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I promised to tell about the electron that brought me to this exhibition. And now I am ready to present to your attention the high-speed electric train ES2G, codenamed "Swallow"

To begin with, let's analyze what the abbreviation means, "ES2G". "ES2" - this means that the electric train is powered by direct current, and the letter "G" indicates that the electric train belongs to the urban type.

Production was started on November 11, 2013 at one of the Ural factories "Ural locomotives". This model, which took people to the innovation industry, was the first to be made in 2014, which is confirmed by the number “001” in the name printed on the body of the train. According to the manufacturers, it consists of 62% of Russian components, it is also planned to increase this figure to 85%. The production of electric trains takes place on the territory of Russia. At the moment, about 5 models have already been produced, and by 2021 it is planned to produce 240 electric trains. It turns out about 35-40 models per year! I seem to be good at math! 😀

The Lastochka electric train is not afraid of the Ural cold and rare high temperatures. It feels confident in the temperature range from -40 to +40°C. And diagnostic systems help to significantly increase the time until scheduled inspections. And the modular-block implementation of all devices and equipment allows you to quickly fix the malfunction by replacing the faulty unit with a serviceable one. This approach is applied in many areas. For example, in cellular communications, radio relay stations are no longer large equipment rooms, but small boxes with several modules! 🙂

The doors of the electric train are just like from science fiction films! Each carriage has two doors on each side. They are about 1.3 meters wide and about two meters high, mine will probably have to bend down so as not to hit! 😀 When the doors are closed, they merge with the body for better streamlining, and during a stop they move apart. Thanks to special seals on the edges of the doors, the doors close tightly! When the train starts moving, you can't really hear anything from outside! When the swallow electric train arrived at the platform, the doors did not open. I thought that when the time comes, they will open it, but after waiting 5 minutes I was interested in a green luminous button! Why not click? And lo and behold, the doors opened! It turns out that the doors are specially equipped with these buttons. So that passengers can get off at the station themselves when they want.

This is what the doors look like from the inside. While driving, I kept thinking what would happen if you press that green button while driving. The developers are not fools, while the button is blocked, so that curious people like me do not accidentally fall out on the go! 😀 To the right of the exit there is a stop crane and a garbage container, which is so lacking in ordinary trains! If there was, I think people littered at least a little less. On the left, as I understand it, there are mechanisms for helping the disabled. When you press the blue button, most likely a specially trained person comes, who, using this mechanism, helps to get into the car.

Question for the experts! Why is this stop crane needed if those who break it for serious reasons are still scolded and fined? More than once I saw how someone's bag was stolen and ran out, or the child remained at the station, and the train started moving. The driver’s obscenity is constantly heard over the speakerphone, and the guards run to beat the unfortunate person ...

Since the developers placed the equipment either on the roof or under the car, visually the interior space of the car looks wider and more spacious, which allows using the entire area for the convenience of passengers. When facing the car, insulating materials were used, which is noticeable by the absence of external noise inside the car. And light colors in the design create a greater sense of comfort for passengers.

There are lamps, loudspeaker speakers, ventilation and a rather interesting digital display with all the information passengers need on the ceiling. The display shows the date, time, temperature outside the train and, most importantly, speed! I specifically observed how fast we are moving. The swallow can reach speeds of up to 160 kilometers per hour, but we did not accelerate more than 100 kilometers per hour, apparently this is the maximum permitted speed of the railway track.

There are 67 seats in the head car, and about 103 in the intermediate cars. As a result, a total of 443 seats are obtained.

The transitions between the cars of the electric train swallow are equipped with double-leaf fire doors. Between the doors, the transition is surrounded by a hermetic and flexible cover. Glasses allow you to better view neighboring cars for the presence of familiar personalities, so as not to go alone. In the old electric trains, you had to look out for friends through a small window, and you also had to go into the vestibule, but here there is no vestibule! Since there is no vestibule, and the doors are separated from the salon only by small glass partitions, in winter the temperature is maintained with the help of additional heaters. Also, do not forget that the doors themselves close and passengers open them when they need to. To ensure the safety of passengers, the salons have video surveillance systems and fire alarms.

Windows are made of impact-resistant glass, emergency exits are equipped with special hammers for breaking glass. Outside, such windows will be difficult to break. So the rural kids-terrorists throwing stones at the windows are definitely not scary now!

