KYIV. Sept 8 (Interfax-Ukraine) – The tender committee of Lviv Railways has held a meeting where to select the winner of a tender to buy a new passenger diesel train, and the winner was Kriukov Car Building Works (KCBW, Poltava region).
The press service of Lviv Railways reported that the price of the new diesel train is UAH 109.8 million (VAT included).
Lviv Railways said that two bids were submitted to the tender – from KCBW and Kharkiv Wagon-Building Plant LLC, and the price of the latter was UAH 120 million. The two bids met the tender criteria and were allowed to participate.
The suburban diesel train with three wagons made by KCBW is intended to carry passengers on non-electrified 1,520mm gauge rail sections with a speed of up to 140 km per hour. The diesel train has 291 seats, and two seats for passengers with disabilities.
Lviv Railways operates in the south-western part of Ukraine in six regions: Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk, Zakarpattia, Chernivtsi, Vinnytsia, and Volyn.
The Kriukov plant, which is the CIS’s only manufacturer of both passenger carriages and freight wagons, manufactures freight wagons (open wagons, tankers, hopper wagons, and high-sided wagons), as well as passenger carriages, bogies for freight wagons, wheel pairs, and spare parts for subway carriages, escalators, containers, and road equipment.
