Russian Railways: News

The investment program of Russian Railways in the medium term could rise by 1.5 times. This was stated by Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich at a meeting on the development of the steel industry. "In general, RZD's investment may increase by about 1.5 times over the medium term", - he said.

In June, the newspaper "Vedomosti" reported on the government to reduce the sentence of Railways investment program up to 2018, from 5.7 trillion to 2.7 trillion rubles. These funds will be sufficient to fund key projects monopoly - the construction of port infrastructure, and the development of the Baikal-Amur and Trans-Siberian Railway. The sources of finance, the Government proposed the use of the National Welfare Fund, Pension Fund, the budget, as well as equity and debt Railways.

Through the issuance of infrastructure bonds to finance the planned upgrade of locomotive fleet, the construction of railway lines to the Elga coal deposit, branches Mezhdurechensk - Taishet and construction of bypass Krasnodar.

At BAM and Trans-Siberian Railway planned to send 260 billion from the budget. The remaining costs will fund a monopoly at the expense of equity and debt.

In the investment program does not include the costs of high-speed railway. Only highway Moscow - Kazan will cost 928 billion rubles. This was announced at the end of May, the head of Russian Railways Vladimir Yakunin. 650 billion rubles of this amount is expected to be allocated from the budget.

Railways introduced the investment program for 2012-2020 in June last year. How, then, said the vice-president of the monopoly Vadim Mikhailov, the company is willing to finance only 3.8 trillion rubles of this amount. The government opposed the allocation of budgetary resources, pointing out that the company has a 100-percent state participation itself is capable to attract borrowed funds.

November 12, 2012 the Russian government approved the overall Railways investment program for the period up to 2015 in the amount of more than 1 trillion rubles . Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said at the time that the investment budget of Railways in 2013 - more than 400 billion rubles, and for three years - more than $ 1 trillion. "This money will be spent on the development of the railway infrastructure, security services, the improvement of transport accessibility for citizens and rolling stock. Course, the money is not enough to solve the problems facing the industry. We expect that the program as a whole will be more ambitious take into account the needs of the economy in a dynamic and innovative development of railway transport, "- he stressed.

TEHRAN, Oct. 21 - RIA Novosti. Russia and Iran signed a memorandum on the electrification of the railway line in Iran, told reporters Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak.

"The most well developed (projects for cooperation between Russia and Iran - Ed.) Are now issues of cooperation in the electricity sector and the issues related to the development of rail transport. I know it has recently signed a memorandum on the electrification of a railway line. In my view, such examines three projects worth about $ 4.5 billion, "- said Novak, who is on an official visit to Iran.

Railways in October 2012 completed the first project in Iran, in which the line was electrified Tabriz-Azarshahr length of about 46 kilometers and five stations. Following the meeting of the Russian-Iranian commission on trade and economic cooperation in September 2014 it reported that the volume of contracts for the construction of Railways and railway electrification in Iran could be around 8.4 billion euros and 5.6 thousand kilometers touch w / e.

According to Novak, during his visit to Iran, the sides discussed cooperation between the two countries in various sectors of the economy. "For two years much has been done, before the lifting of the sanctions we have agreed on a list of joint projects worth up to $ 40 billion. Not only already signed memorandums, but new will be the basis to go to real projects for real business", - said, Nowak.

"Deep enough elaborated projects on modernization and construction of power plants and the participation of the Russian company" Tekhnopromexport "together with the Iranian company. Here, too, about 4 thousand MW capacity. The cost of the joint project can be here more than 5 billion dollars. We hope that in these days of the results of the intergovernmental commission will sign specific documents ", - said the Russian minister.

Russian Railways has delivered a GT1h-002 main gas turbine locomotive for operation on the Sverdlovsk railways route.

The GT1h-002 main gas turbine locomotive, which runs on liquefied natural gas (LNG), will begin regular operation on the Egorshino–Alapayevsk–Serov-Sortirovochny route. Trials will now be carried out on a non-electrified test route north of the Sverdlovsk mainline, where there are plans to start operating such vehicles.

