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Russian Railways Holding will change the procedure for displaying arrival and departure times on travel documents for long-distance and suburban trains. From August 1, 2018, only local time will be indicated on train tickets, which corresponds to the time zone of departure of the passenger, Russian Railways reported.

At the present time, the forms record the Moscow time of arrival and departure, as well as local time.
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“For the convenience of passengers, the time of arrival and departure will be indicated on the travel documents, specifying how many hours it differs from Moscow. Information on local arrival and departure times will also be displayed on information boards in trains, on platform signs and station electronic clocks, ”the message says.

That is, in fact, from August 1, 2018, the age-old tradition of Moscow time on Russian Railways is becoming a thing of the past. No, of course, all dispatching, service schedules and schedules will remain at the uniform Moscow time, but an ordinary passenger will no longer see all this. It will be like in aviation, where dispatching is carried out according to UTC, but few passengers know about it.

Why did Russian Railways abandon this tradition? Here, in my opinion, there are three main reasons.

Reason # 1. Formal.

There is a decree of the Government of the Russian Federation of 01/08/1992 N 23 (as amended on 08/31/2011) "On the procedure for calculating time on the territory of the Russian Federation", the 5th paragraph of which reads:

"... the movement of railway, water and intercity road transport open for public use, as well as the operation of intercity telephone and telegraph communication in the territory of the Russian Federation is carried out according to Moscow time. The movement of air transport is carried out according to universal time. Informing the population about the work of transport and communication means is carried out according to the time established in a given area."

That is, there is a government decree that must be implemented. This is the law. The only strange thing is that, as it turned out, Russian Railways ignored him for more than 25 years ... However, in Russia there are a lot of strange things with laws ...

Reason # 2. Struggle for the client.

Many will say: "Where is the struggle here, the passenger needs speed and comfort, and what time is in the schedules - do not care." To a regular passenger, yes, they are accustomed to this feature of Russian Railways and are almost not confused. But those who rarely use the railway may not know about Moscow time in the schedule. Having made a mistake once, he, of course, will get negative, and the likelihood that he will use the railway next time becomes lower.
But these little bricks make up the overall prestige of the railway.

It is not for nothing that the majority of suburban companies, whose passenger transportation is not a small side activity, but the main income, switched to local time in their schedules back in the early 2000s. Moreover, they even show dependence: the better things are with suburban transportation in the region, the earlier they transferred the schedule to local time. And vice versa, in regions where local authorities and Russian Railways have long been hammered into the suburbs, the Moscow time in the schedule of the remaining electric trains has been preserved to this day. These are, for example, the Trans-Baikal Territory and the Chelyabinsk Region. Is that the Sverdlovsk region here is some exception: the suburbs are gradually developing, in particular, there are accelerated flights to neighboring cities (Nizhniy Tagil, Kamensk-Uralsky, etc.), but their schedule is still Moscow time.

Seyatel station (Novosibirsk), schedule. Long-distance trains - Moscow time, suburban - local (MSK + 4).

Placard at the suburban train station in Chelyabinsk. Moscow time and 0 (zero) electric trains next hours ...

I also note that now Russian Railways is trying to follow the path of Europe and develop multimodal transportation based on the connection of various types of transport (train + electric train, train + bus, train + plane, etc.). When buses, commuter trains, aviation write to timetables at one time, and long-distance trains at another, it is not very convenient for passengers to perceive this, errors are possible due to incorrect time zone definition at the docking point, or when recalculating.

Reason # 3 (push). Change of time zones in the regions of the Volga region and the FIFA World Cup.

In 2016, several regions of the Volga region changed their time zone, moving from Moscow time (where they lived for 25-30 years) one hour ahead. They received a more comfortable light regime, but many residents were not ready for the difference with Moscow. Since they have long been accustomed to living in the same time zone as the capital, some people have atrophied in their heads the “firmware” with the perception and processing of 2 or more time zones. The recalculation from local time to Moscow time and vice versa turned out to be too difficult for such people, and they began to write indignant letters to Russian Railways. The latter went to meet them and in the middle of last year introduced a double time in railway tickets (about this I), and now, apparently, they are completing the reform.

