Railway and car ferries
From the start of the carriage of railway cars by ferries till now the «VYMPEL» Design Office performs the design of railway ferries.
It was designed and built ferries for the carriage of railway trains:
through the river Amur near Komsomolsk - 4 units;
through the Kerch strait between the ports Krym and Caucasus - 4 units;
through the Caspian Sea between the ports Baku and Krasnovodsk - 5 units;
through the Tartar strait between the ports Vanino and Kholmsk 10 units.
Railway ferry 2500 dwt
LxBxHxT,m 133,4x18,3x6,2x4,1
RS class
« P (Caspian ferry)
Railway car cap., pc 30
Passenger capacity 290
Railway ferry 2245 dwt
LxBxHxT,m 127,0x19,8x8,8x6,2
RS class KM
Y
ferry
Railway car cap., pc 26
Passenger capacity 80
It was designed and built ferries for the carriage of road and other equipment:
for Sebastopol ferrying: 3 units;
for ferrying through straits of Moonsund archipelago in Estonia - 4 units;
for ferrying through Volga-Kama basin and Bukhtamirsk water basin - 6 units;
for ferrying Lomonosov - Kronstadt - 4 units.
Railway / car ferry 3100 dwt
It was developed a project of a ferry for Krym - Caucasus ferrying. Also it was worked out promising versions of railway/car ferries for the Caspian and Black seas.
LxBxHxT,m 140,6x22,0x8,0x4,7
RS class KM
1
III A2
Railway car cap., pc 30
Passenger capacity 200
Car, pc 50
Classification design
© Design Office for Shipbuilding «VYMPEL», 2003.