Night train route
Baikal–Amur Mainline
Tayshet → Komsomolsk-on-Amur · Russia
Baikal–Amur Mainline in pictures
Photographs by their authors, hosted on Wikimedia Commons · tap through for the licence
- Distance
- 3,800 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 4 days
- Average speed
- 40 km/h
- Top speed
- 100 km/h
- Operator
- RZD
- Train
- RZD sleeper trains
- Countries
- Russia
- In service since
- 1984
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
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.
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
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