Russian Railways (RZD) announced that in 2017 will invest RUB 1.9 billion (USD 32.8 million) to reconstruct the Trubnaya – Upper Baskunchak – Aksaraiskaya rail section, as part of North – South International Transport Corridor. This year, it is planned to commission 14 km of the second track on the Leninsk – Zaplavnoe stretch and open Aksaraiskaya Station-2 following the reconstruction of the locomotive technical maintenance and service facility. The construction of the bridge across the river Akhtuba will continue, as will work on lengthening the tracks at Volzhsky station.
Since the beginning of the project, Russian Railways has invested over RUB 6.6 billion (USD 114 million) and commissioned 67 km of railway track, including 56 km of the second track on the station-to-station blocks and 11 km of station tracks.
The project is being implemented in two stages. The first phase involves the construction of the second track on the Trubnaya – Akhtuba section, which has a total length of 126.3 km, along with the extension of the receiving-departure tracks at the adjacent stations and the construction of a bridge across the river Akhtuba.
The second phase will see the electrification of the Trubnaya – Aksaraiskaya line that provides transport and economic links between the Urals, Siberia and Russia’s North-West and Central regions with the country’s southern regions, the Caspian Sea ports, Kazakhstan and the republics of the Caucasus.
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