New Moscow electric trains. The fastest trains in Russia and the USSR Russian electric trains

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

Let's get acquainted with new electric trains at the international exhibition Expo 1520.

Why Expo 1 520? This is exactly the official gauge of our railways, as well as railway roads in the CIS countries, the Baltics, Mongolia and Finland - 1520 mm. Its total length in the “1520 space” is over 150 thousand km. 1520 mm is called “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 gauge is estimated to be 720 thousand kilometers.

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

Modifications of a regular train. The 2011 version, according to Russian Railways, “provides maximum comfort for passengers.”

Driver's cabin:

Recently Russian Railways launched train to Nice. These are the carriages in which passengers are offered the opportunity to travel to the Côte d'Azur:

The interior of the carriage is reminiscent of suites in Soviet boarding houses:

Each compartment has a shower and toilet:

Each carriage has a bar:

With various interior layouts and designs. They put a new face on the old train:

At first glance it looks good:

Train interior. 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 supplied to Belarus and will be used on Minsk city routes. One train 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.

Flirt Salon:

It’s immediately obvious that at the Swiss factory, the interior design is done by a designer, not a janitor. Everything for the people. It's just a pleasure to be here:

Convenient handrails and trash cans!

Places for disabled people and strollers:

Sockets! It is still rare to see a regular socket on our trains. This is considering the fact that now everyone has at least several gadgets that would be good to charge. In Flirt there is an outlet under each small table. A pull-out trash can is hidden in the bracket that holds the table. I don’t understand why they don’t make trash bins on our trains?

Toilet on a Swiss train. It seems that everything is the same as in ours, but look at the details. Look at how the colors are chosen and the variety of handrails:

And finally, a retro model - a masterpiece of the Stalinist Empire style, an electric train of the ER-1 series (nicknamed “Globe”). (Photo by Ramiz Mustafayev):

OJSC "Metrovagonmash" supplied the Moscow Metro with the 150th eight-car train model 81−760/761 "Oka" (in total, the capital's metro has already received 1,200 cars of model 81−760/761 and another 24 cars of model 81−760А/761А/763А with through passage). The St. Petersburg metro received the 1st eight-car train model 81−722.1/723.1/724.1 “Yubileiny” produced by Metrovagonmash (the contractor is OJSC OEVRZ) and 3 six-car trains model 81-556.1/557.1/558.1 “NeVa” (supplier - LLC "Vagonmash"). The new trains are intended for the Kirovsko-Vyborgskaya and Nevsko-Vasileostrovskaya lines. Photo from the site rzd-partner.ru ...

OJSC Metrovagonmash supplied the Moscow Metro with the third train consisting of cars of the 81−760А/761А/763А model with a through passage. Note that old cars will completely disappear from the capital’s subway in 2019. We are talking about Ezh-3 brand cars. Despite the fact that the Ezh-3 cars are reliable and safe, they have been in operation for 30 years and are now obsolete. Now such cars remain only on the Tagansko-Krasnopresnenskaya line. ...

It took the Tver Carriage Works less than a year to bring its latest development, the EG2Tv train, from prototype to implementation. The maximum speed of this train is 160 kilometers per hour. And in the future, trains of this family will run even faster – up to 250 kilometers per hour. Electric train EG2TV - the latest development of Tverskoy carriage plant(TVZ) - sent to Shcherbinka, Moscow region, ...

Today in Moscow there was a presentation of a new train from the Swiss company Stadler, purchased by Aeroexpress to update its rolling stock. The Eurasia train is a two-story electric train with all the amenities necessary for traveling to the airport and back. The trains will come in 4- and 6-car versions and will be coupled in different combinations depending on passenger traffic. Welcome to new train! 1. The presentation took place at the depot...

The Demikhovsky Machine-Building Plant (DMZ, part of Transmashholding CJSC) handed over to representatives of Russian Railways OJSC the first two special electric trains EDS1R, intended for transportation and organizing the work of repair teams servicing the railway infrastructure. The contract for the supply of three EDS1R electric trains was signed in September 2014. According to the concluded agreement, another train will be delivered to the customer by the end of this year. It is planned that EDS1R will...

