Russian Railways: News

Russia to Build 1st High-Speed Train in 2027 - Company, 07.08.2024.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Russia's first high-speed train will be produced in 2027, connecting Moscow and St. Petersburg, Anton Zubikhin, deputy director general at Sinara Group, told Sputnik on Monday.

"The first electric train will be produced in 2027. It will go for certification, so that we receive a conformity certificate in 2028," he said.

Sinara Group's rail transport branch will make 43 electric trains to service a new high-speed rail between Moscow and St. Petersburg, which is currently under construction, Zubikhin said.

State rail company, Russian Railways, signed an agreement with Sinara for the production of two high-speed trains in April. The trains are expected to be delivered by late March 2028, according to the contract.

https://sputnikglobe.com/20240708/russia-to-build-1st-high-speed-train-in-2027---company-1119290215.html

lancelot wrote:This seems way too quick. Did they license Chinese rail technology or something?

Building the straight track is one thing, but you also need modern automated signaling systems, and the locomotives and cars themselves.

Still it seems like a nice addition to Russia's transport system. It will also take away some of the pressure on the airplane industry to deliver Russian planes in time.

All these elements are currently being developed in Russia. You don't think Rossi doesn't have that kind of technology, do you?
The photo shows the Soviet high-speed train ER-200, with a cruising speed of 200 km/h, developed in the seventies.
Do you really think that Russia is incapable of repeating something that existed back in the seventies?

Putin announced plans for seamless rail service from the Baltic to the Indian Ocean, 08.04.2024.

The President congratulated railway workers on their professional holiday.

Russia needs to rapidly expand its railway infrastructure, including the development of seamless rail links from the Baltic and the Barents Sea to the Persian Gulf and the Indian Ocean. This was stated by the country's President Vladimir Putin in a video address on Railway Worker's Day.

“Our agenda includes the construction of high-speed highways in connection with the Central Transport Hub, the creation of international logistics corridors, the development of the Azov-Black Sea transport route, and the organization of the so-called seamless railway connection from the Baltic and the Barents Sea to the coast of the Persian Gulf and the Indian Ocean,” he said.

The development of the industry must be carried out "at a new technological level" based on the needs of the future, creating a reserve "for decades to come," the president noted. Now the railway workers are faced with the task of further modernizing the BAM and the Trans-Siberian Railway. These highways, Putin pointed out, must operate in conjunction with the Northern Sea Route (NSR), "with such promising projects as the Northern Latitudinal Passage, with access to Arctic ports."

Such tasks will be implemented thanks to the knowledge, experience, and focus on results of the industry's workers, the President is confident. He also thanked all railway workers for their work and dedication.

The list of major projects that the authorities are planning to implement in the next decade, including with the involvement of private investors, includes, for example, such initiatives as the North-South, Dzhubga-Sochi, Northern Sea Route , South-West Chord, and Eastern Polygon transport corridors, for a total of over 5.6 trillion rubles, Vedomosti wrote earlier. It is also planned to launch two of the five parts of the high-speed rail network - the entire Moscow-St. Petersburg HSR and sections of the future Moscow-Yekaterinburg HSR-2. The total investment in the HSR network is estimated at 10.8 trillion rubles.

Putin launched the construction of the Moscow-St. Petersburg high-speed railway on March 14. The new line will be 680 km long. Trains will travel at speeds of 200 to 400 km per hour, which will reduce travel time between Moscow and St. Petersburg to 2 hours 15 minutes.

On June 6, the government approved a decree on the construction of the country's first high-speed railway between Moscow and St. Petersburg.

https://www.vedomosti.ru/business/news/2024/08/04/1053735-planah-besshovnogo-zhd-soobscheniya

This is a fascinating thread with a lot of info that is analysed. The Poster know his stuff. This is the conclusion.

https://x.com/Prune602/status/1820237131148673325

Prune60
@Prune602
Thread:

Russian Railways Loading is in decline

It’s worse than during 2020 and it’s likely worse than you might think.

Let me explain…




Could be locos failing after bad maintenance since it was privatised in 2013 or maybe https://www.railway.supply/en/there-is-a-shortage-of-bearings-for-wagons-of-russian-railways/

Also note that this came out today. Prune60's comment is that it is something else. The Sushko poster is Ukrainian!

Igor Sushko
@igorsushko
Russian Railways deputy head Sergei Kobzev told his subordinates the situation is critical: complete collapse of the entire railroad network in Russia could happen in days.
Railroad chiefs ordered to work to the limit and threatened with dismissal and execution for failure.

Why are you posting such stupid garbage?

Sushko an Ukr name. Frothing at the mouth cope, projection and delusional masturbation from Ukr clowns.

Especially since Russia only recently finished and expanding BAM. They also received plenty of new diesel electric railway cars.

sepheronx wrote:Especially since Russia only recently finished and expanding BAM. They also received plenty of new diesel electric railway cars.

