The Indian nationwide rail network, the fourth longest in the world, is owned and operated by state-owned Indian Railways and includes an operating route length of more than 65,000km. RZD expects to have 2,500km of high-speed rail between Moscow and Kiev, Minsk and Kursk by 2015.
A dedicated high-speed corridor between the two cities has been planned with a proposed investment of $35bn. Petersburg and Moscow in 2009, but it has not proved successful due to sharing existing lines with low-speed train operations. RZD introduced the Sapsan high-speed rail service between St.
The Trans-Siberian Railway (the Moscow-Vladivostok line), spanning a length of 9,289km, is the longest and one of the busiest railway lines in the world. The Russian railway network incorporates12 main lines, many of which provide direct connections to the European and Asian national railway systems such as Finland, France, Germany, Poland, China, Mongolia and North Korea. In 2013, the network carried 1.08 billion passengers and 1.2 billion tonnes of freight – the third highest freight volume after the US and China. Russia’s whole network, operated by state-owned monopoly Russian Railways (RZD), runs for over 85,500km. The total length of China’s high-speed rail network is projected to reach 50,000km by 2020. The 2,298km Beijing – Guangzhou high speed line is the world’s longest high-speed railway line. The rapid expansion of China’s high-speed rail network in recent years makes it by far the largest in the world. The total rail network of the country is targeted to exceed 270,000km by 2050. The country’s rail network consists of over 90,000km of conventional rail routes and approximately 10,000km of high-speed lines. Rail is the principal mode of transport in China. The extensive network, operated by state-owned China Railway Corporation, carried 2.08 billion passengers (the second highest after Indian Railways) and 3.22 billion tonnes of freight (the second highest after the US railway network) in 2013. China’s rail network, with a route length of over 100,000km, ranks as the second biggest rail network in the world.
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