(today there are 24 operating MCC stations) - a new Moscow transport designed to make movement in Moscow even more convenient. The first stage opened on September 10. Twenty-four of the thirty-one stations are currently open for passenger use. Five stations have a covered passage to the metro, six have a passage to the metro across the street. By the end of October, 6 more stations will open.
24 open stations MCC - see the list below...
List of operating MCC stations:
- District (North-Eastern Administrative District and Northern Administrative District). Transfer to the railway station of the same name (Savelovskoe direction of the Moscow Railway), and in the future - to new station metro station "Okruzhnaya". There is also a transfer to city ground transport - a bus.
- Baltic (SAO). Provides a transfer to the Voykovskaya metro station or city ground transport. Baltiyskaya station is connected by an overpass with shopping center“Metropolis”, and on the other side, nearby, almost right next to it, is the Pokrovskoye-Streshnevo park.
- Streshnevo (North Administrative Okrug and North-Western Administrative Okrug). Transfer to tram, trolleybus, bus. According to the plan, a transfer to the Riga direction railway line (new stopping station). P. S: by the way, we have a topic about .
- Shelepikha (TsAO). Provides transfer to the Testovskaya railway platform.
- Business center (southwestern part of the Central Administrative District). Large station on the MCC. Transfer to the Mezhdunarodnaya metro station. Located within walking distance from the Testovskaya railway station. According to the plan - parking and an underground passage to Moscow City.
- Kutuzovskaya (JSC), next to Kutuzovsky Prospekt. It is possible to transfer to the Kutuzovskaya metro station and to ground transport: trolleybus and bus.
- Luzhniki (TsAO). Station with "shore" platforms and a vestibule. Provides a transfer to the Sportivnaya metro station or to a city bus. According to plans, it is the Sportivnaya MCC station that will be most in demand during the period.
- Gagarin Square (JSC). Connected to the Leninsky Prospekt metro station (via an underground passage). Transfer to buses, trolleybuses and trams. This is the only MCC station that is underground.
- Crimean (Southern Administrative District and South-Western Administrative District). Transfer to the Sevastopolskaya railway station and public transport - bus.
- Upper boilers (Southern Administrative District). Located between the Nagatinskaya and Tulskaya metro stations. Connected with city buses, trolleybuses and trams. And also through a new platform with the Paveletsky direction railway.
- ZIL (northern part of the Southern Administrative District). Exit to the Ice Palace by inside MCC and to ground urban transport - by outside MCC.
- Avtozavodskaya (Southern Administrative District). Here you can change to the Avtozavodskaya metro station (along the street) and to ground transport (bus, trolleybus).
- Belokamennaya (VAO). Located within the boundaries of the Losiny Ostrov national park. Transfer to ground transport - bus. And by bus to the nearest metro station - “Rokossovsky Boulevard”.
- Botanical Garden(NEAD). Connected to the metro station of the same name by an underground pedestrian crossing. You can transfer to ground transport - a bus.
- Rokossovsky Boulevard (VAO). There is a transition to the metro station of the same name (Sokolnicheskaya line) and a transfer to a bus or tram.
- Likhobory (SAO). Connected to the railway, to the NATI platform (Leningrad direction). You can take a bus.
- Lokomotiv (VAO). Transfer (warm) to the Cherkizovskaya metro station (covered passage). It is possible to transfer to a trolleybus or bus.
- Nizhny Novgorod (South Eastern Administrative District). Connected to the Karacharovo railway station (from the Kursk station) and by city bus. In 2018, a transition to the Nizhegorodskaya Street metro station will be available.
- Novokhokhlovskaya (South Eastern Administrative District). It is possible to transfer to a city bus and since 2017 - through the new platform you can transfer to the railway (Kursk direction).
- District (North-Eastern Administrative District and Northern Administrative District). Transfer to the railway station of the same name (Savelovskoe direction of the Moscow Railway), and in the future - to the new Okruzhnaya metro station. There is also a transfer to city ground transport - a bus.
- Ugreshskaya (South Eastern Administrative District). From the station you can change to a bus, tram or trolleybus. Using ground transport (bus or tram) you can get to two metro stations - “Kozhukhovskaya” or “Dubrovka”.
