Trans-Siberian Railway

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1. Story
2. The Moscow–Vladivostok trunk line, conventionally 9,288 km and the longest continuous railway on Earth. The imperial government announced it on 9 March 1891 and the future Nicholas II turned the first earth at Vladivostok in May 1891; more than 7,000 km were laid in the first decade, built in parallel sections rather than end to end. Two things it is easy to get wrong: it was not finished in 1904, and the line that opened then was not entirely Russian. Through running from 1903 used the Chinese Eastern Railway across Manchuria, and only the Amur Railway, completed in 1916, gave a route lying wholly inside Russian territory. Electrification, begun in 1929, was not completed until 2002. Timetabled distance quoted by operators today is about 9,259 km, a little short of the famous 9,288 marker at Vladivostok, because alignments have changed; the flagship Rossiya takes roughly six days.
3. Knowledge
4. Trans-Siberian Railway
5. Chinese Eastern Railway
6. Moscow
7. Vladivostok
8. Siberia
9. Ruling gradient
10. The main-line steam locomotive
11. Connections
12. Vladivostok
13. Ruling gradient
14. Moscow
15. Siberia
16. Chinese Eastern Railway
17. The main-line steam locomotive
18. Chinese Eastern Railway
19. Baikal–Amur Mainline (BAM)
20. Circum-Baikal Railway
21. Construction of the Trans-Siberian begins
22. Work begins on the Chinese Eastern Railway across Manchuria
23. Train ferries begin crossing Lake Baikal
24. Rails are laid across the frozen surface of Lake Baikal
25. First trains run on the Circum-Baikal shore line
26. The Amur Railway completes an all-Russian route to the Pacific
27. Electrification of the Trans-Siberian is completed
28. Russian Railways abandons Moscow time across the network
29. Trans-Siberian Railway
30. Construction of the Trans-Siberian begins
31. Russian Railways abandons Moscow time across the network
32. Trans-Siberian Railway
33. Canadian Pacific transcontinental main line
34. The main-line steam locomotive
35. The last spike is driven at Craigellachie
36. The Spiral Tunnels open and the Big Hill is retired
37. The Severomuysky Tunnel opens under the BAM's worst obstacle
38. Warsaw Treaty Organization
39. SALT I and the ABM Treaty are signed in Moscow
40. Trans-Siberian Railway
41. Yaroslavsky Station, Moscow
42. Russian Railways abandons Moscow time across the network
43. Trans-Siberian Railway
44. Permafrost as a track foundation
45. Construction of the Trans-Siberian begins
46. Train ferries begin crossing Lake Baikal
47. The Amur Railway completes an all-Russian route to the Pacific
48. Trans-Siberian Railway
49. Trans-Siberian Railway
50. Work begins on the Chinese Eastern Railway across Manchuria
51. Rails are laid across the frozen surface of Lake Baikal
52. The Amur Railway completes an all-Russian route to the Pacific
53. Liverpool and Manchester Railway
54. The Rainhill trials settle the question of traction
55. Trans-Siberian Railway
56. Ruling gradient
57. Coal
58. The through sleeping car
59. Electrification of the Trans-Siberian is completed
60. Evidence
61. Gives the Moscow–Vladivostok distance as 9,288 km (5,771 miles), the world's longest single rail system, inaugurated 1891 and completed in sections to 1916, with electrification finished in 2002. V55 verification basis: the substance was carried in an attributed search result naming Britannica; the page itself could not be fetched, as britannica.com is refused by this environment's egress proxy.
62. Supports the construction-stage sequence (West Siberian, Central Siberian, South Ussuri, Circum-Baikal and Amur), the 1891 announcement and Vladivostok inauguration, the Baikal ferry arrangement and the settlement motive. V55 verification basis: the collection essay was identified as an authority and its substance encountered in summary; loc.gov could not be fetched in this session.