According to the schedule of the Company’s Federal Passengers (group RZhD), the Strizh, after making stops in Smolensk (Russia), Orsha, Brest, (Belarus), Terespol, Warsaw, Poznan, Rzepin (Poland) and Fráncfurt an der oder (Germany), will reach the station Ostbahnhof in the German capital to the 7.19 on Sunday (6.19 GMT time).
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The first train Strizh (Swift)
this way trains of Talgo reduce the travel time between Moscow and Berlin in about five hours.
The travel time is shortened thanks to some characteristics of the train Spanish: very light, with pendulación and the automatic system of change of track width, which is produced in Brest (Belarus) in only 20 minutes.
This is the second joint project of Talgo and RZhD after the route Moscow-Nizhny Novgorod that make the trains Spanish from June 2015.
The ceremony of the opening
During the ceremony of the inauguration, held in the station Kúrskaya in an hour before the start of the train, the officials of Russia and Spain expressed their satisfaction with the opening of the new route: in particular, it highlights the presence of the president of Talgo, Carlos María de Palacio and Oriol, the president of RZhD Oleg Belozerov, the Spanish minister of Fomento, Íñigo de la Serna, and the Russian minister of Transport, Maxim Sokolov.
“This project reflects the will of cooperation of our two countries in the framework of the infrastructures and services of transport, thanks to the experience, prestige and the degree of technological innovation of one of our major companies in the country, which is Talgo”, declared during the ceremony, the Spanish minister to highlight the importance of the act.
Serna pointed out that the opening of this route is just one of the examples of cooperation between the Russian federation and Spain, which will continue in various areas.
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The train Strizh (Swift)
he Said that Spain has “agreements with Russia, even from the public sector, our idea is to in 2017 be able to move forward in a collaboration with the University of Moscow on issues of training precisely in the railway sector where we have been working on.”
“Spain is going to continue to be here,” said the minister, stressing that the collaborative Russian-Spanish “maintains close ties with the country and it is good for both of you.”
During the inauguration ceremony also was happy the president of the Spanish company, Carlos María de Palacio and Oriol.
“It’s an example of how sometimes technology serves to unite the people and to the peoples, for us it is a great satisfaction”, he said.
The Russian minister of Transport in his turn stressed that the main advantage of trains Spanish is a system of automatic change of track width that adapts to the axes of the convoy without the need of stopping.
The president of RZhD in turn pointed out that each train has three cars specific for people with limited capabilities, which, together with other innovations of the Strizh, “created the conditions as comfortable as possible” to passengers.
The cooperation between Talgo and RZhD
In the few minutes before pulling the new train, Joaquin Enciso Torquemada, director of the center for maintenance of Talgo Moscow, told Sputnik Nóvosti the result of the collaboration between the Spanish company and RZhD.
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The first train Strizh (Swift) that will connect Moscow and Berlin
“For us it is a very important milestone in uniting the city of Moscow with the city of Berlin, this path connects the Russian Federation with one of the hearts of Europe, then to us it is a very important project,” said the center’s director of Talgo, which makes the comprehensive maintenance of all the seven compositions delivered to RZhD, for a term of 40 years, according to the contract signed in 2014 and applicable from June 2015.
Indicated that the relationship between RZhD and Talgo currently “is in a good time”, which shows the opening of the new route this Saturday, and expressed the hope that it is not the last joint project.
“We look forward to continue working together, and of course for us Russia is a very important market and we will be at the disposal of the demand of our customer,” he said.
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