- Izmailovo (VAO). Connected to the metro station on the Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya line - “Partizanskaya”. It is possible to transfer to a bus, trolleybus and tram.
- Rostokino (NEAD). Transfer to the Severyanin railway station (Yaroslavl direction). A transfer to ground transport is also available - tram, bus, trolleybus.
- Vladykino (NEAD). Transfer to the metro station of the same name through an overpass. You can transfer to a bus or trolleybus.
Several more stations will be opened at the end of October 2016
List of currently closed MCC stations:
- Panfilovskaya- a complex station from an engineering point of view due to spatial limitations. It is about seven hundred meters away from the metro station (Oktyabrskoye Pole station).
- Sorge Street
- Koptevo
- Falcon Hill
- Dubrovka
The opening of the Moscow Central Circle (MCC) took place on September 10, 2016. 31 stations are available for passengers. A RIAMO correspondent learned how to use a new type of urban transport.
On the launch day, 26 stations were put into operation: Okruzhnaya, Likhobory, Baltiyskaya, Streshnevo, Shelepikha, Khoroshevo, Delovoy Tsentr, Kutuzovskaya, Luzhniki, Gagarin Square ", "Crimean", "Upper Boilers", "Vladykino", "Botanical Garden", "Rostokino", "Belokamennaya", "Rokossovsky Boulevard", "Lokomotiv", "Entuziastov Highway", "Nizhegorodskaya", "Novokhokhlovskaya", “Ugreshskaya”, “Avtozavodskaya”, “ZIL”, as well as “Izmailovo” and “Andronovka”.
In 2018, the construction of warm crossings will be completed: it will be possible to make transfers without going outside. A total of 350 transfers will be available for passengers, so travel time should be reduced by 3 times.
Fare
To access the MCC station, you can use any Moscow metro pass (Troika, Ediny, 90 Minutes), as well as social cards. Within 90 minutes from the moment the ticket is validated, transition from the metro to the MCC and back is free. Payment for travel by bank cards is also provided.
MCC schemes
Three variants of MCC schemes have been developed for passengers. The first, in addition to the metro lines and MCC stations, indicates the stages of opening stations and transitions, the distance between transfer stations and the time it will take to transfer.
The second version of the diagram will help commuters find their way: the map shows railway stations, existing metro lines, as well as MCC stations and “warm” metro transfers.
The third diagram shows the stops of ground urban transport near the MCC stations, as well as the interval of its movement during rush hour. For example, from the Luzhniki platform of the MCC you can go to the Sportivnaya metro station in 2 minutes. Buses number 806, 64, 132 and 255 regularly run there, so getting to the right place won't be difficult.
In addition, the map shows all the main attractions of the city, forest parks and nature reserves. Many of them are within walking distance from the MCC, for example, Losiny Ostrov Park and the Vorobyovy Gory Nature Reserve.
Transplants
The MCC is integrated into the Moscow public transport system with the possibility of transfer to the metro, Moscow Railway trains and ground public transport.
From September 10, you can transfer from the MCC to the metro at 11 stations (“Business Center”, “Kutuzovskaya”, “Luzhniki”, “Lokomotiv”, “Gagarin Square”, “Vladykino”, “Botanical Garden”, “Rokossovsky Boulevard”, “ Voikovskaya”, “Shosse Entuziastov”, “Avtozavodskaya”), by train - on five (“Rostokino”, “Andronovka”, “Okruzhnaya”, “Business Center”, “Likhobory”).
By the end of 2016, the number of transfer hubs will increase to 14 and 6, respectively, and in 2018 there will be 17 transfers from the MCC to the metro and 10 to the train.
To make a free metro-MCC-metro transfer (within an interval of 90 minutes), you need to attach your metro travel document to the turnstile with a special yellow sticker at the entrance to the MCC station.
Passengers who are planning a trip only on the MCC or intend to make one metro transfer - MCC or vice versa, can apply their tickets to any turnstiles, including those without yellow stickers.
If you do not meet the 1.5 hour time limit, you will need to pay for the fare again when making a transfer.
