Russian Railways Could Buy 20 Alstom High-Speed Trains -Agency
February 10 2010 - 6:24AM
Dow Jones News
OAO Russian Railways is looking at the possibility of buying 20
high-speed trains from France's Alstom (ALO.FR), Interfax reported,
citing a senior vice president at the Russian railroad company,
Valentin Gapanovich.
Russian Railways is looking at Alstom's AGV model, capable of
reaching speeds of up to 360-kilometers-an-hour, for the Moscow-St.
Petersburg route, the newswire reported.
The railroad operator is studying the possibility of building a
parallel railroad to the existing line between Russia's biggest
cities as part of a project costing hundreds of billions of rubles,
Gapanovich said at a conference in Tallinn, the report said.
Company Web site: www.alstom.com
-By William Mauldin, Dow Jones Newswires; +7 495 232 9194,
william.mauldin@dowjones.com