Sibirjak
| Sibirjak | |
|---|---|
|
|
|
| route | |
| Departure station: | Berlin |
| Intermediate stops: | s. Overview |
| Destination station: | Novosibirsk (and others ) |
| Cycle: | Weekly |
| Technical specifications | |
| Gauge (s) : | 1520 mm 1435 mm |
| Train run | |
|
|
|
Sibirjak (Russian: Сибиряк ) was the name of a long-distance train that connected Berlin with some major Russian cities. The name means " Siberian" . The train passed Germany, Poland, Belarus, Russia and Kazakhstan, partly on the Trans-Siberian Railway . With a length of 5,130 km, the Sibirjak was the longest train connection that began at a train station within the EU. It was not actively advertised to potential customers by Deutsche Bahn . The train service was stopped on December 14, 2013 due to a lack of demand.
overview
The train run began at Berlin Zoologischer Garten station and ran over the Berlin Stadtbahn . He crossed Poland and Belarus , stopping in Warsaw and Minsk, among others . In addition to Deutsche Bahn, the Polish State Railways (PKP), the Belarusian Railways , the Russian State Railways and the Kazakh State Railways were involved in the traction .
In Minsk, the wagons of the train were split up as through cars , including three to destinations in Siberia . Other through cars ran to Kazakhstan and the Black Sea . There were a total of eight through coach destinations: Novosibirsk , Saint Petersburg , Moscow , Kazan , Chelyabinsk , Ufa , Astana (in Kazakhstan) and Adler , a suburb of Sochi. The last train arrived in Berlin every Saturday at 9:12 am and left again at 3:16 pm. Until the beginning of the 2000s, trains did not use the Stadtbahn, but the Berlin-Lichtenberg station .
stretch
|
Route description
All trains ran a common route from Berlin Zoologischer Garten to Minsk , via Posen , Warsaw ( Warszawa Centralna and Wschodnia stations ), Brest ( Zentralny ) and Baranavichy . Other stops were in Rzepin , Łuków and Terespol . On the route from Minsk to Orsha , the train was divided into three parts, which drove on the sections to Schodsina and Baryssau .
- Berlin – St. Petersburg: This was a regular train ride from Orsha to Vitebsk via Pskov Oblast . The trip ended in St. Petersburg at Vitebsk train station .
- Berlin – Moscow: This train ran daily as part of EuroNight's Amsterdam- Moscow route . On Saturdays, as part of the Sibirjak, it drove a route via Smolensk and Vyazma and ended at the Belarusian train station in Moscow.
- Berlin – Novosibirsk: This was the longest route from Sibirjak. On the route from Vyazma to Vladimir, he circumnavigated Moscow and reached the cities of Nizhny Novgorod , Kirov , Perm and Yekaterinburg . After that, the train entered the Central Siberian region via Tyumen and Omsk and ended its journey at Novosibirsk-Glawny station . At times the train drove the route from Vladimir to Yekaterinburg via Kazan, which excluded the cities of Nizhny Novgorod, Kirov and Perm.
- Berlin – Chelyabinsk: In Yekaterinburg, individual passenger cars made the connection with the city of Chelyabinsk . The only stop on this section was Kamensk-Uralsky .
- Berlin – Kazan: In Nizhny Novgorod, several passenger cars connected Kazan to the main line. At times the Berlin-Novosibirsk route ran via Tatar , so Novgorod was excluded from the main route. When this line was planned ( Vladimir- Kazan-Yekaterinburg) the wagons, which were otherwise parked for the Kazan-Nizhny Novgorod route, were used for this line.
- Berlin – Ufa: After Minsk and Smolensk, the train reached Ryazan and Michurinsk . Here the passenger cars that drove to Adler were separated from the rest of the train. The train then went on via Tambov , Rtishchevo and Saratov . At this station, after disconnecting the passenger car to Astana and a long break of 7 hours, the train continued to Samara , Buguruslan and ended in Ufa .
- Berlin – Astana: After a long stop in Saratov, the train reached Kazakhstan at Oral . After the stop he drove back into Russia and reached Orenburg , Orsk and Kartaly , on the Russian-Kazakh border. It ended in Astana , 99 hours after leaving Berlin. This trip was only offered at times.
- Berlin – Adler: After the stop in Michurinsk, the train traveled to southern Russia, following the course of the Don . It passed Liski , Voronezh , Rostov , Novocherkassk and Krasnodar , and then reached the coast of the Black Sea in Tuapse . The train continued to Sochi and the neighboring cities of Adler, close to the border with Abkhazia , a breakaway republic of Georgia .
There were plans to extend the train service to Baku .
Individual evidence
- ^ Letter from Europe: From Berlin to Siberia , hiddenEurope, 2013
- ↑ a b c Consulted timetable on the ÖBB website