Night train route
Trans-Siberian Railway
Moscow → Vladivostok · Russia
Trans-Siberian Railway in pictures
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- Distance
- 9,289 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 7 days
- Average speed
- 55 km/h
- Top speed
- 120 km/h
- Train
- Rossiya № 1/2
- Countries
- Russia
- In service since
- 1916
- Runs
- 1× daily each way (Rossiya № 1/2)
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
The longest railway on Earth: 9,289 km, eight time zones and seven nights between Moscow and the Pacific.
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.
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
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 long is the Trans-Siberian Railway?
The Trans-Siberian Railway runs 9,289 km from Moscow to Vladivostok.
How long does the Trans-Siberian Railway take?
The fastest scheduled journey is ≈ 7 days for the 9,289 km. That is an average of 55 km/h end to end. The line's top service speed is 120 km/h.
Who runs the Trans-Siberian Railway?
RZD, with Rossiya № 1/2.
How old is the Trans-Siberian Railway?
The line has been in service since 1916. 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.
How often does the Trans-Siberian Railway run?
1× daily each way (Rossiya № 1/2).
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