Trains and intervals
New trains run on the MCC increased comfort“Swallow, capacity 1200 people. Their maximum speed is 160 kilometers per hour, they travel along the MCC at average speed 50 kilometers per hour.
The trains are equipped with air conditioning, dry closets, information panels, free Wi-Fi, sockets and bicycle racks.
The carriages open manually: to enter or exit, you need to press a special button installed on the doors. The buttons are active (green backlight) only after the train has stopped on the platform; at other times, the doors are locked for safety reasons.
In the morning and evening hours peak traffic interval is only 6 minutes. The rest of the time you need to wait for “Swallow” from 10 to 15 minutes.
Updating (activating) travel cards
In order to access the MCC using “90 minutes”, “United” for 20, 40 and 60 trips, “Troika” tickets purchased or topped up before September 1, 2016, you need to renew them. To do this, you can contact the metro or monorail ticket office, as well as the metro passenger agency (Boyarsky lane, 6) or service center"Moscow Transport" (Staraya Basmannaya St., 20, building 1).
Holders of a Strelka card to travel by train must exchange it at the metro ticket office for a card with the Troika application.
Activation is carried out without changing the balance of trips and the validity period of the ticket, while the new reprogrammed travel documents will allow free transfers from the metro to the MCC and back.
Also electronic card You can update Troika yourself by topping up your balance at ticket machines at stations, on the website troika.mos.ru, via SMS or at payment terminals. As for social cards, their activation is not required.
Help and navigation
To know detailed information For information on updating tickets, transfer hubs and navigation on the MCC, please contact consultants at the entrance to ring metro stations or at metro stations adjacent to the MCC. Volunteers will also help passengers navigate the new transport. A special mobile app, with which you can choose the optimal route.
Here you can see new ones convenient routes travel through the MCC.
MOSCOW, September 10. /TASS/. Passenger traffic opened today on the Moscow Central Circle (MCC, formerly MKR): 26 stations are available to citizens, from 11 of which you can go to the capital’s metro lines, from 5 to commuter train stops.
Muscovites explored the new land line with interest, the correspondent found out. TASS, having driven a full circle on the MCC.
"The ring passes through 26 districts of Moscow, where about 2 million people live. 30% of them live in walking distance from MCC stations. The above-ground metro will come to six districts for the first time; about 600 thousand Muscovites live there,” said Moscow Deputy Mayor for Transport Maxim Liksutov on the eve of the start of train traffic on the ring.
The swallows have flown
At 14:00 the first train, the red and gray Lastochka, arrives at the Luzhniki platform. The next station is "Kutuzovo" - announced by the director of the People's Museum of the Moscow Metro, Konstantin Cherkassky. “The start of traffic on the Moscow Circular Railway took place on July 19, 1908 at the Serebryany Bor station. Initially, the traffic was passenger, but then it did not take root,” Cherkassky’s voice takes us back to the past, when Moscow still fit inside that road, and therefore it was called district and no other.
More than a century later, passengers returned to the Moscow Circular Railway, now the Moscow Central Circle. Today, a full circle on the MCC took 82 minutes, the average travel time between stations was 3 minutes, and the interval between trains was 5-10 minutes. On trains comfortable temperature, the information boards indicate the current time, the air temperature inside the cabin, and the name of the station. Stations and transfers are announced in Russian and English; on the train you can charge your phone or read a special issue of the My Metro newspaper dedicated to the MCC.
It seems that the carriage is comfortable for everyone: families with strollers and dogs, pensioners, young people, passengers with scooters and bicycles. An hour after the opening of traffic along the ring, there is literally nowhere for an apple to fall in the carriage. Passengers exchange impressions, ask each other about tickets, transfer times, and study small maps that are handed out at the entrance to stations.
“Look, we live on Novokhokhlovskaya, and I’m going to work on Leninsky Prospekt. I’m driving through the Third Ring Road, the journey takes about an hour, or even an hour and a half. But if you leave the car and go here to Gagarin Square, it’s only a minute It will take 20 in total,” the husband says to his wife. The couple decided to take a ride around the ring with their three daughters and little dog Knopka.