When I got into the car, I noticed strange frames, there was a place for luggage. And behind it are folding seats, as well as a place for disabled people with strollers and mothers with strollers. Basically comfortable and well thought out. We took care of everyone!

The seat backs are equipped with such folding tables. Now you can conveniently place your phone, laptop or iPad in front of you and watch movies on the go! Also above the chairs there are convenient shelves where you can put away unnecessary things and mobile hooks on which you can hang your clothes. I also noticed that in some places there are sockets with a voltage of 220v!

As in ordinary trains, there is a toilet in the head cars. For those who have been in those terrible toilets, they will be surprised how it looks here. As long as everything is clean and civilized. The toilet is so wide that it is convenient to use the disabled. There are even special equipment located on the left.

Well, how can I ask you, dear readers, to get out of such an interesting place without doing it? That's right, no way! He photographed everything he wanted and sat quietly from Koltsovo himself, looking out the window and at the passengers with children. Who rushed around the cars with joyful faces and photographed everything around!

In conclusion, I would like to add that due to the presence of four autonomous electrical converters, Lastochka, in the absence of supply voltage from contact networks, can maintain its autonomy for 1.5 hours for emergency lighting lamps, sound devices, position signals, automatic door systems, a parking brake and emergency ventilation wagon. As a teacher of power supply, this makes me very happy! 😀

I don’t know about you, but I really liked the Swallow Electric Train. Very convenient, but knowing how Russian Railways plans train schedules and the number of cars in them, I hope Swallows have a happy future. It is very frustrating that when a lot of people are traveling, there are only four cars, people are standing ... And when the time is not crowded, they let 5 or even 6 cars.

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Those who travel frequently and plan to travel by high-speed train either from Nizhny Novgorod to Moscow or vice versa are advised to read this article before buying a ticket. Now I'm just sitting on a cramped chair high-speed train Swallow, it's only been 30 minutes since departure, and I already want this trip to end as quickly as possible. Why? Read my review and you will understand a lot.

Impressions of a trip on a high-speed train Swallow would not be complete without comparing it with another high-speed train - Sapsan. I have ridden it many times and in principle the impressions were the most favorable. In any case, if I were offered to travel from Moscow to Nizhny Novgorod or back on a regular train in a reserved seat (a compartment car is better, but much more expensive), or on a Strizh, then I would choose Strizh.

Why? It's faster, somehow more modern, just 4 hours and you're at home. Anything is better than listening to someone's hysterical snoring or coughing all night, and then getting up rumpled, sleepy and angry.

But if I were offered a choice between an ordinary train, even in a reserved seat car, or a high-speed train Lastochka, I would not choose Lastochka.

Perhaps this is my purely nitpicking subjective opinion, but I really think so, and now I will try to give facts and give some recommendations if you still decide to go Swallow.

Disadvantages of the high-speed train Swallow

The first thing that caught my eye and stung unpleasantly was the arrangement of the seats. Maybe things are different in other cars, but in my car number two, almost all the seats are turned towards each other, like on an ordinary electric train. On the one hand two in a row, and on the other - three. Sit all the way and look at your neighbor. It's sometimes stressful.

Keep in mind that, unlike Strizh, window seats are not the best choice in Swallow. The fact is that there are hooks for outerwear on the luggage rack. When passengers hang their jackets, coats and sheepskin coats on these hooks, it becomes crowded to sit by the window. To top it off, some outerwear items emit a characteristic and not so pleasant smell. Driving for four hours next to someone's fragrant coat - a pleasure, frankly, below average - I checked it out for myself. Of course, this problem occurs only in the cold season. She won't bother you in the summer.

The next unpleasant surprise is the seats. They do not lay out in the Swallow. True, in Strizh they also unfold quite a bit, but this is better than driving all the way in an upright position like a stump. In their desire to take a nap at least a little, passengers sometimes take very bizarre poses. Moreover, there are folding tables in the backs of the seats of the Swift. For example, you can put a laptop on the table and work or watch a movie. The pocket in front of the standing seat can also be very useful. For example, I hung my tablet on it (for the hinged cover of the case - very convenient) and watched movies without holding the device in my hands. In the swallow, the seats are back to back and that says it all.

