New Railway Stations to Link Airports with Central Moscow

04.04.2008 (13:27) | Moscow News

Two new railway stations are to be built in Moscow within the next twelve years, Fyodor Pekhterev, head of the Giprotrans Institute, announced last week.

Pekhterev said at a press conference that the planned new stations will link all of the city's airports into the Moscow railway system, giving people an easy way to get from the city center to airports and visa versa. The Giprotrans Institute is involved with the development of the Moscow railway system.

There will be a new addition to the huge transport complex which already exists at Ploshchad Tryokh Vokzalov - currently home to Lenin­gradsky, Yaroslavsky and Kazansky Stations. This "fourth station" will allow trains to all of Moscow's airports to depart from the square, as well as providing a high-speed link between the capital and St. Peters­burg, Pekhterev said.

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Aeroexpress will oversee the building of the new transport complex on Ploshchad Tryokh Vokzalov. The company's General Director Vladimir Petrov told Vedomosti that the complex will occupy 200,000 to 300,000 square meters, and will include a hotel, business center, parking lot and shopping area.

Another of the planned railway stations will be built near Ilicha Ploshchad. It is expected to take some routes currently operating out of Kursky and Kazansky stations, thus reducing the amount of passengers travelling from the older buildings. High-speed trains to the south will also depart from the new station, reducing the Moscow-Adler travel time from 25 to 15 hours, first vice-president of the Russian Railways Company Vadim Morozov said.

The cost of these two projects is thought to be around 60 billion rubles, according to Pekhterev.

There are plans to build yet another station as part of the "Moscow City" Complex currently under development near Mezhdu­narodnaya metro, though these will not be realized until after 2020. This final transport complex will provide high-speed routes to Nizhny Nov­gorod and St. Petersburg. It will also take passengers to the capital's major airports, Pekhterev said.

Morozov acknowledged that Russian Railways lacks sufficient funds for all three projects. The developments will therefore be supported by equal share investments from the Russian government.

Moscow currently has nine operating railway stations, several of which will undergo reconstruction in 2008-9.