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Moscow Kazan high speed railway

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Type
  
High-speed rail

Locale
  
Russia

Stations
  
15

Status
  
Design

Termini
  
Moscow Kazan

Moscow-Kazan high-speed railway

Services
  
Moscow - Vladimir - Nizhny Novgorod - Kazan (- Vladivostok/Beijing/India)

The Moscow-Kazan High-Speed Railway is a 770-kilometre long high-speed railway line connecting the two major cities of Moscow and Kazan in the Russian Federation, going through the intermediate cities of Vladimir, Nizhny Novgorod and Cheboksary. The project, currently being designed with an expected completion date of 2020, is slated to be the first segment of an ambitious transnational high-speed railway set to connect Beijing and Moscow over a distance in excess of 7,000 kilometres, which is currently under consideration by the governments of Russia and China.

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Details

  • Route: Moscow - Vladimir - Nizhny Novgolod - Kazan (- Vladivostok/Beijing/India)
  • Track gauge: 1,520 mm (4 ft 11 27⁄32 in) Russian gauge and 1,676 mm (5 ft 6 in) Indian gauge
  • Number of tracks: 4 (2 Russian gauge tracks and 2 Indian gauge tracks)
  • Electrification: 25kV 50Hz AC overhead lines (with 3kV DC overhead lines inside of the Greater Ring of the Moscow Railway)
  • Loading gauge: Russian T loading gauge
  • Platform heights: 200 mm (7.9 in) and 550 mm (21.7 in)

    • Rolling stocks

    Proposed rolling stocks for this line which include:

  • Talgo Avril Russian gauge version
  • Sapsan trainsets, which need to be modified including retractable steps for low platforms and main transformers for AC overhead lines
  • Shinkansen-based trainsets, with Russian gauge and low doors

    • References

    Moscow-Kazan high-speed railway Wikipedia
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