New passenger cars will run on the Almaty-Zhezkazgan route
30-10-2024
The Almaty branch "Yuzhny" of "Passenger Transportation" JSC received 12 modern cars of domestic production. 6 compartment and 6 reserved seat new carriages will run as part of passenger train No. 73/74 "Almaty-Zhezkazgan". Modern carriages are equipped with air conditioning systems, video surveillance in the vestibules, air filters, smoke detectors and bio-toilets. For the convenience of passengers, electrical outlets and USB ports are installed in the compartments.
"We continue to work on updating the National Carrier's carriage fleet. Train No. 73/74 "Almaty-Zhezkazgan" will run daily. The service life of the carriages is up to 40 years. “The passenger train will be able to carry 540 passengers on average in one direction,” said Nariman Dyusekeyev, official representative of JSC Passenger Transportation.
Let us recall that in the period from 2023 to 2024, the National Carrier’s fleet was replenished with 150 new carriages. They run on the Atyrau-Mangistau, Aktobe-Atyrau, Pavlodar-Turkestan and Kyzylorda-Semey routes.
Press service of JSC «NC«Kazakhstan Temir Zholy»