The fastest trains in Russia and the USSR. Modern and fastest trains (26 photos)

Now, in an era when people are striving to move around the world faster and faster, trains, which were once a real miracle of transport technology, are losing much of their popularity and demand. Of course, airplanes have capabilities incomparable with land transport. And despite all this, you will be amazed when you find out how much some travelers are willing to shell out for one trip in truly amazing trains that ply our planet. Passengers not only pay fabulous sums for tickets for these legendary trains, they also wait for months for their turn in order to be able to ride on them. In general, as you understand, all this is not in vain!

"Eastern Express"

Ticket price: from $1,160.

The first line of the railway connecting East and West. The train made famous by Agatha Christie's novel Murder on the Orient Express.

Eastern & Oriental Express train

Ticket price: from $2,217.

The train, more like a five-star hotel, follows the route from Singapore to Malaysia and Bangkok.

The Golden Chariot train

Ticket price: $5,730

It is considered one of the most beautiful passenger trains.

Rovos Rail train

Ticket price: from $1,200.

At the tail of the train is a car with huge panoramic windows.

Royal Scotsman train

Ticket price: from $2,935.

An amazing train that runs all over Scotland. One of the carriages was converted into a magnificent SPA-center.

Maharajas Express Train

Ticket price: from $6,840.

The most luxurious and expensive train in Asia. Represents a copy royal palace India.

Train "Imperial Russia"

Ticket price: from $5,274.

One of the most famous and luxurious trains, traveling only once a year on three routes.

Blue Train

Ticket price: from $740.

The train runs along a scenic route south coast South Africa. Its passengers can observe the rich life of the most different representatives wildlife.

Golden Eagle train

Ticket price: from $15,495.

The most expensive passenger train in the world. One of the cars is occupied by a bar, which has a piano and its own library. Follows the route -.

Unfortunately, long-distance trains with real sleeping cars are gradually disappearing in many countries. But you can still catch them!

1. Moscow, Russia - Beijing, China

The Trans-Siberian is not the most classic sleeper train, it's just the MOST CLASSIC TRAIN. A huge locomotive, crossing the most inhospitable places on the planet, rushes past Russian cities, past deep lake in the world and through cold but beautiful Siberia. The highway consists of three sections, the most interesting of them is the Trans-Mongolian highway, which connects Moscow and Beijing through Ulaanbaatar. The main meaning of the trip: in life itself on the train, in buying pies and grilled chickens from station sellers, in playing cards with neighbors in the compartment and chatting until sunset over tea or vodka.

A weekly train leaves Moscow every Tuesday night. The journey will take 6.5 days.Tickets can be purchased at www.rzd.ru .

2. Nice, France - Moscow, Russia

This is the longest train journey in Europe - 3315 km and almost 50 hours across the continent. The railway connects the Mediterranean Sea and the Moscow River. You look out the window and in front of you: the sparkling French Riviera, the Italian elegance of Milan and Verona, the snow-covered Alps near Innsbruck, the majestic Vienna, the Polish-Czech border town of Bohumin, the Belarusian capital of Minsk, and Smolensk, one of the oldest cities in Russia. It's an educational film about how west meets east, how borders are blurred - and a clear testament to how great it is to ride a train.

Trains run once a week: a train from Moscow leaves on Thursday, a train from Nice on Saturday. Tickets can be purchased at www.rzd.ru .

3. Rome - Syracuse, Italy

Only romance compares to the romance of trains sea ​​voyages. This Italian night Train successfully combines both methods. The train leaves the Eternal City for Sicilian Syracuse - along the uneven line of the Calabrian coast, past the boiling Etna, and then plunges into the ferry and crosses Strait of Messina. The crossing takes about 30 minutes. Can you breathe fresh air on deck, or to stay in your bunk on a train that is traveling by ferry - you must admit, it is extremely original look way of travel.