As part of the investment program of JSC Russian Railways over the past period of 2014, the Moscow Railway received 7 new commuter electric trains of the ED4M series produced by the Demikhovsky Machine-Building Plant. Of these, 5 received the Lobnya multi-unit depot (serves electric trains of the Savelovsky and Belorussian directions) and 2 - the Nakhabino depot (Riga direction). Each electric train consists of 11 cars. New commuter trains will replace outdated electric trains. Modified model...

The electric train “Swallow” with the number “001”, manufactured using the technologies of the German concern Siemens, was released on Friday at the Ural Locomotives plant (Verkhnyaya Pyshma, Sverdlovsk region). “On this very day, according to the schedule, we were supposed to make the Lastochka, and on June 6 it would go for testing in the Moscow region, at the Shcherbinka training ground,” said the plant’s general director Alexander Saltaev. “Swallow” was inspected by representatives of the authorities and Russian Railways. Governor...

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 travel, and a number of other factors are important for passengers. Therefore, railway companies and train designers work according to different directions– increase speed, improve comfort, achieve reduction in energy consumption and transportation costs. We will tell you what was done in these directions 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 LiveJournal blog. The Sapsan project was developed specifically for Russia by the German company Siemens.

The Sapsan departed on its first, loudly advertised commercial flight from Moscow to St. Petersburg on December 17, 2009, 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 reaching speeds of up to 300 km/h, but at Russian roads its maximum speed is 250 km/h, on the section Malaya Vishera - Okulovka (Mstinsky Bridge), and the main part of the route "Sapsan" moves at a speed of 200 km/h. The number of cars in the train is 10, the number seating – 592.

The cost of travel on the Sapsan on the Moscow – St. Petersburg line in economy class is from 2320 rubles (one way) and in business class from 4200 rubles, on the Moscow – Nizhny Novgorod line from 1080 rubles in economy class and from 4650 rubles in business class.

Allegro

This high-speed train, well known to St. Petersburg residents, can be considered, at best, half Russian. 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 it. Distance from our northern capital The high-speed train “Allegro” travels to the capital of the Country Suomi 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 disabled people. The basic fare is 84 euros in a second class carriage and 104 euros in a first class carriage.

ES "Swallow"

This high-speed electric train runs in Krasnodar region, can rightfully be considered “the most expensive electric train in Russia.” “Swallow” is one of the most ambitious and costly projects related to the 2014 Olympics. To implement it, Russian Railways signed a contract with the German company Siemens in 2009, 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 entered into a new contract with Siemens for technical and service maintenance 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 carriages. Seating - 409; There are also 4 seats for passengers with disabilities, and a toilet room. When there is a large passenger flow, for example on the Adler – Tuapse route, two coupled trains of 10 cars are sent on the route.

And if it weren’t for the rude controllers of Russian Railways and the carriages packed to capacity with passengers, these electric trains could easily be called one of the most comfortable types of transport in Russia. During the summer months, despite high season and crowds of tourists, trains rarely run on the Tuapse-Sochi-Olympic Park route, which is why 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 Swallow salons with narrow passages are not at all suitable for standing passengers.

In its homeland, Spain, this high-speed train is called Talgo 250. True, the train is Spanish, from the company Patentes Talgo S.L. The train only has carriages; it is planned to use domestic locomotives - EP20. From June 1, 2015, Swifts will operate on the route Moscow - Nizhny Novgorod. From the capital, with stops in Dzerzhinsk and Vladimir, the train will travel to Nizhny Novgorod 3 hours 45 minutes.

The number of cars in the Strizh train is from 7 to 11. There are 299 passenger seats in the 11-car train, and 236 seats in the standard 8-car train. The cost of travel in a carriage with standard seats is 1,150 rubles, in a luxury class carriage – 7,570 rubles.

