A new wagon-washing complex reconstructed by Wagon-Service JSC was put into operation on the 12th of July 2012 in Samara.
НThe first private wagon washing complex fitted with up to date equipment appeared on the territory of Samara passenger depot. It is the first washing complex in Russia where the two-stage technology of passenger carriage washing is applied (with acid and alkaline-based solutions).The complex can work at the temperature down to -20ºC and wash twenty trains per day. The President of RZD OJSC, Mr Vladimir Yakunin, the Governor of the Samara region, Mr Nikolay Merkushkin, the Vice-President of RZD OJSC – General Director of FPC OJSC, Mr Mikhail Akulov, the President of Wagon-Service JSC, Mr Yoram Ben-Israel and the Managing Director of Wagon-Service JSC, Mr Alexey Shumkov were all present at official ceremony of the washing complex opening.
16 July 2012 Magazine RZD-Partner
Nadezhda Vtorushina