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1. How to go by Transsib?
Firm trains. The most comfortable and fast trains at
Transsib are  firm trains number 1/2
"Rossiya" (Moscow - Vladivostok), 5/6 "Okean" (Khabarovsk - Vladivostok),
9/10 "Baikal" (Moscow - Irkutsk),
25/26 "Sibiryak" (Moscow -
Novosibirsk), 55/56 "Yenisei" (Moscow
- Krasnoyarsk) and a little more trains such class. They go by their route with less
number of stops, sometimes by 300-400 km without stop, and haven't carriages with sitting
seats and often haven't carriages with reserved seats. Their carriages are German
production, new, with air-conditioners. But their cost is more another trains. People
going their are rather impressive, there are many foreigners particularly in summer.
International trains - number 3/4
(Moscow - Beijing via Mongolia), 5/6 (Moscow -  Ulan-Bataar), 19/20 (Moscow - Beijing via Manchuria)
going to Mongolia and China that earlier also were rather comfortable now lost their
status because turned in  favourite means of
conveyance of Russian and Chinese "shuttles". So during stops of such trains at
Uralian and Siberian station a platform is crowd of people feverishly making process of
trade for the 15-20 minutes which are assigned by shedule for replacement of locomotive.
So the carriages naturally are packed by "shuttle" goods to capacity (to trip in
compartment of such train is rather non-comfortable, believe me). Perhaps so one must go
in SV carriage because it's rather dear for shuttles... But there are no another
alternative if you want to go into China and Mongolia exactly by train.
"Good" fast trains - typical their representative are number
7/8 (Novosibirsk - Vladivostok), 43/44 (Moscow - Khabarovsk), 11/12 (Chelyabinsk
- Chita) differ from "bad" by quality of service by crew of attendants and
carriages condition (they are not be in terrible condition or too old. Costs of fast train
are lower firm and often "good" fast train by comfort level isn't worse some
firm ones. As a rule fast train has more stops, particularly in the region (territory) of
its maikng. Always at least 1-2 carriages with reserved seats or more. People in them are
more ordinary that for example there are only a few foreigners in "Rossiya"
(excluding Chinese and citizen of CIS states).
"Bad" fast and passenger trains - outstanding instances -
number 53/54 (Kharkov - Vladivostok) and 249/250 (Moscow - Blagoveshchensk).
There are rather many such trains on railways. Their distinctive features are unattractive
appearance and interior (carriages are old or filthy), "quality" of service by
attendants and dirt. If fast train runs in such condition, it just reflects attitude to
passengers by railway line and the section where it's formed. What's about passenger
trains, always attitude to them was as to second-rate. Passenger trains are cheapest,
their shedule is made with most number of stops and more than a half of train are
carriages with reserved seats and sitting seats. But there are exceptions - sometimes
passenger trains are rather not bad.
Autostop - there are some sites about autostop descibing special
features of specific routes including Trans-Siberian raiwlay. One can travel by Transsib
by mail-luggage trains (last time carriages of local communication were started to cling
to them), by local trains and actually by goods trains, with adherence to some elementary
precautionary measures. For detailed information about this mode of travel we refer you to
sites of auto-stopper #Trassa-Atlas
and page of Anton Yerashevskiy.
2. Categories of trains and classes of carriages
Categories of trains:
F - firm
S - fast
P - passenger
PB - mail-luggage |
Classes of carriages:
SV, L - sleeping-car, 16-18 seats
KP - compartment car, 36-38 seats
PL - carriage with reserved seats, 54 seats
O - carriage with sitting seats, 81 seats |
3. Numbering of passenger trains
1 - 148: fast
151 - 168: high-speed
171 - 198: accelerated
201 - 298: fast summer
301 - 398: passenger
401 - 498: passenger summer
501 - 598: single function
601 - 698: local
801 - 898: fast diesel and electric trains
901 - 948: mail-luggage
951 - 968: cargo-passenger (by tickets)
971 - 988: tourist
991 - 998: human (by cargo documents)
4. Numbering of carriages
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Three top figures (figure 1 with arrow points out at them) - codes of
registration, i.e. to which concretely line this carriage is registered to.
Five figures below (figure 2 with arrow points out at them) - factory
number, moreover
- first figure determines type of carriage
- next three figures determine number of carriage
- fifth figure is control one.
Below codes of registration line and codes of carriage types are given, though some of
enumerated lines are abolished now. |
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| Codes of registration lines: |
001-004
008-009
010
013-014
017-022
024-026
028-031
032-033
035-036
039
040-041
043-044
045-046
048
051-053
055
056-057 |
October
Baltic
Kaliningrad
Belorusia
Moscow
Gorky
Northen
South Western
Lvov
Moldova
Odessa
Southern
Dnepr
Donetsk
North Caucasus
Azerbaijan
Transcaucasia |
058
061-062
063-064
067
068
071-072
073-074
076-078
080-081
083-084
086-087
088
090
092-093
094
096-097
098 |
Sout Eastern
Volga
Kuibyshev
West Kazakh
Tselinn
Alma-Ata
Middle Asian
Sverdlovsk
South Uralian
West Siberian
Kemerovo
Krasnoyarsk
Baikal-Amur
East Siberian
Transbaikalian
Far Eastern
Sakhalin |
| Codes of carriage types: |
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8 |
sleeping (SV)
compartment (including carriages with compartment-buffer)
with reserved seats
sitting (local)
mail
luggage
restaraunt
special (defectoscops etc.)
special not belongs to Railway Ministry |
5. Ticket and costs
Detailed about tickets for various stations, shedules, availability of
seats one can know at "Transinform" server
by Railway Ministry and Moscow line where was organized access to the system of tickets
sale "Express-2" (order of access always changes so you cannot with 100%
probability to know ticjets cost but if you'll understand current rules it will be
possible).
To look inquiry of concrete train shedule or what trains passes via concrete station you
may at the site "Steam
locomotive IS" by Dmitry Zinoviev or at special server of "Transinform"
company - Happy journey.
Tariff scale for passenger trains (tarriffs in 1999
- 2000) is separated in separate page. By it one can calculate cost of adult tickets
without any favourables proceeding from three indicators: train category, seat category
and distance between starting end ending stations.
* Unfortunately it became obsolete and now new higher tariffs are
used. If you can help us by this information or for example by partial excerpts of
tariffs for special distances send it to us in
convenient for you format and we certainly will publish this information with indication
your name on Acknowledgements page. |
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