Tver Car Building Plant (TVZ, belongs to Transmashholding) has delivered to JSC Federal Passenger Company the first train consisting of double-deck carriages with seating accommodation.
The train consists of 15 carriages: 10 economy and 5 business class carriages. Double-deck carriages with the seating accommodation represent the rolling stock conceptually new for Russia. The seating capacity of the business class carriage is 60 passengers (including 2 passengers in a passenger compartment) and the economy class carriage holds 102 passengers.
The carriage interior design has been developed together with ItalDesign-Giugiaro, an Italian company.
Brand new technologies, equipment and materials were applied by Tver site’s experts for production of the innovative double-deck carriages with the seating accommodation. The above will allow a rolling stock operator to considerably reduce maintenance costs. The share of Russian components used in production of the carriages is over 90%.
One of the key distinctions of the new rolling stock is a side wall chord line change and appearance of radial windows first time in the history of Russian carriage building. Those have allowed serious improvement of construction aerodynamic performance.
The carriage is designed for train operations at speeds of up to 160 km/h at electric 1520 railways.
The Contract on delivery of 15 double-deckers with seating accommodation was signed in August 2013.
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