Since 2013, train No. 103 with double-decker cars produced at the Tver Carriage Plant has been running on the Moscow-Adler route. This type of carriage (compartment) has 64 berths instead of the usual 36, and the SV-class carriage has 32 berths (instead of 18 in the usual version). Such “densification” should lead to cheaper tickets, but so far nothing of the kind has been observed. A place in a compartment to Adler in a double-decker carriage costs 7,540 rubles, in a single-decker - 7,140 rubles. From June 1, 2015, a passenger train with double-decker cars No. 5/6 will run on the most popular route Moscow - St. Petersburg, the cost of a compartment ticket to St. Petersburg is 2,670 rubles.

Overall we have to say – “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 promoted 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 “fork out” extra money. There was also the long-suffering “Falcon-250” that never took off….

"Falcon-250"

About sixty Russian enterprises and organizations took part in the creation of a prototype domestic model of a high-speed dual-power electric train (DC and AC) “Sokol-250”. It was assumed that the new train would be able to reach speeds of up to 350 km/h. During the acceptance tests of the Sokol-250 prototype in June 2001, a speed of 236 km/h was achieved for the first time - a record for Russian railways at 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 of the braking system, insufficient tightness of the cars, etc. Several cars from the Sokol-250 experimental train are located on the sidings of the Central Museum Oktyabrskaya railway.

Number of trains on Kiev direction will increase by 25 percent during rush hour. On weekdays, 22 additional trains will be added, and on weekends - six. There will be more than 26 thousand new seats per day for passengers.

June 2, 2016 Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin and Russian Railways President Oleg Belozerov inspected the new commuter electric trains that are starting to operate from Kievsky Station.

“We continue to work to improve 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 train headways during peak hours will be reduced by almost 40 percent. These are more comfortable transportation, faster, removing part of the load from the Kyiv highway, removing the load from the metro and from highways. This is very an important event", noted Sergei Sobyanin.

The second major event in the construction of the Moscow Ring Railway is the closing of the passenger ring on the Moscow Ring Road, the Mayor of Moscow said: “Moreover, the ring has been electrified. The main part of the technology has been completed. This doesn't mean we'll launch tomorrow passenger traffic, there is still a huge scope of work, but we have crossed what is called the Rubicon, technologically we have done the hardest 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 amounts to more than 650 million people a year. To ensure growing volumes of transportation, railway workers are actively updating 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 railway transportation, when, due to technology and schedule optimization, a completely unique solution has been created to increase the number of trains,” the Moscow Mayor emphasized.

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

Additional trains

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

On weekdays, passengers will be transported by 248 trains instead of 226. At the same time, 17 of the 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 service interval will be reduced from eight to 10 minutes to six minutes (or by 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 Kievsky Station - five, including one with expanded doors for people with limited mobility and those traveling with large luggage.

Trains on the Kiev direction carry passengers between Moscow ( Kyiv railway station) and Skolkovo, Solntsev, Kokoshkin, Krekshin, Vnukov, 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 the fall we opened a new direction Moscow - Kryukovo. We planned one passenger flow. My point is that we were skeptics. More than 1.3 million people switched from their personal cars to public transport, to Lastochka,” noted Oleg Belozerov.

About two million passengers use commuter trains every day.
“The suburban railway service is the most dynamically developing of all directions; if you take the metro, cars, buses, then it is the most dynamic. Over five years, passenger traffic has increased by more than a third, this is a huge dynamic, no other type of transport can show it. Today, two million passengers are transported per day on commuter trains, and, of course, this is a serious, priority area,” said Sergei Sobyanin.

New Moscow electric trains

A new stage of the commuter train fleet renewal program began in 2013. In 2015, the Moscow Government and the Moscow Region Government held a competition for carriers who would serve passengers for 15 years. Such a long-term agreement allows companies to formulate programs for infrastructure development 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 (2,475 cars) by 2030. This will make it possible to comfortably transport up to a billion passengers a year.

The Moscow transport hub already operates 51 new generation trains. Among them are 16 high speed trains“Lastochka” on the Moscow-Kryukovo-Tver route and 35 ED4M series trains purchased by TsPPK OJSC on other routes.

