Trans-Siberian Railway

Life aboard settles into a rhythm no timetable conveys: samovar tea at the end of the corridor, provodnitsa attendants ruling each carriage, platform vendors selling smoked omul where Baikal glitters outside. Begun in 1891 to stitch the tsar’s empire together, the line remains Russia’s working spine, with freight and local trains weaving around the Rossiya as it crosses birch taiga, steppe and the ranges of the Far East. Most travellers break the week at Yekaterinburg, Irkutsk or Ulan-Ude; the train itself just keeps rolling.

Stations

1. 0 kmMoscow Yaroslavskaya +4
2. 209 kmVladimir
3. 273 kmKovrov
4. 456 kmNizhniy Novhorod Moskovskiy
5. 525 kmSemyonov
6. 910 kmKirov
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   1. 1,013 kmZuevka
   2. 1,114 kmGlazov
   3. 1,143 kmBalezino
   4. 1,382 kmПермь II
   5. 1,754 kmYekaterinburg
   6. 2,075 kmTyumen
   7. 2,645 kmOmsk-Passazhirsky
   8. 2,814 kmTatarskaya
   9. 2,878 kmKarachinskoye Lake
   10. 2,968 kmBarabinsk
   11. 3,269 kmNovosibirsk-Glavny
   12. 3,423 kmYurga 1
   13. 3,468 kmYashkino
   14. 3,495 kmTaiga
   15. 3,526 kmAnzherskaya
   16. 3,554 kmYaya
   17. 3,642 kmMariinsk
   18. 3,701 kmTyazhin
   19. 3,773 kmBogotol
   20. 3,840 kmAchinsk I
   21. 4,020 kmKrasnoyarsk
   22. 4,149 kmUyar
   23. 4,183 kmЗаозёрная
   24. 4,262 kmKansk Yenisey
   25. 4,294 kmИланская
   26. 4,322 kmИнгашская
   27. 4,368 kmРешоты
   28. 4,404 kmYurty
   29. 4,431 kmTayshet
   30. 4,590 kmNizhneudinsk
   31. 4,705 kmTulun
   32. 4,783 kmKuytun
   33. 4,842 kmZima
   34. 4,896 kmZalari
   35. 4,961 kmCheremkhovo
   36. 5,023 kmUsolye-Sibirskoye
   37. 5,051 kmAngarsk
   38. 5,083 kmИркутск-Сортировочный
   39. 5,090 kmIrkutsk Passenger
   40. 5,212 kmSlyudyanka I
   41. 5,252 kmBaikalsk
   42. 5,375 kmМысовая
   43. 5,537 kmUlan Ude
   44. 5,545 kmЗаудинский
   45. 5,631 kmNovoilinsky
   46. 5,679 kmPetrovsky Zavod
   47. 5,776 kmBada
   48. 5,825 kmKhilok
   49. 5,862 kmHushenga
   50. 5,884 kmKharagun
   51. 5,944 kmMogzon
   52. 6,086 kmChita II
   53. 6,180 kmКарымская
   54. 6,290 kmСолнцевая
   55. 6,327 kmShilka
   56. 6,372 kmПриисковая
   57. 6,408 kmКуэнга
   58. 6,467 kmЧернышевск-Забайкальский
   59. 6,512 kmZhireken
   60. 6,548 kmЗилово
   61. 6,674 kmКсеньевская
   62. 6,778 kmMogocha
   63. 6,874 kmAmazar
   64. 6,978 kmYerofey Pavlovich
   65. 7,072 kmUrusha
   66. 7,166 kmSkovorodino
   67. 7,257 kmTaldan
   68. 7,349 kmMagdagachi
   69. 7,413 kmTygda
   70. 7,577 kmШимановская
   71. 7,618 kmЛедяная
   72. 7,659 kmSvobodny
   73. 7,698 kmСерышево
   74. 7,718 kmBelogorsk
   75. 7,767 kmПоздеевка
   76. 7,796 kmYekaterinoslavka
   77. 7,837 kmZavitaya
   78. 7,881 kmBureya
   79. 7,932 kmArkhara
   80. 8,042 kmObluchye
   81. 8,085 kmИзвестковая
   82. 8,199 kmBirobidzhan
   83. 8,370 kmKhabarovsk 1
   84. 8,498 kmВяземская
   85. 8,601 kmBikin
   86. 8,648 kmLuchegorsk
   87. 8,719 kmДальнереченск I
   88. 8,776 kmRuzhino
   89. 8,821 kmShmakovka
   90. 8,894 kmSpassk-Dal'nij
   91. 8,935 kmМучная
8. 8,954 kmSibircevo
9. 8,986 kmОзерная Падь
10. 9,021 kmUssurijsk
11. 9,099 kmUgolnaya
12. 9,130 kmVladivostok +1

The stations OpenStreetMap lists for a train that runs this route end to end, in order, with the distance along the line as drawn here. A train may skip some of them. A +N after a station: N other routes on this map stop or end there, and the map draws it as a station where lines meet.

Along the way

• Europe–Asia obelisk in the Urals
• Ob bridge at Novosibirsk
• Yenisei crossing at Krasnoyarsk
• Lake Baikal’s southern shore
• Amur bridge at Khabarovsk
• Vladivostok’s Golden Horn Bay

How this line was checked

• Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 4224465: the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within 117 m of them
• Checked against OpenStreetMap: 99.9% of this line lies within 250 m of real track (median 29 m); the longest stretch away from it is 6.5 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
• See for yourself: open this line on the map with OpenStreetMap's own railway drawn underneath it

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