Rizhsky suburban railway line

Rizhsky Suburban Railway
A CSPC EP2D train traversing on the Rizhsky suburban railway line.
Overview
Native name	Рижское направление Московской железной дороги
Status	Operational
Owner	Russian Railways
Locale	Moscow and Moscow Oblast
Termini	Shakhovskaya Moscow Rizhsky
Stations	44
Service
Type	Commuter rail
System	Moscow Railway Moscow Central Diameters (Rizhsky–Nakhabino)
Operator(s)	Central Suburban Passenger Company Russian Railways
History
Opened	30 June 1901 (1901-06-30)
Technical
Line length	155 km (96 mi)
Track gauge	1,520 mm (4 ft 11+27⁄32 in) Russian gauge
Electrification	3 kV DC overhead line
Route map Legend to Rzhev Shakhovskaya 149 km Bukholovo 141 km Blagoveshchenskoye 133 km Volokolamsk Dubosekovo Matryonino Chismena Lesodolgorukovo 91 km Ustinovka Novopetrovskaya Rumyantsevo Kursakovskaya Yadroshino 73 km Kholshchyoviki Chekhovskaya Novoiyerusalimskaya Istra Troitskaya Moscow Outer Ring Railway‎‎ Manikhino I Moscow Outer Ring Railway‎ 50 km Snegiri Miitovskaya Dedovsk Malinovka Pavlovskaya Sloboda Nakhabino Anikeyevka Opalikha Krasnogorskaya Pavshino Penyagino Volokolamskaya Trikotazhnaya Tushinskaya Pokrovskoye-Streshnevo Streshnevo Krasny Baltiyets Grazhdanskaya Dmitrovskaya Moscow Rizhsky passenger and freight station passenger and freight station with interchange to other lines passenger only station passenger only station with interchange to other lines

The Rizhsky suburban railway line (Russian: Рижское направление Московской железной дороги) is one of eleven suburban railway lines used for connections between Moscow, Russia, and surrounding areas, mostly in Moscow Oblast. The Rizhsky suburban railway line connects Moscow with the station in the northwest, in particular, with the towns of Krasnogorsk, Dedovsk, Istra, and Volokolamsk. The stations the line serves are located in Moscow, as well as in the towns of Krasnogorsk, Istra, Volokolamsk, and the urban-type settlement of Shakhovskaya in Moscow Oblast. Some of the suburban trains have their southeastern terminus at Streshnevo and Moscow Rizhsky railway station in Moscow, others commute from the Kursky suburban railway line. In the northwestern direction, the suburban trains terminate at Nakhabino, Dedovsk, Novoiyerusalimskaya, Rumyantsevo, Volokolamsk, and Shakhovskaya.^[1] The suburban railway line is served by the Moscow Railway subsidiary of Russian Railways with the join stock of CSPC. The tracks between Moscow Rizhsky railway station and Nakhabino are also used by Line D2, one of the Moscow Central Diameters.

The suburban railway line follows the railway which connects Moscow with Riga via Rzhev and Velikiye Luki. It is electrified between Moscow and Shakhovskaya. Between Moscow and Volokolamsk, there are two tracks, west of Volokolamsk there is one track.^[2] The distance between Rizhsky railway station and Shakhovskaya is 155 kilometres (96 mi).