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Moscow is the western terminus of the Trans-Siberian Railway, which traverses nearly 9,300 kilometres (5,800 mi) of Russian territory to Vladivostok on the Pacific coast. Aeroexpress connects airports with central rail terminals. Suburbs and satellite cities are connected by commuter elektrichka (electric rail) network. Elektrichkas depart from ...
The Moscow Metro [a] is a metro system serving the Russian capital of Moscow as well as the neighbouring cities of Krasnogorsk, Reutov, Lyubertsy and Kotelniki in Moscow Oblast. Opened in 1935 with one 11-kilometre (6.8 mi) line and 13 stations, it was the first underground railway system in the Soviet Union .
The stations the line serves are located in Moscow, as well as in the towns of Krasnogorsk, Istra, Volokolamsk, and the urban-type settlement of Shakhovskaya in Moscow Oblast. Some of the suburban trains have their southeastern terminus at Streshnevo and Moscow Rizhsky railway station in Moscow, others commute from the Kursky suburban railway line.
Commuter rail or suburban rail is a passenger rail transport service that primarily operates within ... In Moscow the Beskudnikovskaya railway branch existed between ...
Of the Moscow Metro's 236 stations, 80 are deep underground, 114 are shallow, and 42 (25 of them on the Central Circle) are at or above ground level. Of the latter there are 12 ground-level stations, four elevated stations, and one station (Vorobyovy Gory) on a bridge.
Central Suburban Passenger Company (CSPC; Russian: Центральная пригородная пассажирская компания) is a Russian commuter railway company. [3] CSPC covers over half of all suburban transportation in Russia, carrying over 500 million passengers in 2011. Businessman Iskander Makhmudov and Andrey Bokarev own ...
Moscow Central Diameters (MCD) (Russian: Московские центральные диаметры (МЦД), romanized: Moskovskiye tsentralnye diametry (MTsD)) is a system of off-street passenger rail transport lines in the Moscow agglomeration, created at the turn of the Moscow railway.
Commuter rail Heavy rail: System: Moscow Railway: Operator(s) Central Suburban Passenger Company Russian Railways: Depot(s) Moskva-2 Moskva-3: History; Opened: 18 August 1862 () Technical; Line length: 129 km (80 mi) Track gauge: 1,520 mm (4 ft 11 + 27 ⁄ 32 in) Russian gauge: Electrification: 3 kV DC overhead line