Czech Republic: The train was presented at the manufacturer’s plant in Plzen at the end of December and will soon be tested first in the Czech Republic, and then in the client’s metropolitan – the capital of Poland.
The six-car train has a through passage, places for wheelchairs and bicycles. The total capacity of the train is 1,500 people. The maximum speed is 90 km/h. The train uses electrodynamic braking, as well as a recuperation system that allows you to return electricity to the network.
Interior of the metro train by Skoda Transportation for Warsaw. Source: Skoda Transportation
According to the president of Skoda Transportation Petr Brzezina, the aluminum bodies of the subway cars are welded and painted in Ostrava, and the final assembly takes place in Plzen. The company indicates that suppliers from Poland are also involved in the production of the train.
A contract for the supply of up to 45 such trains worth CZK 8 bln (€307 mln) was signed between the Metro Warszawskie and Skoda Transportation at the beginning of 2020. The firm part of the contract involves the delivery of 37 trains. The rolling stock is scheduled to be put into operation in the spring of 2022.
This contract was the first in the metro segment for Skoda Transportation in several years. Skoda Transportation entered the metro sector in the mid-1990s, having received a contract for modernization of the Prague metro delivered in the 1970s by Mytishchi Machine Works (now Metrowagonmash, part of TMH). In the 2010s, the Czech producer supplied new metro trains of its own design only in Russia, to St. Petersburg, as part of the Vagonmash joint venture with the Kirovsky Zavod group.