The train leaves Rome daily at approximately 21:30, arriving in Syracuse at approximately 9:35. See details at www.trenitalia.com .

4. New Delhi - Agra, India

If the very thought of jogging in a carriage with the common people makes you shudder, then the Palace on Wheels was invented for you. For seven whole days you will feel like a raja on the road - luxurious compartments and a personal butler. There is something to be proud of! By train, you will pass through ancient Rajasthan - the legendary kingdom of the Maharajas, amazing fortresses and incredible palaces. The tour will start in New Delhi and end at the Taj Mahal in Agra, and along the way you will see the jewel capital of Jaipur, tiger habitats and the Lake Palace in Udaipur. This is a very long journey, seven days, so relax and enjoy the rich heritage of the magical land.

The Palace on Wheels departs from Safdaryung Station every Wednesday from September to April. Cm. www.palaceonwheelsindia.com .

5. Johannesburg - Cape Town, South Africa

The Blue Train, a tourist locomotive that runs between Pretoria and Cape Town, giving you the opportunity to admire the scenery of South Africa in a stylish frame, is really pleasant and beautiful. But for the term "tourist", as well as for wooden panels and other beauties, you will have to pay about US$1300. And it seems a little pointless: almost the same thing can be obtained in modern train"Shosholoza Meyl", and for one-twentieth of the above price. The Shosholoza Mail comes from Johannesburg, though not from Pretoria - but otherwise the route is the same. There are, of course, fewer attendants inside, but more chances chat with the locals, and outside the window there will be the same beautiful landscapes.

The Shosholoza Mail takes 27 hours and travels 1,530 km. Trains depart on Wednesday, Friday and Sunday. Cm. www.shosholozameyl.co.za .

6. Toronto - Prince Rupert, Canada

This is not a train ride, this is a history lesson. Canada - vast, great, in general, "Oh-Canada!" - populated with the help of the railway. Immigrants sailed in from the east and then headed west on a brand new train. The Canadian train is a real "big shot" - five-day, three times a week, going from Toronto to Vancouver, crossing huge fields, Rocky Mountains and a lot of empty space. To add scale to the trip, in Jasper, change to the Skeena train, which goes to Prince Rupert. This is the most picturesque part of Canada: the path meanders between high mountains, and along the way the train stops in beautiful lost towns.

The Skina train runs for two days. In Prince George, the train stops at night, so you travel all the way during the day. For details on both trains, see www.viarail.ca .

7. London, England - Fort William, Scotland

Close your eyes in the epicenter of traffic jams and crowds - and open them again in the morning among the heather fields, deer, mountains, lakes and reeds! Caledonian sleeper train from London to northern scotland- it's not just a means of transportation, it's an escape: in one night you teleport from the hustle and bustle to the highlands of Scotland. Beyond Edinburgh, the road splits into three tracks that lead to Inverness, Aberdeen and Fort William. last road especially impressive: striking, crossing Loch Lomond and Rannoch Moor, where the rails hover over roots and deadwood, and finally arriving at the foot of Ben Nevis, itself high mountain Great Britain.

The Highland Sleeper train leaves Euston around 9:00 pm Sunday through Friday, with no service on Saturday. Cm. www.sleeper.scot .

8. Darwin - Adelaide, Australia

You can fly to the Australian Red Center. But flying quickly won't give you a sense of the endless reds and dark browns that remind you of how small you are and where you are. To get to the center of this mainland country, it is better to take a train - so you realize its size and how hard it was for the pioneers here. The Ghan train, which connects north Darwin and south Adelaide, is named after the Afghan cameleers who traded whatever they could with central city Alice Springs before the railroads were built. For four whole days you will look at the red rocks and kangaroo races outside the window, and be glad that you do not have to walk these 2979 km.

The Gan train has three classes: platinum deluxe, gold, and red with folding seats. Cm. www.greatsouthernrail.com.au .

