The Saint Petersburg to Moscow railway runs for 649.7 kilometers (403.7 mi) through four oblasts: Leningrad, Novgorod, Tver and Moscow. It is a major traffic artery in the north-west region of Russia, operated by the October Railway subdivision of Russian Railways.
The Sapsan high speed train on the way from Moscow to St. Petersburg.
Wood-burning locomotive on the Nikolaev railway, c. 1858
Leningradsky railway station (1851) in Moscow, the southern terminus of the line
New Verebinsky Bridge, opened in 2001 to replace the bypass
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The Sapsan is a Russian gauge high speed electric express train. The train is a Siemens Velaro model, which in turn is based on the ICE 3M/F high-speed trains manufactured by Siemens for the German Deutsche Bahn (DB), known as the Siemens Velaro RUS.
OO gauge model railway featuring the Sapsan train on the Moscow – Saint Petersburg Railway and Moscow to Nizhny Novgorod Railway in the Museum of the Moscow Railway, Moscow.
500 meters version on a route Moscow — Saint Petersburg