Night train route
Red Arrow
Moscow → Saint Petersburg · Russia
Red Arrow in pictures
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- Distance
- 650 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 8 h
- Average speed
- 81 km/h
- Top speed
- 160 km/h
- Operator
- RZD
- Train
- Krasnaya Strela № 1/2
- Countries
- Russia
- In service since
- 1931
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
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
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