Another ambush is luggage racks. They are very small and I, for example, did not have enough space to put my backpack there. Unlike the train in Lastochka, the luggage shelves do not close, and all the way I watched with bated breath when, finally, an unsuccessfully placed raincoat would finally fall from the shelf on the opposite side of the car onto the heads of sleeping passengers. Here they will rejoice.

Nevertheless, I noticed one very useful thing in the Swallow - electrical outlets on the luggage racks. True, there are very few of them, about one outlet for 12-14 seats. Here the principle works - whoever took the outlet first, he recharged. True, there are also sockets in the cars of the Sapsan train, but they are located at the entrances to the cars - only two per car (at least, I counted just that many). You put the tablet on charge like this, you go to your place, and then you come and ... When I asked if tablets are often stolen here, the Sapsan guide said that everything is under cameras here. In fact, the consolation is weak. Someone can grab your tablet and get off at the way station. I don't think cameras will help in this case.

Go ahead. In Swallow, unlike Sapsan and Strizh, there are no TVs on the ceiling. There is not even a radio that you can listen to by plugging the headphone jack (free) into the seat armrest. Here, to paraphrase a well-known proverb, the entertainment of drowning people is the work of the drowning people themselves. In principle, you can read a book, listen to a player, watch a movie on a tablet, but if you didn’t take anything on the road, get ready to be bored for several hours. Especially if you are traveling at night, it is pointless to look out the window - a bright light is on in the car and the windows only reflect the atmosphere of the car to you. In addition, the windows may be tightly hung with jackets and coats of other passengers.

In Swallow, unlike Sapsan and Strizh, there is no way to use WiFi. Of course, on the one hand, you can live for four hours without the Internet, but for some it is very annoying - it was evident from the faces of the passengers. If you go by Swallow - prepare some kind of SIM card with the Internet "everywhere".

Advantages of the train Swallow

Now, for the sake of objectivity, I would like to note the positive side of the Swallow train.

Let's start with the fact that the carriages are quite clean and light. These are not dirty electric trains with a barely glowing single light on the ceiling. Bright lighting creates a certain atmosphere of comfort and at least some semblance of civilization.

The cars are clean, there is no carpet on the floor, but it is covered with some kind of anti-slip layer. Going to the toilet also left the most decent impression. True, there are clearly not enough toilets on the train, but they are large and designed even for disabled passengers. In contrast, in Sapsan, the toilet is slightly larger than in an airplane. That is - go in - go in, but there is almost nowhere to turn around.

In the cars of the high-speed train Lastochka, air conditioning is operating - the temperature was maintained at about 25 degrees. I sat in a T-shirt and felt comfortable. I immediately remembered my long trip to the city of Shakhunya from Nizhny Novgorod. The temperature outside was about minus twenty degrees, I think it was no more in the train cars. In Swallow with air temperature everything is in order.

Another fact that will seem to someone a minus, someone a plus. The wagons carry carts with drinks and food. On the one hand, if you were unable to eat before the trip, then such a cart can be regarded as a salvation. But at the same time, get ready to pay a round sum for a small snack. I remember once I decided to order some tea and some cake for myself in Sapsan. Tea was served in bags, and the cake was the most ordinary, which costs twenty rubles in the store.

For this bold experiment with a snack in Sapsan, I remember that I paid about two hundred and fifty rubles. In Lastochka, prices are about the same. But you don't have to order anything. You can proudly reject the offer of conductors, and then your budget will not be undermined.

The train goes pretty fast compared to the usual. It cannot be said that I constantly followed the scoreboard, which displays the speed of movement, but the highest speed that I noticed was 155 kilometers per hour. True, Sapsan goes even faster. In some sections, it accelerates to 180 km / h, and it becomes incomprehensible why both he and Lastochka travel from Nizhny Novgorod to Moscow in the same time. Here it is worth noting that the Sapsan goes more smoothly. The swallow, apparently, is lighter, or its suspension is arranged somehow differently, but it dangles from side to side sometimes so much that I start to miss the keys of the laptop.

Conclusion

Despite the positive qualities of the Swallow high-speed train, it, of course, does not reach Sapsan in terms of comfort. With a difference in ticket price of about three hundred rubles, the choice in favor of Lastochka, in my opinion, is justified only because of the more convenient departure and arrival times in your particular case, or if you still decide to save a little.

As for me personally, I think this is my first and, hopefully, my last trip on the Swallow high-speed train. All the same, the comfort is worth paying a little more for it.

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