Moscow Railway

*Moscow Railway*
Московская железная дорога
	A rail bridge on Savyolovsky suburban direction of Moscow Railway
Overview
Headquarters	Moscow
Locale	Central Russia, Russian Federation
Dates of operation	1959–present
Technical
Track gauge	1,520 mm (4 ft 11+27⁄32 in) Russian gauge
Length	3,275 km (2,030 mi)

Moscow Railway (Russian: Московская железная дорога) is a subsidiary of Russian Railways that handles half of Russia's suburban railway operations and a quarter of the country's passenger traffic. As of 2009 the railway, which has its headquarters near Komsomolskaya Square in Moscow, employed 73 600 people.^[1] It manages railway services in much of Central Russia, including Moscow and Moscow Oblast (all railways except the railroad to Saint Petersburg, which is managed by October Railway), Smolensk, Vladimir, Ryazan, Tula, Kaluga, Bryansk, Oryol, Lipetsk, and Kursk Oblasts.