High-speed train schedule. What time do trains depart in Russia? Is it possible to pay for a ticket by card? Is it safe

Which, however, has already been discussed in various communities.

The Russian Railways holding will change the procedure for displaying arrival and departure times on travel documents for long-distance and suburban trains. From August 1, 2018, only local time will be indicated on train tickets, which corresponds to the time zone of departure of the passenger, Russian Railways reported.

Currently, the forms record the Moscow time of arrival and departure, as well as local time.
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“For the convenience of passengers, the arrival and departure times will be indicated on travel documents, specifying how many hours they differ from Moscow. Information about local arrival and departure times will also be displayed on information boards on trains, on platform signs and station electronic clocks,” the statement said.

That is, in essence, from August 1, 2018, the centuries-old tradition of Moscow time on Russian Railways becomes a thing of the past. No, of course, all dispatching, service schedules and schedules will remain on the same Moscow time, but all this will no longer be visible to the ordinary passenger. It will be like in aviation, where dispatch is carried out according to UTC, but few passengers know about it.

Why did Russian Railways abandon this tradition? There are, in my opinion, three main reasons.

Reason #1. Formal.

There is a decree of the Government of the Russian Federation dated 01/08/1992 N 23 (as amended on 08/31/2011) “On the procedure for calculating time on the territory of the Russian Federation”, paragraph 5 of which reads:

"...the movement of railway, water and intercity road transport open for public use, as well as the operation of intercity telephone and telegraph communications on the territory of the Russian Federation is carried out according to Moscow time. Air transport movements are carried out according to universal coordinated time. Informing the population about the operation of transport and communications is carried out according to the time established in the given area."

That is, there is a government decree that must be followed. This is the law. The only strange thing is that, as it turned out, Russian Railways ignored him for more than 25 years... However, in Russia there are a lot of strange things with the laws...

Reason #2. Fight for the client.

Many will say: “Where is the struggle here, the passenger needs speed and comfort, but it doesn’t matter what time is on the schedule.” For regular passengers, yes, they are accustomed to this feature of Russian Railways and almost never get confused. But those who rarely use the railway may not know about Moscow time on the schedule. Having made a mistake once, he, of course, will receive a negative reaction, and the likelihood that he will use the railway next time becomes lower.
But these small bricks make up the overall prestige of the railway.

It’s not for nothing that most suburban companies, for which passenger transportation is not a small side activity, but their main income, switched to local time in their schedules back in the early 2000s. Moreover, they even show a dependence: the better things are with suburban transportation in the region, the sooner they switched the schedule to local time. And vice versa, in regions where local authorities and Russian Railways have long since neglected the suburbs, Moscow time is still preserved in the schedule of the remaining trains. These are, for example, the Trans-Baikal Territory and the Chelyabinsk Region. Is that the Sverdlovsk region is some exception here: the suburbs are gradually developing, in particular, accelerated flights to neighboring cities have appeared (Nizhny Tagil, Kamensk-Uralsky, etc.), but their schedule is still based on Moscow time.

Seyatel station (Novosibirsk), schedule. Long-distance trains - according to Moscow time, suburban ones - according to local time (MSK+4).

Display board at the suburban station of Chelyabinsk. Moscow time and 0 (zero) electric trains in the next few hours...

I would also note that Russian Railways is now trying to follow the path of Europe and develop multimodal transportation based on the connection of different modes of transport (train + electric train, train + bus, train + plane, etc.). When buses, commuter trains, and aviation schedules are written at one time, and long-distance trains at another, it is not very convenient for passengers to perceive this; errors are possible due to incorrect determination of the time zone at the connecting point, or during recalculation.

Reason #3 (push). Changing time zones in the Volga region and the World Cup.

In 2016, several regions of the Volga region changed their time zone, moving from Moscow time (on which they lived for 25 - 30 years) an hour forward. They certainly received a more comfortable lighting regime, but many residents were unprepared for the difference with Moscow. Since they have been accustomed to living in the same time zone with the capital for a long time, some people have atrophied the “firmware” in their heads with the perception and processing of 2 or more time zones. Converting from local time to Moscow time and back turned out to be too difficult a task for such people, and they began to write indignant letters to Russian Railways. The latter met them halfway and in the middle of last year introduced double time on railway tickets (I’m talking about this), and now, apparently, they are completing the reform.

There is also a version that the reform was carried out because of the World Cup, so that foreign guests would not get confused. But the timing doesn’t add up here. The date announced by Russian Railways for transferring schedules to local time is August 1, 2018, and the championship will last from June 15 to July 15, 2018. However, it is possible that in the cities hosting the 2018 World Cup, the schedule reform will be carried out a couple of months earlier. Let's see...