9. Chicago - San Francisco, USA

Zephyr was the ancient Greek god of the west wind, and the best deity to take a train name from. long distance. The California Zephyr also blows west, carrying the spirit of the pioneers (if only a spirit) from Chicago to San Francisco through breathtaking scenery. Over 3900 kilometers you will overcome snowy peaks, turbulent rivers, dizzying gorges, hostile deserts and engineering marvels of tunnels, serpentines - and even the main watershed. This is the train that in 1869 first connected the Atlantic and Pacific parts.

Yes Yes! This is not a typo. And Russian Railways did not pay me for the advertising post. Russia has some of the most luxurious and beautiful trains in the world.
This is confirmed by a bunch of ratings. Russia is the country with the longest network in the world railways.

For the same reason, each of us used the services of Russian Railways at various points in his life.
Associations are different - Unforgettable in their naturalness conductors, reserved seats full of people from Central Asia and the Caucasus, shift workers and demobilizations, with "ambre" from dried fish bought at some half-station, and another cocktail of what our country smells like ... No wonder they say RZD is "a country within a country."

And my symbol of our Russian Railways is the "Soviet" CUP HOLDER (thanks macos for this photo)

Who can relate to rail travel but the situation began to change for the better.
They began to walk along the rails of our immense as long known, for example, the "Red Arrow" ..

As well as good new branded trains...

The latest compositions like "Swallows", "Peregrine Falcon", etc.

"From above" decided to develop domestic tourism. Many of my friends understand that in our country it is tourism, and not tourism in its full understanding.
Our resorts, alas, are not characterized by a culture of service, and from time to time the soviet attitude of the staff towards vacationers at the resorts of our vast slips through.

Therefore, with what fright, you say, our trains are the most luxurious????

Very simple. Our trains are in all ratings of luxury trains in the world, but TOURIST TRAINS)

True, there is one BUT, in the luxury segment of tourism, Russia is not inferior to world leaders in quality and is considered a country of VERY expensive holidays.
We love Ponty. Therefore, we get into the ratings of the MOST LUXURIOUS) Let's get down to the main topic of the post...

On rails Russian Federation special branded tourist trains run.
Here are the conditions and comfort in the cars of these trains are beyond and appreciated foreign tourists from all over the world.
When I learned about the existence of such a tourist product, I began to study the topic. Discovered many new things.

The most popular route is TRANSSIB. It causes awe in any foreigner.
SIBERIA is a mysterious snow-covered region of Russia.

A huge number of foreign intermediary firms are engaged in the sale of tours on these trains.
But all paths lead to the company RAILWAYS TOUR- it provides accommodation services in these tourist trains.
(This post is not commercial, and all links to companies and tourism products are not advertising)

The most luxurious trains are:
1) "GOLDEN EAGLE" - The most expensive and fashionable trip

This train operates on two routes
1) Moscow - Vladivostok. 15 days, with an extensive program during stops in major cities and on Lake Baikal

The second route is the "Schelkovy Way" Moscow - Volgograd - Kazakhstan-Turkmenistan - Uzbekistan - China - Beijing.

News story about the train "GOLDEN EAGLE".
Very detailed information about the train, travel conditions and so on. I recommend to see

2) "GOLD OF KINGS" -
The most frequently mentioned Trans-Siberian train. It does not belong to Russian Railways and is private. Train operator - company Transsiberian travel
Composition marked big amount positive reviews on Tripadvisor. The composition is distinguished by a large number of types of accommodation.
From classic Russian coupe to individual suites with private shower and toilet.

On the Internet I found a movie about this train (carefully english)
The film is 35 minutes long, and made quite "basically".
For a person with post-Soviet space such a number of Kalinka and other clichés will be hard to perceive, but it is interesting to scroll through and watch excerpts.
This way you will better understand the product for which foreigners pay thousands of euros, pounds, dollars

3) "IMPERIAL RUSSIA" -
MOSCOW - ULAN-BATOR (Mongolia) - BEIJING (China)- a train from RZD TOUR, the route is similar to the "Gold of the Tsars", the third place in terms of travel cost.

