RUSSIA: Russian Railways has awarded
Transmashholding a contract to supply 13 EP2DM DC electric multiple-units
totalling 76 cars by the end of the year.
The agreement was signed on August 24 at the 1520
Pro//Dvizhenie.Expo trade fair in St Petersburg, where the first of the trains
was on display ahead of entering service in Tyumen oblast during September.
The EMUs feature Russian-made technology, including
an updated cab front design and refreshed interior layout and electronic
controls.
Other EMUs from the batch will join the suburban
fleets in the Yaroslavl, Samara, Penza, Sverdlovsk, Omsk, Novosibirsk and
Kemerovo oblasts, the republic of Mordovia and Perm krai.
