Modern, Higher-Performance Rolling Stock

To meet the demands of increasing passenger traffic as well as reduce travel times and ticket prices, JSC FPC purchases carriages with advanced technical features and improved interior design. All new rolling stock is equipped with environmentally friendly toilet facilities (bio toilets) and air conditioning units.

Double-decker carriages

The fundamental advantage of a double-decker carriage is its increased passenger capacity allowing to carry more passengers on busy routes, especially to southern resorts. Double-decker carriages are as comfortable and equipped as modern conventional carriages, and even surpass them in many other respects.

Depending on the class, double-decker carriages have double-berth or four-berth compartments. Air conditioning and heating units in each carriage help constantly maintain a comfortable microclimate. Environmentally friendly toilet facilities with three cabins allow passengers to use toilets at stops and within resort areas. Slackless couplings and pressure-proof gangways helped reduce noise and vibration in carriages and increase the safety of passengers when moving from carriage to carriage. The demands of disabled passengers have also been considered: one of the carriages in each train (administrative carriage) is equipped with special lifts for boarding wheelchair users from low platforms and has a special compartment and toilet.

In addition to two-berth and four-berth compartments, the train running between Moscow and Voronezh now has double-decker carriages with seats in standard and improved interiors. The Russian-made double-decker seating carriage features curved glass windows on the second deck — used for the first time in the history of Russian carriage building.

The carriage is equipped with new modern rigid slackless couplings and pressure-proof gangways. For visually impaired passengers, all signage in carriages is duplicated in Braille.

RIC carriages

RIC type sleeper car of 61-4476 model (WLABmz) is intended for international traffic within the International Union of Railways — Union Internationale des Chemins de fer, UIC — (track gauge 1,435 mm) and in European part of the Russian Federation, CIS countries and Baltic states (track gauge 1,520 mm).

The carriage complies with mandatory standards of the Russian Federation (GOST, NB ZhT — Railway Transport Safety Regulations) and the European Community (Technical specifications for interoperability, TSI; European Norm, EN, and UIC) in terms of design and construction, as well as exterior and interior design.

Operation between railway networks with different track gauges is carried out by replacing bogies at gauge-changers using existing infrastructure facilities (gauge changing station at Brest).

The maximum operating speed is 200 km/h on 1,435 mm gauge tracks and 160 km/h on 1,520 mm gauge tracks.

Permits have been obtained in 16 European countries for the operation of new RIC (Regolamento internazionale per le Carroze) gauge carriages.

TALGO TRAINS

Carriage–2019

The carriages are operated in trains of the Far East, East Siberian, Volga, Gorky, Moscow and Northwest Branches. In 2022, these carriages will be put into service in the West Siberian and Ural branches.

The Carriage—2019 model range was designed by a supplier. The model range includes model 61-4516 (third-class open-plan sleeping carriages), model 61-4517 (second-class sleeping carriages) and model 61-4529 (administrative carriages). The carriage designs have incorporated the most advanced features popular with passengers.

Specific features of the new model range carriages:

• Use of semi-automated customer service technologies with a single service compartment for two carriages
• No redundant vestibules, which allows creating additional areas for extra passenger comfort during travel (shower, multifunctional service area with vending machines, hot and cold drinking water purifiers, and other equipment)

This design means that new carriages are included in a train set as twin units: one carriage with a service compartment plus one carriage with no service compartment.

The design features of the new model range carriages also include:

• Pressure-proof gangways
• Full LED lighting
• Power sockets (220 V) and USB ports at each berth
• Sensor taps, hand driers and baby changing tables in toilets
• Convertible tables and personal safes for each passenger in compartment carriages
• Automated sliding interior doors
• Renovated interior design

The administrative carriage features a compartment to accommodate two wheelchair users along with their travelling companions, a specially designed toilet with shower and boarding lifts in the redundant vestibule. The disabled passenger compartment is equipped with a passenger information display featuring a text-to-voice service activated by a button.

New carriages

Average carriage life: at least 40 years

Carriage–2020

Carriage–2020 is a new design of double-deck carriages. The project features:

• Twin units
• Increased double-decker height in size Tpr under GOST 9238-2013 (upper outline along the a-b-b1-a2 line), improving passenger comfort on upper berths of the second deck by increasing the distance between the berth and the ceiling
• Refreshed interior and modern design
• Bogies with air suspension system (improved smoothness and passenger comfort)
• A next-generation system for detecting potential failures (mechanical parameters monitoring, real-time data transmission to the situation centre, mileage intervals before first maintenance (or TO-1) increased to 10,000 km)
• Semi-automated customer service technologies with a single service compartment for two carriages (improving train crew productivity)

Features to provide additional comfort for passengers in the carriage:

• A modern design developed using international best practices and high-quality finishing materials
• Improved soundproofing and vibration insulation
• Wi-Fi hotspot
• Intercoms for communication with a train attendant
• A full-fledged self-service area with vending machines and a purifier
• Convertible tables and personal safes in compartments
• Automated sliding interior doors
• Individual temperature control at each compartment
• A shower cubicle in each carriage