Talgo signs its largest contract in Uzbekistan for the comprehensive maintenance of the high-speed fleet
The public railway company of Uzbekistan, UTY, entrusts Talgo with the maintenance service of its six Talgo 250 trains for ten years, for a value of around €80 million.
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Talgo, a leading Spanish company in the design, manufacture and maintenance of high-speed, lightweight rail vehicles, has signed a ten-year comprehensive maintenance contract worth nearly €80 million with the public railway company of Uzbekistan (UTY) for the current fleet of six high-speed Talgo 250 trains operating in the country.
This is Talgo’s largest maintenance contract in Uzbekistan, after more than 15 years of several successive agreements, which have consolidated the presence of Spanish high-speed rail technology in Central Asia. The Talgo 250s operate there at a maximum commercial speed of 230 km/h, although they are designed to reach 275 km/h.
Timeline in Uzbekistan
Talgo’s history in Uzbekistan began in 2009 with the acquisition of two Talgo 250 trains of nine cars each, which entered service in 2011. Subsequently, in 2011, a second contract was signed for two additional eleven-car units, operational since 2017. In 2019, UTY expanded the fleet with two more Talgo 250 trains of eleven cars each which started operating in 2021, plus four additional cars to bring the number of cars in the two trains of the first contract to eleven.
Talgo 250 trains in Uzbekistan operate as Series 130 and 730 in Spain under the Alvia commercial name for Renfe. They have natural pendulation technology, which allows to increase speed in curves thanks to the passive tilting of the boxes. Unlike the Spanish models, in Uzbekistan they do not require a change of track-gauge width, as they operate only the Russian broad gauge of 1,520 mm.
With this contract, Talgo reinforces its role as a strategic partner of UTY and guarantees the reliability and availability of the fleet for the next decade. The company thus consolidates its position in a key market, where its trains represent a technological and connectivity leap for the country.
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