High-speed route
Sapsan
Moscow → St. Petersburg · Russia
Sapsan in pictures
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- Distance
- 650 km
- Fastest time
- 3 h 30 min
- Average speed
- 186 km/h
- Top speed
- 250 km/h
- Operator
- RZD
- Train
- Siemens Velaro RUS
- Countries
- Russia
- In service since
- 2009
- Riders per year
- ≈ 5M
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
The “Peregrine Falcon” races the dead-straight 1851 Nikolaev alignment between Russia’s two capitals.
How this line was checked
- The 643 km this route shares with OpenStreetMap relation 8364096 is drawn from that relation's own nodes, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: 98.2% of this line lies within 250 m of real track (median 4 m); the longest stretch away from it is 7.5 km
- 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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