How many people travel daily from the Moscow region to Moscow to work and back? And how many representatives of our society go to the country on weekends? You can be sure that any of these passengers has downloaded to the phone (tablet) or printed the train traffic scheme.
Demand for suburban trains
The popularity of this type of transport is explained by the fact that many residents of Moscow and the Moscow region cannot afford a car or do not want to spend hours in traffic jams, especially since every year they only increase. A few more obvious advantages of the electric train are strict adherence to the schedule, flights run regularly, with short intervals.
The scheme of electric trains in Moscow is no less than the scheme of the Moscow metro (which is one of the ten largest metros in the world). This fact is not at all surprising, because there are nine railway stations in our capital, and electric trains constantly depart from each of them.
Just in time to unloadpassenger traffic, the Ministry of Transport compiled separate routes and distributed them between stations, introduced appropriate tariffs, and equipped them with all the necessary equipment.
Southbound electric trains
One of the most popular today is the Kursk direction. The train traffic pattern from this station covers many cities of the Moscow region, and the daily passenger traffic is approximately 140,000 people.
The schedule here takes into account the intensity of the morning and evening peak hours, adding even more flights to these intervals. Trains depart and arrive so often that any passenger can find the most convenient option for themselves. The work of the station around the clock is in multitasking mode. Less than ten minutes later, a new flight appears at the station. The only break at the Kursk railway station, fifteen minutes long, is the moment between the arrival of the last train on the current day and the departure of the first one on the next hour day.
This station is in demand not only among residents of the Moscow region who come to the city on business from the region, but also among Muscovites who find it more convenient to get to their office / factory / enterprise not by metro, but by a commuter train passing through many districts of Moscow.
Scheme of movement of electric trains
It often happens that at one station it is impossible to get on the train, huge groups of people push each other into the car, which is called “like sprats in a jar”, and at another station not a soul will get on. This largely depends onthe population of a particular city. The most popular points among passengers on the Kursk direction electric trains are the Kursk railway station, Tsaritsyno, Tekstilshchiki, Podolsk. Of course, at these stations, the schedule is made taking into account such a high load, and trains stop more often. In addition to these stations, the path of electric trains runs through Butovo, Shcherbinka, Lvovskaya, Stolbovaya, Chekhov, Serpukhov, Yasnogorsk, Tarusskaya. Including, express trains can easily reach Orel and Tula.
Some stations, for example, Stolbovaya, Moscow Tovarnaya Kurskaya, Kalanchevskaya, Tsaritsyno, Tekstilshchiki are interchanges to neighboring directions of Russian Railways or metro stations.
Eastern direction of electric trains
Among the residents of Moscow and the Moscow region, the train traffic scheme of the Kazan direction is no less popular. The daily passenger traffic is approximately 330,000 people. And at the Kazansky railway station, of course, which is the most popular point in this direction, 230 electric trains arrive and depart every day, 50 of which are Sputnik express trains, to Ramenskoye and Lyubertsy stations. The second busiest stop here is Vykhino.
The train traffic pattern of the Kazan direction, like the Kursk direction, is characterized by a high intensity of flights arriving and departing from the terminal station every eight minutes. From here you can get to the following cities near Moscow: Lyubertsy, Kurovskoye, Egorievsk, Shatura, Ramenskoye, Zhukovsky,Bronnitsy, Voskresensk, Lakes, Lukhovitsy, Kolomna, Cherusti. You can take an express train to Ryazan.
Northeast direction of electric trains
Of course, considering this issue, one cannot fail to note the importance of the Yaroslavsky railway station in the scheme of electric trains in Moscow and the Moscow region. It is located next to Kazansky and Leningradsky, on Komsomolskaya Square, called the “Square of Three Stations”. Here the passenger traffic is approximately 450,000 people per day! This is many times more than on all other routes. The maximum number of people moving along the Yaroslavl direction daily makes their way to the final stop of the route - the Yaroslavsky railway station. Ten tracks of which are given specifically for suburban trains. Next in popularity are Mytishchi. Next stop in the city of Pushkino. Fourth place went to the Bolshevo platform, followed by the Podlipki-Dachnye, Losinoostrovskaya, Perlovskaya stops.
From the Yaroslavl station you can get to the cities of Alexandrov, Mytishchi, Pushkino, Sofrino, Khotkovo, Sergiev Posad, Krasnoarmeysk, Korolev, Ivanteevka, Fryazino, Schelkovo, Monino.
From the final stops, Kazansky and Leningradsky stations, it is convenient to switch to neighboring Russian Railways routes, and from the Moscow Yaroslavskaya platform you will quickly find yourself at the Komsomolskaya station of the Moscow metro.
And what about suburban trains in St. Petersburg
There are not as many train stations in the northern capital of Russia as in Moscow. There are only five of them here: Moscow, Vitebsk, Finlandand B altic, Ladoga. At the same time, the scheme of movement of electric trains in St. Petersburg, in its scale, practically does not differ from the Moscow one discussed above.
The total schedule of suburban trains in St. Petersburg has 702 flights, 250 of them run daily, and the rest - according to the schedule. The most popular requests on this topic in the Leningrad region are the train schedules of the Finlyandsky and Moskovsky railway stations.
Finlyandsky railway station in St. Petersburg
Located in the city center, at Lenin Square, 6, is an important link in the life of the city, is part of the Oktyabrskaya railway. By the decision of the administration of the transport committee of St. Petersburg in 2010, Finlandsky Station became the main Transport Interchange Hub, which includes all possible land options for road and rail transport in the northwestern direction.
Passenger traffic here is approximately 36,000 people per day. At the moment, the station accepts and sends only electric trains in the northwestern and northeastern directions: Vyborgskoye, Irinovskoye, Sosnovskoye. From here, regular flights can take you to the following cities of the Leningrad Region: Zelenogorsk, Beloostrov, Vyborg (including express trains), Roshchino, Sovetsky, Kirillovskoye, Sestroretsk, Kannelyarvi.
The only long-distance express route is the Allegro train St. Petersburg-Helsinki.
Moskovsky train station traffic scheme
This station is locatedin the heart of St. Petersburg on Nevsky Prospekt (address: Vosstaniya Square, Building 2) and has its own unique history. Being an exact twin of the Leningradsky railway station in Moscow, it allows Muscovites who have arrived here to feel at home in the first few minutes. Both buildings were built according to the designs of the court architects of Nicholas I - the architects Ton and Zhelezevich. Currently, the passenger terminal of the Moscow railway station is called the St. Petersburg Glavny station. Sometimes, you can find its old name - October.
East, Moscow and South are the important directions of the electric trains of this station. Passenger traffic is approximately equal to 27,000 people per day. More than 90 suburban trains run here daily: St. Petersburg - Tikhvin, Malaya Vishera, Tosno, Chudovo, Mga, Volkhovstroy, Budogoshch, Nevdubstroy, Lyuban, Pupyshevo, there are frequent express trains to Veliky Novgorod.
