OREANDA-NEWS. October 20, 2011. Russian Railways and STM-Service, which is part of Sinara-Transport Machines, have signed a contract for the maintenance of the SINARA 2ES6 electric freight locomotive series. The trains are produced by Ural Locomotives, a joint venture between the Sinara Group and Siemens AG, reported the press-centre of Russian Railways.

According to the contract, STM-Service will provide the quality maintenance services necessary to maintain the 2ES6 electric locomotives numbered 001 - 137 in good technical condition. Five service depots will be set up at Sverdlovsk, South Urals and West Siberian Railways.

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The 2ES6 SINARA electric freight locomotive series was supplied in December 2006 by the Ural Rail Machine Building Plant (Ural Locomotives is a joint venture between the SINARA Group and Siemens).

It is equipped with a microprocessor control system, traction engines with a supporting-frame construction. The locomotive will reduce power consumption and non-routine repairs and increase the mileage between regular servicing and overhauls of a new locomotive by 50%. The 2ES6 SINARA also gives 20% more freight capacity compared with the VL11 electric locomotives currently in use and cuts labour time on repairs by 15%.

The 2ES6 SINARA locomotive will replace the outdated VL 10 and VL 11.