Night train route
Arktika
Moscow → Murmansk · Russia
Arktika in pictures
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- Distance
- 1,940 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 35 h
- Average speed
- 55 km/h
- Top speed
- 120 km/h
- Operator
- RZD
- Train
- Arktika № 16/15
- Countries
- Russia
- In service since
- 1916
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Russia’s polar flagship crosses the Arctic Circle on the 1916 Murman railway: 35 hours north to a port where winter trains arrive in round-the-clock night.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 1186671 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within 86 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 21 m from it
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: Russian Railways — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
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