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In Russia, are they breaking up the intercity passenger railways or will it remain a large company ?

It could become pretty hard to operate the Transsiberian freight and passengers if there are too many companies involved...

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by linca (antonin POINT lucas AROBASE gmail.com) on Sun Dec 4th, 2011 at 01:35:48 PM EST
No, all long-distance passenger trains are under the subsidiary called Federal Passenger Company. In the freight sector, there are two big subsidiaries (Freight One and Freight Two) which AFAIK are supposed to compete across the whole country, plus some specialised ones (like TransContainer, 35% of which was privatised via stock market listing in London and Moscow). I don't know how the latter relate to the former.

This is a different route to privatisation than either sell-off of complete sub-networks (Japan), franchising (Sweden, Britain) or open access (EU), but I won't hold my breath for a good cooperation between the different subsidiaries even if RZD has a stake in them all.

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by DoDo on Sun Dec 4th, 2011 at 04:35:53 PM EST
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