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Russia’s three tiers of rail services
Historically the USSR was served by three tiers of rail services: metro, suburban, and long distance. Each operated with a distinct style of rolling stock, even 20 years since the dissolution of the Soviet Union, these three families of train are still visible today across Russia.
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Tagged Elektrichka, metros, Moscow, rail operations, Russia, Russian Railways, Sapsan
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Want a career on the Moscow Metro?
If you have ever wanted to work on the Moscow Metro, going out applying is easy – there are posters scattered all over the network.
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Tagged Moscow, Moscow Metro, rail operations, railways, Russia, underground
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Traffic lights and Russian trams
Where trams and road vehicles co-exist on public roads, special traffic lights are often provided to give them priority at intersections, and Russian cities are no different.
When bike paths meet a railway level crossing
Recently I asked myself the question – how does a bike path cross a railway? When a road does the same thing, a level crossing has to be built – but I had to look to the Netherlands to see what a level crossing for bikes looks like.
Building blocks of a Soviet metro station
In cities of the former Soviet Union such as Moscow, Saint Petersburg and Kiev, you will find an metro networks filled with ornately decorated underground stations, none of which look the same. But if you look a little deeper at the strcture of each, you will find that each of these stations actually have a common set of building blocks that they all follow.
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Tagged escalators, Kiev Metro, metros, Moscow Metro, rail operations, Russia, Saint Petersburg Metro, underground
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Electric trains, trams and trolleybuses on movable bridges
The Russian city of Saint Petersburg is a located across a collection of islands, divided by the Neva River, and reconnected by a series of lift bridges that allow boats to head upriver. So how do electric trains, trams and trolleybuses make their way across?
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Tagged Germany, Netherlands, rail operations, railway electrification, Russia, Saint Petersburg, Turkey
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Inspection crews on the Russian Railways
On my way across Russia by train I spent hours staring out the window at the passing scenery, and in that time I found plenty of railway staff looking just as intently at the tracks.
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Tagged out the train window, rail operations, railways, railways in the snow, Russia, Russian Railways, winter
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Track workers of the Russian Railways
As I travelled by train across Russia, one of the things that stood out was how often I’d find workers lineside, busy repairing the tracks.
Moscow Metro train depots
Every railway needs somewhere to store and repair their trains – and the Moscow Metro is no different. On my visit I travelled past one of these facilities – the электродепо (electric train depot) at Фили (Fili) on the Filyovskaya Line.
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Tagged metros, Moscow Metro, pantographs, rail operations, railway electrification, railways, Russia
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Underground trains and forced air ventilation, Russian style
On metro systems all across Russia trains don’t have air conditioning, yet no matter how crowded they get, a gale of air somehow gets blown into the saloon as soon as the train departs the station. So how do they do it without electric fans?