Russian Railways abandons Moscow time across the network
From 1 August 2018 every station clock, information board, announcement and ticket on the Russian long-distance network shows local time, ending a convention more than a century old under which a traveller at Vladivostok read a departure seven hours out of step with the daylight. The change altered no track and no train, and it is the single most revealing thing in this Journey about what a timetable was actually for.
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Subjects
- Trans-Siberian Railway · route · Russia · not located
- Moscow · city · Russia
- Vladivostok · city · Russia
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Russian trains to end dependence on Moscow time
Reports that from 1 August 2018 all Russian Railways station boards, clocks, announcements and tickets for long-distance trains use local time, ending a century-old convention, and gives Vladivostok as seven hours ahead of Moscow. V55 verification basis: the report's substance was carried in an attributed search result; the article page was not fetched.
France 24 · 2018-07-25 · Verified
https://www.france24.com/en/20180725-russian-trains-end-dependence-moscow-time
Recorded on Trans-Siberian Railway
- Construction of the Trans-Siberian begins
- Work begins on the Chinese Eastern Railway across Manchuria
- Train ferries begin crossing Lake Baikal
- Rails are laid across the frozen surface of Lake Baikal
- First trains run on the Circum-Baikal shore line
- The Amur Railway completes an all-Russian route to the Pacific
- Electrification of the Trans-Siberian is completed
- Russian Railways abandons Moscow time across the network
Related
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- Electrification of the Trans-Siberian is completed · 2002
- The Amur Railway completes an all-Russian route to the Pacific · 1916
- First trains run on the Circum-Baikal shore line · 1904-09
- Rails are laid across the frozen surface of Lake Baikal · winter 1903–1904
- Train ferries begin crossing Lake Baikal · 1900
- Work begins on the Chinese Eastern Railway across Manchuria · 1897-07
- Construction of the Trans-Siberian begins · 1891