RUSSIAN RAILWAYS TO DEVELOP NIGHT LINE TRAIN ROUTES WITH SNCF IN FRANCE – YAKUNIN
YEREVAN, February 3. /ARKA/. The Russian Railways company (RZhD)
and the French SNCF will be working on a joint project of night line
trains, president of the Russian Railways Vladimir Yakunin said in
his interview to Les Echos.
The distances are too long in Russia, and these trains are still
widely used there, unlike Europe where night trains have started to
disappear, Yakunin said.
The project is expected to start by the end of this year, he said,
according to RIA Novosti.
Earlier, RZhD and SNCF signed an agreement on international rail
ticket sales to promote national and international routes operated
by their daughter companies. Since September 2010, train trips from
Moscow to Nice and Paris have been operated between Russia and France.
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From: Baghdasarian