This is train we had a few days ago, which is painted from outside with some flowers. It seems that there is another interesting fact about it – they have picture gallery so the passengers could get a feeling of a museum visit during their ride from home to office.
That’s pretty cool! That doesn’t look like the Moscow Metro though. Which city is it? My guess is Nizhny Novgorod.
It does look like the Moscow Metro.
It IS the moscow metro
One of the photos says “Kurskaya station” – that pretty much nails it down.
YEY! i love statistics…not
Numbers of Moscow Metro
Latest numbers from official site.
Passengers 2475.6 million passengers
— privileged category 917.3 million passengers
—— students and schoolchildren 254.6 million passengers
Maximum daily ridership 9142.5 thousand passengers
Revenue from fares (2005) 15997.4 million rubles
Route length 278.8 km
Number of lines 12
Longest line Serpukhovsko-Timiryazevskaya Line (41.2 km)
Shortest line Kakhovskaya Line (3.3 km)
Longest section Volgogradskiy Prospekt–Tekstilshchiki (3.4 km)
Shortest section Delovoy Tsentr–Mezhdunarodnaya (502 m)
Number of stations 172
— transfer stations 57
— transfer points 26
— surface/elevated 14
Deepest station Park Pobedy (84 m)
Most shallow underground station Pechatniki
Station with the longest platform Vorobyevy Gory (282 m)
Number of stations with a single entrance 69
Total number of entrances 266
— with surface vestibules 118
Total area of cladding 754.3 thousand sq. m.
— with marble tiles 340.1 thousand sq. m.
— with granite tiles 68.6 thousand sq. m.
— with different tiles 210.7 thousand sq. m.
— Other cladding materials 134.9 thousand sq. m.
Number of turnstiles with automatic control on entrances 2362
Number of stations with escalators 121
Number of escalators 616
— including Monorail stations 18
Total length of all escalator 65.2 km
Number of depots 15
Total number of train runs per day 9915
Average speed:
— commercial 41.71 km/h
— technical (2005) 48.85 km/h
Total number of cars (average per day) 4428
Cars in service (average per day) 3397
Total run of cars 679.6 million car-kilometres
— with passengers 649.5 million car-kilometres
Average run of cars per day 548.1 car-kilometres
Average passengers per car 53 people
Longest escalator 126 m (Park Pobedy)
Total number of ventilation shafts 393
Number of local ventilation systems in use 4965
Number of medical assistance points (2005) 46
Total number of employees 34792 people
— males 18291 people
— females 16448 people
Timetable fulfilment 99.96 %
Minimum average interval 90 sec
Average passenger trip 13.0 km
Overall, slightly better dressed and groomed passengers than what I have seen in my part of the world.
Wonderful! This says a lot about Russian values and culture.
That is the difference between the capitalists and socialists ( who cares about the cost) it is just brilliant preserves national calture,
Why am I stressing you would not understand as there is not any calture in your country
Yes, it is a wonderful and an original idea, if not a bit impractical for Moscow metro. May be they use this train off-peak hours and on certain roots (i.e. less prone to vandalism) As to the “calture”, Alex, one of the attributes of culture is being tolerant and I don’t think you are here. Often you can prove your point ( and you do have one, I agree) if you approach the discussion in a less confrontational manner
This is really unusual!
The one who came up with this idea is brilliant.
How does it cope with the rush hour? Or is there none at all?
i’ve never seen this train. but i think thats a wonderful idea but NOT for Moscow metro really)
Actually this looks very good 🙂 Didn’t think that moscow subway is that clean
although your name tells you might be russian,but I really doubt it!
in russia no one would do something like vandalizm to such a beautiful public property!
This train runs on my subway line, I get it every week.
It was painted in honor of Child Protection Day last year.
Coooooool