In 2016, Russian Railways will invest three billion roubles in new motorised multiple engine and carriage units. The company intends to purchase 82 ED4M and ED9E series electric train carriages manufactured by the Demikhovo Machine-Building Plant.

In addition to purchasing suburban rolling stock, Russian Railways also conducts an annual overhaul of its commuter fleet. In 2015, 923 motorised multiple unit railway carriages were overhauled at a cost of nearly 2.8 billion roubles. In 2016, the company plans to overhaul 956 cars of suburban railway carriages.

Under the company’s investment programme, Russian Railways purchased 70 motorised multiple units at a cost of over 2.67 billion roubles in 2015, procuring 64 ED9E series carriages made by the Demikhovo Machine-Building Plant (which make up 15 trains) and six carriages (two rail-mounted buses) produced by OJSC Metrovagonmash.

All new rolling stock designed for commuter rail is equipped with air conditioning, hermetically sealed inter-car gangways, sliding automatic plug doors, video surveillance systems, forced ventilation in the carriage vestibules and on-board diagnostic systems and monitoring of the trains’ condition.

(Source: RZD)