Moscow Railway
The Moscow Railway (Московская железная дорога) is a subsidiary of Russian Railways that handles half of Russia's suburban railway operations and a quarter of the country's passenger traffic. As of 2009 the railway, which has its headquarters near Komsomolskaya Square in Moscow, employed 73 600 people.[1] It manages railway services in much of Central Russia, including Moscow and Moscow Oblast (all railways except for the railroad to Saint Petersburg, which is managed by Oktyabrskaya Railway), Smolensk, Vladimir, Ryazan, Tula, Kaluga, Bryansk, Oryol, Lipetsk, and Kursk Oblasts.
Construction timeline
- 1861 Moscow-Petushki
- 1862 Moscow-Nizhny Novgorod
- 1862 Moscow-Sergiyev Posad
- 1865 Moscow-Kolomna-Ryazan
- 1868 Serpukhov-Tula-Oryol-Kursk
- 1870 Sergiyev Posad-Alexandrov
- 1870 Moscow-Mozhaysk-Smolensk
- 1899 Moscow-Sukhinichi-Bryansk
- 1900 Moscow-Savyolovo
- 1908 Lesser Moscow Railway Ring
- 1943-1960 Greater Moscow Railway Ring
Railway stations
- Belorussky Rail Terminal
- Kazansky Rail Terminal
- Kiyevsky Rail Terminal
- Kursky Rail Terminal
- Leningradsky Rail Terminal
- Paveletsky Rail Terminal
- Rizhsky Rail Terminal
- Savyolovsky Rail Terminal
- Yaroslavsky Rail Terminal