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Moscow Railway

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Dates of operation
  
1959–present

Headquarters
  
Moscow

Length
  
3,275 km (2,030 mi)

Website
  
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Locale
  
Central Russia, Russian Federation

Track gauge
  
1,520 mm (4 ft 11 ⁄32 in) Russian gauge

Moscow Railway (Russian: Московская железная дорога) is a subsidiary of Russian Railways that handles half of Russia's suburban railway operations and a quarter of the country's passenger traffic. As of 2009 the railway, which has its headquarters near Komsomolskaya Square in Moscow, employed 73 600 people. It manages railway services in much of Central Russia, including Moscow and Moscow Oblast (all railways except the railroad to Saint Petersburg, which is managed by October Railway), Smolensk, Vladimir, Ryazan, Tula, Kaluga, Bryansk, Oryol, Lipetsk, and Kursk Oblasts.

Contents

Railway lines

  • Ryazansky suburban direction of Moscow Railway
  • Kazansky suburban direction of Moscow Railway
  • Vladimirsky suburban direction of Moscow Railway
  • Kursky suburban direction of Moscow Railway
  • Paveletsky suburban direction of Moscow Railway
  • Kiyevsky suburban direction of Moscow Railway
  • Belorussky suburban direction of Moscow Railway
  • Rizhsky suburban direction of Moscow Railway
  • Savyolovsky suburban direction of Moscow Railway
  • Yaroslavsky suburban direction of Moscow Railway
  • Little Ring of the Moscow Railway
  • Moscow Big Ring Railway
  • Construction timeline

  • 1861 Moscow-Petushki
  • 1862 Moscow-Nizhny Novgorod
  • 1862 Moscow-Sergiyev Posad
  • 1865 Moscow-Kolomna-Ryazan
  • 1868 Serpukhov-Tula-Oryol-Kursk
  • 1870 Sergiyev Posad-Alexandrov
  • 1870 Moscow-Mozhaysk-Smolensk
  • 1899 Moscow-Sukhinichi-Bryansk
  • 1900 Moscow-Savyolovo
  • 1908 Moscow Little Ring Railway
  • 1943-1960 Moscow Big Ring Railway
  • Railway stations

  • Belorussky Rail Terminal
  • Kazansky Rail Terminal
  • Kiyevsky Rail Terminal
  • Kursky Rail Terminal
  • Leningradsky Rail Terminal
  • Paveletsky Rail Terminal
  • Rizhsky Rail Terminal
  • Savyolovsky Rail Terminal
  • Yaroslavsky Rail Terminal
  • References

    Moscow Railway Wikipedia