Next Stop...
Varykino
Posted on 01/04/2015 5:23:50 PM PST by blam
Stefano Pozzebon
December 31, 2014
Russia plans to build a new high speed railway, with trains that would speed from Moscow to Beijing in just 48 hours.
At the moment, it takes about seven days to commute between the two cities and the route requires changes.
According to Romanian website Glasul, the Kremlin has awarded the project to China Railway High-speed (CRH), a subsidiary of the state-controlled China Railway (CR), which is working in a joint-venture with the local firm Uralvagonzavod.
CR is famous in the train industry for operating the world's only magnetic levitation train in an urban area, the Shangai monorail.
Previously, Russia had commissioned a French firm, Alstom, for the first work on the rail line between Moscow and Kazan.
Alstom is one of the leading high speed train manufacturers in the world: in 2007 they set up a new record for conventional-wheeled high speed trains, speeding up at 574 km/h (357 mph). It also operates the urban tram line in Nottingham.
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Russian reliability, high speeds...what could go wrong?
Russia Is Building A New High Speed Train That Will Travel From Moscow To Beijing In Just 48 Hours Taking Russians in n Out but NO CHINESE CAN GET OUT OF CHINA with a ONE-WAY TICKET ON THAT TRAIN TO MOSCOW>
there fixed it
you ever flown aeroflot?
Impressive I guess, but is there actually a market for it?
No. Can you imagine riding Russian high speed rail for 5K miles?
sino-russian rail for 5000 miles. and hell no.
i think people will be begging for the thing to go off the tracks.
Throw in corruption and alcoholism, and you’ve got a deal.
I assume China would have to build some of it.
Especially Chinese food using the other white meat...cat.
I wonder what the Russia-hating liberals will say now...Russia is EMBRACING high-speed rail.
This should get their heads spinning.
Keep in mind that in Russia the advertised speed will be 300kph. The actual speed will probably be around 50kph.
Because airplanes can’t fly between those cities. Trains are the only option. 48 hours... no thanks.
Moscow-Peking--The All-Union Radio Choir (1950)
Oh yeah. This is going to work. Drunken Russian train engineers operating a high speed train all the way to China. “Hey Yuri, don’t crash train! Vat are kiddink me? “Is good job!’’
Can a rail link from Moscow to Cuba be far behind?
And lots of vodka.
Wow, what a fantastic trip that would be to take. At least, the daylight part.
Surely plenty of people would much rather spend two days on a train instead of eight hours on a jet - it’s particularly desirable for business travelers: who wouldn’t want to have one day of meetings and four days of transit?
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