When using a “Troika” card, free transfers to/from the metro and MCC (Moscow Central Circle) are available within 90 minutes of the first validation.
At the moment, it is planned to organize another route, connecting 2 radial directions of the Moscow railway hub in a through diameter.
At the end of 2017, CSPC, selected as the carrier, announced a tender for the supply of 23 five-car trains starting in the summer of 2018 for operation on one of the diameters.
In March 2018, CSPC announced that it was decided to conclude a contract for the specified batch of trains with TVZ, as the only participant in the open tender.
Accordingly, the EG2Tv Ivolga urban electric train was selected, which by that time was already in operation in the CSPC fleet in the amount of two units.
On the trains of the second batch, the plant introduced a new shape of the front part of the driver's cab, doors with larger glass and made a number of changes to the passenger compartment.