page_title: Moscow-Kazan high-speed railway
section_title: Details
hierarchical_section_title: Moscow-Kazan high-speed railway / Details
caption_attribution_description: Русский: Пленарное заседание «Железная дорога. В интересах государства и клиента».
context_page_description: The Moscow-Kazan High-Speed Railway is a planned 772-kilometre long high-speed railway line connecting the two major cities of Moscow and Kazan in the Russian Federation, going through the intermediate cities of Vladimir, Nizhny Novgorod and Cheboksary. The project has an expected completion date of 2023, and is slated to be the first segment of an ambitious transnational high-speed railway set to connect Beijing and Moscow over a distance in excess of 7,000 kilometres, which is currently under consideration by the governments of Russia and China. Planning work was finished in September 2017. Construction started in spring 2018.
context_section_description: Route: Moscow - Vladimir - Nizhny Novgorod - Kazan (- Vladivostok/Beijing/India)
  Route length: 762 km
  Track gauge: 1,520 mm (4 ft 11 ²⁷⁄₃₂ in) Russian gauge
  Number of tracks: 2 Russian gauge tracks
  Electrification: 25 kV 50 Hz AC overhead lines (with 3 kV DC overhead lines inside of the Greater Ring of the Moscow Railway)
  Loading gauge: Russian T loading gauge
  Platform heights: 200 mm (7.9 in) and 550 mm (21.7 in)
  Future travel time Moscow - Kazan: 3 hours 17 minutes.
  Avg speed: 235 km/h
caption: Proposed corridor for linking Asian and European rails.
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