Transplant and transplant are different
The transition from the Gagarin Square MCC station to the Leninsky Prospekt station is warm: you don’t need to go out into the street from the platform, the entrance to the metro is located right there. There are four more such transfers based on the “dry feet” principle: at the Cherkizovskaya, Kutuzovskaya, Vladykino and Mezhdunarodnaya metro stations. They will only take a couple of minutes. But at other stations, transferring to the metro or commuter trains takes longer.
From the Shelepikha station you can transfer to the Testovskaya railway station of the Belarusian direction, the transition takes 7 minutes, by the way, the MCC map indicates 9 minutes. True, there are no signs visible; you have to ask the MCC employees for directions. Fans of skyscrapers will love the transition - the Moscow City International Business Center is very close and clearly visible.
There are no turnstiles at Testovskaya; you can buy a train ticket at the ticket office, but it is located on the platform opposite the entrance. The return journey to Shelepikha took only 5 minutes. Local residents will most likely not be bothered by the lack of signs. This is true.
Delete
-
((fb))
-
Material added to “Favorites”
Remove material from Favorites?
Delete
Material removed from Favorites
Evgeny Razumny / Vedomosti
This coming Sunday, September 10, the Moscow Central Circle (MCC) will celebrate one year since the launch of the first trains. During this time, more than 93 million passengers used the line against the original plan of 75 million. The project has already cost Russian Railways (RZD), the federal and Moscow budgets approximately 140 billion rubles. And within 15 years, costs will reach 200 billion rubles. Investments in the project will never pay off, experts say. Why will this happen and should an infrastructure project of this scale necessarily pay off?
How much does MCC cost?
The return of passenger trains to the Moscow Circular Railway, which was canceled back in the 1930s, was dreamed of by ex-Mayor of Moscow Yuri Luzhkov for many years, but his successor Sergei Sobyanin managed to implement the project. Urban planning documentation and feasibility studies for the construction of a passenger railway and its accompanying infrastructure were ready back in the 2000s, recalls Sergei Tkachenko, former head of the Research and Development Institute for General Planning. And in 2008, the Moscow government and Russian Railways signed an agreement on the reconstruction of the freight railway into a passenger one.
However, the lack of funds delayed the start of work for three years, Tkachenko continues. The issue of financing was resolved only in 2011, after the appointment of a new mayor; for this, Sobyanin had to make such a request to the President of Russia, Moscow and federal officials told Vedomosti at the time.
The government contributed 72 billion rubles from the budget to the authorized capital of JSC Russian Railways. for the arrangement of the railway part of the MCC infrastructure. Moscow spent 20 billion rubles. for the construction of infrastructure of transport hubs and more than 25 billion rubles. for the reconstruction of the road network, overpasses and the liberation of territories around the MCC, says Roman Latypov, first deputy head for strategic development and client work of the Moscow Metro State Unitary Enterprise. This enterprise oversees the work of the MCC on behalf of the Moscow authorities, it provides all the service personnel (except for train drivers) for the ring and provides a unified ticket program with the metro.
The Metro also acts as a customer for passenger transportation services. A 15-year contract with Russian Railways will cost the capital 57.7 billion rubles, says Latypov.
To organize traffic on the MCC, Russian Railways purchased 33 Lastochka electric trains from Ural Locomotives (a joint venture between Siemens and Dmitry Pumpyansky’s Sinary). The Russian Railways representative refused to disclose the amount of investment and its return on investment. Based on the contract, one Lastochka train of five cars cost 8.7 million euros. Consequently, 33 trains could cost Russian Railways 19.2 billion rubles. (at the weighted average exchange rate for 2016 of 67 rubles). From May 1, 2017, the train service interval on the MCC was reduced from 6 to 5 minutes during peak hours and from 12 to 10 minutes at other times. Therefore, Russian Railways had to buy nine more trains with an estimated cost of 5.25 billion rubles.
Russian Railways did not calculate the return on investment in the project, assures a person close to the state-owned company. The contract turned out to be unprofitable, one of the Russian Railways consultants knows. The investment may never pay off, he adds.
