First New FLIRT G For BCh

On 18 January 2019 Belarusskaya Chygunka awarded Stadler a contract for ten five-car, 25 kV AC, 160 km/h Type FLIRT G EMUs for inter-city business class services. Their design will be based on the two seven-car Class EP^M FLIRTs which have been in service since August 2016 between Minsk and Gomel.

Final assembly of the first new Class EP^MII FLIRT EMU was finished in October 2020 and then the commissioning started. The certification testing of EP^MII-001 will take place in early 2021. The handover to the operator is planned for summer 2021, with a subsequent start of the batch deliveries.