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Tuesday, 09.11.2010
At a speed of 400 km/h from Moscow to St.Petersburg
Moscow. Russian first high-speed railway line will connect Moscow and St.Petersburg. Due to a speed of 400 km/h, the trip will take 2.5 hours only. 42 trains will run the route daily.
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Thus over 14 million passengers will be advanced between Moscow and St.Petersburg every year according to the passenger volume the stock corporation "OAO Skorostnyje Magistrali" (high-speed lines) has planned so far. The construction costs will amount to one billion ruble, i.e. 23 million Euros.
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The route will be built as an exclusive high-speed line additionally to the already existing rails. The Sapsan ICE trains running the old route now have still to share the railway line built at the times of Tsar Nikolai I.th together with other passengers trains, goods and local trains.
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An international tender shall be announced for the new route construction. Till the end of 2010, the RZD subsidiary company "OAO Skorostnyje Magistrali" is going to finish the project work in order to present it internationally in the first half of 2011.
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Thus the russian-french project on a high-speed railway line Moscow-Tver-Novgorod-Petersburg being prepared since 1991 has been revived now.
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The new project was introduced at the international symposium High Speed Rail World in Madrid.
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Today, for the routes from Petersburg to Moscow and Nizhny-Novgorod, RZD is already offering the modified Sapsan ICE trains supplied and maintained by Siemens.
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