But won’t the abandonment of the unified Moscow time in schedules create more problems and inconveniences?

Such statements in connection with this reform are already being heard and sometimes quite actively. I'll look at the most common ones:

1. Local time in schedules in a country with more than 10 time zones can lead to desynchronization of railway operations and, as a result, failures, emergencies and crashes.

This is all either a misunderstanding of the principles of operation of the railway, or deliberate speculation. The entire internal “kitchen” of the railway has always worked and will continue to work according to a single time, so there will be no desynchronization. What is displayed for passengers does not affect internal dispatching in any way, neither in commuter transportation, nor in aviation (where information in local time has been carried out for quite a long time) so far not a single crash has been recorded for this reason.

2. A train is not a plane, it has intermediate stops in different time zones, passengers will get confused along the way without a single time.

Here it is worth examining the situation in more detail. First of all, you should answer the question, How many passengers cross time zones at least once during their trip??
At first, I honestly tried to find statistics on passenger flows by destination in order to calculate the number of passengers across time zone boundaries, but in vain. Therefore, only the most general figures. According to the Russian Railways countdown for 2016 (see here), 101.4 million passengers used long-distance trains (of which 9.2 were in high-speed traffic). The passenger turnover of long-distance trains amounted to 93.5 billion passenger-kilometers (of which 4.6 were in high-speed traffic). High-speed traffic in Russia is available only in one time zone, so we are obviously not interested in, if we discard it and divide passenger turnover by passenger flow, it turns out that the average trip length is 964 kilometers.
Now look at the map or reference book: the average distance between the boundaries of time zones when moving along the Trans-Siberian Railway is 1200 - 1800 km. The only exceptions are the Samara (MSK+1) and Omsk (MSK+3) time zones, which are about 170 and 330 km, respectively, but these are very small regions in terms of population. That is, it turns out that the average passenger does not even reach the time zone border. Why does a passenger need Moscow time on a trip if he is traveling from Khabarovsk to Vladivostok, from Taishet to Irkutsk, from Novosibirsk to Krasnoyarsk or from Perm to Tyumen? It is definitely more convenient for such a passenger to see local time in the schedule.

photo by Andrey Yablonsky

Even if a passenger crosses one time zone during a trip, it is unlikely that it is more convenient for him to use Moscow time for this; it is easier to change the clock once - and that’s it. And only for those who travel through 2 zones or more, it may be more convenient to navigate the trip using the unified Moscow time than to remember where the boundaries of time zones are and change the clock according to them each time. But are there many such passengers? According to my observations, even on long-distance Trans-Siberian trains like No. 99/100 Moscow - Vladivostok there are less than half of them. And on other routes there are simply no such ones a priori, because almost nowhere else there is more than one time limit on the route. That is, the real share of such passengers, I think, is on the order of a percentage. Agree, it is illogical to do what is convenient for a very small, highly specialized group (which, moreover, will only shrink in the future as aviation develops), to the detriment of the rest.

3. Yes, they are toiling around with nonsense, everyone has long been accustomed to it and no one gets confused. Unless “victims of the Unified State Exam” cannot add/subtract a few hours for conversion from Moscow to local and vice versa.

Well, first of all, the “Unified State Exam victims” are people too, and Russian Railways, as passengers, are also important. And secondly, it’s a myth that no one gets confused. At a minimum, those who rarely use railways, as well as residents of the Moscow time zone who find themselves outside it for the first time, often make mistakes; these categories are simply not aware of this feature of Russian Railways.
But sometimes even experienced people make mistakes. Yes, due to absent-mindedness, inattention, accident, but nevertheless it happens. For example, one of my friends, planning a transfer from a train to an electric train, incorrectly determined the time zone at the transfer point (it had changed a couple of months before, but she did not know). As a result, when the train arrived, the train had already left. This is how the error disrupted the trip a little. If only local time had been on the train schedule, such an error would not have happened.
Another friend of mine bought a ticket for a train leaving in the middle of the night. He correctly converted from Moscow time to local time, but did not take into account that the ticket had to be bought for “yesterday’s” date (when in Novosibirsk it is 2:50, in Moscow it is still “yesterday”). I discovered this error only upon boarding (when it turned out that his seat was occupied). Since the trip was planned for a specific event, it partially lost its meaning... Yes, in a way, of course, it’s my own fault, I need to be more careful, but nevertheless, many people have difficulties because of this.

4. Now, when crossing the border, conductors will have to reset the time on the display inside the cars each time. Extra troubles will probably sometimes be forgotten.

