Russian railways (RZD) have museums in many cities. One Moscow Paveletskaya station (former Museum of the funeral convoy of Lenin) contains nothing extraordinary, but a map displayed in one of the rooms deserves attention : those major projects of rail infrastructures for decades to come. Collage, There are lines to high-speed Saint-Petersburg – Moscow, Moscow – Ekaterinburg on the horizon 2020, then in the next decade Ekaterinburg – Krasnoyarsk, 5000 km with a ladle ! Track classic, There are sections connecting projects in the far North (Some were built by prisoners of the Gulag) the rest of the network, a great online Tynda – Yakutsk (who should enter into service this year) then Yakutsk – Magadan, as well as the connection of the island of Shakalinsk, North of the Japan ! It is in these situations that we measure the vastness of the Russian territory…
If these projects are carried out, they no doubt book of great adventures, for companies that carry out them and for rail travel enthusiasts who will be able to inaugurate new routes. But if the capital of Yakutia is on track to welcome the first trains this year, the Sapsan (declension of German ICE) roll always maximum at 200 km/h between Moscow and St. Petersburg, and draft LGV Moscow – Yekaterinburg via Kazan leaves more than one skeptical observer. Follow…
Map (West and East) :
Legend (in Russian) :
