Night train route
Vorkuta
Moscow → Vorkuta · Russia
Vorkuta in pictures
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- Distance
- 2,278 km
- Fastest time
- ~41 h
- Average speed
- 56 km/h
- Top speed
- 120 km/h
- Operator
- RZD
- Train
- Firmenny № 41/42
- Countries
- Russia
- In service since
- 1974
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Two nights up the Stalin-era Pechora mainline to Vorkuta, a coal city beyond the Arctic Circle that no all-year road reaches — train № 41 is its lifeline to Moscow.
How this line was checked
- The 2244 km this route shares with OpenStreetMap relation 18539169 is drawn from that relation's own nodes, thinned to within 47 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 10 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
Read more on Wikipedia (in RU) ↗
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