Sakhalin Night Train

Russia’s island sleeper: 613 km up Sakhalin’s east coast to oil-town Nogliki, on a railway begun under Japanese rule that kept its narrow gauge until regauging in 2019.

Stations

1. 0 kmЮжно-Сахалинск
2. 43 kmДолинск
3. 107 kmВзморье
4. 212 kmМакаров
5. 244 kmНовое
6. 257 kmВахрушев
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   1. 286 kmПоронайск
   2. 305 kmОлень
   3. 315 kmЗабайкалец
   4. 326 kmМатросово
   5. 335 kmБуюклы
   6. 358 kmСмирных-Сахалинский
   7. 368 kmПобедино
   8. 383 kmЮжная Хандаса
   9. 408 kmОнор
   10. 462 kmПалево
   11. 487 kmТымовск
   12. 509 kmСлава
8. 520 kmАдо-Тымово
9. 543 kmАльба
10. 546 kmАрги-Паги
11. 564 kmНыш
12. 608 kmНоглики

The stations OpenStreetMap lists for this service, in order, with the distance along the line as drawn here. A train may skip some of them.

How this line was checked

• Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 4632648 — 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 6 m from it
• 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 Sakhalin Night Train?

The Sakhalin Night Train runs 613 km from Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk to Nogliki.

How long does the Sakhalin Night Train take?

The fastest scheduled journey is ~12 h 50 min for the 613 km. That is an average of 48 km/h end to end. The line's top service speed is 80 km/h.

Who runs the Sakhalin Night Train?

PK Sakhalin (RZD), with TG16M diesel sleeper.

How old is the Sakhalin Night Train?

The line has been in service since 1979. 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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