we have to state - "the best" passenger trains Russia is by no means the best, because it is not the fastest, not the most comfortable and not quite “ours”. Of all the loudly publicized projects of Russian Railways listed above, only double-decker cars are produced in Russia, but the trains that are formed from them are ordinary, except that the passengers in them had to “make room” a little and additionally “fork out”. There was also the long-suffering "Falcon-250" and did not "take off" ....

"Falcon-250"

About sixty Russian enterprises and organizations took part in the creation of a prototype domestic model of a high-speed dual-powered electric train (on direct and alternating current) Sokol-250. It was assumed that the new train will be able to reach speeds of up to 350 km / h. At the acceptance tests of the Sokol-250 prototype in June 2001, for the first time, a speed of 236 km / h was reached - a record for the Russian railways of that time. However, the acceptance committee recognized the commissioning of the Sokol as impossible due to many design flaws - overheating of the brake discs, unreliability brake system, insufficient tightness of cars, etc. Several cars from the Sokol-250 experimental train are on the sidings of the Central Museum of the October railway.

The number of electric trains in the Kiev direction will increase by 25 percent during rush hour. On weekdays, 22 additional trains will be added, on weekends - six. More than 26,000 new seats per day will appear for passengers.

June 2, 2016 Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin and Russian Railways President Oleg Belozerov inspected the new suburban electric trains that are starting to run from the Kievsky railway station.

“We continue to work on improving suburban rail transportation on the Moscow Ring Road. And today there are two big pleasant events. First, the number of trains on the Kiev direction, an important, overloaded direction to Vnukovo and Naro-Fominsk, is increasing by a quarter. This means that train intervals during peak hours will be reduced by almost 40 percent. These are more comfortable transportation, faster, removal of part of the load from the Kyiv highway, removal of the load from the subway and from highways. This is a very important event,” Sergei Sobyanin noted.

The second big event in the construction of the MKZHD - the passenger ring at the MKZHD was closed, the Mayor of Moscow said: “Moreover, the electrification of the ring has been done. Made the bulk of the technology. This does not mean that we will launch passenger traffic tomorrow, there is still a huge scope of work, but we have crossed what is called the Rubicon, we have done the technologically most difficult part and got what we have been striving for in recent years: the ring has closed and begun to function.

Over the past five years alone, passenger traffic at the Moscow railway junction has grown by 35 percent and today it is more than 650 million people a year. To ensure the growing volumes of traffic, the railway workers are actively updating the rolling stock and increasing the number of electric trains.

Sergei Sobyanin thanked the head of Russian Railways Oleg Belozerov for the work done.

“This is a new word in rail transportation, when, due to technology and schedule optimization, a completely unique solution has been created to increase the number of trains,” the Mayor of Moscow emphasized.

He added that the city authorities plan to continue cooperating with Russian Railways: “We will continue to work with you to reconstruct the main lines, make a clock service and, of course, provide new rolling stock, it is gradually changing. I would like it to happen faster, but, depending on the possibilities, technologies, financial possibilities, I am sure that within a few years the main commuter transport will be the most modern.”

Additional trains

On the Kiev direction, 22 trains are added at once on weekdays and six trains on weekends. Thanks to this, more than 26,000 additional passenger seats per day will appear.

On working days, passengers will be transported by 248 trains instead of 226. At the same time, 17 out of 22 additional trains will depart during peak hours: nine trains - from 06:00 to 10:00, six trains - from 17:00 to 20:00. As a result, during rush hour, the number of electric trains will increase by 25 percent (from 64 to 81 trains), and the interval of movement will be reduced from eight - 10 minutes to six minutes (or 40 percent). On weekends, passengers will be carried by 224 trains instead of 218.

In addition, an additional line of turnstiles will be opened at the Kievsky railway station - five pieces, including one with extended doors for people with limited mobility and those who travel with bulky luggage.