The amount that Russian Railways receives under the contract with the Moscow government for servicing the MCC is 3.8 billion rubles. per year – not tied to passenger traffic. The company must provide a certain traffic interval, says Vladimir Savchuk, Deputy General Director of the Institute for Problems of Natural Monopolies (IPEM). The amount of payments includes the tariff for transportation on commuter trains in Moscow, which does not depend on the size of the investment, but is calculated based on the cost of infrastructure and currently amounts to 0.1% of it. According to PwC partner Dmitry Kovalev, in order to recoup the project in at least 10–15 years, the tariff must be at least 1.5 times higher.
Russian Railways received money for the project from the budget, the company does not need to return these investments, the city hall official objects. Direct costs of Russian Railways are the purchase of trains and their operation. Therefore, the profitability of transportation on the MCC is 8%, says a city hall official.
Return on investment does not come first, because this is a large infrastructure project, as follows from Latypov’s words. The main task of the MCC is to provide a transport alternative for citizens, and without subsidies for transportation there is not a single metro in the world, he says. Such transport projects have “a much more important effect - comfort of movement, saving travel time (on the MCC passengers save 9-11 minutes compared to traveling on other types of public transport) and the effect on the development of territories,” Latypov believes. Today, an MCC passenger costs the city 40% less than a metro passenger, a source in the mayor’s office points out, due to the new infrastructure and the ground location of the tracks. In addition, currently the MCC is only loaded at half its capacity; over time, its occupancy will increase.
It’s hardly possible to talk about the MCC’s payback in the foreseeable period of time, Tkachenko agrees: “Such projects provide exclusively indirect payback, transforming urban areas from secondary, degrading ones into investment-attractive ones. This is why budget funds exist - to contribute to the capitalization of the city, to increase the tax base.” Such projects cannot be assessed only from the point of view of the return of funds, agrees Savchuk. Like any infrastructure project, the MCC is aimed at developing the city and surrounding areas and increasing business activity. “The project is very large-scale, analogues in the world are not of urban, but of national significance,” explains Savchuk. “The implementation of the project provided orders for industry, designers, and created the opportunity for the implementation of modern and innovative solutions, for example, in the field of transportation automation.”
Who needs a ring
Before the launch of passenger traffic, the entire length of the MCC (54 km) became double-track; a third track for freight and technological traffic was built along 31 km. From each MCC station, passengers can transfer to ground urban transport; for this purpose, access roads, turning areas for buses and stops for passengers are organized on both sides of the railway. From the MCC you can make 14 transfers to metro stations and six to commuter trains. The new ring passes through 26 districts of Moscow with a population of 1.9 million people, says a representative of the Moscow Department of Transport. Residents of six of them (Metrogorodok, Beskudnikovsky, Koptevo, Kotlovka, Khoroshevo-Mnevniki and Nizhegorodsky) - about 500,000 people - previously had virtually no access to the metro, he adds.
Integration with the metro (the MCC and the metro have a single ticket system) has ensured explosive growth in traffic on the MCC, says Savchuk from IPEM. If there are questions about the return on investment in the MCC, then from the point of view of passenger traffic this is not just a successful, but an extremely successful project, the Russian Railways consultant is sure. It was planned that in the first year of operation the MCC would transport 75 million people, in 2020 – 170 million, and in 2030 – 300 million. The plan has already been exceeded. In less than a year, according to the Moscow Department of Transport, about 93 million people used the MCC.
How many new passengers were attracted to Moscow transport due to the MCC? Neither the mayor’s office nor the metro gives an answer to this question. Most likely we are talking about not very large quantities. The MCC absorbed some of the passengers from the metro and trains. Although, obviously, some car owners preferred “Swallows” to their own cars, a source in the mayor’s office believes.
New lines “almost do not add passenger traffic, they only redistribute it,” Tkachenko believes. But this is also good, since in general the level of comfort on the old lines, from where some passengers leave, is increasing, he points out.
61% of MCC passengers transferred from the metro, 26% from commuter trains, another 13% are residents of adjacent areas who get to the station on foot or by ground public transport. The final point of travel for approximately 30% of MCC passengers is areas near stations, the rest use Lastochkas instead of the Circle Line of the metro, says a representative of the Moscow Department of Transport.