A very short video about this train:

There you are good example our luxury trains. The price of a ticket on this train ranges from 3500 euros and up. Up to the possibility of traveling in a personal carriage. This is probably the reason that few people know about SUCH RUSSIAN RAILWAYS)))

Russia - amazing country contrasts. It never ceases to amaze me every day!

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Russia is not a country with the fastest railways, and we are still very far from Japanese and French super trains, but this was not always the case, and in our country there have always been attempts to create our own high-speed trains, and a sufficient number of locomotives and trains have been created, whose high-speed characteristics are far from being so bad, and even in their class they are not inferior to foreign counterparts. Our rating contains only trains of Russian or Soviet production, created at domestic factories. You can say that without Sapsan and Allegro this is not a rating, but it’s a shame for us in a country like Russia to look with an open mouth at our neighbors and buy from them, and not create our own, so the rating will be exclusively from domestic trains.

I will not pretend to be 100% reliable, but will build my rating based on the available data, because there are a lot of myths about the acceleration of a particular locomotive, but as usual there is not enough documentary evidence. And so let's start our top ten fastest Russian and Soviet trains.

TEP70

TEP70 is in tenth place in our rating. This locomotive is the main diesel workhorse in passenger traffic at RZD. The basic design of the locomotive is so successful that it can be accelerated to very high speeds, however, the structural maximum speed- 160 km / h. What the locomotive is able to develop great speed, there is no doubt, and there were even rumors that it was accelerated to 220 km / h in tests, however, the speed of a long mode is only 50 km / h, which does not allow us to put it higher in our rating. The diesel locomotive has been in operation since 1973, and its improved modification TEP70BS is currently being produced. It is produced at the Kolomna plant, and by now 300 of these cars and another 25 TEP70U are driving around Russia.

In fact, there are plenty of locomotives with a design speed of 160 km / h in Russia, but this is the only diesel engine with such indicators, and also so massive in production, which is why it deserves its place.

"Martin"

It's over, calling the Swallow a purely Russian train will not turn your tongue, but it is he who is next on our list of the fastest Russian trains. The main contribution to the creation was made by the same Siemens. The one that brought Peregrine Falcons to Russia. In fact, these trains are Siemens Desiro localized for our conditions. These locomotives are assembled at the Ural Locomotives plant located in the city of Verkhnyaya Pyshma. The maximum design speed of the swallow is 160 km / h, but in fact the real speed is somewhat lower, however, such trains are just perfect for Russian roads, because often we have nowhere to accelerate faster. The main purpose is suburban transportation or intercity transportation for short distances up to 200 km. On this moment 46 compositions of ES2G have already been produced.

EP2K

EP2K is perhaps the most long-awaited locomotive of Modernity. In the USSR, this niche was successfully occupied by Czechoslovak emergencies various models, and Soviet factories did not really strive to compete with them, and thus for a long time we practically did not have high-speed passenger locomotives own production on electric traction. At the turn of the century, the first similar models began to appear in our country, but they were all either slower, such as EP1, or vice versa, faster, but something completely different was required, namely the replacement of Czech emergency situations. This task was successfully completed at the Kolomna plant and in 2008 EP2K went into production. The maximum operating speed is 160 km/h, however, the locomotive can easily go faster, and the speed of the continuous mode is 90 km/h. At the moment, more than 300 EP2K locomotives have already been produced, and in the future they should completely replace ChS 7.