Trains on the Kiev direction carry passengers between Moscow (Kyiv railway station) and Skolkovo, Solntsevo, Kokoshkin, Krekshin, Vnukovo, Aprelevka, Naro-Fominsk, Maloyaroslavets and Kaluga. On average, 91.6 thousand people are transported here every day.

About 1.3 million people switched from personal to public transport thanks to the launch of traffic on the Moscow-Kryukovo section.

“In autumn we opened a new direction Moscow - Kryukovo. We planned one passenger flow. I mean, we were skeptics. More than 1.3 million people have moved from their personal cars to public transport, to Lastochka,” said Oleg Belozerov.

Approximately two million passengers use suburban trains daily.
“Suburban railway communication is the most dynamically developing of all directions, if you take the metro, cars, buses, then it is the most dynamic. In five years, passenger traffic has increased by more than a third, this is a huge dynamic, no other mode of transport shows it. Today, two million passengers are transported per day on suburban trains, and, of course, this is a serious, priority direction,” Sergei Sobyanin said.

New Moscow trains

New phase of the park renewal program suburban trains started in 2013. In 2015, the Government of Moscow and the Government of the Moscow Region held a competition for carriers that will serve passengers for 15 years. Such a long-term agreement allows companies to formulate infrastructure development programs and rolling stock renewal.

The winners of the competition were the operating carriers OJSC Central Suburban Passenger Company (nine directions) and OJSC Moscow-Tver Suburban Passenger Company (one direction - Oktyabrskoye).

According to the railway infrastructure development programs, they plan to purchase at least 250 new electric trains (2475 cars) by 2030. This will comfortably transport up to a billion passengers a year.

51 new generation trains are already in operation at the Moscow transport hub. Among them 16 high-speed trains"Lastochka" on the direction Moscow - Kryukovo - Tver and 35 trains of the ED4M series purchased by JSC "TsPPK" on other directions.

Cars of this series have a comfortable passenger compartment and are equipped with modern climate control systems (including vestibules), lighting, video surveillance, video recording and diagnostics. The vestibules and interiors of the cars are adapted for the passage of people with limited mobility, as well as for the transport of bicycles (folding ramps, wheelchair attachment points, large toilet cabins with handrails in the head cars). These trains are manufactured by the Demikhov Machine-Building Plant (JSC Transmashholding).

In 2016, it is planned to purchase 23 more trains (22 electric trains and one diesel train).

EP2D series - without hooks

JSC "TsPPK" plans to purchase trains of the new EP2D series, which are now undergoing certification tests. They are designed taking into account the requirements of the technical regulations of the Customs Union.

Unlike the previous ED4M series, EP2D trains can be purchased as two or three-car trains for operation on less loaded sections.

The driver's cabs are designed in such a way that they exclude cases of unauthorized lifting and passage of strangers on the protruding parts of the head cars. For their extreme entertainment the hookers used technological handrails and footboards, which are necessary for locomotive crews. Now, instead of them, the drivers will have removable ladders at their disposal. And the possibility of catching a train will be practically excluded.

The bodies of the head cars have crash systems that protect passengers and members of locomotive crews in the event of head-on collisions. In a collision, the front body elements take the brunt of the impact and, by deforming, absorb the impact energy, so that the train interior is not damaged.

Thanks to the new control system for electro-pneumatic brakes, the braking distance of the electric train during emergency braking is significantly reduced, and the electric stop valves respond faster.

A modern microclimate system with an air disinfection function is installed in the carriage interiors, as well as an on-board information system with running lines and side route indicators on the carriages. The new design of internal doors provides convenient entry and exit for passengers with luggage. In addition, special solutions have been applied for the passage of passengers with disabilities.

Electric trains of the EP2D series will be used both on commuter train routes of regular configuration (numbered 6000) and on routes of high-comfort commuter trains (numbered 7000).

First of all, they will replace the most worn-out rolling stock of the early years of production on the Kiev, Riga, Belorussian, Savelovsky and Kursk directions.

