Launched the first Ukrainian high-speed train

High-speed train manufacturing Krukovka Carriages went today for the first flight on the route between the two host cities of Euro - Kharkiv-Kyiv. The first of the locomotives of domestic production is designed to move at speeds up to 160 kilometers per hour, and trains corporate category received a grade.

Ukrzaliznytsya confirmed category and coefficients of inter-brand high-speed train number 161/162 message Kharkov - Kiev. He goes from Kharkov at 7:14 am, arriving in Kiev at 12:56. From the capital goes back at 17:30, and 23:10 (ie 10 min. Earlier compared with the previous schedule) arrives on the station platform, Kharkov, "- said the head of the passenger service of the Southern Railway Vladimir Gulyaev.

Recall that in May on the route Kharkov - Kiev will be launched Hyundai, after which the speed Kryukovsky train will operate on the route Kharkiv - Simferopol.