Presentation of Russian-made metro cars that arrived the other day took place today at the Tashkent-Central railway station. The delivery of the current third batch of metro cars, was the final one from the side of the Uzbekistan Railways, which now completed its obligations to the Tashkent metro imposed by the president's Implementation of the project "Acquisition of ten metro trains for the Tashkent metro overground line" Decree.
Five metro trains of four-car design will be formed from the 20 cars that have arrived.
“Note that with the arrival of a new batch of rolling stocks of this modification, the number of modern trains in the Tashkent metro will be 60 units of cars, i.e. 15 trains. In 2019, the first batch of 20 metro cars arrived in Tashkent. In August of this year, JSC Metrowagonmash sent another 20 metro cars to Uzbekistan”, the company said.
All incoming Russian-made metro cars are designed taking into account the peculiarities of the Tashkent metro. In general, the Tashkent metro and Metrovagonmash have been cooperating since the foundation of the metro in the capital, since 1977.
The contract for the manufacture of 40 metro cars of JSC "Metrovagonmash" and UE "Toshkent Metro" was signed in April this year. The sources of financing are loans from the state corporation "Bank for Development and Foreign Economic Affairs" and the Russian Export-Import Bank.
