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It is a vital part of the Trans-Siberian Railway and one of the busiest railway networks in Russia. The Yekaterinburg classification yard is one of the largest in Europe. The core of the network dates from the late 19th century. The Perm–Yekaterinburg line was opened in 1879, followed by the Yekaterinburg–Tyumen line six years later.
The site now receives more than one million visitors a month. Nearly all of the information compiled in the site is based on his own travels and experiences, and it includes in-depth guides on booking rail tickets within Europe, as well as information on booking rail travel to and within other areas of the world, including exhaustive coverage of the Indian Railways and Russian Railways.
The Siemens Velaro RUS train, also known as Sapsan, has operated on this line since 2009, running below their maximum speed of 300 km/h (186 mph) because of difficulties upgrading all the track. Russian Railways spent nearly $1 billion on eight trains. In 2019, a third order of €1.1 billion for 13 more trains of the same model was signed. [10]
Russian Railways Official Site (in English and Russian) Steam on Sakhalin Island ; Russian Railway in 1935 "A site about railways in C.I.S. and Baltics". Archived from the original on 4 December 2012. Rail Fan Europe "Rail map of former Soviet Union". Archived from the original on 4 January 2013.
The old RZD logo. After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the Russian Federation inherited 17 of the 32 regions of the former Soviet Railways (SZD). [8]In the mid-1990s, the profitability of railway transportation of the Russian Ministry of Railways fell to negative values, the bureaucratization of the ministry itself was publicly criticized, which became an occasion for reforms.
It was ranked nr. 9 in a list of Europe's best train stations by the Consumer Choice Centre in 2020. [ 1 ] Kazansky station primarily serves two major railway lines radiating from Moscow: the eastbound one, to Kazan , Yekaterinburg , and points beyond (one of the routes of the Trans-Siberian Railway ), and the south-east-bound one, to Ryazan .
Trains will run in service consistently at 250 km/h, while the line is reported to be designed to handle speeds of 400 km/h. [14] [1]The line is estimated to cut travel time between Moscow and St Petersburg to 2 hours 15 minutes, running at 15-20 minute headways, later increasing in frequency to 10–15 minutes by 2030.
The railway is often associated with the main transcontinental Russian line that connects many large and small cities of the European and Asian parts of Russia. At a Moscow–Vladivostok track length of 9,289 kilometers (5,772 miles), [ 6 ] it spans a record eight time zones . [ 7 ]