Following long-term plan: Moscow Metro to keep getting new cars in coming years

Moscow Metro rolling stock will keep getting updated. Moscow Metro and Transmashholding signed a supplement to their three-year contract currently in force to supply Moskva-2020 cars, extending it for another two years. According to it, in 2024 and 2025, Metro will get 500 extra new train cars. In the five-year long contract term, 1,800 cars will be delivered.

The new cars, to be supplied from 2024 onward, should be more comfortable for both passengers and drivers. Changes and improvements will be made to their interior design. On top of that, each car will get modern gadget charger devices. For passengers with reduced mobility, boarding and alighting through the lead car will be made comfortable. The driver’s cabin will get some updates, too. The main parameters needed to drive the train, for instance, will be projected on the windshield. When developing and manufacturing Moskva-2020 Metro cars after 2023, the company will have to take the new technical requirements into account.

The production will take place at the Mytishchi plant owned by Metrovagonmash (a Transmashholding company). The Big Circle Line (BCL) will get them as well. The entire span of the 70 kilometer-long line opens for traffic in 2023.

“As instructed by Sergei Sobyanin, the Moscow Government lends support to rolling stock producers. Recently, we have updated our modern Metro car supply contract, expanding its scope to 2024 and 2025. Moscow has a clear, long-term goal to modernize its existing rolling stock and buy trains for the new lines, so our update rate is one of the fastest in the world. We have purchased over 4,000 new, modern cars since 2010 and replaced up to 70 per cent of our pool. Starting in 2024, the cars will get a number of improvements becoming even more advanced and high-tech,” said Maxim Liksutov, Deputy Moscow Mayor for Transport.

Plans made earlier stated that in 2020-2023 (both years included), Transmashholding was going to deliver over 1,300 cars for Moscow Metro. As of now, their plant in Mytishchi has produced over 900 cars under that contract. 896 of them were Moskva-2020 cars and 24 – Moskva models.

The new Moscow Government contract for Metro cars deliveries in 2024 and 2025 is an important measure to support national producers. That will ensure financial stability of Russian companies along the metro cars production chain. By some estimates, that’s going to keep about 100,000 jobs in the industry.

The manufacturer’s service company is going to service the cars for 30 years, in other words, for their entire service life. It is provided for by the lifecycle contract. The Moscow Government uses contracts of that sort to modernize their entire public transport pool. A lifecycle contract means that the car manufacturer has to be the one to also provide diagnostics, service and repairs for them. That saves Moscow Metro up to 15 per cent of Metro car service cost.

New Metro trains are running along the Circle, the Big Circle and Kaluzhsko-Rizhskaya lines every day now, carrying thousands of passengers. For example, the sections of the Big Circle Line now in operation have over 50 Moskva-2020 trains.