- Security screening at the entrance to the station (in Moscow)
- If the station is unfamiliar, it is not immediately possible to navigate where to go (especially, at large stations, and where suburban trains leave from)
- Trains are very long. You can walk to your carriage for 5-10 minutes
- It is better to be one of the first to come to your place in order to calmly decompose .
In my opinion, of course, it is better to arrive at the station in an hour, or even an hour and a half, since you still have to go through security checks, and choose a place that you personally like, it is better not to be late, you never know what delays in documents may arise, and you can solve everything in an hour and calmly set off on the road.
It is important to know the time of arrival of the train and the time the train stops at the station; you also need to take into account the travel time to the railway station (rush hour, traffic jams).
Before the train arrives, the optimal time of arrival at the railway station is 30 minutes since after arrival, you will have time to show tickets to the conductor, get bed linen (if the trip is long-distance) and calmly sit in your place.
In order to calmly get into the car and take your place without any problems, it is best to arrive in advance, considering the possibility of wasting time in traffic jams. We leave the house an hour before the train arrives at the station, although there are only four stops by public transport. Five minutes walk to the stop, if there are no traffic jams, then ten minutes drive. With traffic jams, it sometimes happens longer, up to 25 minutes. But in any case, we get to the station before the train arrives.
Of course, you can leave later, but suddenly then you have to be nervous and afraid to be late.
But we sat for a while at the station, heard the announcement on which platform the train was arriving and calmly walk out to it.
A quarter of an hour before departure.
This is how long it takes to find out which platform the train is leaving from and to get there.
Usually the train is already ready for boarding, and it will be time to sit down and decompose.
If the station is large, then it is advisable to arrive there half an hour before the expected departure.
We always count on arriving at the station 30-40 minutes before departure.
Much of course depends on how long the train takes to park.
In our city, trains run for 20-25 minutes.
Therefore, you need to arrive 5-10 minutes earlier than this time to see which track and platform the train will come to.
We went on an excursion to a small town, so there the train stood for only 3 minutes, we just managed to find the carriage and jump in, we didn't even check the tickets.
Therefore, there was no point in arriving half an hour in advance. It was possible to arrive 10 minutes before departure.
We try to arrive at the train station an hour before the train leaves. But this is because the city where we live is large and trains stand at the station for 30 or 40 minutes. The carriages are filled with water, food is loaded into the restaurant, parcels and letters are loaded into the mail cars.
Therefore, if you arrive half an hour before departure, then the train will already be at the platform, the first passengers have already entered the cars and will have to wait until they pack their suitcases and accommodate themselves.
Usually we take tickets in advance, we choose the lower seats. If you arrive at the station before the train arrives, you can be among the first to enter the carriage and it will no longer be so that someone has already put their suitcases in the locker under the lower shelf. You will have to ask your fellow travelers to remove them, but you don't want to start a trip with conflicts.
Once I read the rules at the railway station, I was just sitting in front of the stand, it was written there that arrival at the station for passengers in order to avoid being late, there should be in 30-40 minutes.
But I usually do it in an hour, so as not to rush, look around, find an exit to the platform and buy something that I did not have time to travel (this happened more than once).
If you are going on a foreign trip and you also need to go through passport control at the station, then it is better to arrive at the railway station an hour before departure.
If you have a trip within the country (the so-called domestic flight), then you can arrive at the station 25-30 minutes before the train leaves.
It will be best if you arrive at the railway station in 40 minutes. And no rush.
I consider it optimal to arrive in 40 minutes.
Single train tickets are of two types: one-way travel and one round-trip.
Validity
A one-way train ticket is valid for one trip during the date indicated on it, as well as for one hour of the next day.
According to the rules of carriage, a return ticket is valid for one trip from 00:00 hours of the day indicated on the ticket, not less than until the end of the next day.
On AO trains « Central PPK "and JSC « Moscow-Tverskaya PPK "(as of 2018) the validity of the return ticket exceeds the minimum - the ticket is valid until the end of the next day, excluding weekends and holidays.
Having bought a round-trip ticket in Moscow on Friday, you can go back on it on Friday, Saturday, Sunday and even Monday.
Having bought a ticket in Moscow on Saturday, you can go back on Saturday, Sunday or Monday.
If the ticket expires on the route, it is extended until the train arrives at the destination station indicated in the ticket.
Discount tickets
Discount tickets (discounted or no cash) can usually only be purchased on the day of travel. When buying a ticket and en route, you must have with you all the necessary documents confirming the availability of the privilege.
Federal beneficiaries - residents of Moscow and the Moscow region, as well as regional beneficiaries of Moscow can, as a rule, issue free tickets for 10 (or less) days at the box office of the Central and Moscow-Tver suburban passenger companies, subject to the availability of a social card.
Regional beneficiaries of St. Petersburg and the region can also purchase a ticket on the day preceding the trip.
Discount tickets are issued at the box office, as well as in self-service terminals (not at all stations and not in all regions).
Please note: free travel does not mean free travel. Passengers entitled to free travel are required to issue a cash-free ticket at the box office or in the terminal before the start of the trip. When issuing a ticket directly on the train, or at the ticket office after the end of the trip, the carrier has the right to collect a fee for issuing a travel document (usually 50-200 rubles), except in the absence of a ticket office and terminal at the station (stopping point) of departure.
Subscription tickets
As well as single tickets, they can be issued at ticket offices and self-service terminals.
On the Leningradskoye direction (Moskovsko-Tverskaya PPK), season tickets can also be issued via the Suburban Ticket mobile application.
Please note that the start date of the subscription is indicated when purchasing (default is the current day) and it cannot be changed.
"Working day"
Such passes are issued for 10, 15, 20, 25 calendar days in a row and for 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 12 months. On the directions of JSC "Central PPK" in Moscow and the region, "working day" passes are issued only for 1 and 3 months.
On ordinary electric trains of JSC Central "PPK" for cases when travel through the Moscow region and Moscow (with the exception of routes within the "old" Moscow) is carried out within one zone, or when the number of crossing the boundaries of tariff zones (both zones belong to Moscow or the region) is equal to one, the subscription is not issued.
This type of subscription is valid only on weekdays.
When transferring weekends / holidays and working days such tickets:
valid on weekends declared as working days,
invalid on non-business days.
A subscription, issued for the number of months, is usually valid for travel within 30, 60, 90, 120, 150, 180, 360 calendar days, respectively.
"Daily"
These subscriptions are issued for 5, 10, 15, 20, 25 days and 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 12 months.
On the directions of JSC « Tsentralnaya PPK "of Moscow and the region, subscriptions are issued only for 10 days and 1, 3, 12 months. For high-speed electric trains, subscriptions for 5 days are also issued.
On ordinary trains JSC «
Central PPK " for cases when travel through the Moscow region and Moscow (with the exception of routes within the "old" Moscow) is carried out within one zone, or when the number of crossing the boundaries of tariff zones (both zones belong to Moscow or the region) is equal to one, the subscription is issued only for 10 days.
On ordinary trains JSC « Central PPK " a 10-day pass is not issued for sections where per-kilometer tariffication is valid (for example, BMO).
This type of subscription is valid during the entire validity period indicated on the ticket, on all days of the week.
When registering this type of subscription for 1 month at the box office of JSC "Central PPK" from a station that is not included in the zone « Big Moscow ", to the nearest head station in Moscow, the passenger has the right to a free subscription for the same card. To do this, you need to ask the cashier to arrange travel through the "Big Moscow" (free of charge).
A subscription, issued for the number of months, is usually valid for travel within 30, 60, 90, 120, 150, 180, 360 calendar days, respectively.
"Day off"
Such a subscription, as a rule, is issued for only 30 days. It acts on:
weekends and holidays,
on the day before a weekend or holiday,
a day after a weekend or holiday.
This type of subscription is not issued for routes within the old territory of the city of Moscow (with the exception of the Leningrad direction), on the sections of JSC "Central PPK" with per-kilometer billing (including BMO), as well as in some other regions. A weekend pass for satellites and other fast suburban trains is also not issued.
"By the number of trips"
A subscription is issued only for routes, the stations of departure and destination of which are equipped with automatic turnstiles or other technical means of reading the completed trips.
This type of subscription can be issued in all directions of Moscow and St. Petersburg, in most other regions this type of subscription is not provided.
They are issued for 10, 20, 60, 90 trips.
Subscriptions for 10 and 20 trips must be used within 30 days, for 60 and 90 trips - for a longer period (the exact period depends on the carrier). On the directions of JSC "Central PPK" in Moscow and the region, a subscription for 90 trips is not issued, a subscription for 60 trips is valid for 120 days.
This subscription, like all others, can be issued in advance (up to 30 days). The start date of the subscription must be announced to the cashier (or selected in the self-service terminal) upon purchase.
For this type of subscription, the trip should start from the station where the turnstiles are installed (this can be any intermediate station or stopping point within the route, but with turnstiles). In this case, the card must be brought to the turnstile to "open" the trip. If this is not done, the trip will be considered a ticketless, you will have to pay the full cost of the trip and the service. At the exit, the turnstile may also not open if there is no entry mark on the map.
Exit at the destination station must be made no later than 4 hours after entry. Otherwise, the trip may be “closed” and when brought to the turnstile at the exit, the turnstile will not open, or another trip will be written off.
Please note that if the exit turnstile does not work, then you must bring the card to the same turnstile again, otherwise another trip may be charged.
"On dates"
This pass is issued for any dates chosen by the passenger - from 5 to 16 dates.
It can also be issued for even and odd dates (from 14 to 16 dates, depending on the month).
All dates must be within the same calendar month.
At the training ground of JSC Central PPK, this type of subscription is issued only for corporate clients and employees of JSC Russian Railways.
"Big Moscow"
It gives the right to make an unlimited number of trips in all directions within the "Greater Moscow" zone within 30 days. ...
Issued for 30 days, cost 1750 rubles.
This pass is not valid for travel on satellites and other fast commuter trains.
Megapolis Plus (only for Kazan and Kiev directions of Moscow)
Issued from Kazansky and Kievsky railway stations to one of the stations located at a distance of 26-39 km from the station (Kraskovo, Malakhovka, Udelnaya, Bykovo, Ilyinsky, Otdykh, Kratovo, Korenevo, Ovrazhki, Rodniki, Vyalki, Khripan; Lesnoy Gorodok, Tolstopaltsevo, Kokoshkino, Kryokshino, Pobeda).
Issued for 30 days, cost 2500 rubles.
Please note: due to a decrease in the cost of a monthly subscription to the Kazansky railway station from August 20, 2015, it became unprofitable to buy this subscription in the Kazan direction in most cases, since it is more expensive (except for Kratovo and Khripani).
"City Nearby" (only for Kazan and Kiev directions of Moscow)
Issued from Kazansky and Kievsky railway stations to one of the stations located at a distance of 40-53 km from the station (42 km, Fabrichnaya, Ramenskoe, 47 km, Sovkhoz, 41 km, Donino, 49 km, 52 km, Grigorovo; Aprelevka, Dachnaya, Alabino, Selyatino).
Issued for 30 days, cost 3500 rubles.
This pass is not valid for travel on satellites and other fast suburban trains.
Please note: due to a decrease in the cost of a monthly subscription to the Kazansky railway station from August 20, 2015, this subscription for the Kazan direction in most cases it became unprofitable to buy, since it is more expensive (except for Sovkhoz, 52 km, Grigorovo).
"My suburbs"
Issued from one of the main railway stations in Moscow (except for Leningradsky) to a station located at a distance of over 53 km and up to 200 km from the station (as a rule, only if there is a direct suburban communication).
Issued for 30 days, cost 4750 rubles
Please note (especially when applying for a ticket machine) that a regular monthly subscription can be issued by default, which sometimes costs more and / or includes travel only to the main station without "Big Moscow". To issue a ticket in the machine, you must select the "Big Moscow" item.
This pass is not valid for travel on satellites and other fast suburban trains.
"Mill"
Gives the right to travel on the St. Petersburg Finlyandsky - Melnichny Ruchey section on all suburban trains (including Lastochki). Cost - "daily" for 5 consecutive days 450 rubles, "working day" for 30 calendar days in a row - 1800 rubles.
"Profitable"
This ticket is designed for passengers on the Vitebsk direction (St. Petersburg - Oredezh section) traveling long distances (over 60 kilometers) and purchasing tickets for the full price.
The cost of the subscription can be viewed on the train schedule page of the full version of the site.
A subscription can be issued not only from the Vitebsk railway station, but also from an intermediate station (stopping point), if the distance of the route is 60 kilometers or more.
"Pushkinsky"
Issued for 30 days on the route St. Petersburg Vitebsky - Tsarskoe Selo, cost - 1800 rubles. "Daily" and 1550 rubles "working day".
"Samson"
Issued for 30 days from St. Petersburg Baltic to stations New / Old Peterhof ( cost - 2600 rubles. "Daily" and 2200 rubles "working day") and Oranienbaum-1 ( cost - 3450 rubles. "Daily" and 2900 rubles "working day").
Kolpinsky
Issued for 30 days from St. Petersburg Glavnoy to Kolpino station, it is valid on all suburban trains, including Lastochki. The cost of a daily subscription is 2150 rubles, a "working day" - 1800 rubles.
"Tosnensky"
Issued for 30 days from St. Petersburg Glavny to Tosno station, it is valid on all suburban trains, including "Lastochki". The cost of a daily subscription is 5000 rubles, a "working day" - 4200 rubles.
"#Nampoputi"
Issued for 30 days on routes: St. Petersburg Finlyandsky - Vyborg (cost - 15,100 rubles "daily" and 12,700 rubles "working day"), Udelnaya - Vyborg (cost - 14,300 rubles "daily" and 12,000 rubles "working day") Valid on all suburban trains (including "Swallows") on the subscription route, and also in the buses of the city of Vyborg, following regular routes operated by Vipline LLC:
- No. 1/6 - bus station (concrete goods plant) - microdistrict. Northern;
- No. 2 - st. Decembrist Lunin - Hospital Street;
- No. 4 - bus station - Jatievo settlement;
- No. 5 - Onezhskaya st. (City Polyclinic);
- No. 7 - bus station (reinforced concrete plant) - Tammisuo settlement);
- No. 8 - bus station (reinforced concrete plant) - Krasny Holm settlement
- No. 9 - st. Gagarin - st. Industrial;
- No. 10 - Leningradsky prospect (Neste gas station) - Saimenskie Dachi;
- No. 11 - Leningradsky prospect (Neste gas station) - Sady settlement;
- No. 12 - Kharitonovo settlement - Vyborg - Kharitonovo settlement;
- No. 13 - Triangular lane. - circular;
- No. 14 - Railway st. (bus station) - circular.
There are also a number of other special passes.
All types of season tickets (except tickets "By the number of trips") are valid for an unlimited number of trips. However, repeated passage through the turnstiles at the same station in the same direction (entrance / exit) is possible only after 40 minutes.
You can enter and exit at any intermediate station (for tickets "For the number of trips", before the start of the trip, the card must be brought to the turnstile to open the trip, ie if there are no turnstiles, then you cannot start the trip at this station).
The passenger has the right to return a fully or partially unused season ticket, and a fee will be charged.
On satellites and other fast commuter trains (highlighted on the website blue color) special tickets are issued (when issued at a ticket machine or a ticket office, you must select the category "satellite", "fast" or "express") - as a rule, the cost of such tickets is higher than for a regular train. These passes are valid both on a fast train and on a regular train of the same carrier.
On aeroexpress trains(highlighted on the site red color marked "Aeroexpress") special tickets are issued at the ticket offices of LLC "Aeroexpress", or via the Internet. Passengers with benefits, in addition to documents for benefits, must present an identity document (passport).
On interregional express trains(highlighted on the site green color) the ticket is issued according to the passport with reference to a specific seat, the number of seats is limited. You can buy a ticket at a specialized suburban ticket office (connected to the Express-3 automated control system), or via the Internet (including on our website in the “Railway tickets” section). Sale starts 10 days in advance (departure date minus 9 days) at 8:00.
On express trains that are long distance trains(highlighted on the site red color marked "distant" or "Swallow") the ticket is issued only at long-distance ticket offices(or via the Internet, including on our website in the section "Railway tickets"), the number of seats is limited. Tickets for Lastochka St. Petersburg - Vyborg are currently issued at regular ticket offices, the number of tickets is not limited.
Please note that at some stations, tickets for interregional express trains at the ticket offices stop 30-40 minutes before the train leaves, even if there are empty seats. On our website, ticketing may stop 1 hour in advance (on some routes, 2 hours in advance).
Subscriptions and single tickets for satellites and other high-speed trains are also valid on ordinary trains of the same carrier (for all REX trains from August 19, 2015, the carrier is Tsentralnaya PPK JSC). Subscriptions and single tickets for regular commuter trains are not valid.
In some cases, you can apply for an additional payment to a single ticket for a regular train - together with the additional payment, the ticket will be valid in the fast train. When making a surcharge directly on the train (this is not always possible - they may simply not be allowed to board a train on a regular ticket), an additional fee is charged (usually 100 rubles).
There is no supplement to a regular train ticket. If you travel on such a ticket in an express train, you will have to pay the cashiers-controllers the full fare and service fee (usually 100 rubles).
Transportation of animals on commuter trains
A fee is charged for the carriage of small pets (pets), dogs and birds on commuter trains.
It is allowed to transport small dogs without containers in muzzles and on a leash. Cats ride under the supervision of their owners or companions.
Large dogs (including service dogs) can be transported in a muzzle and with a leash in the train vestibule (no more than 2 dogs per carriage) - under the supervision of their owners or accompanying persons with payment of the cost of their transportation.
The cost of transporting animals by train cannot exceed 25% of the cost of travel for an adult passenger on a similar route. As a rule, it is 25% of the fare, rounded down to the nearest ruble. At the same time, the cost of transporting an animal on ordinary electric trains and fast suburban trains of JSC "Central PPK" is different.
To transport animals or birds on the train, you will need veterinary vaccination documents. There is no charge for the carriage of guide dogs.
In the seated cars of the Lastochka electric trains of JSC FPK, as in ordinary electric trains, small pets, dogs and birds may be transported for a fee - no more than one seat per one issued travel document (ticket) and no more than two animals or two birds to this place.
Lazarevsky has three big pluses. First, reasonable prices. Secondly, it is a quiet green town. Thirdly, this is a place that makes me nostalgic - ever since my parents, seven years old, brought me here to the sea. However, I would rather tell about all this in a separate review.
But Lazorevsky has a global minus, which is able to cover all the advantages of rest. This is the Russian Railways station, where trains stop for a couple of minutes ON AN UNKNOWN ON WHAT PLATFORM and with the risk of blocking the approach to the apron by ANOTHER STAFF.
Yes, I know it is indecent to use Caps Lock. But I can’t do otherwise! Otherwise, I can only swear!
So, we arrived at Lazorevskoye, at four o'clock in the morning, thanks to the conductor, we quickly threw our suitcases onto the platform and drove to Omega, whose representatives met us in a minibus. The rest started off beautifully. If only it ended the same way!
Here I will take a deep breath, cross out the obscene paragraph and try to describe the extreme boarding of the Adler - St. Petersburg train within the framework of censorship.
We returned with a dozen bags and suitcases, because we were going straight from Lazarevskoye to St. Petersburg (in general, we had a vacation program for a month). Moreover, kebabs, oriental sweets (many, many), Caucasian cheeses, tkemali sauces, spices, fruits, souvenirs ... In short, there was a lot of luggage. And what, we have no right? In the opinion of Russian Railways, apparently, we do not.
We arrived in advance, carried our luggage to the center of the first platform. Well, now we need to find out from which way - from the first, second or third - our train, coming from Adler, will leave (here we are idiots, it would be better to take a taxi to Adler and quietly got into the carriage there!).
So, I go into the station building. And the trash begins. In the window of the attendant they bark at me:
- Which way? How do I know?! As it comes, you will find out!
This is the station attendant speaking. This is said to the passenger fifteen minutes before the train arrives. Which stands in Lazarevskoye for two minutes. Check out the service?
I go up to the gentlemen policemen. The policemen shrug their shoulders. Well, of course, they have other responsibilities.
OK. We take a position in the center of the first platform, opposite the wooden passage to the second. We get into the sprinter's stance. We squeeze the handles of the bags. Dozens of other passengers freeze in exactly the same tense stance. We are all looking at the narrow passage. If the train's approach to the second or third track is announced, we together, in a crowd, crushing each other, will rush to the second platform.
They announce the arrival of the train ... damn it, on the second track! Forward! STOP!!! What is RUNNING ON THE RAILS TO THE CROWD, what's a hundred meters away ?!
And this is another passenger, ARRIVING ON THE FIRST WAY!
So, I'll take a sip of some water and try to paint the picture calmly. Lazarevskoe. Two platforms. Three ways. One overland crossing. Not a single aboveground or underground. And trains arriving at the same time on the second and first tracks.
Some of the passengers (the most daring) flew along the ground crossing with suitcases and screaming children right in front of the arriving passenger. I'm a coward. I froze in a stupor with five bags on the first platform. I could not run across the rails ten meters from the muzzle of the electric locomotive. I was cut off from my train.
Again. I PROVED TO BE CUT OFF FROM MY TRAIN by another train, and my train is at a standstill for two minutes. And this line-up stood up for a long time.
While I was standing and stupid, other passengers, who also remained on this "shore", rushed around the unexpected obstacle. Men, women, children, retirees and even a disabled person on crutches, plus a bunch of luggage, moved past the stretched train to the rails. Damn, I will never forget what it is like to cross the rails with several bags a couple of meters from the locomotive. It's very scary. Damn, this is just a transde.
But here we are the whole crowd between the two trains. On a narrow strip between the first and second tracks. And we stupidly peel at the CLOSED DOORS OF THE CARS. And with what joy is it to them to be open? The doors open onto the platform!
The most active passengers start running and knocking. In some places, disgruntled physiognomies of the conductors begin to appear.
Two minutes have already passed. The train is about to move. But the conductors lazily inform us that "we will stand still." (And indeed, the train stood for ten to fifteen minutes). But when it starts is unclear. We begin to climb into any wagons just to get in.
Throwing my bags. I climb up, sigh. I don't have a ticket. I do not have tickets, money and passports (my relatives turned out to be bolder and managed to cross the crossing). The cell phone went out. Yes, it’s my own fault that I didn’t charge it. Therefore, I get out of the carriage on the second track and go in search of my relatives ... Who have already moved behind the carriages, in the gap between the tracks! And they are trying to get to the first platform in order to pick me up from there!
Yo-mine! And we are not alone. Other passengers rush between platforms and trains ... With bags ... With children ...
In short, our "Adler - St. Petersburg" has started. The mountains and the sea swam through the windows of the vestibule. Checked our tickets. With trembling hands, she opened the packet of Pal Mela. I smoked half a packet. Well, now there is nothing left. Nonsense - sneaking your luggage into your carriage!
I explain the location. I don’t remember the exact number of the cars, but something like this. Half of the luggage is in the fifteenth carriage. The second half, which I pinned, is in the fifth. And our places are either in eighth or tenth. Somewhere like that.
Among this luggage scattered throughout the entire composition - a camera, a netbook, barbecue and other valuable things.
Let's go to collect. And the legs are already breaking. The hands are shaky. Nervous tic. Shakes really. Waste after the experience. And with suitcases - along the vestibules, along the passages, along the reserved seat cars!
They sat down and got out brandy. Even though he was a local, he went well. We tried to talk, to joke, but the result was only a mate with pretexts.
Impressions are for life. We went abruptly. Free extreme from Russian Railways!
