Night train route
Red Arrow
Moscow → Saint Petersburg · Russia
Departing at 23:55 nightly since 1931 to the strains of ‘Hymn to the Great City’: the crimson Soviet flagship that outlived the state that built it.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 8370380 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 3 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
- See for yourself: open this line on the map with OpenStreetMap's own railway drawn underneath it
Questions and answers
How long is the Red Arrow?
The Red Arrow runs 650 km from Moscow to Saint Petersburg.
How long does the Red Arrow take?
The fastest scheduled journey is ≈ 8 h for the 650 km. That is an average of 81 km/h end to end. The line's top service speed is 160 km/h.
Who runs the Red Arrow?
RZD, with Krasnaya Strela № 1/2.
How old is the Red Arrow?
The line has been in service since 1931. 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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