Corridor for rapid railway reserved in Belarus

A corridor for building a high-speed railway has been reserved in Belarus, BelTA learned from Belarusian Transport and Communications Minister Anatoly Sivak.

The corridor crosses the lands that will not be used for development purposes. “A high-speed railroad that will connect Moscow and Berlin via Minsk may be built in the future. The proposal to connect Minsk, Moscow, and Astana has been recently voiced, but it will be possible only if Chinese specialists intend to build a transcontinental railroad in the direction of Europe and this section will be part of it,” said the Minister.

As an example Anatoly Sivak mentioned high-speed railways in China where rapid trains travel along flyovers. “I cannot say we will build a railway from Brest to Minsk for trains that travel 300kmph. It won’t happen because there are not enough people who can fill the train at least once a day. For the project to recoup investments we would need 10-20 such trains,” pointed out the Transport and Communications Minister. In China, he went on saying, such trains connect metropolitan cities and do not stop in cities where fewer than 2 million people live.