Scenic route
Circum-Baikal Express
Irkutsk → Port Baikal · Russia
- Distance
- 215 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 9 h
- Top speed
- 40 km/h
- Operator
- RZD Travel
- Train
- Retro excursion train
- Countries
- Russia
- In service since
- 1905
The Tsar’s ‘golden buckle’ — 38 tunnels blasted into cliffs a step above Baikal’s water, once the Trans-Siberian’s costliest link, now a slow shoreline excursion.
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