Perhaps this is the only one real problem. But, firstly, there is still no need to dramatize, when moving from west to east, on average, the hour boundaries go through 21 hours (I counted for the fastest train No. 1/2 "Russia"). Additional fuss almost once a day for a couple of minutes obviously will not overload the conductor with work. Yes, at first they will probably make mistakes and forget, but I think after 2-3 flights they will get used to it and will do it automatically.
Well, in the future, of course, we need to make this function automatic, with synchronization via GPS-Glonass.

5. What about those places where the railway runs along the time line and “jumps” to one time zone and then to another several times over a short distance?

There are only a few such places throughout Russia (for example, the Agryz - Naberezhnye Chelny section) and there is no intensive passenger traffic anywhere through them, mostly only local. I think for such lines you need to decide on an individual basis, for example, indicate both time zones in schedules.

That's all. I hope I have convinced you that the planned reform is really reasonable and that it will become a little more convenient for most passengers. Yes, of course, it’s a little sad and a pity for the age-old tradition, which was even sung by some foreigners traveling around Russia, but the railway needs to develop. In the meantime, take photographs of Moscow time on station clocks and displays, as well as in timetables in long-distance trains - soon this will be history.

If you are traveling by train across Russia from Moscow to Vladivostok or traveling abroad, the question arises about what train departure time is written on the ticket. It is worth understanding in order, because tickets are sold with different departure times.

As stated in Russia earlier

Time zones first appeared in the 19th century in Great Britain thanks to the railway. Due to the complexity of train schedules, a single time zone for the country was introduced in 1847. In Russia, something similar appeared after the revolution in 1919. Since then, the Russian Railways schedule in the USSR is indicated according to Moscow, and it remained the same in Russia. The exception is for international travel, in which case arrival times at a station in another country are written in local time.

The time on the ticket becomes local

Airlines have long begun to use uniform time for internal technical needs, but indicate local time on tickets. In 2018, Russian Railways decided to follow their example. From August 1, the information will change; departures and arrivals will begin to be indicated in local time, even on electronic boards in station buildings. Sales of tickets for flights using the new rules began on May 4. For trains departing before August 1, the old conditions apply.

To avoid confusion, you should look at the bottom line of the landing document; the old and new versions are different:

1. An example of the old format: “Departure and arrival times are Moscow.”
2. The new one indicates local time with clarification of the time zone, for example “21.00 (MSK +3)”

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This page provides a detailed schedule of commuter and passenger trains of all categories departing from Moscow stations.

Moscow is the railway heart of the Russian Federation. There are eight large stations in the capital - Belorussky, Kazansky, Kyiv, Kursky, Leningradsky, Paveletsky, Rizhsky and Yaroslavsky, each of which performs specific transport tasks.

Long-distance trains depart from the Belorussky station in the southwestern and western directions. International trains depart in the direction of Brest, Berlin, Bratislava, Warsaw, Vienna, Vilnius, Gomel, Grodno, Kaliningrad, Kaunas, Cologne, Klaipeda, Minsk, Mogilev, Nice, Paris, Polotsk, Prague and others.

Suburban service from the Belorussky railway station is carried out by electric trains and express trains to the stations Borodino, Vyazma, Zvenigorod, Mozhaisk, Odintsovo, Usovo, as well as a special express train to Sheremetyevo airport.

Kazansky Station is one of the busiest stations in Moscow, which provides the movement of passenger and commuter trains in the southern, southeastern and eastern directions.

A number of long-distance trains depart from the station, connecting the capital with many cities in Central Russia, the Caucasus and Siberia. International express trains from the Kazan station go to the largest cities of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.

Passenger and fast trains depart from Kievsky Station in the direction of Ukraine, Moldova, Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania, Serbia and Slovakia. Suburban electric trains connect Moscow with Aprelevka, Bekasovo, Kaluga, Kresty, Lesnoy Gorodok, Maloyaroslavets, Nara, as well as Vnukovo airport.

Kursky Station serves as a transit railway point. Trains depart from its platforms towards Donetsk, Dnepropetrovsk, Kerch, Poltava, Simferopol and Kharkov in Ukraine, as well as many large cities in Russia. Electric trains run in the Kursk and Gorky directions.

Leningradsky is the only station in Moscow that is not subordinate to the Moscow Railway. Being a passenger part of the Moscow-Oktyabrskaya station, it is a division of the Oktyabrskaya Railway and serves the northwestern and northern directions.