"Oriole"

In 2014 Tver Carriage Works presented its newest composition, which was named EG2Tv Ivolga. The design speed of the train is 160 km/h, but Russian Railways made it clear that this is not quite what was expected from the plant. For such speeds, the "Swallow" is already being produced, and the Oriole needs to be "dispersed". Rumor has it that during the tests, a train of three motor cars was accelerated to 250 km / h on a straight section, but this has not been documented anywhere, and the full train does not yet give out such a speed. At the moment, it is on the basis of Ivolga that a passenger train is being created that can accelerate to 250 km / h, and time will tell whether Tverskoy Vagonostroitelny will be able to complete this task, but for now two trains have been built, which from 2017 will be run on Kiev direction Moscow railway.

Steam locomotive type 2-3-2

The beginning of the 20th century was marked by a real boom in speed records in a wide variety of industries. Planes, cars, locomotives - all this moved faster and faster, and new records were set almost every year, and each developed country sought to enter the elite, having high-speed transport. did not lag behind in this direction and Soviet Union especially considering our distances. In 1936, the first project of the steam locomotive 2-3-2k of the Kolomna Plant appeared, which developed a power of 3070 hp, which allowed it to accelerate to 150 km / h. Through refinement, the maximum speed increased to 170 km / h. The locomotive successfully passed the run-in and showed excellent results, however, the outbreak of war did not allow serial production of the model. At the same time, the Voroshilovgrad Plant also worked on finalizing the locomotive, and created a slightly faster model under the number 2-3-2B, which had a design speed of 180 km / h. He set his last record in 1957 when he topped out at 175 km/h.

EP20

EP20 is one of the most successful Russian electric locomotives of recent years. It is intended to replace Russian roads old Czech ChS8 and ChS200, the service life of which is coming to an end. The maximum design speed of the locomotive is 200 km/h, and there is no doubt that it can move even faster under certain circumstances, however, there is no data on this subject in open sources, so we will consider it a maximum of 200 km/h. by the most fast route The locomotive is the Nevsky Express, which covers the distance between Moscow and St. Petersburg only 5 minutes longer than the Sapsan, which once again proves that there was no such need to purchase Sapsan. The design of the EP20 turned out to be so successful that Russian Railways immediately placed an order after the run-in in 2011, and currently 60 locomotives of this brand have been produced at the Novocherskassk Electric Locomotive Plant, and a total of 200 such machines are planned to be built.

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ER 200

The rapid transit boom began in the 1960s when the first high-speed trains began to appear in Japan and Western Europe. In Russia, there were simply no roads for such trains, but the status of a great power simply did not allow not having at least one similar route, moreover, the passenger flow between Moscow and Leningrad was simply huge. The terms of reference were approved in 1967, and for six years 50 different enterprises worked on its creation at once, and in 1973 the first train was assembled at the Riga Carriage Building and entered the test, which lasted another 6 years. The train went on its first flight in 1979, and went into permanent operation only in 1984. Why the process dragged on for almost 20 years is a huge mystery, and given the fact that repairs were already needed by the end of the 80s, then one can only be surprised at the slowness Riga Carriage Works. The final design speed of the ER-200 was 200 km/h, and in tests it accelerated several times up to 210 km/h. It covered the distance from Moscow to Leningrad in a little less than 5 hours, which was a pretty decent figure for its time, and even now only Sapsan and Nevsky Express travel faster than it. In total, 2 trains were built, and a couple of spare head cars. The ER-200 was operated until 2006.

Ep200

The experimental locomotive EP200, built at the Kolomensky Zavod in 1996, opens the top three fastest domestic trains. EP200 appeared at an extremely unfortunate time, when it seemed to be very necessary, but there was no money to create it, run it in and refine it. The design speed of the locomotive was 250 km / h, and in operation the speed was limited to 200 kilometers. There is no exact data on the maximum speed in the tests.

