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Jebber45
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 Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2008 3:03 am Post subject: Question about Train Ticket I just received. |
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Hello, hopefully this is a pretty easy question and I am just confused. I am traveling by train from Moscow to St. Petersburg (and back) and ordered my train tickets from expresstorussia.com. I just received my tickets via fedex today.
The tickets I booked are for the Red Arrow (trains No. 1 and No. 2)
On the tickets themselves it reads in the to/from area:
"Mockba Okt - c - Peter rl"
I asked a russian friend here and they said that "okt" probably means oktyabrskaya station. Though in reading on the internet, everywhere it says this train leaves from Leningradsky Station. I do not even see a oktyabrskaya station other than the metro stop. I also do not know what "rl" stands for in St. Petersburg, but again, I thought that the station I would be using was Moskovskaya.
Any help to calm good-hearted traveler is appreciated!
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overseas_expat
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I don't know what your 'okt ' means. Maybe some kind of ticket code, you know airline tickets have all kinds of weird abbreviations too.
But I do know 100% that the St. Petersburg train leaves Moscow from Leningradsky Vokzal, 100% of the time. This is also Metro stop Komsomolskaya on the red line. |
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Varrah
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| Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2008 2:30 pm Post subject: |
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OKT - Îêòÿáðüñêàÿ Æåëåçíàÿ Äîðîãà ("October" Railway) - a sundivision of Russian railways. And Expat is right - all trains to St.-Petersburg go from Leningradskiy railway station.
as for the "rl" - I'm not sure, check once again. May be you didn't recognize Russian letters correctly?..
Upd: Trains to Moskow go from Moskovskiy and Ladozhskiy Railways stations in St.-Petersburg. |
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Jebber45
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Thanks for your help guys. Yes, I do read Russian letters correctly - the st. petersburg train station shows "ã ë"
I just got a letter back from expresstorussia, and the girls said:
"I am glad you received the train tickets. “Mockva okt” means the main station, it is Leningradsky train station, don’t worry. Usually when it is Kazansky train station it is written on the train ticket “Mockva kaz”."
I feel better. Thanks! |
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Jebber45
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| Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2008 3:57 pm Post subject: |
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| On another note - I had a very good experience with expresstorussia.com ... I only ordered train tickets, but the girl that was helping me was responsive, and I got my tickets with plenty of time to spare. And no, I am not affiliated with any travel company, just thought I would recognize their good work in light of all the negative posts I have seen on her in regards to Intergroup. |
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Varrah
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| Jebber45 wrote: | Thanks for your help guys. Yes, I do read Russian letters correctly - the st. petersburg train station shows "ã ë"
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There!
so it is "gl", not "rl" (that's a question of trasliteration and further understanding)
That means "Ãëàâíûé" i.e. "Main". So I suppose you'll come to the Moskovskiy railwaystation. |
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