From the Moscow-Oktyabrskaya station, trains run to Veliky Novgorod, Murmansk, Petrozavodsk, Pskov and St. Petersburg in Russia, as well as to Tallinn (Estonia) and Helsinki (Finland). Suburban electric trains run to the stations Klin, Konakovo, Kryukovo, Podsolnechnaya, Skhodnya and Tver.

Paveletsky Station connects the capital with the Central Black Earth Region, the Lower and Middle Volga Region and partly with the Caucasus. International trains to Alma-Ata, Baku, Donetsk, Lugansk and Tbilisi start from the station. Suburban trains connect Moscow with Barybino, Biryulyovo, Kashira, Mikhnevo, Ozherelye, Stupino, Uzunovo, Yaganovo and the airport in Domodedovo.

Rizhsky Station provides reception of trains from the northwestern direction. From here trains depart in the direction of Velikie Luki and Pskov, as well as branded trains to the cities of Latvia.

Suburban trains and express trains regularly run to the stations Volokolamsk, Dedovsk, Istra, Krasnogorsk, Nakhabino, Novoierusalimskaya, Rumyantsevo and Shakhovskaya.

Trains in the northeastern direction are received by the Yaroslavsky railway station in Moscow, connecting the capital with the largest cities of the Urals, the North, Siberia and the Far East. International trains depart from Yaroslavsky Station to Beijing and Ulaanbaatar.

Suburban trains from this station go to the stations Alexandrov, Ivanteevka, Krasnoarmeysk, Korolev, Losino-Petrovsky, Mytishchi, Pushkino, Sergiev Posad, Fryazino, Khotkovo, Shchelkovo and Yubileiny. Suburban express trains connect Moscow with Aleksandrov, Bolshevo, Monino, Mytishchi, Pushkino and Yaroslavl.

All Moscow stations are distinguished by a developed modern infrastructure, which necessarily includes preliminary and suburban ticket offices, a detailed schedule of train arrivals and departures, service centers, waiting rooms of all categories, rest rooms, and storage rooms. This contributes to the high capacity of the Moscow railway hub and ensures the continuous movement of the world's largest passenger traffic.

Information on train and electric train schedules at Moscow station:

The schedule of trains and electric trains at the Moscow station today includes 701 long-distance trains, commuter trains and electric trains (including diesel engines) - 3134, 1393 of which are passing and 2442 - begin or end their journey in this locality. Most trains arrive in the morning. The first, according to the schedule, departs at 00:01 in the direction of the Domodedovo Airport station, and the last arrives at 23:59. The average parking time on the platform is 0:20.
Some trains passing through Moscow station do not run every day (they have a special schedule).
The train and train schedule for Moscow station presented on this page takes into account seasonal changes, that is, winter and summer schedule options are always available.
Tickets for trains and electric trains at Moscow station can be purchased online or at the ticket office.

During the holidays, most commuter trains of the Moscow transport hub will operate as follows:

February 21 and March 6- schedule Fridays;
February 22 and March 7- schedule Saturday;
February 23, 24 and March 8, 9- schedule Sunday;
February 25 and March 10- schedule Tuesday.

A number of commuter trains (mainly outside Moscow and the region, as well as branded express trains) will run on a special schedule. In addition, several additional branded express trains are scheduled.

The changes have been taken into account on Tutu.ru. When viewing the schedule, we recommend specifying the date of travel - in this case, only those trains that run on the selected day are shown.

January 10: Traffic on track 5 opens in the Yaroslavl direction (updated)

From Monday 13 January traffic opens on track 3 of the Mytishchi - Losinoostrovskaya section and track 5 of the Losinoostrovskaya - Moscow Yaroslavskaya section.

Additional on weekdays 27 trains are assigned(13.5 pairs) from/to Mytishchi, Bolshevo, Monino, Pushkino and S. Posad - both regular and express (REX). There will also be the schedule and/or stops of 31 trains have been changed.

21 trains to Moscow (including 9 express trains) will have an additional stop in Severyanin(on some express trains instead of Losinoostrovskaya). Some trains to Moscow also have stops at Losinoostrovskaya, Yauza, Malenkovskaya and/or Moscow-3

Three trains to Moscow, which are being transferred from track 1 to track 3, have had their stops on pl. Taininskaya, Perlovskaya, Los (due to the lack of a platform on track 3). One evening train to Moscow has a stop at Zavety Ilyich.

All changes to the schedule currently planned are taken into account on Tutu.ru, with the exception of changes in the routes of existing trains - this will be made on Sunday.

Besides, the procedure for passing trains on the Moscow - Losinoostrovskaya section will change.