There is also a version that the reform was carried out because of the FIFA World Cup, so that foreign guests would not get confused. But here the terms do not converge. The date announced by Russian Railways for the transfer of schedules to local time is August 1, 2018, and the championship will last from June 15 to July 15, 2018. However, it is possible that in the cities hosting the 2018 World Cup, the schedule reform will be carried out a couple of months earlier. We will see...

Wouldn't the refusal of the uniform Moscow time in the schedules create more problems and inconveniences?

Such statements in connection with this reform are already being heard and sometimes quite active. I will analyze the most common:

1. Local time in timetables in a country with more than 10 time zones can lead to desynchronization of the railway and, as a result, failures, accidents and crashes.

This is all either a lack of understanding of the principles of the railway, or deliberate speculation. The entire internal "kitchen" of the railway has always worked and will work at a single time, so there will be no desynchronization. What is displayed for passengers does not affect the internal dispatching in any way, neither in suburban transportation, nor in aviation (where information has been conducted in local time for a long time), so far not a single crash has been recorded for this reason.

2. A train is not an airplane, it has intermediate stops in different time zones, passengers on the way will be confused without a single time.

Here it is worth examining the situation in more detail. First, first of all, you should answer the question, how many passengers cross time zones during the trip at least once?
At first, I honestly tried to find statistics of passenger flows by destination in order to count the number of passengers across time zones, but in vain. Therefore, only the most general figures. According to the Russian Railways' countdown data for 2016 (see here), 101.4 million passengers used long-distance trains (of which 9.2 were in high-speed traffic). Passenger turnover of long-distance trains amounted to 93.5 billion passenger-kilometers (of which 4.6 in high-speed traffic). High-speed traffic in Russia is available only in one time zone, so we are obviously not interested, if we discard it and divide the passenger traffic by passenger traffic, it turns out that the average trip length is 964 kilometers.
And now we are looking at a map or reference book: the average distance between the boundaries of time zones when moving along the Trans-Siberian Railway is 1200 - 1800 km. The only exceptions are Samara (MSK + 1) and Omsk (MSK + 3) time zones, which are about 170 and 330 km, respectively, but these are very small regions in terms of population. That is, it turns out that the average passenger does not even reach the time zone border. Why does a passenger need Moscow time on a trip if he is traveling from Khabarovsk to Vladivostok, from Taishet to Irkutsk, from Novosibirsk to Krasnoyarsk or from Perm to Tyumen? It is definitely more convenient for such a passenger to see the local time in the schedule.

photo by Andrey Yablonsky

Even if a passenger crosses one time zone during the trip, it is hardly more convenient for him to use Moscow time for this, it is easier to set the clock once - and that's it. And only for those who travel through 2 zones or more, it may be more convenient to navigate on a trip according to the uniform Moscow time than to remember where the time zone boundaries are and each time to translate the clock along them. But are there many such passengers? According to my observations, even in long-distance Trans-Siberian trains of the type №99 / 100 Moscow - Vladivostok there are less than half of them. And on other directions there are simply no such a priori, because almost nowhere else is there more than one hour border on the route. That is, the real share of such passengers, I think, is about a percent. You must admit that it is illogical to do what is convenient for a very small, highly specific group (which, moreover, will only decrease as aviation develops), to the detriment of the rest.

3. Yes, they are toying with nonsense, everyone has long been accustomed to it and no one gets confused. Unless the "victims of the exam" can not add / subtract several hours to convert from Moscow to local and vice versa.

Well, first of all, the "victims of the exam" are people too, and Russian Railways, as passengers, are also important. And secondly, it is a myth that no one gets confused. At a minimum, those who rarely use the railway are often mistaken, as well as residents of the Moscow time zone, having found themselves outside it for the first time, these categories are simply not aware of this feature of Russian Railways.
But sometimes experienced people seem to be mistaken. Yes, due to absent-mindedness, inattention, accident, but nevertheless it happens. For example, a friend of mine, planning a transfer from train to train, incorrectly determined the time zone at the transfer point (it changed a couple of months before, but she did not know). As a result, when the train arrived, the train had already left. This is how the error knocked the trip down a bit. And it would be local time in the train schedule, such an error would not have happened.
Another friend of mine bought a ticket for a train that leaves in the middle of the night. He correctly counted from Moscow time to local time, but did not take into account that the ticket had to be bought for "yesterday" date (when it is 2:50 in Novosibirsk, in Moscow it is still "yesterday"). I discovered this error only when landing (when it turned out that his place was taken). Since the trip was planned for a specific event, it partially lost its meaning ... Yes, in some way, of course, it is my own fault, you need to be more careful, but nevertheless, difficulties arise because of this for many.

