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Strategy to 2030 – Rolling Stock 23,397 Locos, 996,000 wagons, 29,558 coaches and 24,450 EMU cars Siemens Alstom / TMH Sapsan 2ES5 Lastochka 250 km/hr Moscow to St Petersburg 1,500 cars 190 built in Germany remainder in Russia 8,400 kW freight loco, 200 ordered EP20 200 km/hr dual voltage 7,200 kW passenger loco, 200 ordered
Development of High Speed Rail plans 2008 Strategy Current • £200 million design contract let to Chinese consortium in June 2015 – no European bids • 2021 completion date announced in 2016
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Page 8 and 9: George Washington Whistler (1800 -
Page 10 and 11: Bogie change shed at Brest on Polis
Page 12 and 13: 1854 - The Crimean War • 26,000 B
Page 14 and 15: Building the Trans-Siberian Trans S
Page 16 and 17: 1903 - before completion of Circum-
Page 18 and 19: World War 1 "Railways have become a
Page 20 and 21: Civil War 1918-1923 • Bolsheviks
Page 22 and 23: The Great Patriotic War • 40% rou
Page 24 and 25: Built by Gulag prisoners (BAM)
Page 26 and 27: Soviet diesel locomotives TE3 - 2,9
Page 28 and 29: Completing the BAM • 4324 km long
Page 30 and 31: Billion tonne / km Break up of Sovi
Page 32 and 33: 2008 - Rail Transport Strategy to 2
Page 36 and 37: Moscow to Beijing in 33 hours by 20
Page 38 and 39: A lesson from the USSR “In the 19

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