Train "Ivolga" - up to 120 kilometers per hour

JSC "TsPPK" is also considering the possibility of purchasing EG2Tv "Ivolga" electric trains, which are manufactured by the Tver Carriage Works (CJSC "Transmashholding"). The exterior and interior design of the train was developed by Integral Design and Development.

These trains can carry passengers at a speed of 120 kilometers per hour. Moreover, it is possible to make modifications for maximum speeds of 160 kilometers per hour, and in the future - up to 250 kilometers per hour. The guaranteed service life of such a train is up to 40 years.

The train consists of five cars with a capacity of 1250 people. It is also possible to form trains from three to 12 cars and twin trains up to 14 cars long. Ivolga trains are equipped with quick coupling technology, which allows, if necessary, to increase the number of cars and carry more passengers using one train.

Trains are equipped with:

Asynchronous traction motors and a rheostat-regenerative braking system, which saves energy in suburban operation with frequent acceleration and deceleration;

An integrated control, diagnostics and safety system, thanks to which one driver can control the electric train and monitor the technical condition of the train in real time;

A modern fire-fighting response complex - alarm and fire extinguishing systems;

Video surveillance and communication systems with the driver.

In all cars, except for the head cars, a through passage is provided. They are equipped with information boards indicating the time, route and name of the nearest station, soft seats, coat hooks (on the side walls near the passenger seats), racks for small hand luggage and comfortable handrails.

Thanks to the air suspension technology, the electric train is characterized by increased smoothness, and passengers feel less noise and vibration.

Wide doors and through aisles between cars will allow less inconvenience for people with limited mobility. In the head cars, special places and toilets are equipped for them. Also in the cars there are devices for fast and reliable fastening of wheelchairs.

Development of the infrastructure of the Moscow railway junction

The Moscow government considers suburban and urban rail transportation as one of the most important and promising elements public transport. Last year, the volume of passenger traffic through the Moscow railway junction amounted to 650 million people, which is 35 percent more than in 2010 (480 million passengers). The Moscow hub performs more than 50 percent of all suburban transportation in Russia.

Under the program for the development of passenger infrastructure, 240 kilometers of additional main tracks will be built, new generation cars will be purchased, stations and platforms will be reconstructed.

From 2011 to 2015:

Reconstruction and improvement of railway stations and station squares were carried out, order was put in place on passenger platforms;

A planned renewal of the rolling stock is underway with the replacement of obsolete electric trains with modern comfortable trains;

Passenger traffic was opened on the section Novoperedelkino - Moscow (Kyiv railway station);

The movement of suburban express trains "Lastochka" was opened on the section Moscow (Leningradsky railway station) - Kryukovo (Zelenograd);

The reconstruction of the Small Ring of Moscow Railways for the organization of passenger traffic is being completed (commissioning - in 2016);

An additional main track is being built on the Domodedovo (Aviation) - Airport section to increase the transport accessibility of the airport (commissioning - in 2016).

Preparations for the launch of the Moscow Ring Railway (MKZhD) are almost completed. From July 4, 50 percent of trains will be launched in test mode, Oleg Belozyorov said.

“Today we have a closed electrified ring. Almost 97 percent of the work on it has already been completed. From Monday we start running, 50 percent of the trains will be released on the ring. And we will already be watching how the technology works,” said the head of Russian Railways.

According to him, over the past two weeks, together with the Government of Moscow, a large number of important decisions. He also thanked Sergei Sobyanin for the prompt decision-making necessary to launch the Moscow Ring Railway.

“Now it will be a good, modern, environmentally friendly clean look passenger transport. It will practically cover new territories and give Moscow the opportunity to develop. For us, for the railway workers, this is very important. I am grateful that I had the opportunity to jointly implement this project. We are planning to introduce it further in other cities of our country,” said Oleg Belozyorov.

He also noted that modern rolling stock provides for Wi-Fi, air conditioning, smooth running and noiselessness.