Railway Operators in Russia RZD - Rossiyskye Zheleznye Dorogi

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RZD - Rossiyskye Zheleznye Dorogi

Network length, gauge and electrification (2009):

• 85280km broad gauge(1520mm), 43170km electrified at 3000V= (around 19000km) and 25kV 50Hz (24000km)
• 805km narrow gauge (1067mm), not electrified (Sakhalin)
  
• 30km narrow gauge(750mm), not electrified

In 2010 RZD transported 1.2 billion tonnes of freight, producing 2011 billion tonne-km. Passenger transport in 2009 amounted 1.14 billion passengers and 154 billion passenger-km. On the 1067mm gauge network on the island Sakhalin 2.4 million tonnes of freight and 879,600 passengers were transported.

Freight transport is now divided between RZD Freight One (PGK, general freight) and RZD Freight Two (also general freight), RZD Transcontainer (intermodal freight) and RZD Logistika (door-to-door). Long-distance passenger trains are operated by FPK (Federalnaya Passazhirskaya Kompania), another subsidiary of RZD. There are open-access operators, but these mainly use RZD traction to haul their trains. Aeroexpress - passenger trains to the airports of Moscow - is an exception, operated by Transgroup.

Basic data is based on the book "Soviet Locomotive Types - the Union Legacy" by A.J. Heywood and I.D.C. Button. The numbers built shown are normally the number built for the entire USSR.

Website: http://www.rzd.ru/

• RZD electric locomotives
• RZD diesel locomotives and shunters
• RDZ trainsets and motor cars
• RDZ historic steam locomotives
• RDZ withdrawn classes

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Last update: 29-04-2011