Great Moscow Railway Ring
The Great Moscow Railway Ring ( Russian Большое кольцо Московской железной дороги ) is a 558-kilometer electrified railway line in Russia . It bypasses the capital Moscow within a radius of about 60 to 100 km and, unlike the Small Moscow Railway Ring, which is located entirely in the Moscow city area , runs out of town on the territory of the Moscow Oblast , and to a small extent also in the west of the Vladimir Oblast .
The Great Railway Ring was built gradually between 1943 and 1960. In contrast to the Small Ring, it is not a closed ring section, but rather several successive sections that together form an approximately ring-shaped link. Like the Kleine Ring, it is fully electrified and can be used for passenger transport. However, freight traffic represents by far the largest part of train traffic on the ring, while passenger trains (which are the so-called Elektritschki common in Russian local rail transport ) only serve sections of the route and run at very irregular intervals. On some sections of the Great Ring, only four or five pairs of trains run per day. Since freight traffic has the right of way on the route, considerable delays are not uncommon. A special feature of the Great Moscow Railway Ring compared to other passenger routes in the Moscow Railway network is the fact that all platforms are underground platforms. In the case of smaller, less frequented stops, these platforms are often only a few meters long, so that boarding and alighting is only possible at one or two front wagons of the train.
The Great Ring has the following points of connection with the most important radial railway lines that begin and end in Moscow :
- The station Kubinka -1 is the point of attachment between Moscow and Smolensk (- Minsk ); Both trains that serve this radial line and the trains of the Ringbahn stop here.
- Manichino-1 train station near the city of Istra is at the intersection with the Moscow – Riga line .
- The intersection of the latter with the Great Ring, including a connecting line, is located near the Powarowka stop on the Saint Petersburg – Moscow line. To get from the Ringbahn to the radial route, you have to get off at the kilometer 142 stop and walk about five minutes to the Powarowka stop .
- Near Ikscha opens the ring in the railway between Moscow Sawjolowo and branches from their first six stations north from, namely Dmitrov .
- On the northeastern edge of the city Sergiev Posad after the breakpoint at kilometer 81 , the ring section coming from Dmitrov joins the Trans-Siberian Railway and branches off from it at Alexandrow .
- Another section leads from Alexandrow to Orechowo-Sujewo , where the Great Railway Ring is crossed by the Moscow – Vladimir – Nizhny Novgorod line .
- The Kurovskaya station is the connection point with the line (Moscow–) Lyubertsy - Murom .
- The Voskressensk station is the junction with the Moscow – Ryazan – Kazan line .
- The station Michnewo (near Stupino ) is the point of attachment between Moscow Kaschira - Pawelez .
- The Stolbovaya station near Chekhov is the intersection with the Moscow - Tula - Kursk line .
- The Bekassowo-1 node station , located near the city of Naro-Fominsk , is the intersection with the Moscow – Bryansk – Kiev route . The ring section beginning north of it leads back to Kubinka-1.
Individual evidence
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