Russian Railways

РЖДRZD Russian Railways (Rus)
JSC Russian Railways(Eng)
Moskow Railways Timetables
Moskow Railways English Timetable
Russian Railways www.railway.ru
Russian High-Speed Railways Sokol
CIS railway timetable (English)
Jump to Guide of CIS railway timetable (English)
Russian, C.I.S. and Baltic Railway Timetables
Collection of Railway Timetables
Russian Railroad, Subway, and Tram Maps
Sakhalin Railroads

RZD Russian Railways (Rus) РЖД The gate to English "ENG" is mear center of the top line. Пассажирскиепе ревозки is for passengers information, again you can find English gate"ENG"at the top line. Расписание means timetable.
JSC Russian Railways: Passenger information showstimetables. Pull down menues work to change in cyrillic. Adjustment of the date is mandatory. Clicking on "Search" and the timetable in Russian will appear after a while.
Поезд = train
Маршрут поезда = route of the train.
Отправление = Departure
Прибытие = arrival
В пути = Travelling time
Наличие мест= Available seats.
Да in this column means seat available, Нет is no seat available.

Moskow Railways Timetables is written by cyrillic. Beneath the picture of steam locomotive at the right side, you can find the word English to click into Moskow Railways English Timetable . There are suggestion to see recent timetable in eng.www.express-2.ru though, this page is still demonstraration stage now.
Practically, you can you city names by copying from below and paste them to fill the spaces.
МОСКВА = MOSKVA
ВЛАДИВОСТОК = VLADIVOSTOK
ХАБАРОВСК = KHABAROVSK
ИРКУТСК = IRKUTSK
ЧИТА = CHITA
САНКТ-ПЕТЕРБУРГ = SANKT-PETERBURG
КАЛИНИНГРАД = KALININGRAD
КИЕВ = KIEV
МИНСК = MINSK
ХЕЛЬСИНКИ = HELSINKI
ВИЛЬНЮС = VILNIUS
РИГА = RIGA
ТАЛЛИНН = TALLIN
ВАРШАВА = VARSHAVA (WARSZAWA)
БЕРЛИН = BERLIN
ПЕКИН = PEKIN (BEIJING) 北京
Показывать расписание: You have to select all trains (всех поездов) or Train is scheduled to run on the indicated date (поездов на дату). After input of date from the pull down menu, then click on Запрос (Submit).
In Moskow Railways English Timetables page, input ofName or 7-digit Code of departure and destination Stations, I could not find any code list. Although, input of alphabetical name is also accepted. In these cases, take care to the spelling to input the name of city (Name of the city is enough, exact station name is not requested.)Moskva, Sankt-Peterburg，Vladivostok, Kiev & Varshavaare correct to get timetables whileMoscow & Warszawa are not accepted.For Beijing, the capital of the people's republic of China,Pekinis good as in Japanese. (Name Pekin appears in anthropology, that is, Sinanthropuspekinensis as a scientific name for one of homo erectus.) Input date and then click onOK. After the timetable is insight, clicking of the train number leads to detailed timetable of the respective train, even for a long distance train from Moskva toVladivostok, that needs at least 6days and 4hours 59 minutes.

Russian Railways www.railway.ru is written in Russian Cyrillic.
Russian High-Speed Railways Sokol is for new express trains between St. Peterburg and Moskva.


CIS railway timetable (English)
is very useful. The UK flag at the left shoulder is he gate way to english.
CIS railway timetable (English) http://www.poezda.net

There are two way to seek the timetable.
"Station/city search" or "Get trains for route".
Station/city search
You can find the city or station name from pull down menu and click on "Search".. Ａfter that, you will be requested to select station name though, city name is suffcient if you do not know exact station name.
Trains will be shown matched for your request. Clicking on train number at the head of respective trains show detailed schedule of the train.
Get trains for route
If you fulfil the spaces in Route that follow "from:" and "to:", Matched trains will be shown.
Take care to spelling of city name,for example Moskva, Sankt-Peterburg, Kiev, Minsk or Vladivostok.
Clicking train number at the head of the train is to see details.For example train from Moskva to Vladivostok, total schedule of 9 days will be shown.

Russian, C.I.S. and Baltic Railway Timetables
The former name was Collection of Railway Timetables .and it is true, many linkage programs are written in Russian that is difficult to understand for ordinary travellars from outside.

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Saturday, February 09, 2008