Scenic route
Circum-Baikal Express
Irkutsk → Port Baikal · Russia
Circum-Baikal Express in pictures
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- Distance
- 215 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 9 h
- Average speed
- 24 km/h
- Top speed
- 40 km/h
- Operator
- RZD Travel
- Train
- Retro excursion train
- Countries
- Russia
- In service since
- 1905
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
The Tsar’s ‘golden buckle’: 38 tunnels blasted into cliffs a step above Baikal’s water, once the Trans-Siberian’s costliest link, now a slow shoreline excursion.
How this line was checked
- The 90 km this route shares with OpenStreetMap relation 2326588 is drawn from that relation's own nodes, thinned to within 40 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 14 m from it
- 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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