For all its high-speed advantages, it was not destined to go on permanent flights. At first, the EP200 did not shine with reliability, especially at high speeds. And after the shortcomings were eliminated, it was never adopted, and in 2009 it was finally written off with the wording “Russian Railways does not need electric locomotives of this type”, which looks not only strange, but simply like direct sabotage in favor of the German Sapsan, since it was it was his competitor, especially since the development of the EP250 and EP300 was already in full swing on the basis of the EP200, the operating speed of which was supposed to be 250 and 300 km / h, respectively. After all the misadventures with the locomotive, the Kolomna plant focused on the production and improvement of TEP70 and EP2k. Perhaps in the near future we will still see high-speed locomotives and trains that will leave the gates of the Kolomna Plant, but this will not be EP200.

Falcon 250

The fate of this train was no less sad than EP200. The technical requirements for the development of a new high-speed train were ready in 1993. The leading enterprise-developer was TsKB MT "RUBIN". The Sokol 250 went to its first tests in 1998, during which everything that was possible was checked, and the train itself reached a maximum speed of 236 km / h, while its design speed was 250 km / h. During the tests, quite a few different, but eliminated shortcomings were found, and in fact the train was 90% ready. However, for unknown reasons, the project was canceled and the Falcon was sent to the museum. In fact, along with this locomotive, all the developments in the creation of such high-speed trains were ditched, and if we now try to do the same, we will have to start again from scratch.

TEP 80

Ahead of time - this is exactly what they said about the fastest Russian locomotive. It's funny to say, but the fastest locomotive in Russia is not an electric locomotive, but a diesel locomotive TEP-80. When it was created, TEP 70 was taken as the basis, which was not so fast, but had excellent potential for development. TEP 80 was equipped with a one and a half times more powerful engine with a capacity of 6000 hp, and it was this engine that allowed the locomotive to accelerate during tests to a record speed of 271 km/h for Russia. By the way, this record has not been broken by more than one diesel locomotive in the world so far.

It was made at the Kolomensky Zavod in 1988-89, but the mess in the country of the Soviets did not favor such breakthrough developments. The tests were carried out by the plant, and with the collapse of the union, the diesel locomotive became completely useless. The speed record was set in 1993 and captured on camera. Why this project has not yet been restored remains a mystery, but it has gone into oblivion just like the Sokol, and EP200 and is gathering dust in the museum, without going on regular flights, although our railways still need such locomotives, but here you have to build, if necessary, from scratch.

February 13, 2016 There is no common understanding of the term “best” in relation to passenger trains in the world, since comfort, speed, cost of the trip, and a number of other factors are important for the passenger. Therefore, railway companies and train designers are working in different directions - increase speed, improve comfort, achieve lower energy consumption and cost of transportation. We will tell you what has been done in these areas in last years in Russia.

peregrine falcon

The most famous high-speed electric train in Russia today, it even has its own Twitter account and a LiveJournal blog. The Sapsan project was developed specifically for Russia by the German company Siemens.

In your first, loudly advertised commercial flight from Moscow to St. Petersburg "Sapsan" departed on December 17, 2009, now runs on the lines Moscow - St. Petersburg (five trains per day) and Moscow - Nizhny Novgorod (two trains per day). The electric train is capable of speeds up to 300 km/h, but on Russian roads its maximum speed is 250 km/h, on the section Malaya Vishera - Okulovka (Mstinsky bridge), and the main part of the Sapsan track moves at a speed of 200 km/h. The number of cars in the train is 10, the number of seats is 592.

The fare on the Sapsan on the Moscow-St. rubles in business class.

Allegro

This well-known to the Russians from St. Petersburg high-speed train can be considered, at best, half. The Allegro train runs between St. Petersburg and the capital of Finland, Helsinki, and is jointly operated by Russian Railways and the Finnish company Suomen Valtion Rautatiet. The project developer and manufacturer is the Finnish company Alstom.

On the territory of Finland, the train moves at a speed of 220 km / h, on the territory of Russia - at a speed of 200 km / h, no longer allows railway infrastructure. distance from our northern capital to the capital of the Suomi Country, the Allegro high-speed train overcomes in 3 hours 50 minutes, with stops in the border Vyborg and some Finnish cities - Vainikkala, Lahti, Pasila and others.