The cars of this series have a comfortable passenger compartment and are equipped with modern climate control systems (including in 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, places for attaching wheelchairs, large toilet cabins with handrails in the head cars). These trains are produced by the Demikhovsky Machine-Building Plant (ZAO Transmashholding).

In 2016, it is planned to purchase another 23 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 currently 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 in two- or three-car trains for operation on less congested areas.

The driver's cabins 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 steps that are necessary for locomotive crews. Now, instead of them, drivers will have removable ladders at their disposal. And the possibility of getting caught on a train will be practically excluded.

The bodies of the head cars have crash systems that protect passengers and members locomotive crews in the event of head-on collisions. In a collision, the front body elements take the brunt of the impact and, when deformed, absorb the impact energy, so 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 operate 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 the internal doors provides convenient entry and exit for passengers with luggage. In addition, special solutions have been used for the passage of passengers with disabilities.

Electric trains of the EP2D series will be used both on regular commuter train routes (6000 numbering) and on fast commuter train routes increased comfort(7000th numbering).

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 electric trains EG2Tv Ivolga, which are produced by the Tver Carriage Works (ZAO 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 at 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 carriages with a capacity of 1,250 people. It is also possible to form trains from three to 12 cars and double trains with a length of up to 14 cars. 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 rheostatic-regenerative braking system, which allows you to save energy in suburban conditions with frequent acceleration and braking;

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

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

Video surveillance systems and communication with the driver.

All cars, except the head ones, have a through passage. They are equipped with information boards indicating the time, route and name of the nearest station, soft seats, hooks for clothes (on the side walls near passenger seats), shelving for small-sized hand luggage and comfortable handrails.

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

Wide doors and through passages between cars will allow people with limited mobility to experience less inconvenience. In the head cars there are special seats and toilets for them. The carriages also have devices for quick and reliable fastening of wheelchairs.

Infrastructure development 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 carries out more than 50 percent of all suburban transportation in Russia.

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

From 2011 to 2015:

Reconstruction and improvement of stations and station areas was carried out, order was restored on passenger platforms;

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

Passenger traffic has been opened on the Novoperedelkino - Moscow section (Kyiv Station);

Traffic is open commuter express trains"Swallow" on the Moscow section ( Leningrad Station) - Kryukovo (Zelenograd);

The reconstruction of the Small Ring of the Moscow Railway for the organization of passenger traffic is being completed (commissioned in 2016);

An additional main route is being built on the Domodedovo (Aviation) - Airport section to improve transport accessibility airport (commissioned in 2016).

Work to prepare for the launch of the Moscow Ring Railway (MKR) is almost complete. From July 4, 50 percent of trains will be launched in test mode, said Oleg Belozerov.

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

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

“Now it will be a good, modern, environmentally friendly type of passenger transport. It will practically cover new territories and provide an opportunity for Moscow to develop. For us, for railway workers, this is very important. I am grateful for the opportunity to implement this project together. We plan to further implement it in other cities of our country,” noted Oleg Belozerov.

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

A prototype of the newest Russian electric train will be exhibited on the square near the Kazansky railway station in the capital from September 4 to 15 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 city and commuter train and what they want to see it as, reports the press service of Transmashholding.

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 Plant. The exterior and interior design of the EG2Tv were developed by one of the leading design companies in Europe, Integral Design and Development, whose projects have been implemented on many European railways.

According to their own technical specifications EG2Tv is not inferior to foreign analogues, including those on the market, and in a number of parameters even surpasses them. 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, and crash systems; a comprehensive digital control, diagnostic and safety system was used, which provides the function of automatic driving of the electric train, collecting and storing information about its modes of movement, 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 labor intensity of maintenance has been significantly reduced and repair intervals have been increased. Energy-saving equipment also contributes to profitability.

The concept of the electric train assumes the possibility of creating modifications for speeds of 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 car space to the needs of various operating organizations: the train can be city, intercity, regional, intended for transporting passengers to the airport, etc. The number of seats in the car depends depending on the destination of the train and the wishes of the customer. The carriage may be equipped with special places for luggage transportation, bicycles, baby strollers, etc.

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