Six passenger trains got stuck in the Chelyabinsk region

At least six passenger trains are delayed for several hours at the Kunashak-Muslyumovo station of the South-Ural Railway in the Chelyabinsk region. This was reported by the press service of the railway on Thursday.

According to the report, the Adler-Nizhnevartovsk train is already 9 hours late, the others are 2-6 hours late. According to the report, the trains are delayed “for technical reasons.” The railway assures that a “comfortable temperature regime” is maintained in the carriages. It’s about minus 15 degrees near Chelyabinsk now.

At the same time, the passengers of the Adler-Nizhnevartovsk train told the Chelyabinsk publication 74.ru that the lights were turned off in the cars, there was no drinking water, and the food might run out soon.

According to the Yekaterinburg publication E1.ru, the Finist electric train broke down in the Sverdlovsk Region on January 4. It began to transport passengers quite recently, in the Russian Railways it is called an import-substitute analogue of the “Lastochka” electric train. It is reported that the train broke down on the way from Nizhny Tagil to Yekaterinburg. In the end, the passengers were taken on a backup train, writes It’s My City.

The day before, the “Lastochka” train from Moscow to Nizhny Novgorod stopped in a field in the Nizhny Novgorod region for 2.5 hours. According to local telegram channels, the electricity and heating were turned off in the train for some time – in 30-degree frost. Some passengers reportedly required medical attention.