There are a lot of so-called tourists on the MCC, Latypov notes. He also includes among them passengers who choose a longer journey compared to a shorter one by metro. For example, when a passenger travels from Luzhniki to Lokomotiv, instead of taking the metro from Sportivnaya to Cherkizovskaya. “The MCC offers a new level of service: stations with charging stations for mobile phones and other amenities; there are toilets in two cars of each train; the trip itself became more comfortable due to the silence and fewer people. The MCC is also more convenient for cyclists - they can enter the carriages without unhooking the front wheel, as in the metro,” explains Latypov.
Unloading was successful
Moscow authorities are pleased that the MCC has reduced the load on overloaded metro stations and city train stations. Thanks to the MCC, passengers do not have to go to ring metro stations to make a transfer, notes Latypov. According to him, the new transport route reduced the load on the busiest sections of the Circle Line metro by 15%, Sokolnicheskaya by 20%, Lyublinskaya by 14%, Filevskaya by 12%, Serpukhovsko-Timiryazevskaya by 5%. This is very important for the metro, because it increases the comfort of travel, notes Latypov.
At some previously unpopular metro stations, passenger traffic, on the contrary, has increased, unloading other stations. With the advent of the MCC, passenger traffic at the station. m. "Kutuzovskaya" grew 3.5 times from 8,000 to 29,000 people per day. Previously, according to the Moscow Metro, it was one of the 30 most unpopular metro stations in Moscow, but now it is unloading the Kievskaya station.
The load at Kazansky and Rizhsky stations has decreased by 30%, at Kursky - by 40%, at Yaroslavsky and Leningradsky - by 20%, says a representative of the transport department. Now MCC passengers can transfer to electric trains of the Oktyabrsky, Savelovsky, Yaroslavl, Kazan and Smolensky directions; integration with four more directions out of the remaining five is planned to be carried out before the end of 2018, promises a representative of Russian Railways. It is also planned to move a number of platforms in radial directions closer to the stations of the MCC (Okruzhnaya in the Savelovsk direction, Severyanin in the Yaroslavl direction and Leningradskaya in the Riga direction), as well as to build new stops and stations (Novokhokhlovskaya in the Kursk direction, Varshavskaya in the Pavelets direction, Karacharovo in the Gorky direction).
One of the main advantages of the MCC is that passengers do not have to go to train stations in the center and then transfer to the metro, says Latypov. He estimates there were 25 million such trips per year.
The development of the MCC should convince citizens to give up private cars. A study by the Research and Development Institute of the general plan, conducted in the 2000s, showed that when a metro station appears, the coefficient of use of public transport in the areas adjacent to it increases. In Moscow, only the metro and the Moscow Railways could solve this problem; the periodically proposed alternatives are not capable of this: bicycles, monorails, cable cars, balloons, etc., says Tkachenko. A representative of the Moscow Department of Transport gives the following example: four MCC stations (Botanical Garden, Lokomotiv, Luzhniki, Rokossovsky Boulevard) have parking lots with a total capacity of more than 650 parking spaces. Since the stations opened, more than 48,000 motorists have left their cars at these park-and-ride stations and transferred to the MCC, thus preventing these cars from reaching the city center.
Loading will be
Compared to the Moscow Metro, the MCC's share in traffic is negligible: in 2016, about 2.4 billion people used the metro, the MCC - 25 times less. The comparison is incorrect, because the MCC is just one of the metro lines, points out a representative of the Moscow Department of Transport. And in terms of daily passenger traffic, the MCC has already overtaken some branches.
Tkachenko is confident that over time the load on the MCC will increase. Any highway that has just been put into operation does not fill up immediately, he says, recalling the free Third Transport Ring in the first year of its launch. Latypov cites the example of the London DLR (Docklands Light Railway), a light metro that, among other things, connected the Docklands area with the city center. The DLR currently has 45 stations and the network length is 34 km. In 1987, the first year after its launch, 17 million people used the line. Now more than 101.5 million passengers use it, says Latypov. Docklands was a port area and today it is the business center of London.