Regular trains to the region will follow track 2 (formerly 4), which was used by accelerated trains to the region until January 12. On pl. Moscow-3, Yauza and Severyanin depart from platform 2 (and not from 1, as before January 12), along Losinoostrovskaya - from platform 3 (and not 2), along Malenkovskaya the platform will not change.

Accelerated trains to the region will follow the adjacent 4 (formerly 3) track, along which accelerated trains to Moscow ran on the Severyanin - Moscow section until January 12; the departure platform along Moscow-3, Severyanin and Losinoostrovskaya will not change.

Thus, all trains to the region (regular and accelerated) in Moscow-3, Yauza and Severyanin will depart from platform 2, and in Losinoostrovskaya - from platform 3 . Until January 12, only accelerated trains were sent to the region from these platforms, but from January 13, all will be sent.

Regular trains to Moscow on the Mytishchi-Moscow section will mainly follow track 1 (as before), individual trains will follow the adjacent track 3 (on the Losinoostrovskaya-Moscow section this is the former route “from Moscow”) without stops along pl. Taininskaya, Perlovskaya, Los due to the lack of a platform on track 3. Accelerated trains to Moscow will mainly follow route 5, some along route 3.

Due to changes in schedules and turnover, the departure routes of some trains at the Yaroslavl station, as well as the Mytishchi station, will change. Don't forget to look at the departure route on the board!

We remind you that from December 9, travel on the Kursk, Riga, Belorussky and Savelovsky directions will again become paid.

You can, as before, purchase one-time and subscription tickets for the train at the same rates (as well as use previously issued subscriptions), but without a free transfer to the metro.

Or you can use new ways to pay for travel (except for express trains, as well as the Rabochiy Poselok - Usovo section) with a free transfer to the metro and, as a rule, at more favorable rates:

1. Directly at turnstiles (validators) with a Troika card(only within the Chekhov - Novoierusalimskaya and Dmitrov - Kubinka/Zvenigorod sections).

You need to activate (recode) the Troika card once ( the card is automatically activated upon replenishment of any amount after November 21, with the exception of very old cards that do not support work with the MCD) and then simply apply it to the turnstile or validator before starting the trip and after its completion(even if there are no turnstiles at your destination). Exit validation must be completed no later than 5 hours after entry.

You just need to make sure that you have a sufficient amount on the “Wallet” of your Troika card; you don’t need to issue tickets at the box office. Tariffs for Troika between specific stations can be viewed in our schedule on the website and in mobile applications.

A free transfer from the MCD to the metro (and/or from the metro to the MCD) is provided within 90 minutes from the moment of first entry (or entry into the MCD boundaries).

Previously planned ticket for remote areas of the Moscow region ( further stations Novoierusalimskaya, Chekhov, Dmitrov, Kubinka-1)“The one-time complex ticket “Far Suburbs + MCD” will not be issued yet.

2. By “Unified MCD” subscription.

Subscription to the MCD "Unified MCD" ( other names - "Unlimited ticket for 1/3 days of the MCD", "Unlimited ticket for 30/90/365 days of the MCD", "Ticket for 60 trips of the MCD") acts not only as a subscription to the MCD, but also as a “Unified” subscription to Moscow public transport.

Thus, with the same subscription you will be able to travel both by train and metro (and other public transport in Moscow).

If you travel to the MCD only within Moscow(no further than the stations Shcherbinka, Volokolamskaya, Mark, Setun), a regular “Unified” metro subscription is enough. Moscow students and schoolchildren can travel to the MCD within Moscow using discounted metro passes issued on a social card.

If you travel, including in the Moscow region, but within the limits of the MCD (sections Podolsk - Nakhabino, Lobnya - Odintsovo), then it is necessary to issue a subscription "Unified MCD Moscow Region". This ticket can also be issued at ticket offices and metro machines.

If you travel along the MCD and beyond, You can issue a “Unified MCD” subscription from/to your station at the suburban ticket office, and it, in addition to travel on electric trains, will also give you the opportunity to travel on the metro and other transport in Moscow.

More details about this subscription and other tickets can be found in the carrier’s Rules.

You can find out which passes are available on this route and their cost in the full version of the website in the schedule between stations in the section "MCD on Troika"

As of the evening of December 8, 2019, new subscriptions have not yet been issued at suburban ticket offices.

For the “Dalnyaya without validators” tariff zone (where there is no one-time Troika tariff), the cost of MCD subscriptions is indicated on the website in the “Tickets and subscriptions” section (top right in the screenshot).

To use the "Unified MCD" subscription, you also need to activate the "Troika" card. To activate, just top up the “Wallet” of the card (after November 21) and sign up for a new subscription. Or you can contact the metro ticket office. .

All information provided is preliminary and subject to change.