Siemens high-speed trains for Russia

摘要

Siemens' Transportation Systems Group (TS) is to supply eight Velaro type high-speed trains to Russian Railways (RZD) and also assume responsibility for their maintenance for a period of 30 years. The contract for the trains and the maintenance is worth around €600 million. "This order will give Russia the most modern high-speed trains in the world. At the same time, this contract provides an excellent basis for a long-term partnership between Siemens and RZD in all sectors of rail industry," said Hans M. Schabert, President of the Transportation Systems Group of Siemens, at the contract signing ceremony. Designed to travel at 250 km/h, these new trains are to be used initially on the Moscow-St. Petersburg route and, later on, operate between Moscow and Nizhny Novgorod. Some of the trains will be equipped to run on DC and AC electrified lines.