Nyet blyat, nyet! Comrade, the rail network is days away from collapsing, soon no more supplies for terrorist invaders! You know what this means? F-16's will bomb Moscow! Orcs will flee sacred lands of Bandera! Zelensky the Magnificent will give press conferences from Crimea! Putin will be overthrown and executed for crimes against our heroic Nazis! 

PEREMOGA!!! Slava Ukraini! Glory to хрюшки!

Railroad chiefs ordered to work to the limit and threatened with dismissal and execution for failure.

Very disappointed they were so vague and did not clearly state that Putin would execute those Chiefs that failed personally with a very blunt ax that will take a dozen swings to take their heads right off.

This is the level the west has sunk to, and they can't admit the truth because that would mean they were wrong and they would rather be accepting bullshit like this than face the reality that they got everything wrong and the things Russia were saying was right and the things Ukraine was claiming was bullshit.

Now it is pretty obvious who is right and who is wrong but they continue to support Kiev... even though it is literally destroying the country and eliminating a generation of men from the population.

Now some men might think this is fantastic... Ukrainian brides will be cheap and plentiful... I might get three or four... but these are women that stood by and did nothing as their men went to the front line and died in a pointless conflict against a country you have rather more in common with than you ever had with the UK and US and EU... who have been trying to murder you all for the last half millenium.

Will be interesting to see what their attitude will be when they wake up from the American dream and realise it was never going to happen anyway... wake up Mr Freeman and smell the ashes... sorry... more like wake up Ms Freeman because Mr Freeman died on the eastern front fighting the Russians...

I did say that Susko is Ukrainian. So ignore that part of the post but he has now uploaded an audio.

Are the analytical posts of Prune60 being disputed? They seem to be based on official RR data. 

These are Prune's latest comments, as he says he doesn't know what the Susko clain is based on.

https://x.com/Prune602/status/1820539506774433809

I don't see any analysis at the link. All I see is quoted BS from Sushko.

Why would there be a catastrophic collapse? If it was so bad, it would have happened at any time over the last 20 years and in fact, the Russian
railway system would just have kept decaying after the 1990s. Like Ukria's. New rolling stock has been in ample evidence but we are supposed to
buy that it is all falling apart. GTFO.

After the comment about the execution of people not meeting milestones and goals I didn't bother to read anything else.

I mean if you quote one bit of bullshit then why would I think there is anything useful in there at all.

Since our dear "Russian patriots", that mostly live in rhe West, can't be bothered to go through a simple twitter thread, I'll post here two most important charts:

Russian Railways loading:



Monthly loading:



There's more data in the thread, but these are two most interesting data points.

And for the Russia weak morons here (caveat) can't understand is: even during earlier parts of the war, goods was still traveling back and forth from Europe and China via Russia.

So now Russia cannot so rail freight reduction was clearly gonna happen eventually. What's funny, out of the actual numbers, the drop isn't really bad at all. As economic development happens and new routes are created especially Southern direction towards Iran and surrounding, freight will pick up.

caveat emptor wrote:

no idea why you're posting your daily dick measurements here...

"Everyone" knows that Russia is totally dependent on U-rope for its economic existence.

sepheronx wrote:And for the Russia weak morons here (caveat) can't understand is: even during earlier parts of the war, goods was still traveling back and forth from Europe and China via Russia.

So now Russia cannot so rail freight reduction was clearly gonna happen eventually.  What's funny, out of the actual numbers, the drop isn't really bad at all.  As economic development happens and new routes are created especially Southern direction towards Iran and surrounding, freight will pick up.

Pajeet, my son try to relax a bit. Charts were taken out from the twitter  thread that John posted and for which he was thoroughly attacked by the familiar faces here.
You better continue to master doing number 2 in designated places in your lovely Bharat.

Not even a pajeet, so our resident caveat the brain dead cant even get my ethnicity right.

On a more positive note it seems Russia is going to tackle the issue of high speed train links from Moscow to St Petersberg by itself. Germany is no longer a viable option and I think the Chinese were expecting a cut of the pie, but as Russia will likely want to expand this high speed rail link throughout its territory eventually it clearly has decided that if it can't buy the technology from China it will develop it for itself because it is going to be used quite a bit and therefore is worth the investment to get optimised solutions that suit Russia and Russian conditions.

It would also be a useful export item for allies wanting to improve their rail networks too.

This should be a no-brainer for Russia. The biggest country on the planet not having its own rail tech is retarded. Utter banana republic style policy. Russia has the
scientific and engineering depth and has worked on high speed rail projects before. It does not need reverse engineer the Siemens trains. It needs focus.

My random idea to compliment rail freight/travel across Russia's vast expanses:-

Huge airships.
Ok but "strong winds will **** them up" u say.

Simple, cover the skin with very small ultralightweight wind power generators.
It wouldn't be something stupid like "windmills". They could be a variation on the bladeless generators.
Extra power could be from traditional methods or via solar panels on the skin.

Extreme winds? Make them semi-collapsable.

Airships would also be good to transport military equipment between regions.
Or high up as early warning radar stations.