“Stadler Minsk” is to supply Minsk metro with 10 trains before 2020: six four-carriage trains and four five-carriage trains. The first four-carriage train will be supplied in 2018, and it will also be tested. The trains are specially being developed for Minsk underground. All the technical, constructive, and design characteristics are being currently discussed. According to Peter Spuhler, the owner and CEO of Stadler Rail Group, the design of the new rolling stock is being developed.
The order comprises six four-car trains, each 78.4m long with 168 seats, and four five-car sets, which will be 97.7m long with 212 seats. The new metro trains will be used on the 17.2km Line 3 from Zeleny Lug to Kurassovshina, which is due to open in phases from 2019 onwards.
Significantly, the new trains will have special sound-absorbing materials, which will low down the level of sound not only in the train-driver’s cabin, but in the passenger carriages as well. The head carriages will be equipped with seats for people with disabilities with equipment to fix wheelchairs and with emergency exits. Minsk Metropoliten has informed that the new trains will enter commercial service on Metro Line 3, however, they will be tested on the first two metro lines.
Currently, Stadler Minsk produces trams for Moscow and St. Petersburg. The rolling stock producer also intends to supply trams to Ostrava (Czech Republic). Another major project will be implemented for Hungary – the manufacturing and delivery of 40 double-decker trains, each 150 meters long. About 70-80% of the project will be developed at the facilities of the enterprise in Minsk. This order will be implemented in early 2018.
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