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Every 14 days, the direct car of the formation of the Korean State Railway, attached to train No. 100, runs from Moscow to Pyongyang.The main passenger traffic consists of citizens of the DPRK, traveling to work in Russia or returning; in exceptional cases, some of the places are sold to organized groups of tourists traveling to Rason with a transfer to a bus in Tumangang.
The IATA codes for railway stations normally begin with Q, X or Z, except when the station shares the code with an airport. For some smaller cities the railway station in the city has the same code as the airport outside the city (several kilometers distance). A connection involving transfer between them can appear when searching travel ...
A 2018 schedule only shows this pair of trains going as far as Sinuiju, at the border. [3] Trains 5 and 6 also appear in a photo at Sinuiju station. [4] 7, 8 Pyongyang - Moscow Pyongra Line, Hambuk Line, Hongui Line: A 2018 schedule only shows this pair of trains going as far as Tumangang, at the border. [3] 9, 10 Pyongyang - Musan
There is transborder passenger service from Pyongyang to Moscow, with a Korean rail car taken across the border (with bogies changed to the Russian gauge), and eventually attached to a Vladivostok-Moscow train. [2] [3]
Beside domestic routes, international trains link Pyongyang with the Chinese capital Beijing four times weekly (24 hours) [2] and the Chinese city of Dandong, located on the adjacent bank of the Yalu River. [3] Trains do connect Pyongyang with Moscow, however due to chronic delays these are off-limits to foreigners. [4]
The direct car travels from Moscow to Ussuriysk with a Moscow–Vladivostok train, to Khasan with an Ussuriysk–Khasan train, across the border with the Khasan–Tumangang shuttle train, and then to Pyongyang with a domestic Korean train. At 10,272 km (6,383 mi) total, this is the longest direct (one-seat ride) passenger rail service in the world.
Station numbering is a sign system which assigns station codes consisting of a few letters and numbers to train stations. It aims to facilitate navigation for foreign travelers not familiar with the local language [ 1 ] by using globally understood characters ( Latin letters and Arabic numbers ).
Moscow Belorussky railway station; Moscow Kazansky railway station; Moscow Kiyevsky railway station; Moscow Kursky railway station; Moscow Leningradsky railway station; Moscow Paveletsky railway station; Moscow Rizhsky railway station; Moscow Savyolovsky railway station; Moscow Yaroslavsky railway station; Moskva-3 railway station; Moskva-City ...