The company discussed the prospects at today's conference, report Russian Rail PR. Hasyan Zyabirov, company First Deputy President, was in the chair. The conferees had comprehensive debates of all the four blueprints to prefer Nos. 1 and 4. The company will focus efforts on their streamlining. The job will muster all involved bodies. Option 1 envisages a St. Petersburg-Vyborg track adding to the now available two for speed trains, and Option 4 a Sosnovo-Zhitkovo branch line laid.
Gennadi Fadeyev, Russian Rail President, will soon get all the four blueprints for consideration, next to offer them to the company R&D Council.
A journey from Helsinki to St. Petersburg will take three to three hours and a half by speed trains, against present-day five and a half, and to Moscow eight and a half, against thirteen and a half, say designers.
