KYIV. Aug 3 (Interfax-Ukraine) – Public joint-stock company Ukrzaliznytsia intends to use the same cars to form night and day trains and will buy 13 transformer cars from Kriukov Car Building Works (KCBW, Poltava region).
“In the night mode four lower and upper benches of the compartment will be used as comfort sleeping couchettes. In the day mode lower benches will be easily transformed into comfortable seats,” the press service of Ukrzaliznytsia reported on Monday.
The press service said that the cars will be delivered by late 2016 under a contract on supply of 21 passenger cars.
The company is confident that the transformer cars would increase efficiency of car use and increase their average daily run.
The press service said that it is likely that the cars will service the new route Kyiv-Lviv-Ivano-Frankivsk with the night express train and the Intercity train in the day mode.
“The schedule has been formed so that the route will be extended to Vorokhta and Yaremche on the days of peak demand,” the press service said.