GTh1-002 Main Gas Turbine Locomotive drove train weighing 9,000 tons

The locomotive has been designed to drive trains with increased weight and length. In May 2016, during a test run, the GTh1-002 drove a train weighing 9,000 tons on the 700km Surgut–Voinovka route without the need to refuel en route.

Sverdlovsk Railway’s has the necessary infrastructure to operate the GT1h-002 including, extensive non-electrified sections of different profiles suitable for gas turbine locomotives. Furthermore, a LNG complex was built near Yekaterinburg with a special station for fuelling rolling stock.

The introduction forms part of the Energy Strategy for JSC Russian Railways and is an alternative to expensive diesel fuel. The move will also help to reduce harmful emissions by rail freight transportation.

India and Russia set to open a vast new transport network
7,200 km of rail, road and sea routes between the BRICS powers will open next month

The first consignment of goods to be transported via the International North-South Transportation Corridor (INSTC) will depart from India’s financial capital Mumbai to St Petersburg, Russia next month. This will mark another milestone in India-Russia relations.

The corridor will reduce the time for transportation of cargo from India to Russia by half. It will help India and Russia to increase bilateral trade to the targeted $30 billion over the next 10 years.....

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Russian railways bypasses Ukraine, increasing Kiev’s isolation
Russia is also hard at work on building North Stream 2, cutting off Ukraine’s gas transit revenues

Starting on December 11 all Russian Railways (RZD) passenger trains will bypass Ukraine on their way to western destinations, Tass reported on December 7 citing the RZD head for passenger transportation Dmitri Pegov.

One of the main routes to be affected will be the Berlin-Moscow train, which has long been the main route used by western visitors on their way to Russia by train.

The RZD delivered on the promise to bypass Ukraine by the end of 2017, as a part of larger Kremlin strategy of a series of infrastructure projects that will cut Ukraine out of Russia’s connections to its main customers in Europe....

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MOSCOW: Speaking at the III Railway Congress at the beginning of this month, OJSC Russian Railways president Oleg Belozerov said the company is going to spend RUB7.7 trillion by 2025 on modernizing the country’s rail network.

Projects will include the construction of the Northern Latitudinal Railway, in Russia’s Arctic region, and a link to the island of Sakhalin as part of the ongoing rail upgrades in Russia’s Far East region.

“The most important thing is that in the coming years, the railway will come to those regions where it has never previously existed,” explained Belozerov (pictured).

He also noted that a key element in the development program should be the Eurasia high-speed freight and passenger main line: “Freight transportation is a very important priority for us. We estimate that loading volumes will increase by 300 million tons by 2025.”

Following a visit to a repair and equipment depot at the Moscow-Kievskaya railway station, Russian president Vladimir Putin reminded Congress delegates that Russian Railways is competing for the world’s flows of freight traffic, is the largest corporate employer in the country, and one of the main customers for its engineering sector.

“The dynamics of the development of the whole country, the quality of the national economy and its global competitiveness depend greatly on the work of Russia’s railways,” he said.

“It is important that Russian Railways systematically increases its efficiency and labor productivity. During the last 5 years, it has increased productivity by one third, this year it will rise by 9.0 percent, and according to the plan for 2018, it will rise by another 5.0 percent next year,” he added.

"I signed a document that you have long been waiting, long— term development program of JSC "Russian Railways". We discussed several times its content in meetings. It takes into account the main direction of your development in the coming years, including a number of fundamental “Russian Railways” solutions. Work",— said Dmitry Medvedev. In his turn, Mr. Belozerov said that long-term investment program of Russian Railways provides for investment in various projects about 9 trillion roubles it is Planned that 4 trillion rubles. will be attracted from private investors.

"Just yesterday we summarized the results for 2018. The results of the RAS (Russian accounting standards) are higher than planned: 18 billion (rubles— Kommersant) came we got. These funds will be used for the implementation of this program,"— said the head of Russian Railways.

According to the government-approved long-term development programme of Russian Railways, the company's net income, under the baseline scenario long-term development program of the company, to 138 billion rubles in 2025, according to a published programme. Revenue in 2025 is planned at the level of 2.66 trillion rubles, EBITDA — 790,8 billion.

