The Upper Volga (Verkhne-Volzhskaya) railway was a private railway in the upper Volga region of Russia, built in 1914–1918 and in the second half of the 1930s. It was planned as part of a backup route from St. Petersburg to Moscow. Today, the lines are part of the Moscow region of the October Railway.
Token of the Society of the Upper Volga Railway of the Russian Empire, 1914.
Charter of the Society of the Upper Volga Railway
Steam locomotive of type "O". Operated in the 1900s, 1910s, 1920s on the Moscow-Savyolovo line, and later Savyolovo-Kalyazin
Steam locomotive of type "2-2-0-P". Operated in the 1900s, 1910s, 1920s on the lines Rybinsk-Bezhetsk and Kashin-Krasny Holm (photo from the book of V.A. Rakov "Locomotives of domestic railways").
Oktyabrskaya Railway or October Railway is the subsidiary of RZD, servicing railway lines in the north-west of Russia. It stretches from Moscow's Leningrad Terminal in the south to Murmansk beyond the Arctic Circle in the north. The total length of the lines is over 10,000 km. The headquarters are located in Saint Petersburg.
The Sapsan high speed train on the way from Moscow to St. Petersburg