It is a railway ring laid along the outskirts of Moscow. In the diagram, the small ring of the Moscow Circle railway looks like a closed line. Construction of the ring was completed in 1908. Until 1934 the railway was used for freight and passenger transportation, and after 1934 - only for freight. It is a connecting link between ten federal railways departing from the city in all directions. Since September 2016, it has also been used for intracity passenger transportation related to the functioning of the Moscow Metro, which was reflected in the layout of the Moscow Ring Railway stations.
Modern reconstruction of the Moscow Ring Railway
From 2012 to 2016, the Moscow Ring Railway was adapted for domestic passenger transportation, which led to significant change Moscow Ring Road schemes. The work was carried out with federal funds, as well as with funds from JSC Russian Railways, private companies and the Moscow government. During the reconstruction process, the railway tracks were replaced with new ones, major renovation bridges, stopping points for electric trains were built, another track was laid, intended for freight transport. At the end of 2016, the work was almost completed.
A total of 31 stopping stations were reconstructed (the diagram of the Moscow Ring Railway with stations under construction is presented above). Each station had its own individual project, platforms were built.
Launch of the first electric trains
The first launch of an electric train in order to check the readiness of the railway was carried out in May 2016 on one of the sections of the Moscow Ring Railway, and in July 2016, after completion of construction, along the entire length of the railway. The main electric train running along the route was the ES2G Lastochka. Conventional electric trains were also used Russian production. With their use, some problems arose related to the discrepancy between the width of the cars and the electric locomotive classic models with the distance between the tracks and the platform on the Moscow Ring Road. As a result, the platform at Streshneva station even had to be shifted a little to the side.
The first passenger electric train passed along the line on September 10, 2016, after which passenger trains began to operate regularly. The movement of freight trains was reduced, especially during the daytime, when electric trains are actively running. The line is also used for the movement of individual long-distance trains that bypass Moscow. The movement of steam-powered excursion trains was stopped.
Infrastructure and layout of the Moscow Ring Railway
The railway ring of the Moscow Circle includes 2 main railway lines classified as electrified. There is another third railway track running along the north of the ring, which is used for freight transport. The total length of the railway ring is 54 km. Some sections of other tracks are still not electrified.
The Moscow Ring Railway scheme is designed in such a way that it has connecting branches that allow trains to be moved between the ring railway and the radial branches of the federal railway routes. They consist of either one or two tracks (see the MKR transfer diagram). Not all of them are equipped with feeding power lines. There are branches from the freight tracks of the railway ring to the objects industrial production. There is also one branch for communication with the tram depot.
In total, the MKR scheme has 31 operating platforms for domestic passenger transportation and 12 stations for freight purposes. There is 1 tunnel 900 m long.
Stations and platforms on the Moscow Ring Road map
The stations were founded in 1908 and were originally used to handle freight traffic. Between them there were separate stops.
In the inner part of the railway ring there are now unused classic stations with station-type buildings built at the beginning of the 20th century. Previously passing along them railway track used for passenger transport. Modern stations can be seen on the map of the Moscow Ring Railway with stations under construction.
WITH outside From the Moscow Ring Railway, entrances for parking of freight trains and buildings intended for railway work were built. All this is used to form freight trains.
In 2017, the total number of stations in use (see the diagram of MKR stations) was 12 units. Of these, 4 are located on sections of branches from the Moscow Ring Road. These include: Novoproletarskaya, Northern Post.
There are 31 stopping points for city electric trains on the railway ring. These stations are passenger platforms that were built between 2012 and 2016 during the modern reconstruction of the Moscow Ring Railway. Unlike stops related to radial main lines railway, these have the status of intracity and are equipped accordingly. They operate as public transport stops with single tickets for them.
Bridges on the Moscow Ring Road
There are a total of 6 operating bridges, 4 of which cross the Moscow Circle. The Moscow Ring Railway also crosses 32 highways and railways.
Traffic along the Moscow Ring Road
At the moment, traffic on the Moscow Ring Railway is carried out by electric trains ES2G “Lastochka”. It consists of 5 modern passenger cars, and in the coupled version - of 10 cars. In the future, the use of other locomotives (domestic production) is not excluded.
Diesel locomotives are still mainly used for freight transportation. However, the main railway lines are now electrified and allow the use of electric locomotives for transit movement. Thanks to this, it is possible to move passenger and freight trains from one transit radial line railways to another.