RDIF, Russian Railways and Saudi Railway agree to expand Saudi Arabia's railway network

The amount of the Russian loan will be 172.5 mln euros, another 57.5 mln euros will be allocated by the Serbian side. The funds (230 mln euros) will be used for the construction of a railway to the border with Montenegro, the creation of a unified dispatch center, and electrical infrastructure in the sections of Belgrade - Budapest and Stara Pazova - Novi Sad.

The agreement on the upgrade of 209.8 kilometers of the railway from the city of Valevo to the border with Montenegro will be signed by the Minister of Construction, Transport and Infrastructure Zorana Mihajlovic and the Director General of Russian Railways Oleg Belozerov.

The agreement on the design and construction of the Unified Dispatch Center in the amount of 9.48 mln euros will be signed by Director General of the Serbian Railways Infrastructure Miroljub Ievtic and Director General of Russian Railways International Sergey Pavlov.

Since 2014, Russian Railways International has been carrying out large-scale work on the modernization and construction of railway infrastructure in Serbia. At the moment, the reconstruction of the Belgrade-Pancevo section, railway facilities as part of the development of the Pan-European Transport Corridor X, the Resnik - Valevo section of the Belgrade - Bar line has been completed. Russian has also delivered its diesel trains to Serbia.

JohninMK wrote:The rail bridge to Crimea is now tested and ready to go.

MOSCOW, Nov 7-RIA Novosti. The cost of a train ticket from St. Petersburg to the Crimea in the reserved seat will be from 3,5 thousand rubles, from Moscow in the compartment - from 2,966 thousand rubles, told RIA Novosti the representative of the Russian private company "Grand Service Express", which will deal with these shipments.

The company on Thursday announced that ticket sales for trains to Crimea, which will travel from mainland Russia to the Peninsula and back across the bridge, will start on November 8, 2019, and the first trains will depart from Moscow and St. Petersburg in the 20th of December. It was noted that the selection and payment of tickets will be possible at the railway ticket offices and on the company's Internet resources. "The cost of travel from Moscow to Simferopol in a compartment car starts from 2966 rubles, travel to ST. costs from 9952 rubles. The cost of tickets from St. Petersburg in the reserved seat - from 3500 rubles, in the compartment from 3906 rubles, " the company said.

They noted that dynamic pricing is used in determining the cost, the cost of tickets can vary depending on demand, seasonality and other factors.

The locomotive passed in test mode on the railway part of the Crimean bridge November 6, 13: 38

Expert: tourist flow to Crimea may grow by 10% thanks to trains

The first train to Crimea will go from St. Petersburg on December 23. It is called "Tavria" (No. 7/ and will depart from the Moscow station of St. Petersburg on December 23 at 14.00 Moscow time and will go to Sevastopol. He will have to overcome 2741 kilometers. Travel time will be 43.5 hours. A total of five single-Decker trains, consisting of compartment and reserved seat cars, will enter this route.

Four double-Decker trains with compartment and SV cars will run from Moscow to Simferopol and back (No. 27/28). The start of the movement is scheduled for December 24. The first "Tavria" from Moscow will depart from the Kazan station at 23.45 Moscow time. The journey of 200 kilometers will take 33 hours.

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Russian Railways withdraws from projects in Iran

The company has stopped work on electrification of the Garmsar - Inche Burun line and closes a branch in Tehran, it informed

MOSCOW, April 2. /TASS/. Russian Railways (RZD) has ceased implementation of infrastructure projects in Iran, press release of the holding said on Thursday. The Iranian side has been notified, the company noted.
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In this regard, RZD International, which is in charge of the holding's foreign projects, has stopped work on electrification of the Garmsar - Inche Burun line and closes a branch in Tehran.

"JSC RZD [Russian Railways] expresses confidence that withdrawal of RZD International from the Garmsar - Inche Bourun Project shall not affect the partnership between Russian Railways and Iranian Railways, which is carried out first of all in the field of international logistics including the International North - South Transport Corridor development," the company wrote in a statement.

Russian Railways continues to implement projects in India, Serbia and Cuba. The company is engaged in construction of railway infrastructure, electrification of lines, creation of dispatch centers.