4. Now the conductors, when crossing the border, will have to reset the time on the board inside the cars each time. Excessive troubles will probably be forgotten at times.

Perhaps this is the only real problem. But, firstly, it is still not worth dramatizing, when moving from west to east, on average, hourly borders go after 21 hours (I counted for the fastest train №1 / 2 "Russia"). Additional fuss almost once a day for a couple of minutes will obviously not overload the conductor with work. Yes, at first they will probably make mistakes and forget, but I think after 2 - 3 flights they will get used to it and will do it automatically.
Well, in the future, of course, you need to make this function automatic, with synchronization via GPS-Glonass.

5. And what about the places where the railway runs along the timeline and "jumps" into one time zone, then into another several times over a short distance?

There are only a few such places throughout Russia (for example, the Agryz - Naberezhnye Chelny section) and there is no heavy passenger traffic anywhere through them, mostly only local. I think that for such lines you need to decide on an individual basis, for example, in the schedules, indicate both time zones.

That's all. I hope I convinced that the planned reform is really reasonable and that most passengers will feel a little more comfortable. Yes, of course, it is a little sad and a pity for the age-old tradition, which was even sung by some foreigners traveling around Russia, but the railway needs to develop. In the meantime, take pictures of Moscow time on station clocks and scoreboards, as well as in timetables in long-distance train carriages - it will soon be history.

Suburban trains in Moscow leave from nine stations, each of which serves one or more destinations. Depending on the route and time of departure, the movement of electric trains is carried out daily or only on certain days. Additional electric trains are usually provided on weekends and holidays. As a rule, electric trains start their movement at about 4.00 and end after midnight. The Moscow electric train schedule provides for high-speed express trains of high comfort to run on suburban routes.

Moscow-Belorusskaya provides the movement of suburban electric trains running in the Belarusian direction. Trains of this direction make a stop at the stations: Vyazma, Gagarin, Odintsovo, Kubinka, Golitsyno, Zvenigorod, Borodino, Mozhaisk and others. Transit electric trains of the Savelovsky and Kursk directions follow through it. It also serves the Aeroexpress train to Sheremetyevo Airport.

Suburban trains depart from the Kazan railway station in the Kazan and Ryazan directions, respectively, to Murom and Ryazan. Their route passes through the stations of Lyubertsy, Cherusti, Panki, Vinogradovo, Kurovskaya, Gzhel, Bykovo, Shatura, Ramenskoye, Golutvin and others.

Kievsky railway station accepts suburban trains of the Kiev direction - to the stations Kaluga-1, Kaluga-2 and back. Intermediate stations are Kresty, Solnechnaya, Bekasovo, Nara, Aprelevka, Lesnoy Gorodok and Maloyaroslavets. In addition, Aeroexpress trains leave from here to Vnukovo Airport.

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Suburban trains depart from the Paveletsky railway station in the Paveletsky direction to the stations Biryulevo, Uzunovo, Stupino, Domodedovo, Mikhnevo, Kashira and others. In addition, an Aeroexpress train departs from the station to the Domodedovo airport.

Rizhsky railway station sends suburban trains in the direction of Riga and back. The main stops along the way: Volokolamsk, Pavshino, Rumyantsevo, Novoierusalimskaya, Dedovsk, Nakhabino, Shakhovskaya and others.

Savelovsky railway station serves suburban trains to Dubna with stops in settlements - Dmitrov, Lobnya, Dolgoprudny, Taldom and others. Aeroexpress trains are also moving: Lobnya station is the place of transfer to buses going to Sheremetyevo airport. The movement of buses and aeroexpress trains has been agreed. The train schedule also includes transit trains of the Smolensk-Belorussian direction.

From the Yaroslavsky railway station, suburban trains run in the Yaroslavl direction to the settlements of the Moscow and Vladimir regions. The route passes through the stations Mytishchi, Korolev, Pushkino, Fryazino, Shchelkovo, Sergiev Posad, Krasnoarmeysk, Khotkovo, Aleksandrov, Balakirevo and others.

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