The number of cars in the Allegro train is 7, the number of seats is 352, plus 2 seats for the disabled. base cost fare - 84 euros in a second class carriage and 104 euros - first class.

ES "Lastochka"

This high-speed train, running in Krasnodar Territory, can rightly be considered "the most expensive electric train in Russia." Lastochka is one of the most ambitious and costly projects related to the 2014 Olympics. For its implementation, in 2009 Russian Railways signed a contract with the German company Siemens, according to which the company must supply 54 Siemens Desiro Rus electric trains to Russia in the amount of 410 million euros. And in 2013, Russian Railways signed a new contract with Siemens for the maintenance and service of trains for 40 years, worth 500 million euros. By the way, the letters ES in the name of the train mean Electrosiemens.

Each "Swallow" has five cars. Seats - 409; there are also 4 seats for passengers with handicapped and toilet room. With a large passenger flow, for example, along the Adler-Tuapse route, two coupled trains of 10 cars are sent on a flight.

And if it weren’t for the boorish controllers of the Russian Railways and the wagons packed with passengers to the eyeballs, these electric trains could be safely called one of the most comfortable modes of transport in Russia. During the summer months, despite high season and crowds of tourists, electric trains on the route Tuapse-Sochi-Olympic Park rarely run, because of this, most passengers have to stand for hours in passages unsuitable for this. It looks something like in the Moscow metro cars at rush hour, but unlike the metro, the Swallows' salons with narrow aisles are not at all suitable for standing passengers.

At home, in Spain, this high-speed train is called Talgo 250. True, Spanish, from the company Patentes Talgo S.L, there are only wagons in the train, it is planned to use domestic locomotives - EP20. Starting June 1, 2015, the Swifts will run on the route Moscow - Nizhny Novgorod. From the capital, with stops in Dzerzhinsk and Vladimir, the train will run to Nizhny Novgorod 3 hours 45 minutes.

The number of cars in the train "Strizh" - from 7 to 11. In the 11-car train 299 passenger seats, in a standard 8-car train - 236 seats. The fare in a car with standard seats is 1,150 rubles, in a deluxe class car - 7,570 rubles.

Since 2013, train No. 103 has been running on the Moscow-Adler route with double-deck cars manufactured at the Tver Carriage Works. In such a carriage (compartment) there are 64 berths instead of the usual 36, and in a SV-class carriage there are 32 places (instead of 18 in the usual version). Such a “compression” should have led to cheaper tickets, but so far nothing of the kind has been observed. A seat in a compartment to Adler in a double-decker car costs 7,540 rubles, and in a single-decker car it costs 7,140 rubles. Starting June 1, 2015, passenger train No. 5\6 with double-deck cars will run on the most popular route Moscow - St. Petersburg, the cost of a compartment ticket to St. Petersburg is 2,670 rubles.

In general, we have to state - "the best" passenger trains Russia is by no means the best, because it is not the fastest, not the most comfortable and not quite “ours”. Of all the loudly publicized projects of Russian Railways listed above, only double deck cars are produced in Russia, but the trains that are formed from them are ordinary, except that the passengers in them had to “make room” a little and additionally “fork out”. There was also the long-suffering "Falcon-250" and did not "take off" ....

"Falcon-250"

In the creation of an experienced domestic sample high speed train about sixty Russian enterprises and organizations took part in the dual power supply (on direct and alternating current) Sokol-250. It was assumed that new train can reach speeds up to 350 km / h. At the acceptance tests of the Sokol-250 prototype in June 2001, for the first time, a speed of 236 km / h was reached - a record for the Russian railways of that time. However, the acceptance committee recognized the commissioning of the Sokol as impossible due to many design flaws - overheating of the brake discs, unreliability of the brake system, insufficient tightness of the cars, etc. Several cars from the Sokol-250 experimental train are on sidings Central Museum October railway.