Iran-Made Train to Join Subway Fleet in Weeks

The train is being constructed by a consortium of five knowledge-based companies operating along with the Ministry of Industry, Mining and Trade, Tehran Municipality, and the Academic Center for Education, Culture, and Research, Dehqani Firouzabadi said.

Noting that the home-made train successfully underwent all the Iranian and European quality standard tests last week, he said that with the mass production of this train, over 90 percent of the country’s needs to trains would be met.

Last year, a total of 1,660 wagons and locomotives were added to the country’s railway fleet in four stages.

Advantages such as consuming less fuel and creating less pollution as well as high safety attach priority to the railway when compared to some other transportation systems, and make its development economically viable.

In late February, the Iranian railway fleet also received 685 new domestically-made or renovated wagons and locomotives worth 33.58 trillion rials (about $67.7 million).

The wagons and locomotives included 645 freight wagons, 10 new locomotives, five renovated locomotives, two new passenger wagons, and 23 renovated passenger wagons, all manufactured and renovated by domestic companies.

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