A Russian-Chinese consortium has won the first contract to design a new high-speed railway between Moscow and Kazan.
Led by Mosgiprotrans, the consortium includes Nizhegorodmetroproekt and one of China’s largest engineering firms, CREEC.
The contract, which has a value of 20.79 billion roubles (€320 million), will include surveying works and route planning for the new Russian-gauge railway.
The 770-kilometre route, which is expected to have a line speed of up to 400 km/h, will link Moscow, Nizhny, Novgorod, Cheboksary and Kazan.
In the future, the Russian government hopes the line will form part of a new high-speed rail corridor between Moscow, Astana, Kazakhstan, and Beijing, China.
Journey times between Moscow and Kazan will be reduced to three-and-a-half hours, with around 10.5 million passengers predicted to use the corridor within its first year.
Yea…well-here we go again…while other nations are forming ways to work together in building excellent passenger rail services the leadership in the USA continue with ‘cranial-anal’ syndrome when it needs to form alliances to help build excellent passenger rail in the USA to use already proven new rail techniques vs trying unproven appraoches…