Tag Archives: Russian Railways

Chapels on the tracks of Russia

Posted on June 1, 2023 by Marcus Wong

Russia is a massive country, which combined with a religious population has resulted in an odd sight – Вагон-храм – railway carriages converted into mobile chapels. Photo via Журнал «Всемирная иллюстрация» Chapel of St. Olga (1896) Construction of the first […] Continue reading →

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Vladimir Putin’s private railway stations

Posted on May 4, 2023 by Marcus Wong

For heads of state around the world private aircraft are a common model transport. But for Russian president Vladimir Putin, he also has a private armoured train, and a network of private railway stations. Photo by Mikhail Korotkov The train […]

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Modelling the railways of Russia in N scale

Posted on March 3, 2022 by Marcus Wong

One of my hobbies is model railways, with 1:160 N scale being my chosen scale. Unfortunately the number of people who model the railways of Russia is difficult, let alone any N scale model of Russian trains, but there are […]

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Catching the train to Domodedovo Airport

Posted on October 7, 2021 by Marcus Wong

I ended my epic rail trip across Europe in Moscow, so what better way to get to my flight home than to catch the ‘Aeroexpress’ train to Domodedovo Airport. I started my journey by catching the Moscow Metro to Paveletsky […]

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Mobile traction substations for powering trains and trams

Posted on August 5, 2021 by Marcus Wong

The power for an electric railway has to come from somewhere – and that place is a traction substation, a facility that convert hogh voltage electricity from the power grid to the voltage and frequency that trains or trams use. […]

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Delivering a crane by train

Posted on June 20, 2019 by Marcus Wong

I’ve seen many interesting pieces of Russian heavy machinery, but this is a new one – a crawler crane that can be moved by rail. The crane arrives at the Tyosovo Railway Museum in Novgorod Oblast on the back of […]

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How do trains change to daylight savings time?

Posted on April 11, 2019 by Marcus Wong

Timekeeping is something that railways take seriously – but what happens to trains when the clocks changes from ‘normal’ time to daylight savings, and an hour is either lost or gained? Germany Deutsche Bahn cancel trains due to run in […]

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Russian level crossings bite back!

Posted on February 28, 2019 by Marcus Wong

As I travelled across Russia by train there was an interesting feature at every level crossing we passed through – massive steel plates that lifted out of the roadway, preventing cars from driving around the boom gates. Some level crossings […]

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Barbed wire and guard towers protecting the bridges and tunnels of the Russian Railways

Posted on October 25, 2018 by Marcus Wong

On my journey across Russia by train I passed through many tunnels and over many bridges, and noticed something strange at each one.

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Transporting spent nuclear fuel on the Russian Railways

Posted on September 13, 2018 by Marcus Wong

With a large fleet of nuclear power stations used for electricity generation across Russia, there is also an increasing quantity of отработанного ядерного топлива (spent nuclear fuel) needing to be safely transported to reprocessing or storage facilities, where the useful […]

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