| Russia | |||||
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| Operation | |||||
| Major operators | Russian Railways | ||||
| Statistics | |||||
| Ridership | 570,80 million passenger trips (2023) [1] | ||||
| Passenger km | 56 billion passenger-kilometers (2023) [1] | ||||
| Freight | 619 million tons (2023) [1] | ||||
| System length | |||||
| Total | 122,000 km (75,800 mi) | ||||
| Electrified | 44,100 km (27,400 mi) | ||||
| Track gauge | |||||
| Main | 1,520 mm (4 ft 11+27⁄32 in) | ||||
| Features | |||||
| No. stations | 13,000 (2023) | ||||
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Rail transport in Russia runs on one of the biggest railway networks in the world. Russian railways are the third longest by length and third by volume of freight hauled, after the railways of the United States and China. In overall density of operations (freight ton-kilometers + passenger-kilometers)/length of track, Russia is second only to China. Rail transport in Russia has been described as one of the economic wonders of the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries.[2]
JSC Russian Railways has a near-monopoly on long-distance train travel in Russia, with a 98.6% market share in 2017.[3] Independent long-distance carriers include Grand Service Express TC, Tverskoy Express, TransClassService, Sakhalin Passenger Company, Kuzbass Suburb, and Yakutian Railway.[3]
- ^ a b c (Russian) РЖД в цифрах
- ^ Intro adapted from Russell Pittman, "Blame the Switchman? Russian Railways Restructuring After Ten Years," working paper, Antitrust Division, U.S. Department of Justice, 2011. Blame the Switchman? Russian Railways Restructuring After Ten Years
- ^ a b "Passenger transportation" (PDF). Concise Annual Report 2017. Russian Railways. Retrieved 6 October 2018.