Russia and Austria will be linked by a broad gauge rail line after a planned extension is laid to Vienna from a broad gauge line connecting Slovakia to Ukraine. The future line would connect the rail network of Central Europe to Russia’s Trans-Siberian Railway. The project has been estimated at EUR 6.3 billion.
„A detailed feasibility study for the project is due to be ready by 2016,” say papers for a meeting between the Russian and Slovak prime ministers, Dmitry Medvedev and Robert Fico.
The project would be put into practice by the national railroad companies of Russia, Slovakia, Austria and Ukraine and overseen by Breitspur, a company specially set up for the purpose, the papers say.
The 450-kilometer line would run from Kosice, Slovakia, to Vienna and pass through Bratislava. It would be an extension of the current broad gauge line linking Uzhhorod in Ukraine to Haniska, a large district in Kosice region.
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