Moscow–Kazan High-Speed Railway ВСМ Москва – Казань | |
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Overview | |
Status | Proposed |
Locale | Russia |
Termini | |
Stations | 15 |
Service | |
Type | High-speed rail |
Services | Moscow–Vladimir–Nizhny Novgorod–Kazan (–Vladivostok/Beijing/India) |
Operator(s) | Russian Railways |
Technical | |
Line length | 762 km (473 mi) [1] |
Number of tracks | 2 Russian gauge [2] |
Track gauge | 1,520 mm (4 ft 11+27⁄32 in) Russian gauge |
Loading gauge | Russian T |
Electrification | 25 kV 50 Hz AC overhead lines 3 kV DC overhead lines inside of the Greater Ring of the Moscow Railway |
Operating speed | up to 350 km/h (217 mph) |
The Moscow–Kazan high-speed railway is a planned 772-kilometre long high-speed railway line connecting the cities of Moscow and Kazan in the Russian Federation, going through the intermediate cities of Vladimir, Nizhny Novgorod and Cheboksary.[ citation needed] The project had an original expected completion date of 2023, and was 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. [3][ needs update] Planning work was finished in September 2017. Preliminary construction on stations and platforms, with space reserved for the railway, started in spring 2018. [4][ needs update] Construction on the railway has been postponed as of March 2020, due to the high cost (estimated at 1.7 trillion rubles) and in lieu of further studies on ridership. [5]
Proposed rolling stocks for this line which include: