“Currently, the project is included in an investment program of the Russian Railways and involves construction of a new high-speed line from the Moscow region to Tula and then to Belgorod. These trains will run along a completely new routes, еру speed of trains will be more than 200 km/h”, - said Mr. Potapenko.
However, he didn’t specified the volumes of financing.
Every year, up to 5 million passengers are carried at the Tula section of the Moscow railway. The total length of railway routes in the region is 1.55 thousand km.