Maximum speed for the new KZ4AT passenger locomotive

KZ4AT, the new passenger locomotive for Kazakhstan, manufactured at EKZ, the Alstom, Transmashholding (TMH) and Kazakh Railways (KTZ) joint venture, ran for the first time during testing at its maximum speed: 200 km/h. This milestone, attained by the first of the 95 passenger locomotives ordered in March 2010 by KTZ, is significant: KZ4AT will allow train sets to run for the first time in Kazakhstan at 200 km/h and thereby reduce by 3 hours the journey time between Almaty and Astana, respectively the country's old and new capitals.

KZ4AT is being developed in the same manner as the KZ8A freight locomotive, 19 of which have already been in circulation in the north of the country since December 2013. Produced by EKZ, the Alstom, Transmashholding (TMH) and KTZ joint venture, it is benefitting from Alstom technology, such as traction systems, as well as components built by Alstom-TMH in Russia.