Sverdlovsk Region Railways were not among the Russian Railways Public Company’s growing branches in January-September 2008, as its passenger turnover volume hadn’t gone up during these months compared with January-September 2007, the spokesperson for Russian Railways Public Company reports.

In the meantime, Russian Railways’ official website features a list of the company’s branches that did quite well in terms of raising their passenger turnover volume, but Sverdlovsk Region Railways did not make it to the list.

‘Our list does not comprise any of our subsidiaries whose passenger turnover volumes went down or remained the same throughout the year. Sverdlovsk Region Railways did not do any better in 2008 compared with a year earlier and retained last year’s figure of 9.25 million passengers,’ the spokesperson explains.