Transmashholding’s latest electric passenger locomotives, the EP2Ks, have travelled more than 30 million kilometres.
122 EP2K locomotives are currently in operation on the Western-Siberian and October railways.
On the Western-Siberian railway trains run to Chelyabinsk, Mariinsk, Novosibirsk, Novokuznetsk, Belovo, Petropavlovsk, Ekaterinburg and Perm; and on the October railway trains reach St. Petersburg, Svir and Babaevo.
The first prototype of EP2К was presented in 2006 and locomotives have been in constant operation since May, 2008.
According to the development program JSC RZD, the design of a passenger DC electric locomotive became one of priorities in the reform of the transport branch as the similar equipment had never been produced, passenger DC electric locomotives were purchased in Czechoslovakia.
The average age of operated locomotives was round 30 years at the start of works on design of a new electric locomotive.
EP2K electric locomotives were certified for serial production on December 2010.
The Kolomenskiy plant will produce 40 electric locomotives EP2K under the order of JSC RZD in 2011.
