Night train route
Baikal–Amur Mainline
Tayshet → Komsomolsk-on-Amur · Russia
Brezhnev’s ‘Project of the Century’, the Trans-Siberian’s wilder northern twin: 3,800 km of permafrost, seven ranges and towns that exist only for the line.
- Distance
- 3,800 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 4 days
- Average speed
- 40 km/h
- Top speed
- 100 km/h
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 4455724: the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within 349 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: 81.1% of this line lies within 250 m of real track (median 95 m); the longest stretch away from it is 13 km
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: Russian Railways, a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
- See for yourself: open this line on the map with OpenStreetMap's own railway drawn underneath it
Questions and answers
How long is the Baikal–Amur Mainline?
The Baikal–Amur Mainline runs 3,800 km from Tayshet to Komsomolsk-on-Amur.
How long does the Baikal–Amur Mainline take?
The fastest scheduled journey is ≈ 4 days for the 3,800 km. That is an average of 40 km/h end to end. The line's top service speed is 100 km/h.
Who runs the Baikal–Amur Mainline?
RZD.
How old is the Baikal–Amur Mainline?
The line has been in service since 1984. That is the year the atlas dates it from: for a modern brand running over an older railway, it is the railway's date, not the brand's.
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