Train trip Astana - Moscow - Kosice - Vienna

Wednesday, 13th august 2008

timetable for the day:
Astana dep. 6:55
via Atbasar - Tobol - Kustanaj to the border
Kazakh border check at Kaerak (23:15 - 0:25)


Old Austrian postbus running now in Kustanaj!


Thursday, 14th august 2008

timetable for the day:
Russian border check at Troizk (22:55 - 0:23 Moscow time = 0:55 - 2:23 local time)
via Celjabinsk (in the middle of the night) - Ufa (lunch time) to Samara (evening)

Long Russian freight train at Ust-Katav:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRKSkVsg7C8


In the Ural-mountains


At Ufa station


Dining car - the same procedure as every day


Samara station

Friday, 15th august 2008

Timetable for the day:
via Rjazan to Moscow
arrival Moskva Kazanskaya at 15:33
some hours in Moscow
departure Moskva Kievskaya at 23:23


Arrival at Moskva Kazanskaya station.





Inside Moskva Kazanskaya station


Red square


Here I met Julia - we studied together Russian language in Graz (Austria), she was now visiting friends in Moscow.



"Stolichnyj-Ekspress" from Moskva Kievskaya to Kiev



Inside the train


Saturday, 16th august 2008

Timetable for the day:
Kiev arr. 08:00, dep. 09:53
via Vinniza - Hmelnizki - to Lviv


Crossing the Dnepr river at Kiev.



The train with my sleeping-car to Kosice also had a direct sleeping-car Moskva - Thessaloniki



Somewhere near Lviv.


Sunday, 17th august 2008

Timetable for the day:
Ukrainian border check and bogie-exchanging at Chop (2:20 - 4:28)
via Cierna nad Tisou to Kosice (arr 7:29)
Change to train 604 Kosice 8:15 - Bratislava 14:20
From Bratislava local train to Wien Südbahnhof (15:58)



At home again - IKEA-advertisement at Wien Südbahnhof.