Have you seen those Russian trains? Well not actually Russian, they are made by SIEMENS however in Russia they are branded with Russian word “SAPSAN” after the fastest known bird and here they are. Yaroslavl, photographer, has visited a train station during boarding of third millionth passenger and took some photos of the trains and what’s going on around. Please welcome to see more:
Here, the train is arriving. As far as I know there are two routes for those trains in Russia. One is from Moscow to St. Petersburg and another is from Moscow to Gorky city which is now known as Nizhni Novgorod. The trains are ultra fast and can run probably up to 300 kmh, however see the rails on the pic – the rails are old Soviet rails, look you even can see them curving. So the speed is highly limited.
It gets to the point of the maximum speed of around 178 kmh in one place of the route, however the distance of around 421 km/h it goes as long as 3:55, almost four hours! Not that fast comparing to Chinese speeds and the form of the train.
That’s sort of pity and they decided to take the trains completely off the route from Moscow to Gorky/Nizhni Novgorod as Yaroslav says. So the only route in Russia where can you board those trains would be Moscow – Petersburg.
Though it looks pretty awesome.
Yaroslavl says locals don’t like those trains and often through rocks in them. Like this train just arrived but has a shattered window too. I am not sure what is the reason for such hostility.
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